Hi, I’m Andy. I coach online and have written a few well-known books.

For the majority of my 20s, I was brainwashed by the fitness industry. This cost me a lot of money and wasted time.

This site is my revenge. For the last 8 years, I have helped readers avoid the same path of frustration.

You’ll find no supplement sales, nor gimmicks, just what some consider the best nutrition and training guides on the internet.

The Muscle and Strength Pyramid books, Now on Amazon!

I’m excited to announce that the second editions of The Muscle and Strength Pyramid books I co-authored with Eric Helms and Andrea Valdez are now available on Amazon!

How Important Are Lateral Raises for Building Big Shoulders?

In bodybuilding, middle deltoid development is important to make you appear wider and tapered. Due to this, I often see emphasis placed on lateral raise variations and hear the concern that without their inclusion, delt development will lack. While I don’t dispute the importance of lateral raises (you will even…

How to Make Weight for a Powerlifting (or Weightlifting) Competition

If you’re a fan of boxing or MMA, you may have wondered how professional fighters can walk around in the ring some 15–20 lbs heavier than they weighed in the day before. The answer, for the most part, involves an extreme level of water manipulation. Professional fighters with a 24-hour…

How to Address Weak Points in Your Lifts

We all find ourselves struggling at a specific point of lift, at some time or another. Addressing sticking points might be a more efficient way to attack the weakest link in the chain of a movement, and therefore a faster way to increase strength. If you have stalled with traditional…

How to Build Training Programs

Everyone starts their journey by taking a pre-built training program and trying it out. I made my first program choice after a three-minute perusal of my local supermarket’s magazine rack. That month’s copy of Men’s Health advertised a program promising 10 pounds of gains in 6 weeks, which was exactly…