If you want to build great muscles, you’re going to need to break out of your routine into some radically tough workouts. What I’m getting at is that you’ve got to get into some serious weight lifting routines. That’s right: you can’t build hardcore muscles by being a sissy. That means your cable-machines aren’t going to do the job. If you want huge tricep mass, you’re going to have to skip the press-downs and start doing some serious military-style pressing.

Don’t forget, though, that to be hard core, you’ll have to do more than just pressing: you need back-squats, leg-pressing, and deadlifting to do instead of leg curling and extending. For ultimate musclebuilding you will need to move lots of weights. You don’t need large numbers of repetitions and cable machines won’t do the trick. Going radical is what it’s going to take.

I’m telling you to get to your fundamentals. The isolated drills you’ve been doing aren’t enough even if you’re doing them six days out of seven. Another thing you need to skip is muscle-pumping. That’s not going to help. If you want to build tough muscle, you’re going to have to move some metal. You see, pumping won’t promote growth any more than the cable drills will.

Pumping doesn’t do anything but push blood into your muscle. You’re not getting bigger in reality. Regular moves with heavier weights are going to be your hard core path to building muscle.

The cycle you train with is important too. You must work hard, and then give enough time to allow your muscles to recover and then you need to start over again. I’ve trained with some serious muscle builders, and – let me tell you – they have high intensity sessions that are way more difficult than anyone really wants to do, but you have to make yourself meet the hard core challenge.