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Don't Make the Mistake of Letting Your Rest Periods Steal Your Results By Kyle Leon Your rest periods can be just as important as your time under tension or the number of sets and reps you do. Don't let improper rest periods undo all the work you're doing to build muscle. If you look at most of the instructions for workouts, you'll see that they're a lot more specific about sets and reps than they are about rest periods. Rest periods tend to be extremely generic. No One Can Tell You How Long to Rest The reason that recommended rest periods are kept so generic is that determining the proper rest period for your individual goals and body type can be tricky. For the purpose of today's article, we're assuming building lean muscle mass without the blubber is the goal. Two guys doing the exact same movements, the same number of reps, the same number of sets and even with the same weight will require different rest periods. One may be fine with...

Don't Make the Mistake of Focusing Only on Bilateral Movements By Kyle Leon Bilateral moves are an integral part of any strength training program. But if you focus only on bilateral movements, you're missing out on serious development. There are a lot of really effective bilateral movements that we can use to build and develop the various muscle groups, but too often I see guys who focus solely on bilateral exercises in their split routines. Maybe it's because they feel like it's the most efficient use of time or maybe it's just that they don't know what unilateral moves can do for them over and above the results they're seeing with their split routines. They're missing out on the really fine-tuned development that you can get from using unilateral exercises as well. Most guys are pretty good at mixing up bilateral and unilateral movements in certain splits, such as when they're doing their arms. Most guys will do standard bilateral m...