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Jess Billitz

Jeff Nippard’s Neck & Trap Guide [Complete Review]

September 10, 2020 By Jess Billitz

A thick neck and massive traps are every bodybuilder’s dreams.

Adding mass to these muscles will help you look jacked, even without taking your shirt off (like Bear Mode). And they’ll add even more definition to a bulky chest and shredded shoulders.

But these muscles are probably the second most neglected muscles in the gym—after the calves, obviously.

And there’s a clear reason for that: A lot of guys think a few sets of heavy dumbbell shrugs each week is enough to pull off this look.

Spoiler Alert: It’s not!

Understanding the struggle of building these muscles, Jeff Nippard released his Neck & Trap Guide. Now, it’s time to find out if this program is legit!

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Jeff Nippard’s Ultimate Body Recomposition Guide [Review]

September 10, 2020 By Jess Billitz

You take your physique seriously.

You hit the gym hard five times a week, drain your muscles through absolutely grueling workouts, leave your sessions hardly able to walk, and ramp up your PRs weekly.

But now you’re caught between a rock and a hard place: You feel the results and add more plates to the bar every week, but you’re just not seeing changes when you look in the mirror.

Turns out, your workouts aren’t the problem—it’s how you’re fueling (or not fueling) your body.

Jeff Nippard’s Ultimate Body Recomposition Guide might be able to help you optimize your diet for maximum gains and help you power through workouts better than before.

Let’s find out if this guide is the real deal.

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Jeff Nippard’s Upper Lower Size & Strength Program Review

September 8, 2020 By Jess Billitz

You push yourself through draining workouts five days a week, load up on creatine and BCAAs both pre- and post-workout, and eat more protein in a day than you used to eat in a week.

And things have been going great so far.

In just a few months, you’ve packed on some serious noob gains and look stronger than ever.

But you know what happens next—the dreaded plateau. The weight gain slows, the muscle mass evens out, and the PRs happen less and less.

Jeff Nippard knows this struggle well, but he also knows how to dig himself out of the struggle. So let’s see if his plateau-busting Upper Lower Size and Strength Program is the real deal.

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Straight Arm Cable Pushdown: Muscles Worked, & How-To

September 1, 2020 By Jess Billitz

The cable machine at the gym doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Seriously, can you think of another machine at the gym that allows you to….

Swap in different attachments in seconds?
Get unrivaled support and control during lifts?
Focus on minor muscles optimally for maximum growth?
Perform dozens of exercises for nearly every muscle group in the body?

Probably not.

But on that last point, we’ve got a new one for you to try: The straight arm cable pushdown. So let’s review everything there is to know about this exercise.

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