Old School Training Tips

Rich Gaspari shows here how to conduct your calf exercises to maximize your gains. On something like your calves, since they are used in everyday life, working them out requires more of the higher rep, lower intensity method. Rich demonstrates with #TeamGaspari athlete Oswaldo how to slowly perform a calf exercise, while also doing a drop set immediately following the first set.This will help build your calf muscles, by focusing and squeezing at the top of each rep.

Achieving definition and fullness can be difficult to achieve, even for accomplished weight lifters. Here, Rich Gaspari shares a secret on a slight variation to a popular exercise to help achieve that definition and fullness in your back. By stopping the bar higher, and pausing there, you help give your back the fullness you're looking for!Make sure to give this exercise a try and tell us how you noticed the difference!