Nutrition is very important when trying to bulk up because muscle growth requires both nutrition and weight lifting. You can create muscle-building signals through strength training. Still, nutrition provides the protein, calories, fats, minerals, and carbohydrates your body needs to repair and recover muscle tissue while gaining size. You cannot bulk up if you do not eat enough. You can recover faster, train harder, reduce unwanted fat gain, and build muscle by following a proper…
Getting the body you’ve always desired is difficult, and we won’t come close to that. There’s a lot of false information being offered to us, the newest superfood or another trend in the market. People are fed unrealistic expectations of what they could do. Many individuals come and go from the gym; some never actually change their bodies, while others appear more unfit than when they first started! Anyone who is just beginning their health…
Co-Athletes can’t improve their performance even when they are training regularly. The most common reason behind this is unstructured, generic, and unaligned training programs. These generic training programs can lead athletes to strength imbalances, poor speed mechanics, higher injury risk, and slow recovery. This is problematic, especially for athletes who are training in high-altitude environments like Colorado with low oxygen levels. The real problem behind this is not a lack of training but a lack…
You walk into AlphaGainz ready to crush your workout. Ten minutes in, you’re gassed, lightheaded, everything feels heavy. Yesterday, you were strong. Today you’re struggling through sets you normally handle easily. What’s different? Probably what you ate before training. Or didn’t eat. Pre-workout nutrition affects your session more than most people think. The right food at the right time means better performance. Wrong food or wrong timing leaves you dragging. At AlphaGainz in Colorado Springs,…
This guy came into the gym last week for the first time ever. He’d been watching YouTube videos for a month, trying to figure out what to do before he showed up. Looked terrified walking through the door. Told me he was worried he’d look stupid and everyone would judge him. I told him what I tell everyone – nobody’s paying attention to you. Everyone in here is focused on their own workout. And the…
Your vertical jump isn’t just about genetics. I see this all the time at our gym in Colorado Springs, CO – athletes walk in thinking they’re stuck with whatever jump height they were born with. Then six weeks later, they’re touching the rim for the first time or dunking when they couldn’t before. The difference isn’t magic, it’s smart training. AlphaGainz has been helping Colorado athletes add serious inches to their vertical for years now.…
Your squat numbers keep going up, but your legs don’t look any bigger. You’re benching twice what you pressed six months ago, but your chest still looks flat in a t-shirt. Training isn’t the problem. You’re showing up, doing the work, and hitting progressive overload. The missing piece is food, and not just eating more of whatever’s convenient. Colorado Springs sits at 6,035 feet. Your body burns extra calories just dealing with altitude. Water needs…
Serious powerlifting and weightlifting don’t fit into convenient 9 to 5 windows. Your body peaks at different times. Your work schedule shifts. Life happens and derails your planned training session. Then you’re stuck either skipping the workout entirely or compromising your program because the gym closes before you can get there. That’s not how you build real strength. AlphaGainz in Colorado Springs, CO operates 24 hours because we understand that peak performance requires training on…
High school weight rooms have a predictable problem. Kids rush to load the bar before they understand what they’re doing. A freshman watches a senior squat 315 and figures he should be somewhere close to that. Never mind that the senior has three years of training experience and the freshman just learned what a squat rack looks like last week. This creates injuries that shouldn’t happen. Shoulder problems from benching too heavy too soon. Lower…
My lifting buddy quit training last October. The season was over. He’d competed in three powerlifting meets between March and September, hit some PRs, and decided he’d earned a break. Took two months completely off. No gym. “I’ll get back to it after the holidays,” he said. By January, when he finally came back, his squat had dropped 40 pounds. Bench was down 25. Deadlift held up okay, but his form was sloppy. Took him…