Brian's Blog

One of the things I pride myself on is being as efficient as possible with my food prep when I diet for a contest. I thought I would share t...

As I mentioned in my recent interview on Natty Talk Radio (see post below), I have reconfigured my cardio routine during my contest prep thi...

I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed on Natty Talk Radio by co-hosts Zakary Walizadeh and Brett Freeman. We talked about quite a...

After participating in Layne Norton's Natural Bodybuilding and Figure camp last month, I was inspired to develop a new workout split bas...

I was fortunate enough to participate in Layne Norton's Natural Bodybuilding and Figure camp held in Tampa, FL a couple of weekends ago....

Over the past year or so, I have done a reasonable amount of reading on the topic of occlusion training. The basic idea is that muscular hyp...

2011 ended on a very positive note for me, as my wife and I brought our new daughter back to our home state of Virginia for the holidays. We...

For the first time in 6 years I did not participate in the WNBF Worlds in NYC in November. With the birth of my daughter in July and a clear...

My friend (and former OSU student) Valentine Ezugha participated in the IFPA Pro International show in Kansas City on Sept. 17, and took hom...

Congratulations to my friends Kurt Weidner and Vaughan Twigger on their class wins at the WNBF Universe in NYC on Sept. 17. The overall betw...

Today my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world. Becoming a dad is without a doubt the greatest feeling in the world, far exceed...

I have used a much wider variety of training splits and techniques this year than I have in the past. After another month-long trial of Germ...

Below is a video of some sumo deadlifts from this past weekend. This was a PR for me, as I hit 495 x 12 reps. It's still nowhere close t...

The May 2011 issue of Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness included a pullout poster of me (and probably a more enticing pic of World Figure Ove...

After keeping the same 2-week workout split for over a year (see bottom of this blog), I have decided to implement a new lifting routine. In...