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Casey Butt
Casey Butt runs Weightrainer.net. He is a PhD, and has authored articles for Milo and Hardgainer. 
Rate of Drug-Free Muscle Gain
For most people muscle building is a slow process. Of course, there are those who are extremely genetically gifted and respond quickly to even the most poorly constructed and applied of programs, but most people are not in this category. Add the wild card of anabolic steroids into the mix and it isn’t hard to [...]
Your Maximum Muscular Bodyweight and Measurements
Your Maximum Muscular Bodyweight and Measurements, by Casey Butt, Ph.D.
For a drug-free athlete trying to develop maximum muscle mass, the knowledge of how much muscle can be developed without the use of anabolic drugs would be a very valuable asset.
Unfortunately, because of the achievements of drug-using professional, amateur and recreational bodybuilders, many natural lifters either [...]
The Rules Of Productive Weight Training For The Drug-Free Trainee
“The information below is probably the most “honest” you’ll ever read in any bodybuilding article, and it’s probably the most important article I’ve ever written, or will ever write, regarding bodybuilding and the bodybuilding industry.”
This is a long article. You’ll get the most out of it if you print it off, read it slowly, and [...]
Training to Failure, an Inside Look
Way back in the early 1970s Arthur Jones popularized the notion of training to failure with his series of articles in Iron Man magazine. Training to the point of muscular failure, Jones explained, was the necessary stimulus for maximum muscular growth. Mike Mentzer, a former Mr. Universe and founder of “Heavy Duty” training, was absolutely [...]
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part V: Splitting Your Routine
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part V: Splitting Your Routine, by Casey Butt
It was suggested in Making A Strength/Size Routine Part IV: Training Frequency that a drug-free, genetically average weight trainer will not make optimal strength/size gains when training intensely more than three times per week. It was also suggested that a weight trainer not train [...]
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part IV: Training Frequency
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part IV: Training Frequency, by Casey Butt
Training frequency is comprised of two components. They are:
1. How often to train a muscle/muscle group.
2. How often to train overall.
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How Often To Train A Muscle/Muscle Group
How often you can [...]
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part III: Sets And Reps And How To Perform Them
Size Routine Part III: Sets And Reps And How To Perform Them, by Casey Butt
Now that we’ve established which exercises are most productive, and how to sequence them, we’ll take a look at how many sets of each we should do and for how many reps. If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you [...]
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part II: Exercise Sequence
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part II: Exercise Sequence, by Casey Butt
There are some simple, generally accepted rules of how to properly sequence exercises in resistance training workouts. While, no doubt, many of you will already know these things, many may not. And because it is such a crucial part of routine design, no series of [...]
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part I: Exercise Selection
Making A Strength/Size Routine Part I: Exercise Selection, by Casey Butt
The first thing that has to be considered when putting together a resistance routine of any type is exercise selection. This will factor into the workout duration and split of your finished routine. I’m going to split weight training exercises into two categories (in order [...]