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During your bulk as a natural how many meals should you be eating a day in order to maximise muscle growth? It depends on the person and should be done based off what is most convenient for you, it comes down to your own personal preference. Some people prefer higher calorie less frequent meals and some people prefer lower calorie more frequent meals, do what is easiest to adhere to in the long-term for you. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #bodybuilding #food #bulking

It is crucial that you stay natural for the rest of your life. Prioritising your natural status will help you have great longevity by protecting your health and allowing you to maximise your natural gains over the course of many decades. Don't be impatient and think you need to jump on the sauce, it will do you more harm than good and will end up ruining you as you get older. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #natural #shredded #bodybuilding

Stop being addicted to being shredded year round. If you truly want to see improvement in the gym you must embrace the bulk and losing your six pack. Spend the first few years of your lifting career eating, gaining weight and getting stronger and then once you have substantial muscle mass you have my permission to cut. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #shredded #natural #gym

In this video I explain the 3 main reasons you're struggling to build muscle naturally. It really is not that hard to build muscle naturally but most people tend to overcomplicate it. I break down the 3 biggest mistakes you're probably making in both the gym and kitchen and explain what you need to do to correct these pitfalls in order to achieve your best physique naturally. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_ hijazi #muscle #gym #bodybuilding

The Golden Era BodyBuilders had the most aesthetic physiques by far. Guys like Arnold and Franco possessed physiques every man in the modern era would dream of having and it's because of the simplicity of the way they lifted that made them so special. They never over complicated the art of lifting like many science based optimal lifters do today. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #bodybuilding #gym #arnold #franco

Squats and Deadlifts have built me substantial amounts of muscle mass and are one of the main reasons I have been able to put muscle on naturally. My Leg Growth has come from doing heavy squats and my back growth has come from doing heavy deadlifts. Obviously there are other exercises that I do as well that are important when it comes to building muscle, but squats and deadlifts can be directly attributed to 60% of my gains. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #squat #deadlift #bodybuilding #muscle

Here I talk about the 3 biggest mistakes I've made in the gym and what I would have changed to correct those mistakes. I've been training for 6 years and have learned a tremendous amount in the gym mainly through trial and error regrading training, nutrition and recovery. Hopefully this video helps you not make the same mistakes I've made. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #gym #bodybuilding #powerlifting

Jay Cutler had one of the greatest chests of all time and in this video I break down in 4 simple steps how to build a chest like Jay Cutler naturally. I explain how to best maximise chest growth inside and outside the gym. This video will help make your life far easier when training chest, it will simplify the process of chest building and enable you to build a chest like the great Jay Cutler naturally. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #jaycutler #chest #bodybuilding

As a young lifter what really helped me add lots of muscle mass to my frame was by mastering the body-weight movements: dips and pull ups. By progressively overloading those movements and adding weight to them I was able to really build the foundations of my physique. When you first start training you really don't even need to go to the gym, start off in your bedroom mastering the body-weight exercises. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #bodyweight #bodybuilding #gym

In this video I discuss my opinion on what is better for muscle growth (hypertrophy)/strength between free weights and machines and how I would recommend going about setting up a lifting session. Free weights for me will always be the better choice over machines. It is where 80% of my gains came from, I believe in starting your sessions with free weights (the main bulk of work) and then finishing the session with machines. In my eyes machines should always been used as accessory movements and never as the main compound lifts unless you are on a de-load. Free Weights beat Machines everyday of the week. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #freeweights #machines #bodybuilding #gym

The best way to build more muscle as a natural is by getting stronger. Powerlifting will help make you a better bodybuilder. By getting stronger on the key compound lifts (squat, deadlift, incline Bench) you add significant muscle mass to your physique and as a consequence appear more aesthetic overall. Remember muscle is a byproduct of strength. Powerlifting is the best route to achieving a greater natural physique. Powerlifting and Bodybuilding are not mutually exclusive. All Natural Lifters should combine them to form PowerBodyBuilding, helping them to achieve their best physique possible. Start your workout with a heavy powerlifting compound and then finish the workout with bodybuilding movements. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #bodybuilding #powerlifting #powerbodybuilding

Training 1 muscle per day known as the bro split is in my opinion the best split. You are able to completely focus on 1 muscle for that day and destroy it then not need to worry about it for the rest of the week. Recovery is enhanced as you are able to have a full weeks recovery before then training it again. I truly believe that if you train a muscle hard enough and with enough intensity you shouldn't be able to hit it multiple times throughout the week like you do with Push Pull Legs for example. Furthermore, you have an arm only day which allows you to focus more on bringing your arms up, a muscle many gym gym bros are lacking in. The Bro split will always be my staple split, saying that all splits work as long as you train hard enough and your nutrition is on point. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #brosplit #split #gym

Here are what I consider to be the 5 best back exercises. There are 1000s of back exercises out there so by no means are these objectively the best 5. Everyone has their own taste and style of training, I prefer old school traditional exercises that the classic golden age bodybuilders used to do. These 5 exercises are guaranteed to blow your back up as long as your nutrition is also on point, if you don't eat you won't grow. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #back #backday

The fastest way to grow your chest naturally is by focusing on incline specific movements such as incline dumbbell press. The upper chest is the most aesthetic part of the chest and it makes your chest pop more than any other part of the chest. As well as that focus on incorporating fly movements to work the outer part of the chest and give your chest overall completeness. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #chest #chestday #training

There are 2 keys to growing a big back: back thickness and back width. Rows work thickness and pulldowns work width, make sure you do a combination of both in your workouts. The greatest and most foundational exercise for a growing a big back will always be the deadlift. I start every back workout with heavy deadlifts and then I do my accessory movements such as barbell rows, weighted pull ups and one-arm rows. Building a big back is very simple, master the fundamentals and train with a high level of intensity. Love the process of getting better everyday. Love the hunt more than you love the feast. Follow me on Instagram and TikTok: nic_hijazi #back #backday #training

My Current shoulder workout that I'm doing to build massive shoulders naturally. It is a side delt focused shoulder workout because my side delts are underdeveloped in proportion to my front delts, I find a lot of people experience the same problem so this workout may be able to help you. 5 quality exercises to help maximise natty shoulder growth. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #shoulder #shoulders #delts

I've made several mistakes in my 6 years of lifting. One of them is bulking too hard and gaining too much fat on a bulk. You want to make sure you lean bulk and prioritise muscle gain and minimise fat gain. Your body can only synthesise muscle so fast, too much food eaten on a bulk will not result in more muscle gain but will result in more fat gain. The best way to go about bulking is by lean bulking and entering into a minor surplus (300/500 calorie surplus). Find out what your maintenance calories are and then add 300-500 calories, this way you will maximise lean muscle gain and only gain a tiny bit of fat when in a surplus. Follow me on TikTok/Instagram: nic_hijazi #bulk #bulking #gym #muscle

We roam around Greece interviewing women about what they look for in a man. We elegantly explore male/female dynamics and also show you a small snippet of a night out on the drink with the Mendez Cartel. As well as that we show you small clips from our arm workout and display some crazy training intensity. Enjoy the final episode of the Mendez Cartel in Greece. Follow the Mendez Cartel: nic_hijazi juanfelipecurrea sebpress8 fefe.gonzalez #greece #women #gym

I reunite with my brother after 5 years in prison. It's an emotional reunion. This is the first time all of the Mendez Cartel have been together on this channel. The Mendez Cartel Tour Greece. We train hard, I give you an insight into what I've been eating on my bulk and we conduct business overseas. This is episode 1 of 2, stay tuned for the next one. Follow the Mendez Cartel on Instagram: nic_hijazi juanfelipecurrea sebpress8 fefe.gonzalez

This is a superset workout to build massive arms naturally. 4 tricep exercises and 4 bicep exercises that are done in a superset fashion, this is a high volume workout that will push you to your limits. I don't always train arms by using supersets, sometimes I will do Triceps first then biceps and lower the workout volume. I believe in training arms heavy and utilising a variety of different rep ranges to stimulate growth. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #arms #armday #biceps #triceps

Deadlifts are the greatest exercise ever created. They are the pinnacle of strength and no other exercise comes close to them. You see all these people online saying that the deadlift is a terrible exercise and that it doesn't have a good risk to reward ratio. These people mainly come from the optimal science based lifting community and don't have a clue about real lifting. There is no better exercise for longevity and the human body in general than some heavy deadlifts. Deadlifts are Mendez Cartel approved. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #deadlift #back #backday

Arnold has the greatest chest of all time. There has never been a bodybuilder that possessed a chest as aesthetic as Arnold's. In this video I show you how Arnold built his chest and how you can too. I reveal Arnold's chest philosophy and explain the best way to train chest for strength and aesthetics. And you can do all this naturally. Follow me on TikTok/Instagram: nic_hijazi #arnold #arnoldschwarzenegger #chest #chestday

What are you doing when nobody else is watching? When you are the only one there to account for your actions. Most people spend their weekends getting drunk and seeking mindless pleasure, I like to go to the gym and train. The darkness is where you must build yourself, when other people are out having fun you must be working. That is how you separate yourself from the pack. Become more. Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #dark #gym #workhard

You need to make sure you build a secure foundation when constructing building before you can start worrying about the beautiful infrastructure that comes after that. In lifting terms you need to make sure you spend several years eating in a caloric surplus gaining muscle mass and getting stronger before you can worry about cutting and trying to get shredded. Everyone wants to be lean and shredded year round but that isn't going to give you a great physique. You need to spend years bulking first and building muscle naturally overtime before you will have enough size to reveal the art piece. Be patient and build that foundation first. Follow me on Instagram/TikTok: nic_hijazi #bulk #cut #muscle #stronger #gym

Training heavy is incredibly important when it comes to back growth. Make sure you don't run away from that heavy weight. We live in a day and age where there is a new optimal science based philosophy around lifting that tells you to stop lifting heavy. Never buy into that philosophy. Lift heavy no matter what. I love using deadlifts as my prime back exercise for heavy lifting. I will be deadlifting until I'm dead. Follow me on TikTok/Instagram: nic_hijazi