In the past few e-zines I've discussed hyperplasia, or fiber splitting, Arnold's size-stretching tactics, force overload, and how each of those directly relates to the X-Rep power-partial technique and your muscle growth. It's all very exciting stuff from a fast-mass standpoint; however, one thing needs strong emphasis: You absolutely gotta eat enough of the right things to gain big from this type of training.

Am I talking about protein? Well, you do need enough to rebuild tissue, but I'm really talking about energy substrates to power through your workouts. You need to blast off at every workout, and the high-octane fuel for X-treme muscle contraction is glycogen, along with an ATP-muscle-energy chaser (creatine). That means a no-carb diet is a bad idea because carbs (sugar) is where muscle glycogen comes from. You gotta have glycogen- and creatine-loaded muscle structures to make beyond-failure training effective, and that's particularly true of X Reps. (Bonus: Those nutrients fill out your muscles so they look rounder and fuller--and you look bigger!)

Remember, you blast out X-Rep power partials at the point of max-force generation at the end of a set--like just below the midpoint of an incline press. So you must have plenty of muscle energy to drive beyond failure and pulse at that key fiber-activation point to get the most size stimulation possible. In other words, your muscles must be energy packed or you'll crap out early. In fact, if your muscles are low in either glycogen or creatine, holding the bar statically at the X Spot after failure may be your only recourse. Your muscles simply don't have the go power (or grow power) for pulse-action X Reps, and that's a sure sign you need to carb up and creatine load.

"But won't carbs make me fat?" Not if you load right after you train. Studies show that you can easily take in more than 100 grams of carbs right after a heavy weight-training workout, with none of those carbs turning to fat. That's right, it all goes to your muscles, zero to fat. That makes a lot of sense, considering that your body stores between 300 and 400 grams of glycogen in your muscles and liver, so a hard weight-training session probably depletes at least 100 grams. You absolutely must replenish with fast carbs immediately after you train--no excuses. (During our one-month transformation, when our calories were at their lowest, we never went below 140 grams of carbs a day--and we got down under 5 percent bodyfat!)

A bonus of that postworkout fast-carb blast is that your insulin will shoot up. That's a bad thing at other times due to enhanced fat deposition, but not right after you train. An insulin surge primes your system to shuttle nutrients to the muscles only--like those carbs you just torched out of them in the gym. Muscle supercompensation is heightened. And because the bullet train to your muscles is at full throttle, you want to chase those carbs with fast protein too. Now you've got muscle-building aminos going along for the ride, pumping and plumping up those fibers so they're bigger and stronger at your next workout. And don't forget creatine. Muscle uptake for all of those nutrients is significantly accelerated after you train.

You can use fast whey protein in some type of fruit juice as your postworkout power punch. And then chase it with some type of creatine solution. During our one-month X-periment, we used Muscle-Link's RecoverX postworkout powder (fast whey, fast carbs and L-arginine for expanding blood vessels) in water along with a scoop of CreaSol after every workout. We call it our X Stack (available with special pricing at Home-Gym.com), and it made a big difference in our size and strength. In fact, the last leg workout before our photo shoot we jacked up our calf raise poundage by 70 pounds with only a one-rep drop off. Not bad considering our calories had bottomed out. We got similar strength gains all through that month on other bodyparts, and we credit a lot of those gains to proper postworkout nutrition--and X Reps, of course.

If you're interested in building the most mass possible as efficiently as possible, start experimenting with X Reps immediately! As I've said, scientific evidence, the training tactics of some of the greatest bodybuilders of all time and our fast muscularity increases in only a month verify the technique's incredible potential--and your potential mass gains once you start using it. You gotta take X Reps for a test drive--and don't forget the high-octane muscle fuel that can make your workouts X-ponentially more effective! Bigger, fuller, stronger muscles will be yours.

The X-Files are not intended as training advice for everyone. You must consult your physician before beginning any diet or training program.

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