We say it so often, it starts pissing people off: Something about your workout must change for you to build freaky muscles. Jonathan’s freak physique evolution is the result of that…
In the beginning, you add weight to the bar as you get stronger. But that slows to a snail’s pace after the early stages of bodybuilding. Then change to gain must come in the form of different tactics and programs to keep your mind hyped and your muscles growing. Here’s a great example we talk about often (and it pisses people off too–Lol)…
Researcher Brad Schoenfeld, Ph.D., recently did a study that compared a workout program that trained each target muscle once a week and the less popular full-body workout performed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He made sure that the trainees were doing the SAME VOLUME of work for each muscle per week…
In other words, if the once-a-week group did squats, leg presses and leg extensions for four sets each on Mondays (12 sets total on leg day), the full-body group did four sets of squats on Monday, four sets of leg presses on Wednesday and four sets of leg extensions on Friday–12 sets BUT spread over three nonconsecutive days.
After 12 weeks the group that trained each target muscle three times a week (full-body) got better muscle gains than the group that trained each muscle only once a week. So full-body, three-days-per-week workouts are better for a freak physique, right? Not so fast…
Schoenfeld says emphatically that the results don’t mean full-body workouts are better for muscle growth. The subjects using that method may have gotten more size because training each muscle more frequently with lower volume was something they weren’t used to–a NEW stimulus, i.e. change to gain.
Freak Physique Guide – Going Away!
The proven change-to-gain concept is the very reason we put together our X-traordinary Muscle-Building Workouts e-book–10 classic mass-building programs…
Two-way split routines, training each muscle twice a week with the 3D Power Pyramid (POF), to three-days-per-week full-body workouts with the Anabolic Squat program. There’s also Volume-Intensity Fusion, Traumatic/Non-traumaitc, Heavy/Light and X-Rep Reload (10 complete mass-building programs in all)…
It belongs in every bodybuilders mass-building library; however, we will be removing the X-traordinary Muscle-Building Workouts from our web site in a few days forever. As a special “going-away” offer, you can get this classic best-seller for only $7 before it’s gone (original value $30)…
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Till next time, train hard–and smart–for BIG results.
–Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com