Q: The Size Surge e-book is one of my favorites. Solid programs and talk about motivation—Jonathan gaining 20 pounds of muscle in two months. Wow. The Super-Size Crash Course shows Jordon Williamson gaining 18 pounds of muscle in 12 weeks or so. Why did it take him almost a month longer to gain less mass than Jonathan, and how much muscle is possible per month?
A: One thing you must always remember about before and after subjects: If they have been big and muscular before, then slacked off and lost it, it’s much easier to REGAIN that muscle…
In other words, Jonathan had competed in bodybuilding before. He was muscular previously. He had stopped training hard and lost much of it as he smoothed out because he had essentially given up on bodybuilding—until he hit on the Size Surge program…
That’s not to take away from his 10-week gain. After the Size Surge experiment, he was much bigger than he had ever been, but about half of his gain was RE-gain.
Jordon, on the other hand, was starting from scratch. He’d never been muscular—although he had been training haphazardly a few months prior to starting the SSCC program…
The novice factor actually makes Jordon’s gains more impressive than Jonathan’s—even though Jonathan looked more like a bodybuilder after. But for a rank beginner like Jordon to pack on 18 pounds of muscle in three months, that is phenomenal…
And he even started to show abs (see after pic above). So he lost fat as he gained muscle mass—and he did NOT use drugs (neither did Jonathan)…
The BIG reason he was able to accomplish that was because of alternating power and density workouts. He trained each target muscle to get stronger with heavy weights, but he alternated those workouts with moderate-poundage, longer-tension-time workouts…
He used 4X and TORQ—tension-overload repetition quantity—on his density days. Short rests between sets and higher reps (30-20-15) produce fast increases in sarcoplasmic size, and that’s exactly what he got…
He also used modified pre-exhaustion on density days. That means he began each target-muscle routine with a contracted-position exercise for isolation and pre-fatigue. He got in touch with the target and boosted neuromuscular efficiency before moving to the big compound exercise.
Jordon’s workouts were fairly simple Positions-of-Flexion, but the variation in tactics, exercise order, fiber activation and tension time at each workout produced exponential hypertrophy as well as an anabolic hormone cascade.
In other words, he was able to grow like never before.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
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