1980 Mr. Universe Tom Platz had a pair of the freakiest legs bodybuilding had ever seen—and even today they look Photoshopped. Trust us—they aren’t (Steve interviewed Tom face-to-face back in the late ’80s for Iron Man magazine)…
Yes, Platz was blessed with incredible lower-body genetics, but he succeeded in making a great body part totally ungodly by attacking it with no-pain-no-gain stretch moves like sissy squats…
Platz believed that elongating a muscle against resistance significantly enhanced hypertrophy—and now science is verifying that.
An older study that we often reference was performed by Jose Antonio, Ph.D., et al.—and it produced incredible muscle size increases. Here’s what he said about it:
I performed the study using the stretch model. I used a progressive-overload scheme whereby the [bird’s wing] was initially loaded with a weight equal to 10 percent of its weight followed by increments… Using this approach produced the greatest gains in muscle mass ever recorded in an animal or human model of tension-induced overload, up to 334 percent increase in muscle mass with up to a 90 percent increase in fiber number!
A more recent study also verifies stretch-overload as a significant get-bigger trigger [Scand J Med Sci Sports, Jan 30, 2017]…
Stretch training induces unequal adaptation in muscle fascicles and thickness in medial and lateral gastrocnemii
It was the calf muscles that were stretched against resistance for bouts during a six-week period. Muscle thickness increased by 5.6%. And remember, that was with ONLY stretch stimulation…
No other hypertrophic triggers were used, not even full-range movement—yet the muscles still grew quickly in just over a month’s time…
Back to Platz. He eventually started using stretch moves for his upper body to push everything from his chest to back to triceps and biceps to new levels of development to help match his incredible legs. For example, incline curls for biceps…
It’s clear that muscle stretch is one the 3 key hypertrophy triggers that you should attack for freaky muscle growth (all three are outlined in Chapter 4 of our Stretch-Overload Workout ebook). In other words…
Include loaded muscle elongation for super-size stimulation!
The Freak-Physique Stretch-Overload Workout contains mass-building research, stretch exercises for every muscle, plus multiple workouts supercharged with anabolic stretch, including 3D Power Pyramid (POF) and Pure-Positions STX (slow-twitch exhaustion). For a limited time, you can add it to your mass-building library, a $19 value, for ONLY $9 HERE.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com
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