Here’s a rare shot of Arnold, one we can’t recall ever seeing. We’re not sure who took it, but our friend the late Gene Mozee could be the photographer, as he shot Arnold at his biggest mostly outdoors.
In this shot, Arnold’s mass looks unreal, and his few flaws are well disguised…
The Oak wasn’t blessed with a wasp waist, so this twisting semi-relaxed pose helps minimize that and emphasizes his shoulder width, not to mention his powerful pecs.
Arnold’s wide, long pectoral muscles allowed him to hold a lot of mass in that muscle group. If you’ve seen “Pumping Iron,” you know that he was excellent at zeroing in with laser-focus during dumbbell flyes, enduring the pain of that traumatic pec-stretch exercise…
He knew how to harness the mind-muscle connection for the most size stimulation on every set…
As we’ve mentioned, using the right exercises and focusing on “muscle feel” is extremely important, especially if you train at home with limited equipment. You gotta make every set count…
So everything from hypertrophic stretch exercises, like flyes, to slow-mo reps to speed sets will keep your mass gains coming…
For more info, please check out our expanded Quick-Start Muscle-Building Guide. The NEW 2.0 version has many of those mass tactics infused into complete slow-twitch-exhaustion at-home workouts in a big, updated section…
The workouts are tailored to build muscle in a bare-bones home gym with only moderate poundages—all you need is an adjustable bench and dumbbells (all we have is a bench and PowerBlock sets, and it’s working great for us big-time—we look forward to every workout)…
You can add this newly updated ebook to your mass-building library by clicking HERE.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
X-Rep.com
The “New” Perfect Physique
You’ve probably believed that women go crazy over huge muscles. You’ve probably even aspired to look like Arnold at some point.
The picture of the perfect physique seems to have changed over the years…
There were several years when it seemed women preferred a leaner and smaller physique like Brad Pitt’s in Fight Club.
Luckily, that seems to have just been a fad, and a more muscular look has become more desired again. Not pro bodybuilder big, but something in between with good muscularity and chiseled detail…
Alain Gonzales refers to it as the “Athletic-Aesthetic” physique, and women go wild over it.
Check out Alain’s 12-week program here: