This is one of Kevin Horton’s black-and-white gym photos of Dorian Yates that literally shocked the bodybuilding world in 1993. At that time, his sheer mass was astounding…
Keep in mind that Yates won his first of six Mr. Olympia titles in 1992, the year before, and officially ushered in the mass-monster era. His physique only got bigger and grainier as his victories continued…
Yates was 5’10 1/2” competing at a bodyweight of around 275, with every muscle group developed to gargoyle proportions—and he did it with short workouts compared to his peers.
He was from the high-intensity, Heavy Duty school of bodybuilding—but he favored higher-rep warmup sets prior to his all-out , short-but-heavy mass blasts…
That’s similar to our slow-twitch exhaustion, or STX, method, which begins each muscle assault with a high-rep set to pre-exhaustion slow-twitch fibers—and trigger growth in those often neglected fibers as well…
And now new research shows that you don’t have to use crazy heavy poundages to hypertrophy the fast-twitch fibers after a high-rep set—if you do it right. A Brazilian study initiated that finding, which we discuss in many of our e-books, like the one we most recently updated…
It’s an expanded version of our Quick-Start Muscle Building Guide, now 2.0, with many mass tactics—like STX, slo-mo and speed reps—infused into short, efficiency-of-effort home workouts…
The workouts in the new section are tailored to build muscle in a bare-bones home gym with only moderate poundages—all you need is an adjustable bench and dumbbells. We have only the 50-pound PowerBlock set, and it’s working great for us. (This is critical mass-building information and ideal home workouts if your commercial gym is closing or scaling back due to the pandemic; or perhaps you just don’t want to risk exposure until a vaccine is widely available)…
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
www.X-Rep.com
Build MASS with bodyweight training
One way you’re guaranteed to pack on stacks of muscle is through a process called muscle protein synthesis (MPS), which more than doubles 24 hours after an intense workout…
Until recently, MPS was only elevated when trainees would lift 70-90% of their one-rep max…
That’s not only dangerous for your joints, but it also sets you up for high injury risk every time you exercise…
It used to be believed that training with your own bodyweight couldn’t get you the same results as training with your 70-90% one rep max… Until NOW.