We often feature photos in our Zen newsletters that we’ve never seen before. This one of Danny Padilla is one of those. It looks like he’s at some type of ruins, perhaps the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, or the Parthenon in Greece (those are just a guesses).
He was no doubt in Europe for a bodybuilding contest or exhibition, which may be why he’s in darn good shape—although Padilla was always known to look sharp and bodybuilder-esque, even in the off-season. His training style made that possible…
We’ve discussed his training here before and mentioned how our workouts evolved in a good way thanks to info on Danny’s training—and Vince Gironda’s methods as well.
Padilla’s workouts were best described as “progressive muscle-fiber exhaustion” using only moderate weights. That means no hammering joints into submission with crazy poundages…
That style of training single-handedly saved our training careers and has us still training and gaining into old age. That’s especially true of Steve who is in his early 60s.
Our 4X Mass Method that we’ve been using for years now, is based on Danny’s training, which was an off-shoot of Gironda’s Density Training…
It’s moderate weights for 4×10, 4×12, or 5×12, gradually exhausting the various muscle fiber types over multiple sets due to short rests between those sets.
It’s a thorough, efficient and safe way to get total muscle growth in almost all fiber types.
The 4X method is excellent for younger trainees looking to preserve their joints as they build mass, as well as for older bodybuilders who are training around aches and pains. Oh, and the pump is unreal…
Winter is the perfect time to try 4X for major muscle-growth success—no joint stress. For loads of motivating info and programs…
> The 4X Mass Workout 2.0 is available HERE.
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com
Mass-Building Lessons From the Master Trainer
Vince Gironda was the Iron Guru, a bodybuilding legend ahead of his time. His most famous pupil in the bodybuilding world was the very first Mr. Olympia Larry Scott, and he also trained many Hollywood stars back in the day, like Clint Eastwood, and even Arnold consulted with him and was a fan (even though Vince told Arnold that he was a “fat f**k” when he first arrived in the U.S.).
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