Q: Your recent truth about muscle growth newsletters were enlightening. You’re right about growth not being visibly noticeable on a day-to-day or even week-to-week basis. You also said that 20 pounds of muscle a year is spectacular, but didn’t Jonathan gain 20 pounds of muscle in only 10 weeks with the Size Surge workout?
A: Your memory serves you well. Yes, Jonathan did pack on an incredible 20 pounds of muscle in 10 weeks; however, he was regaining a lot of that beef…
Jonathan had competed in bodybuilding before, but he had given up, thinking he wasn’t cut out for it, especially since he didn’t want to use drugs. He began working for Iron Man magazine at around age 21, and I thought he would make a good test subject for the program I was designing, based on the best research at the time…
For the beta-test Size Surge program I settled on a two-phase approach, the first a three-days-a-week workout regimen with a unique split…
Monday: legs, chest, back, shoulders
Wednesday: deadlifts, calves, arms, abs
Monday: legs, chest, back, shoulders
That was Phase 1, five weeks, using a lot of big, basic exercises for only a few sets with reps in the 7-to-9 range. It’s somewhat of a power-bodybuilding model…
Week 6 he did the same workouts, but low intensity to insure supercompensation, or growth, had been allowed to occur. Then he moved to Phase 2 for the second five weeks…
Phase 2 is full-range Positions-of-Flexion for every muscle—that is, midrange, stretch, and contracted moves. He used an every-other-day split, with a day of rest after each workout.…
Workout 1: Legs, chest, triceps
Rest
Workout 2: Back, delts, biceps, abs
Rest
I still think this is a great, basic size-building program, despite not emphasizing the ideal exercises—although some are included, such as sissy squats for quads, incline one-arm laterals for delts, dumbbell curls for biceps, and a few more…
Come to think of it, his switch to multi-angular POF for Phase 2 with the inclusion of a number of ideal exercises may be why Jonathan literally blew up during that second five weeks—no drugs.
If you want to read his experience with the program, his tweaks, tips, stats, and unique derivative workouts are all included. See The X-traordinary Size Surge Workout. The price has been reduced to ONLY $9—87 pages. Get more info HERE.
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman
Former Editor in Chief, Iron Man Magazine
www.X-Rep.com
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