In the last training newsletter, I mentioned how I caught a bug from my granddaughter and missed a week of workouts.
Yes, it sucked. But on the flip-side, I noticed my physique getting bigger and better over the get-well week. It reminded me of the article on adding a half-inch of arm size after only one workout. Let me explain…
Back in the early 1970s, Nautilus Machine creator and pistol-toting gator wrangler Arthur Jones wrote this in Iron Man magazine:
From only one workout I’ll put a full half-inch of permanent muscle size on your upper arms.
One workout? C’mon! But Jones made good on his claim with almost every bodybuilder who challenged him. How?
He did it by focusing on rest and recovery right off the bat…
When the challenge was accepted, Jones immediately ordered the bodybuilder to rest completely for three full days. Why?
Almost every bodybuilder who challenged him was severely overtrained—many were training six days a week…
The three days of complete rest allowed the glycogen in muscles to refill and muscle tissue to finally grow after being beaten down by the prolonged “gym camping” and cumulative overtraining…
After the three rest days, he put the bodybuilder through a full-body workout of 10 exercises, with the last four sets devoted to an all-out arm assault…
The next morning the bodybuilder’s arms were measured, and almost without fail there was a half inch or more of extra muscle stretching the tape.
But it wasn’t really the workout that did it—although that may have contributed; it was the complete rest that finally allowed supercompensation to happen.
The lesson here is that if you’ve been training hard and consistently for two months, you may need to hit pause to replenish and allow new growth to occur…
Take at least a three-day break, then hit the weights again with renewed focus, bigger muscles and, for good measure, a new efficient mass building program.
Like one based on the ideal exercise for each workout…
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com
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