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.
Preposterous? Impossible? One workout? C’mon!
Well, 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 athlete to rest completely for three full days. Why?
Almost every bodybuilder who challenged him was severely overtrained—many were training six days a week. Yes, we’re an obsessive bunch…
The three days of complete rest allowed the glycogen in muscles to refill and muscle tissue to rebuild from the prolonged “gym camping” and cumulative overtraining…
It’s similar to how a competitive bodybuilder will stay away from training the last few days before a contest. After dieting and hard training for eight to 10 weeks, the athlete is overtrained and depleted. The rest days right before the show allow the muscles to heal and refill…
Back to Jones: After the three rest days, he put the bodybuilder through a full-body workout of 10 exercises, with the last four to six 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.
The lesson here is that if you’ve been training hard and consistently for two to three months with sufficient volume, you may need to hit pause to replenish and allow new growth to happen…
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
Steve Holman
Former Editor in Chief, Iron Man Magazine
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