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Q: The research on doing lactic acid-producing leg work before biceps training to get a growth spurt in the arms is very interesting. Do you think doing a high-rep set of biceps work can produce the same size-increasing acid result? After all, the anabolic acid production would be more localized in the target muscle [the biceps].
What you’re describing–a preliminary high-rep set for a target muscle–has proven to trigger more growth. In case you missed it, the research [Read more…]
One of the most motivating pics we ever saw when it comes to giant arms is Arnold’s biceps shot on the cover of his best-selling book Education of a Bodybuilder. Holy sky-high bi’s! [Read more…]
Q: In X-traordinary Arms you say that different exercises “affect different areas of the biceps and triceps.” Isn’t that just “bro science”—not based on any real research?
Hmm, are studies that are performed with magnetic resonance imaging bro science? We don’t think so. Our conclusions are the result of real muscle-group studies performed by Per A. Tesch, Ph.D., a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
We say it so often, it starts pissing people off: Something about your workout must change for you to build freaky muscles. Jonathan’s freak physique evolution is the result of that… [Read more…]
It’s fairly obvious that something about your workout must change for you make dramatic mass gains. In the beginning, that’s usually adding weight to the bar as you get stronger. But after the early stages of bodybuilding, it’s tougher and tougher to get stronger. Then what? How do you get the necessary frequent change to gain?
One of the simplest methods is to change the order in which you train muscle groups. For example [Read more…]
Q: Your last e-zine that outlined the Phase 1 Size Surge routine for freaky muscle building with Friday as a slow-twitch-exhaustion workout (one high-rep set first) was great. Doing bench presses starting with 20 reps, then adding weight for a heavier set had my pecs aching–but my triceps seem to die out first. Should I follow that with the isolation exercise using a high-rep set first also, just to make sure the target muscle is stimulated enough?
You could do that. [Read more…]
Q: On the quest for a mass burst, I’ve been spinning my wheels for a while with crazy workouts and almost no gains. I figure it’s time to go back to basics with a simple workout that I know works, the Phase 1 Size Surge program. Last time I used it, I gained almost 10 pounds of muscle. One change I would like to make is to incorporate the [Read more…]
Some bodybuilders seeking extreme muscle mass – for one reason or another – don’t like doing high reps first. Even after understanding the Brazilian study that shows more growth from high-rep slow-twitch fiber pre-exhaustion first (more info and workouts using that method on MMX Fast Mega-Mass Workouts). [Read more…]
We discuss a lot of mass-building studies, and we often get questions about altering the procedure of those studies to make the mass effect even more effective. What the heck are we talking about? For example… [Read more…]
We’ve been discussing extreme muscle growth and the anabolic impact of the recent realization that type-1 “endurance” fibers are also capable of showing a significant level of muscular hypertrophy. That may be why a longer time under tension for a muscle has shown more muscle-size increases than shorter sets–more slow-twitch activation and swelling… [Read more…]
