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Jump Start Your Lean Machine

Q: I’m planning to start the Fat-to-Muscle Workout right after the holidays. I understand the ideas—heavy midrange and stretch for micro trauma in muscle fibers to ramp up metabolism and high reps on contracted exercise for blood flow and growth hormone release. My question is, Can I use the 4X mass method on the contracted-position exercise at the end of each bodypart workout instead of high reps? Won’t 4X do the same thing as the two high-rep sets, but get even more blood flow with more sets?

A: Absolutely. In fact, a great plan to jump start your lean machine is to mix it up—do 4X at some workouts on the ending contracted-position exercises and the two high-rep sets at others. Why? Slightly different stimuli… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: anabolic stimulus, GH release, growth hormone release, holiday weight gain, holidays, hypertrophic tension time, lean muscle, lean-machine, physique, testosterone, testosterone boosting

The Rest/Pause Link to Major Muscle and Strength

Q: I’ve been following your newsletters and noticed you guys talking about rest/pause not too long ago. Can you explain the technique a little more and the reasoning behind it?

A: Rest/pause is basically taking a very short break after you hit exhaustion on a set, and then repping out again with the same weight. The brief rest/pause allows the lactic acid to clear somewhat from the muscle and the nervous system and ATP to regenerate to a degree as well.

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 3d muscle building, anabolic, anabolic stimulus, dante, dc training, doggcrapp, Double-X Overload, dxo, forced reps, heavy singles, mike mentzer, mike westerdal, muscle, muscle size, muscle strength, physique, protect your family, pyramids, rest/pause, size, strength, X Reps, x-rep partials

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