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Anabolic Phasing: Muscle Hypertrophy Tsunami

Anabolic Phasing: Muscle Hypertrophy Tsunami

Q: I’ve been following the current bodybuilding training trend of hitting each muscle once a week with lots of sets. Growth has been slow, but you’d think that with so much volume and intensity at one workout, it should take a full week for that muscle to completely recover, right?

Well, training each muscle with lots of volume once a week will produce some growth—if intensity is high enough to produce significant damage. The question is how much is enough?

Less volume for each muscle but with more frequent body part hits has proven a better, more sure-fire method for optimal hypertrophy in most cases and works as a sort of anabolic phasing… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: anabolic frequency, anabolic phasing, anabolic reload, anabolic stretching, bodyweight workout, Brad Schoenfeld, freak physique, full body, full-body workout, muscle hypertrophy, Size Surge, stretch overload, testosterone, Truth About Testosterone, x-treme lean

New study: Untapped freaky mass trigger

New study: Untapped freaky mass trigger

New research says stretch-overload—elongating the target muscle against resistance—is an untapped muscle mass trigger…

According to respected muscle-training researcher Brad Schoenfeld, Ph.D…

This is the first study I’m aware of that shows that a relatively modest loaded stretching protocol produces significant hypertrophy in humans.

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: anabolic stretching, Brad Schoenfeld, mass trigger, pennation, platz quads, stretch hold, stretch overload, tom platz

Study: Forgotten method to double your muscle growth

Study: Forgotten method to double your muscle growth

Dr. Jacob Wilson, who used to write for Iron Man when we worked there, did a study recently with a technique we have recommended over the years—stretch holds, or Stat-X.

Dr. Wilson calls it “intraset stretching.” In his study, the subjects who included intraset stretching DOUBLED muscle thickness compared to [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: anabolic stretching, bird study, double your muscle growth, Dr. Jacob Wilson, Dr. Jose Antonio, intraset stretching, iron man, muscle growth, muscle size, POF, positions of flexion, stretch overload, stretch position

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