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Before and After Photos—10 Pounds of New Muscle

Jonathan Lawson incline Smith machine presses with Steve Holman Spotting - What Are Stage Sets? (Hint: They Work!)

Q: Your before and after photos at the X-Rep site are impressive and, to be frank, almost unbelievable. You say that the next year after those were taken, you gained another 10 pounds of muscle. What exactly do you attribute those new gains to? They’re almost unbelievable considering you were both advanced and supposedly drug-free?

A: “Supposedely” drug-free? Thank you! We always take an anabolic-steroid accusation as a compliment. We totally understand the doubt, considering how tough it is to build muscle, especially 10 pounds of it. We often think of the late Mike Mentzer, former pro bodybuilder and high-intensity advocate, who often suggested imagining 10 pounds of ground hamburger piled on a table. That’s a lot of meat… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 10 pounds of muscle, anabolic, anabolic fasting, anabolic steroids, before and after photos, drug-free, eat stop eat, get ripped, high-intensity training, intensity tactics, intensity techniques, mike mentzer, new gains, pro bodybuilder, stage sets, steroids, too big, transformation, x fade, x/pause

The #1 Muscle-Building Mistake

It was summer 1975, and Arnold was Mr. Olympia, bodybuilding’s top dog. The muscle world was captivated by the awesome Austrian, and for good reason…

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 3d pof, 3d positions of flexion, arnold schwarzenegger, arthur jones, austrian oak, before and after photos, beyond x-rep muscle building, bodybuilders, bodybuilding, diet, drugs, genetics, high school, motivation, muscle gains, muscle-building mistake, olympics, physique, pre-workout, pro bodybuilder, quick-start muscle building, Steve Holman, summer, X Reps, x-hybrid techniques

Mass-in-a-Flash Transformation: How to Get Explosive Growth

Q: Okay, your before and after photos at X-Rep.com are unreal. I can’t believe you made those changes in only one month, and my friends say you used drugs. What’s the truth? How did you do it, what kind of training did you do, and were drugs involved? Please be honest.

A: Trust us, no drugs were involved. Truth: Jonathan is a drug-free for life bodybuilder and Steve experimented with 5 milligrams of Dianabol once a day back in his early 20s—but after three weeks of dreams that his liver would explode, he stopped. BTW, he saw no visual improvement during those 3 weeks on that dosage.

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 2a fibers, before and after photos, belly fat burn, dianabol, drug-free, drugs, explosive growth, fat loss, hormone trick, hormones, hypertrophy, intensity, mass, mass building, mass gains, mike neveux, muscle fibers, muscle-building, myofibrillar expansion, myofibrillar growth, partial reps, sarcoplasm, sarcoplasmic fluid, strength, supplements, tension time, testosterone, time under tension, transformation, Ultimate Mass Workout, X Reps, x-rep program

X-Rep Lies: Before and After Photos

Q: The before and after photos at your X-Rep site are pretty unbelievable. I mean, come on, four weeks to get those changes? You must’ve either lied about the time it took or manipulated the photos. You should be ashamed of yourselves. There’s too much of that deceptive crap on the Internet.

A: Ashamed? Actually, we’re very proud. Those photos are 100 percent authentic and accurate—no photo alterations, no steroids, and they were taken about four weeks apart. (The key technique that made it happen and a step-by-step how-to is coming up.)

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Progressive Mass

Q: I’ve read almost everything at your site [X-Rep.com], and I’m ready to get started. I’m 17 years old, 5’11” and 175 pounds. I’ve been training for two years. My question is, Which program should I start with? Should I do Jonathan’s 20-pounds-of-muscle-in-10-weeks program [3D Muscle Building e-book] or go straight to your X-Rep Mass-Detail Workout [in the Ultimate Mass Workout e-book]? Your X-Rep program gave you freaky results fast, so I’m thinking I should go with that one.

A: Either would work well for you at this point. At 17, you are in your prime growing years. And you already have some experience. So if you continue to train hard and sensibly, you should build stellar progressive mass with whichever routine you choose.

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 20 pounds in 10 weeks, 20 pounds of muscle, 3d muscle building, 3d pof, anabolic hormone reset, anabolic hormones, anabolic primer, before and after photos, fasting, growth hormone, intermittent fasting, max force, metabolic adaptions, occlusion, phase 1, phase 2, progressive mass, shaun hadsall, stretch overload, supercompensation, tension time, testosterone, transformation, transformation photos, Ultimate Mass Workout, x-rep mass-detail workout, x-rep program

Photos and Freakiness

Q: I saw your before and after photos from your first X-Rep year contrasted with the following year when you gained 10 more pounds of muscle [with X-hybrid techniques]. Personally, I don’t think you look better. You both look bigger, but I think your physiques are more impressive the X-Rep year.

A: Well, that’s not a question, but it’s a relevant opinion—bigger is not necessarily better. In Jonathan’s case, you are seeing his most-muscular pose, and when you gain more muscle, your physique can look more “crowded” in that pose. You could argue that his muscles are starting to look too big for his frame. Steve, on the other hand, is in a semi-relaxed pose in the X-Rep photo, and a twisting ab shot in his Beyond-X photo. He looks considerably bigger in the “after” photo, but it’s a different pose, which makes it difficult to judge.

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: aesthetics, before and after photos, Beyond X, beyond x-rep muscle building, bodybuilding, freak physique, intensity techniques, more muscle, muscular, photos, physique, sleek physique, superhero physique, Ultimate Mass Workout, X Reps, x-hybrid, x-hybrid tactics, x-hybrid techniques, x-rep routine

Transformation Photos: Girls vs. Guys

Q: I’m a man in my late 30s, but I’m very motivated by Becky Holman’s before and after photos and her story. Is the training program she used okay for men to use?

A: Absolutely. Men and women should both strive to build muscle, and that’s what her program does. Women won’t get bulky muscles no matter how hard they train because they don’t have the hormonal profile for that to happen. It’s a testosterone thing—and as you can see in the transformation photos below, Becky (Steve’s wife, who was in her early 40s below) doesn’t have a lot of testosterone…

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Anabolic Fasting + Shredded-Muscle After-Effects (pics inside)

Intermittent Fasting is all the rage right now and for good reason—it works! Even jacked movie stars like The Rock, Terry Cruz, and Hugh Jackman use it for shredded muscle.

We’ve used it off and on for years. Check out Steve’s initial results, which were spectacular—and he’s in his 50s…

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I want to do everything I can to make the fastest muscle gains possible with X-Rep training. Do you have any suggestions on how to check my progress, other than weighing myself every week?

 

A: First, don’t weigh yourself every week. You can make muscle gains as you lose fat, so your weight may stay the same or you may even gain weight while getting more muscular (muscle weighs more than fat, by the way). About the only way to really track progress is to take photos every four weeks or so. You should hit a variety of poses at your first session, keeping a list of the shots you took and the camera settings you used. Four to six week later, take photos again, and use the same poses and camera settings (put the camera on a tripod, if possible, at about waist height). Also—and this is important—be sure the lighting is the same. Take the pictures in a room with a fairly bright overhead light and don’t use a flash, or it will wash out your muscularity.

We had a specific spot in the IRON MAN Training & Research Center where we took our photos. Below are a few of our before and after shots that were taken one month apart in the same lighting. The befores were taken at the end of May, right as we began using X-Rep training. The after shots were taken July 2, about a month later. These shots, taken under the same light, convinced us that X-Rep training works better than anything we’ve tried in the past!

Steve Holman before and after chest

Jonathan Lawson before and after chest

Jonathan Lawson before and after hamstrings and calves

Be sure to take your progress-monitoring shots under the same lighting conditions. We took these at the same spot in the IRON MAN Training & Research Center about one month apart during our X-Rep experiment. They proved to us that X Reps can produce drastic changes in size and muscularity fast! We’ve never made such amazing progress in such a short period of time in our training careers.

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Which X-Rep Program to Start With

Jonathan Lawson and Steve Holman before and after X-Rep photos - Which X-Rep Program to Start With

Q: I heard about X Reps from a guy at my gym. He suggested I get one of your X-Rep e-books, but after looking at your site, I realize there are a lot of them. I need help figuring out which X-Rep program to start with.

A: A lot of our newer trainees as us which X-Rep program to start with, so for a good overview of X Reps as well as key X-hybrid techniques, we recommend The X-traordinary X-Rep Workout. It was written a few years after our first X-Rep e-book, The Ultimate Mass Workout, so we’ve included all the critical highlights of what we learned up to that point… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: before and after photos, end-of-set x-rep partials, muscularity, positions of flexion, progress, steroids, testosterone, trick photography, Ultimate Mass Workout, which x-rep program to start with, X Reps, x-hybrid techniques, x-rep mass-detail workout, x-traordinary workout

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