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3 Fat-to-Muscle Secrets to Get You Leaner and Bigger

Jonathan Lawson's abs from X-treme Lean

Q: I always get fat over the winter. Outdoor cardio is hard to do, and I hate the treadmill. Plus, I tend to miss workouts. Three days a week is about all I can handle. Should I just do that and try to starve myself more often to stay closer to lean shape?

A: The good news is, you don’t have to do cardio to burn fat; you just have to use a few key fat-to-muscle tactics, the first of which is doing some muscle damage. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: bigger, bigger and leaner, burn fat, cardio, fat burning, fat loss, fat-to-muscle, high-definition workout, home protection, leaner, muscle damage, muscle trauma, secrets, self-defense, weight loss, winter workouts, x-treme lean

Best Time for Cardio

Q: When is the best time for cardio? I’ve tried first thing in the morning before breakfast, but I felt tired and burned out by mid-morning, and my job suffered. Is right after a weight-training workout good? If so, for how many minutes? I’m trying to get lean while it’s still summer.

A: Steve interviewed two top researchers, Gabriel Wilson, M.S., and Jacob Wilson, Ph.D., and they believe cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach is HIGHLY catabolic. In other words, it wastes away your hard-earned muscle tissue. That makes sense considering you’ve been fasting for eight hours or more while you slept and your body is in the early stages of starvation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: best time for cardio, building muscle, burn fat, burning fat, cardio, catabolic, fat burning, fat-to-muscle, Gabriel Wilson, get lean, get ripped, Jacob Wilson, lose muscle, post-workout, starvation

3 Shocking Fat-Burning Facts

Steve Holman outside

It’s the time of year when body-conscious folks are working to look their best for summer. A flat belly is great, and etched abs can really grab attention—but there’s nothing like phenomenal abdominals WITH overall muscularity and rugged rippedness.

The problem is, most people fail to even get to the first level—a flat, no-fat midsection. Why? It usually has something to do with the following 3 fat-burning facts you should be aware of. Knowing these will help you succeed in exiting the Chub Club and joining the Buff Brigade… [Read more…]

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Get Ripped Without Cardio?!

Steve Holman post-New Year's abs in winter - Lean-and-Muscular Winter-Workout Tips

Q: I read the info on The Ultimate Fat-to-Muscle Workout page. So you’re saying I can get ripped without cardio? I seriously doubt that.

A: That’s not what we’re saying. With The Ultimate Fat-to-Muscle Workout, or using the metabolic-momentum methods from it in your current program, you can stay leaner without much cardio. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: abs, arm veins, cardio, fat-to-muscle, get ripped without cardio, metabolic momentum, ripped, vascular arms, vascularity, veiny arms

“Radical” Diet for Mass and Cuts

Steve Holman before and after - Eat Less, more Testosterone

Q: Steve’s “roller-coaster size-shreds” diet [in the Super Size Crash Course] has me rethinking my plan. The results he got with it are spectacular, but I have a few questions. He lists his two ultra-strict diet days a week, but how did he eat on the other five days? Also, how was he training, and what was his cardio schedule?

A: Yes, his results were fairly “spectacular,” as the pics below show (there are more in the e-book; apologies for the crummy old iPhone images—old man needs a new phone. Lol). These results were after about 8 weeks on the new diet. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: alain gonzales, cardio, diet, mass and cuts, metabolism, physique, ripping diet, super-size crash course

The Perfect Rest Time for Packing on Muscle Mass

Q: I’m an avid reader of your e-books as well as your website. I’ve been experimenting recently with a heavy set to failure (approximately 10 reps), adding X-Rep partials to the end. Then I do a second X-Only set, often with added weight. This is an excellent trigger for growth, especially if you warm up using the DXO [Double-X Overload] technique. On the warmup set, I do anywhere from four to five X Reps between [full-range] reps, and the burn is incredible! That [combination] has had such a strong effect on my body, that I now have some stretch marks appearing. I’m definitely getting much more muscular while dropping fat. Another thing I’ve been experimenting with is shortening the stroke of X Reps, to the point where I’m almost doing a static hold. I just pulse out very small partial reps. Which brings me to static holds. Research shows subjects adding a few pounds of muscle after only one workout, but that workout was followed by two weeks of rest. Surely two weeks off between workouts is ridiculous. I was wondering how you stand on recovery time and static holds?

A: Thanks for the feedback and your confidence in our methods. We discuss a lot of what you’re discovering and experimenting with in our X-Rep Update #1 e-book. Former Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler used a lot of X-Only sets, as we discuss in Chapter 5, Mr. O’s Wild X-O Workouts. Notice Cutler’s short stroke on this exercise…

[Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: belly fat burn, cardio, Double-X Overload, dxo, failure, fat burners, fat burning, full-range, Jay Cutler, mr. olympia, muscle mass, partial reps, recovery, recovery time, rest, rest time, static contraction, static holds, stretch marks, x-only sets, x-rep partials, x-rep update

Top 5 Fat-Loss Blast-Off Tips

Jonathan Lawson Abs and Delts - Key Muscle-Size Exercise for Shocking Shoulders

It’s not easy getting lean—at least for most people—which is why fast fat loss is always a hot topic. Most of you reading this probably want to uncover your abs sooner rather than later…

[Read more…]

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4 Intense Fat-Loss Tips

Jonathan Lawson doing cardio on stationary bike - Cheat to Get Ripped

Q: I need to lose fat quickly, and I’ve been reading a lot about interval cardio training. I want to try it, so how would you suggest I work it into my program? I just started using the Heavy/Light 10×10 Workout based on one of your recent newsletters that made it sound great.

A: As we’ve said, high-intensity interval cardio is like doing another leg workout, so you must be cautious. For those who don’t know what HIIT is, a good example is sprinting the straight-aways and walking the curves on a running track.

You’re alternating anaerobic work, all-out sprints, with active rest, walking. Studies show that it’s an exceptional way to burn bodyfat for a number of reasons…

[Read more…]

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Top 3 In-the-Gym Fat-Burning Tricks

Q: What can I do during my workouts to get leaner right now? I have some pounds to lose, especially around my middle. My goal this year is to see abs all summer, so I want to get rid of the fat fast.

A: You may be doing some of these things already, but here are our top-3 tips to ramp up fat burning in your weight-training workouts (of course, you also have to adjust your eating to make these tricks super-effective):

[Read more…]

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High-Rep Overload for Muscle Growth—How Much Is Too Much

Q: I’m intrigued by the Super TORQ ultra-high-rep approach. But I’m also making great gains with your standard 3-exercise Positions of Flexion training. Can I use his method on one of the three exercises for each bodypart in the POF routine, or would that be too much?

A: If you’ve read the interview with Doug Brignole in The Ultimate Power-Density Mass Workout 2.0 and checked out his program there, you can see that he only does ONE key exercise for each target muscle with that extreme high-rep approach…

[Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: belly fat burn, cardio, Doug Brignole, fat loss, fatigue, gains, growth hormone, heavy training, high-rep, high-rep overload, hormone trick, hypertrophic, metabolism, muscle growth, muscle pump, POF, positions of flexion, pump, pyramids, semi-heavy, Super TORQ, tension overload, tension time, tension-overload repetition quantity, testosterone, Ultimate Power-Density Mass Workout

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