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Ultimate Muscle-Size Rep Range

Image of quote from Brad Schoenfeld

When I’m not writing this newsletter, I’m usually working out, on a run, or answering emails—or napping from all that activity.

One common question I get is, “What’s the best rep range for building mass?” [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: Brad Schoenfeld, Doug Brignole, ectomorph, fiber type, hypertrophy, muscle size, rep range

Muscle-Mass Multiplier

Muscle fiber illustration on Jonathan's arm while curling

Should your dominant muscle-fiber type determine how you train for mass? [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: ace-2, ace-dd, anaerobic, ectomorphic, European Journal of Applied Physiology, fiber type, hardgainers, mesomorphic, muscle mass, tension time

Pyramid Power: Secret to Mega Mass and Strength

Muscle fiber illustration on Jonathan's arm while curling

Q: I just got The Ultimate Power-Density Mass Workout and The X-traordinary X-Rep Workout. Tremendous. I’ve already read them both twice. Undoubtedly the best bodybuilding info I’ve ever seen. I noticed that in the programs in both e-books, you rely a lot on pyramiding the weight on the compound exercises. Is that better than just using the same poundage on all work sets and going to exhaustion?

A: With the type of training we list in those e-books, we believe adding weight to each work set so that the rep count decreases—9, 7, 5, for instance—is ideal to build BOTH mega mass and strength for three reasons… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 2a fibers, bodybuilding, fiber activation, fiber recruitment, fiber type, freak physique, intensity, mass and strength, mega mass, nervous system, neural drive, power-density, power-pyramid, pyramid power, stamina, strength, stretch overload, testosterone, testosterone replacement therapy, trt, Truth About Testosterone, x-rep workout

Intensity for Muscle Immensity?

Q: I’ve been reading your e-zine for years, and I have almost all of your e-books. Great info, and thanks to you I have a lot of new muscle. 3D POF is great! My question is about rep ranges. You’ve talked about using lower reps, medium reps, and higher reps. I’ve read that the key to muscle growth is intensity, and that rep ranges don’t really matter. Can’t I just keep doing about eight to 10 reps, the best range for muscle growth, on all my exercises and train intensely, to failure, to make the best gains? Do I really need different rep ranges?

A: While intensity is the big key to forcing muscle growth, there is no doubt that the predominant fiber type in a particular muscle dictates its best rep range for fastest size gains.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 3d muscle building, 3d pof, ace-2, ace-dd, anabolic response, anaerobic, continuous tension, efficiency-of-effort, endurance fibers, endurance-oriented fibers, fast-twitch, fiber type, fiber types, hardgainers, hypertrophy, hypertrophy hierarchy, intensity, jonathan lawson, max force, muscle growth, new muscle, occlusion, POF, positions of flexion, rep range, size gains, slow-twitch, Steve Holman, stretch overload, supersaturation, tension time, testosterone

All-10×10 Program: Good or Bad?

Jonathan Lawson outside - All 10x10 Program: Good or Bad?

Q: You have an all-10×10 program in your e-book [The Ultimate 10×10 Mass Workout], but I’ve heard that you don’t think total 10×10 routines are that great. I wanted to try it, but now I’m not so sure. Do you still believe that the all-10×10 program is not good?

A: For those unfamiliar with it, 10×10 is taking a weight you can get about 20 reps with, but only doing 10. You rest for 30 seconds, then do 10 more and so on until you complete 10 sets of 10 reps. The first sets are a breeze; the last ones are brutal and create an insane pump and burn.

The beauty of 10×10 is that you do it on one exercise per bodypart, so a muscle is cooked to the bone in about 10 minutes. The problem with the all-10x1o program is that it’s pure DENSITY…

As we’ve said, the dominant fiber type in the biggest bodybuilders is the DUAL-component type-2As. They have both a power and density, or endurance, component. That means you need BOTH power and endurance to build the most muscle size. With 10×10 you’re getting almost pure density. But that can be a good thing…

Total 10×10 training is great if you’ve been doing a program dominated by power-oriented sets—as most bodybuilders do. The majority neglect density almost completely because they are brainwashed into believing that heavy weights build the most muscle. Even we’ve fallen into that trap before. That’s why when we first tried an all-10×10 program, we each packed on more than 5 pounds of muscle. We thought we’d found the Holy Grail of muscle building…

However, gains quickly subsided and began to regress—because now we had been neglecting the POWER component. The moral is that if you use a total-10×10 program like the first program outlined in The Ultimate 10×10 Mass Workout with only the ultimate exercise for each muscle, use it for only 3 to 4 weeks (our gains began to regress after week 4). Then go back to a balanced attack or even a power-oriented workout.

A good, balanced attack is the Heavy/Light 10×10 Mass Workout later in the 10×10 e-book. On that one, you do a heavy, straight-set POF workout for a muscle—power—then the next time you train it, you do only the big exercise for 10×10—a total 10-minute density mass blitz. Balanced power/density for major muscle immensity!

Jonathan Lawson outside - All 10x10 Program: Good or Bad?

Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.

—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com


Boost Testosterone…
With Cardio?!

If you want to build muscle (of course you do!) and ramp up your testosterone levels while burning a ton of fat at the same time, you need to try this workout if you haven’t already…

–> Use this cutting-edge cardio trick to boost testosterone and muscle growth
Note: This is NOT traditional HIIT or boring steady-state cardio

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 10x10, all-10x10 program, burn, burn fat, cardio, density, density training, endurance, fat loss, fiber type, muscle size, muscle-building, POF, positions of flexion, Power, power and density, pump, pure density, testosterone, type 2a muscle fibers, ultimate 10x10 mass workout, ultimate exercise, weight loss

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