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Mass Machine: Less Insane to Gain

Jonathan Lawson doing dumbbell curls

Yesterday I talked about training to failure and how it can have a negative effect on your nervous system, making each set after the first less efficient at stimulating mass.

A hammered nervous system doesn’t allow enough “juice” to engage the high-threshold motor units, which control the fast-twitch growth fibers.

Solution: [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: failure, growth fibers, high-threshold motor units, mass machine, subfailure, Tim Patterson, train to gain

Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 66: Dorian Yates Mass Machine

Dorian Yates on stage

Dorian Yates won his first of six Mr. Olympia titles in 1992. His huge, grainy physique was the next step up from the more aesthetic previous Mr. O, Lee Haney… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 1992 Mr. Olympia, aesthetic, bodybuilding zen, Dorian Yates, heavy duty, iron guru, Lee Haney, legend & myth, mass machine, master trainer, mr. olympia, pre-exhaustion, quick-start muscle building, slow-twitch exhaustion, stx method, vince gironda

Elo-Overload: Mass Machine Gasoline

Q: I’ve been hearing a lot about muscle stretch and how it’s uniquely anabolic. What’s the best way to build mass with this information—a freehand stretching routine?

A: Freehand stretching routines can do okay things for muscle growth. In fact, a recent study showed muscle hypertrophy from ONLY freehand stretching, but it wasn’t extreme…

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 20-rep squats, 3d power pyramid, all-stretch workout, anabolic, anabolic acceleration, anabolic receptors, anabolic stretch, build mass, change to gain, elo-overload, ergo-log, European Journal of Applied Physiology, fiber recruitment, freak physique, freak-physique stretch-overload workout, freehand stretching, hypertrophic, mass machine, metabolic, muscle elongation, muscle growth, muscle stretch, platz legs, platz quads, pure-positions stx, quads, slow-twitch, stretch overload, stretching routine, STX, stx method, testosterone, tom platz, Truth About Testosterone

Rev your Mass Machine with the S-Overload Workout

Jonathan doing sissy squats - Rev your Mass Machine with the S-Overload Workout

Q: I’ve been hearing a lot about muscle stretch and how it is uniquely anabolic. What is the best way to build mass with this information—a freehand stretching routine?

A: While freehand stretching routines can do okay things for muscle growth, a much more effective mass-building route is doing a workout of all stretch-position exercises with weights. 

That way every bodypart will get the anabolic acceleration of [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: anabolic, change to gain, European Journal of Applied Physiology, fast-twitch, freak-physique workout, hypertrophic, mass machine, s-overload, s-overload workout, slow-twitch, stretch overload, STX, testosterone, traumatic overload, Truth About Testosterone, type-1 fibers, type-2 fibers

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