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Best-Chest Building Tip from Hercules

Steve Reeves as Hercules and on the cover of Muscle Power magazine

A few newsletters back I praised the aesthetic physique of Steve Reeves, movie Hercules who won the 1947 Mr. America and the 1950 Mr. Universe… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: aesthetic, best chest exercise, chest exercises, chest workout, genetics, hercules, mass techniques, Mr. America, mr. universe, steve reeves

More Size, Density, and Arnold’s Immensity

Jonathan Lawson squatting

Q: I totally agree with your Power-Density mass-building ideas. For density work, you’ve suggested multi-rep rest/pause, but 3 heavy sets with only 15 seconds of rest between them really wipes me out, especially on legs. I’m dead for the rest of my workout. Is there something less taxing I can use for density up front? 

A: First, we want to applaud you for realizing the importance of DENSITY, or endurance, work. Missing that get-bigger trigger is why most wanna-be-big bodybuilders grow so slow. They think it’s all about training heavy ONLY to gain more size… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 2a fibers, arnold, austrian oak, belly fat burn, burn fat, chasing the pump, density, endurance, extended tension time, fat burning, fiber types, growth fibers, mass techniques, microtrauma, miracle fix, more size, multi-rep rest/pause, muscle immensity, negative-accentuated, power-density, tension time, x-rep partials

Mass Merger—10X Power/Rep Range/Shock

Jonathan Lawson doing incline dumbbell flyes

Q: Great timing on your recent P/RR/S newsletter! I’m using the X-Rep Power/Rep Range/Shock Workout [on pages 103-114 in the 3D Muscle Building e-book], and my size and strength are totally thriving on the variation, like nothing I’ve ever tried before. What a great concept! Now I’m reading The Ultimate 10×10 Mass Workout, and I want to put that method into the mix, using mass merger techniques. Where should I use it, Power, Rep Range or Shock week? And on which exercises?

A: First, we must give credit where credit is due: a big thumbs-up to Eric Broser for creating the Power/Rep Range/Shock protocol. We simply altered it to include full-range Positions of Flexion and X Reps. To put it in simple terms, Power week you do all low reps; Rep Range week you do one exercise in the 7-9 range, another for 10-12 and the last for 13-15; Shock week is supersets, drop sets and other intensity techniques to totally thrash the muscles. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 10x, 10x10, 10x10 mass workout, 3d muscle building, boost testosterone, build mass, build muscle, eric broser, fascia expansion, lean muscle, mass building, mass merger, mass techniques, massthetic, p/rr/s, positions of flexion, power/rep range/shock, ultimate exercises, xreps

Rapid-Rate Muscular Growth

Jonathan Lawson dumbbell rows with support - Rapid-Rate Muscular Growth

Q: I have been using [end-of-set] X-Rep partials and making the best gains of my life. I consider it one of the top muscle-building breakthroughs. You guys always seem to be at the cutting edge of mass techniques. Any other secrets you can recommend to boost my gains?

A: Thanks for the kind words regarding X Reps. They’ve done great things for hundreds of trainees—and we made the best gains of our lives that first X-Rep year—in only five weeks with them (no steroids, no trick photography—although the lighting is different and we have tans in the afters)… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: build muscle, burn fat, cardio, cardio trick, ellington darden, fat burning, fat-to-muscle, gains, hiit, hypertrophy, mass techniques, metabolism, microtrauma, muscle-building, muscular growth, na training, negative-accentuated, negative-style training, secrets, testosterone, Ultimate Mass Workout, X Reps, x-rep partials

What Are Stage Sets? (Hint: They Work!)

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

Q: I read in one of your previous articles where you mentioned that you sometimes do Stage Sets. What are Stage Sets, and is that a good mass technique for me?

A: Many years ago, even before we developed X-Rep partials, we noticed that every time we introduced Stage Sets to our workouts, we got sudden muscularity and vascularity increases—and now we know why: The technique is essentially a unique type of X overload—an intense out-of-the-blocks blast right at the max-force point where the target muscle is semi-stretched, like near the bottom of an incline press… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: Beyond X, beyond x-rep, bodybuilders, ifbb pro bodybuilders, Jay Cutler, mass building, mass techniques, mr. olympia, muscle-building, partials, pro bodybuilders, ronnie coleman, semi-stretch, stage sets, what are stage sets, x overload, x-rep partials

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