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Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 95: Lee Haney Relaxed Mass Perfection

This is a great photo of Lee Haney at his peak, standing relaxed outside. Absolutely flawless mass. Imagine him holding a leash with a poodle at the end. Like a moving sculpture in a Speedo out walking his dog. LOL… [Read more…]

Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 90: Lee Labrada Gym Muscle

This is one of the best upper-body shots of Lee Labrada we’ve seen (it may be a Michael Neveux shot, but we’re not sure). Lee never won the Mr. Olympia, but he got close due to his incredible “Mass With Class” physique…

Lee Labrada looking muscular and ripped in the gym

What was his bodybuilding secret? He was from the Lee Haney school of “stimulate don’t annihilate” your muscles during workouts; however, he fused that with the Mike Mentzer’s shorter workouts to failure—but with only moderate poundages.

He was all about “growth threshold” training. Here’s how Labrada defined it…

The growth threshold is the point at which the level of fatigue in the muscle is high enough that a growth response is elicited. Your goal during a workout should be to fatigue the target muscles you are training more and more with each succeeding set.

In other words, you want the muscles to progressively get more and more tired out, until you reach a point where the muscles are functionally ‘worn out.’ Signals are sent to the brain that set up the compensation, or growth, process during the post workout period, so that in future workouts, you can handle it.

Our two favorite ways to achieve a growth-threshold mass blast is with 4X and STX (slow-twitch exhaustion). Both methods have you use only moderate weights with short rests between sets to progressively hypertrophy all muscle fiber types…

By the way, Labrada still looks unbelievable now in his 60s thanks to this safer style of training. Now that’s Mass-With-Class longevity.

Try 4X for growth-threshold success—no joint stress.

> The 4X Mass Workout 2.0 is available HERE.

Try 4X for Growth-Threshold Mass Building

Or check out our STX growth-threshold method in our latest retooled ebook…

> Muscle-Building Quick-Start Guide 2.0 is available HERE.

Grow with the STX Method

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

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

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With proper intermittent fasting, you can transform your physique faster than ever…

Brad Pilon’s book Eat Stop Eat is THE book on Intermittent Fasting. Besides the nuts and bolts of what to do and when to burn fat and build muscle simultaneously, Brad covers all the research on IF-related topics…

From how fasting affects blood glucose/insulin/leptin/testosterone to how it jacks the muscle-building process. You’ll see all the latest science.

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Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 89: Mike Mentzer Rockin’ Mass Shot

Here’s another impressive shot of Mike Mentzer taken by Wayne Gallasch in Australia back in the 1970s, a pic we don’t recall every seeing… [Read more…]

Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 83: Lee Labrada’s Mass Secret

Lee Labrada never won the Mr. Olympia, but he got close due to his incredible symmetry, proportions, and muscle size and density—“Mass With Class.” His physique was a work of art…

You can see that from this out-and-about photo by Michael Neveux of Lee in archer mode… [Read more…]