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Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 165: Vintage Boyer Coe vs. Casey Viator

Boyer Coe vs. Casey Viator in a double biceps pose

Here’s a shot circa 1970 of legendary bodybuilders Boyer Coe and Casey Viator, hired to by local farmers to stand in a field and scare away crows… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 1970s, arthur jones, BodyMasters, Boyer Coe, Casey Viator, Colorado Experiment, Nautilus

Intensity Guru: “Pull Back for More Mass”

Pics of Ellington Darden (doing shoulder presses and on the cover of Strength & Health)

In recent newsletters I’ve laid out some new theories on training to failure—basically that it can slow hypertrophy.

Not always, but too much creates severe damage, which saps recovery and growth. Doing only one set to failure while stopping others a rep or two short appears to be a better way to stimulate massive amounts of fast-twitch growth fibers (more on that below). [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: arthur jones, ellington darden, fast-twitch, growth fibers, high-intensity training, hypertrophy, intensity, mass building, MedX, Nautilus, recovery, Super High-Intensity Bodybuilding, T-Nation, The Nautilus Bodybuilding Book

Recovery and Your Mass-Building Genetics

Jonathan doing cable curls

I mention genetics a lot. It’s not an excuse, but a bodybuilding reality—and an arbiter in other athletic endeavors as well.

I’ve been training for over four decades and tried just about everything. At 5’10 1/2” I never weighed over 200 in fairly ripped condition—190 was my best. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: arthur jones, ectomorph, genetics, mass building, Nautilus, overtraining, recovery

Intensity vs. Density for Muscle Mass

Vince Gironda giving the middle finger

Two legends in the evolution of bodybuilding training are Arthur Jones, the so-called father of high-intensity training and creator of Nautilus machines, and Vince Gironda, a.k.a., the Iron Guru and Studio City gym owner who trained Larry Scott, the first Mr. Olympia, as well as many other champion bodybuilders and movie stars, including Clint Eastwood. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: arthur jones, Boyer Coe, density, intensity, larry scott, Med-X, Nautilus, vince gironda

Forgotten Fact About Muscle Growth

Casey Viator doing Nautilus biceps curls

I won’t keep you in suspense: It’s range of motion. But the forgotten fact is why it’s important…

If you’ve ever watched a very lean bodybuilder doing leg extensions—lean enough so you can see fibers firing—you’ll notice twitching “explosions” all over the quad muscles as the lower leg extends and retracts. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: arthur jones, Casey Viator, forgotten size concept, muscle fibers, muscle growth, Nautilus, range of motion, Steven J. Fleck Ph.D, William J. Kraemer Ph.D

Speed Reps = Fast Mass

Image of Steve Holman after Old Man, Young Muscle with abs

If you’ve been a bodybuilder for decades like us, you may remember Nautilus-machine creator Arthur Jones say this about muscle-building repetitions… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: arthur jones, bodybuilder, Brad Schoenfeld, Charles Poliquin, fast mass, hypertrophic, Nautilus, rep speed, speed reps

Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 137: Mike Mentzer’s Grainy Mass

Cropped pic of Mike Mentzer doing alternate dumbbell curls, looking incredible

Back in the 1970s, Mike Mentzer’s physique at its peak was shocking. But even by today’s standards, Mentzer’s grainy thickness is jaw dropping. [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 1970s, 1980 Mr. Olympia, arnold schwarzenegger, bodybuilding zen, frank zane, heavy duty, hypertrophy, mike mentzer, mr. olympia, Nautilus, pre-ex

Moment of Bodybuilding Zen 38: Sergio Oliva’s Biceps

Sergio Oliva’s monster mass, wasp waist, and incredible proportions are legendary—and his physique is still shocking, even by today’s over-drugged standards…
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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: arnold schwarzenegger, arnold's biceps, arthur jones, biceps, biceps exercises, biceps peak, biotrust, free pro-x10, free probiotics, larry scott, Nautilus, out-for-in/in-for-out, physique, pro-x10, probiotics, sergio oliva, Sergio Oliva Jr., x-traordinary arms

More Mass: Trick To Get You Wide and Thick

V-handle cable row

Q: In one of the chapters in 4X Mass Workout 2.0, you say that V-handle cable rows is both a mid-back stretch exercise and a lat contracted exercise. Since it’s a lat-contracted move, can I use that as the first exercise in a modified Pre-Ex routine for lats? So it’s V-handle cable rows for 4X to pre-exhaust the lats followed by pulldowns to continue hitting the pre-fatigued lats.

A: The short answer: No, not a good choice for your first lat move. The point of the pre-ex workouts in the Pre-Ex 3X e-book is to train the target muscle first in ISOLATION—with no smaller ancillary muscles involved… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 4X, alain gonzales, athletic-aesthetic physique, brad pitt, fight club, heavy duty, mike mentzer, modified pre-ex, more mass, Nautilus, perfect physique, pre-ex 3x, pre-fatigue

Get as Big as Possible as Fast as Possible

JL 3D Biceps - Ultimate Full-Range Mass Workout

Q: If I just do the basic [compound] exercises and continue to get stronger, won’t I get as big as possible as fast as possible?

A: That would seem to be true on the surface, but consider this: Strength equals force, so the stronger you get, the more you will develop size along that specific pathway—fiber size generated by force overload. But, as we’ve pointed out, there are two other key size-development pathways: stretch overload and tension/occlusion…

[Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 20 pounds of muscle, 3d pof, anabolic primer, arthur jones, as big as possible, belly fat burn, burn fat, fat loss fails, force overload, gains, get big, get strong, muscle mass, Nautilus, nautilus bulletin #1, occlusion, positions of flexion, size gains, strength equals force, tension

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