It’s obvious that extending sets with forced and negative reps crushes the nervous system and can derail muscle gains—if you’re not on drugs… [Read more…]
More Muscle With X-Reps and Limited Sets, Part 1
In the last newsletter, you saw that extending sets with forced and negative reps, a la Mike Mentzer, crushes the nervous system and can derail muscle gains—if you’re not on drugs, that is… [Read more…]
Grow Muscle Faster With Extended Sets?
Q: You’ve said forced and negatives reps at the end of a set can kill muscle growth. But didn’t that work for [Mike] Mentzer to make his short workouts better, and isn’t your [end-of-set] X-Reps similar? [Read more…]
Unreal 5-Week-Muscle-Gain Photos
Yesterday I mentioned X-Reps, and that the growth spurt is real… [Read more…]
Add Reps, Not Sets, to Grow Like Crazy
Yesterday I mentioned that once Mike Mentzer retired from bodybuilding and began training drug-free bodybuilders, he got rid of forced and negative reps. They were too demanding, creating way too much damage… [Read more…]
Change-to-Gain Mass Method #3
I’ve talked about these change-to-gain methods so far…
1) Exercise switch
2) Altered rep speed
Next on my list is… [Read more…]
New Double-Your-Muscle-Mass Method
My confidence in muscle stretch for more mass is growing. More studies continue to verify the importance of emphasizing the target muscle when it’s elongated to get the most gain bang from each set… [Read more…]