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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Muscle Explosion in 28 Days


 

Because your current muscle-building
limitations are NOT necessarily
genetic and they can be fixed.

With the right training and eating, you can change your body's physiology on a fundamental level and set the stage for explosive increases in muscle mass and strength.
Will you achieve your full genetic potential in 28 days?
Of course not...however, the human body is an incredibly adaptive machine and, with focused, massive action, you CAN make TREMENDOUS leaps forward in very short periods of time. In 28 days, you could...
  • Gain 6 to 9 lbs of lean mass
  • Add 30 to 60 pounds to your deadlift or
  • 20 to 40 pounds to your bench press

So...do you think bad genetics are holding back your muscle gains?
You train like an ANIMAL yet your lifts don't go up and your muscles don't get any bigger
You eat CONSTANTLY and all you get is a big gut and plenty of quality-time in the bathroom
You spend HUNDREDS of dollars a month on supplements with no results to show for it
You look pretty much the same as you did last year (and the year before)...

I Know EXACTLY Where
You're Coming From...

My name is Nick Nilsson, a.k.a. The Mad Scientist of Muscle. Before I started weight training, I was a high-level endurance athlete...145 lbs soaking wet. 
I could kick out triathlons without even training for them...

But I wanted MUSCLE...
And after years of training and research (and plenty of failures), once I figured out and started using these 5 mass principles to CHANGE my body's physiology to maximize muscle mass...well...I carry a bit more muscle now...

I fought genetics and I WON...
YOU CAN TOO...

And now I'm going to show you the 5 Mass Principles that will change YOUR body's physiology and SHATTERyour "genetic" muscle-building limitations...
Because in my experience (20+ years in the gym, 12 years as a trainer and a degree in Physical Education), these five mass principles will have a dramatic effect on your rate of muscle growth.
They're the things you have the power to CHANGE in your own physiology, that will allow you to push your muscle mass WELL beyond your body's current capabilities.
So how much additional muscle mass do you think you could build on your frame if your frame was a whole lot thicker and a whole lot stronger?
A LOT.
If we think of your body as a house, and you want to build the biggest, strongest house possible, you have to look at the foundation and frame. In the case of your body, the foundation and frame are your bones and connective tissue...tendons, ligaments and fascia.
Bones and connective tissue provide the structure and support for everything that happens to your "house."
Most training programs, while potentially being effective at adding muscle mass, usually donothing to specifically address your bones and connective tissue. To make your frame as tough and strong as possible, you have to use specific techniques and exercises that work DIRECTLY on strengthening your bones and connective tissue.
After all, how well do you think your house will stand up to the toughest conditions if your foundation is gravel and your frame is made of broomsticks? Not so good.
You need a frame and foundation that is THICK and TOUGH.
And yet for something that is SO basic to your overall strength and muscle mass, pretty much nobody in the gym will ever say to you "I think I'm going to work on strengthening my tendons and ligaments today."

You can add tremendous muscle mass with a stronger frame and foundation.
You'll also see IMMEDIATE muscle growth when you start handling more weight in ALL your exercises because your connective tissue will be that much stronger.
Here's the best example I've found for this...
The exercise below is the Lockout Partial Squat...in this picture, you'll notice I'm just working the top few inches of the range of motion, which allows for MASSIVE amounts of weight...945 lbs in this picture, to be exact.
This massive overload, even in this very short range of motion, strengthens the connective tissue very effectively.
And you can apply this short-range, massive-overload principle to every other major movement to strengthen your connective and dramatically increase your strength. And handling more weight will lead to fast improvements in muscle mass.

"Genetic" barrier #1... demolished...
Muscle Mass Potential... +20%
Remember that fascia that I mentioned when I was talking about connective tissue? Fascia is the strong sheet of connective tissue that encases your muscles.
I like to describe it as a pillowcase that surrounds your muscles and keeps them from flopping around. You need fascia to have a functioning muscular system...yet there is a major problem with it...
Tight fascia inhibits muscle growth and it can be a BIG reason why you can't gain muscle.
Imagine that fascia is actually the outside walls of your house. The outside walls are stronger than the interior walls because they have to help support the structure of the house.
Here's the problem...
You've just bought new furniture (think of this part as building muscle mass). You bring it in the house and set it up. No problem. Then you want to go out and get some more (which is building yet MORE muscle).
The house/muscle is starting to fill up but THE WALLS AREN'T GETTING ANY BIGGER. Muscle growth stops because the muscle has nowhere to expand TO.
Now what do we do? If the muscles have no room to grow, THEY WON'T GROW.
Simple. Your training should work to expand those walls by stretching out the fascia, giving your muscles that room they need to grow.

I like to compare this tight fascia and fasical stretching to pulling a pair of tight jeans out of the laundry...
What's the first thing you do when you trying to get a pair of tight jeans to feel more comfortable? You squat down a few times to stretch out the material.
When you squat down, your legs exert pressure against the material of the jeans, expanding it a bit so it stretches out.
And this is EXACTLY what we're going to do with the fasical sheathes that surround your muscles.

This picture is here solely to illustrate my point about tight fascia inhibiting muscle growth... ;)
Fascial stretching is basically training a muscle, filling it up with blood, then stretching it HARD. The purpose of this is to "wiggle" the fascia, expanding it little by little to give that muscle room to grow.
Here's something you may NOT know and it can make a HUGE difference in blowing through your muscle-building limitations... stretching the fascia WHILE YOU'RE ACTUALLY TRAINING, not just after training or in between sets, can be even MOREeffective for expanding those walls.
Stretching with ADDED RESISTANCE is far more effective for expanding that fascia and giving your muscles room to grow.
Case in point, Arnold Schwarzenegger...at one time he would finish his chest workouts with dumbell flyes, holding the stretch position for as long as he could on each rep.
He instinctively knew that stretching under resistance was critical for maximum muscle mass...and he developed a pretty decent chest...

One of your "genetic" limitations could be that your muscles simply don't have room to grow.And more room means MORE muscle.
Here's an example of how to stretch the fascia within a set...
This exercise is the Incline Dumbell Curl. By holding that bottom stretch position for 5 seconds on every rep (after doing another exercise such as barbell or dumbell curls right before it to fill the biceps up with blood), you use the resistance of the dumbells to put increased stretch-tension on the fascia surrounding the biceps.
I won't lie to you...it's NOT a comfortable position to maintain. The RESULTS, however, are well worth the discomfort.
Every set you do will give the biceps a little more room to grow....and grow at the rate they're physiologically ABLE to...not the rate that's limited by your tight fascia.
And you can apply this principle to other stretch-focused exercises for the rest of your body, such as dumbell flyes, pullovers, overhead tricep extensions, stiff-legged deadlifts, donkey calf raises and sissy squats.

"Genetic" barrier #2... history...
Muscle Mass Potential... +40%
So we've strengthened your foundation and frame and made room to expand your house...we've already added a LOT of muscle-building potential right there...what's next?
In a standard program, the training goes straight for building muscle mass, without a second thought about the plumbing, ventilation and electrical systems.
So...what do these three systems mean in terms of changing your body's physiology?
Well, think of plumbing and ventilation as your circulatory system....your blood supply that carries oxygen and vital muscle-building nutrients TO your muscle cells and waste products and carbon dioxide AWAY from your muscle cells.
How many people train to specifically develop EFFICIENT circulatory systems that MAXIMIZE the amount of nutrients and oxygen that can get to their muscle cells?
Not many...
Have any muscle groups that pump up more easily than others?
Everybody does.
Do those muscles tend to grow faster than the ones that don't? Almost always, yes.
What's the deciding factor here?
Blood supply.

The muscles that have a BETTER blood supply pump up more easily and grow faster because they're able to get MORE NUTRIENTS AND OXYGEN to fuel and repair them.
So your NEXT training goal, if you want to set the stage for gainining muscle mass, is to improve the blood supply to your muscles, getting them more nutrients and oxygen.
Imagine if, with the right training, you could alter the physiology of your "hard-to-pump" muscles and make them EASY to pump? Greater blood supply equals greater potential MUSCLE GROWTH NOW.
And that electrical system I mentioned? That's your nervous system. The same training that gets the job done on improving the blood supply is also going to teach your nervous system how to fire the muscle fibers FASTER.
Elite powerlifters have training days where they use sub-maximal weight and lift as fast as possible in order to train for explosiveness. This training is going to wire your nervous system to fire and fire FAST, helping you build power in all your lifts while also developing your circulatory system.

"Genetic" barrier #3... gone...
Muscle Mass Potential... +60%

Hyperplasia.
It's the splitting of individual muscle fibers into newmuscle fibers. And more fibers means more potential muscle growth.
It's the "Holy Grail" of muscle building...while nobody has yet proven it happens in humans (it's been proven to happen in other animals when placed under extreme conditions), nobody has ever proven that it DOESN'T happen in humans.
If we go back to our house analogy, it's like chopping your building materials in half and having them magically grow back to their original size.
And more materials means you can build a bigger house.
Here's the deal, though...like I mentioned above, nobody has ever proven that this sort of thing happens in humans, primarily because proving it would be tremendously difficult.
You have to subject the body to a specific training stimulus intense and long enough in duration to cause the fibers to split (in animal studies, this was placing stretch-overload on the target muscle for long periods)...
...THEN you have to actually physically COUNT the fibers to see if there are more than when you started.
Tough to do with the tens of thousands of muscle fibers in a human muscle...and the subject basically has to have the muscle completely sliced in half in order to do it accurately, so you can see why there isn't a big line-up of volunteers.
If you COULD induce hyperplasia in a human being, it would mean instantly greater muscle-building potential.
One of the reasons some people can just look at a weight and get bigger is the same reason some people have to train like animals and have a perfect diet in order to see any results at all...it comes down to that basic math.
The more muscle fibers you have, the more overall muscle mass you can build. Simple as that.
Now, even though the evidence isn't clear in humans, don't write it off just yet...


With the right training, I believe you CAN achieve muscle cell hyperplasia.
I'm not going to tell you that it'll be easy...you'll have to hit the muscles EXTREMELY HARD to get fibers to split. Most programs don't even come close to achieving this threshold of volume, intensity and tension because, quite simply, they CAN'T.
In my research in looking at the training protocols the scientists used to achieve hyperplasia in animals, I STRONGLY believe there IS a training technique that can do it in humans...
And I believe I know what it is...
Let me tell you right now, if you LOVE hard training, you are going to LOVE this training technique...it allows you to train at high intensity AND with high volume...a rare combination that most programs have to stay FAR away from.
I call this technique Stretch Exercise Overload (SEO) and it'll have you doing 300+ sets of a stretch-focused exercise over one of the most intense 5-day training periods of your life.
And I'm not trying to scare you...I just want to be honest with you. This training will absolutely push you to your limits.
THIS is the level of volume, intensity and tension I believe you need to induce hyperplasia in humans.


"Genetic" barrier #4... shattered...
Muscle Mass Potential... +80%
So we've build our house with a strong foundation and frame, the walls have expanded, the plumbing, ventilation and electric is installed and operating at peak efficiency, we've doubled our building materials...we're ready to pile that muscle on...so what's left?
Nutrition...
And this last principle is EXTREMELY powerful...it sets the stage forEVERYTHING I've talked about previously.
The food you eat (and how much of it you eat!) can have drug-like effects on your body.
So our final principle is to set up your training and nutrition to FORCEFULLY AMPLIFY the effects of each other.
We do this by applying what I call a "Nutritional Slingshot" to your body. It's going to first pull you back, putting you on a very strict diet allowing only very specific foods and very specific AMOUNTS of that food.
Then, once your body is primed, BAM. You eat...and eat...and eat...and your body preferentially shuttles this massive influx of nutrients to building muscle mass.
It's like a nutritional sledgehammer that FORCESyour body to build muscle.
This nutritional technique I'm thinking of is not a big secret...at it's most basic, it's taking you from a strict low-carb, lower-calorie diet to a generous higher-carb, higher-calorie diet (with a few of my own unique wrinkles to REALLY maximize the impact of this technique).
If you're heard the term "yo yo diet" (where people eat very little to lose fat then eat a lot and gain weight back very quickly) then you're familiar with the concept...reducing calories on purpose to set up the rebound...only in our case, we're going for muscle not fat.

When you re-load carbs and calories after a low-calorie, low-carb diet, the nutrients come ROARING into your muscles like a dry sponge sucking up water.
This is an incredibly anabolic period of time where, with targeted training like the high-volume, high-intensity training I mentioned above, you are practically GUARANTEED to build muscle.
THIS is what is going to give you drug-like effects from the food you eat. I don't care how "genetically-challenged" you are...your body has NO CHOICE but to pile on the muscle when you apply this technique properly.


"Genetic" barrier #5... done...
Muscle Mass Potential... +100%
These are the five big Mass Principles that are going to blow you past what you previously THOUGHT were your genetic limitations.
Now how do you put all these principles together into a strategic program?
This is where the magic happens...
To get the most out of each principle, you need to put them together in a way that maximizes the benefits of each one...so each one builds on the effects of the others.
You also need an overall framework that treats your body as a physiological UNIT, not just a collection of bodyparts.
So let's get started...

The "Mass Principles" Program...
The first phase of our "mass principles" program is the DIET phase.
By starting with a low-calorie diet, you're giving your body the idea that it's in a famine...and that when the food comes back, it better start storing.
It's during this phase of the program that you'll be training for improvement in your circulatory system, using high-rep, fast-pace training along with targeted partial training to strengthen the connective tissue of the body.
Now, you can further heighten this famine-response by following a low-carb eating pattern. This will have the multiple benefits of increasing fat-loss during the short diet phase, sparing muscle tissue, and increasing your body's sensitivitiy to insulin.
Insulin is one of the most critical anabolic hormones in your body - the more sensitive your body is to it, the more effective the SECOND phase of this "mass principles" program is going to be.

And that second phase is the OVERLOAD phase.
At this point, you've just come off 7 days of low-calorie dieting and your body is primed for storage. On that 8th day, you immediately start packing in the food and supplements (like protein, creatine and glutamine) in massive quantities.
To ensure that this influx of nutrients goes to muscle and not fat, you'll perform VERY high volume training...either the Stretch Exercise Overload Training I talked about (that has the potential to induce hyperplasia) or Compound Exercise Overload (which is the same high-volume program done with a big exercise like squats, deadlifts or bench press).
With all the nutrients flooding in, your body will seize the opportunity to build muscle and store all the nutrients it can.

After five days of training in this fashion, you will be completely overtrained...which is actually the major goal of this second phase.
Permit me to explain...
Most people think overtraining is bad...
It's not.
In fact, overtraining SHOULD be the major goal of any good strength or muscle-building program because THAT is how your body works best...you challenge it with a stimulus it hasn't seen before, ramping up to a state of overtraining where your body is frantically struggling to keep up.
Then you back off and allow it to recover.
Most training programs allow this to happen by accident and end up looking like this...(the light area in the middle is the ideal training zone where you get results)...

As you can see, a program that delivers too much volume or intensity will keep you in that ideal training zone for a period of time, until you hit that overtraining zone. Then, if you keep up with that program, you'll KEEP overtraining and your results will grind to a halt.
If you use a program that doesn't deliver enough volume or intensity, you'll stay in that ideal training zone until you bottom out into undertraining and again, your results will grind to a halt.
Any program that doesn't take into account
your body's response to training loads and
intensity will FAIL and keep you forever
grinding through training plateaus.
Now let's look at a program that DOES take it into account...
Notice how the line ramps upwards (a process known as "accumulation") then, just when you hit that peak overtraining zone, you immediately back off and allow your body to recover (known as "intensification").
When you get to the undertraining zone, then you ramp right back up and go again (and it's not a coincidence that this exactly mirrors the program I laid out above).

I have to say, this is the SINGLE most important concept you need to learn if you ever want to truly succeed at building serious muscle and strength.
I can't emphasize that enough.

Which brings us to the THIRD phase...Growth and Recovery...
In this phase you will be literally ATTACKING your fascia using training techniques that fill the muscles up with blood then stretch them out.
You'll give your muscles more room to grow during the exact time where growth and recovery is happening rapidly, following the massive overload you just placed on it.
This phase will solidify the muscle and strength gains you made in that overload phase and deliver a permanent increase in muscle mass in the order of 5 to 10 lbs of lean muscle mass in a matter of a few weeks (not an exagerration).

So that's what a program using the 5 "mass principles" will look like...

Now, you could certainly do some homework and adapt the training programs you already know to work with these concepts.
You could even research each concept individually and try and put something together yourself from scratch...
Here's the thing...why waste your time and energy doing that when I've already done that hard work for you...
HINT HINT...
I call the program "Muscle Explosion - 28 Days to Maximum Mass"...and (with all due modesty :), it's just awesome.

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  • In 4 rounds of testing this program (4 months), I gained 35 pounds of bodyweight with a minimal increase in bodyfat, going from 184 lbs to 219 lbs.
  • In a recent run-through focusing on deadlifts, after the second week of overload training, I gained 7 lbs of lean bodyweight and added 60 lbs to my deadlift, hitting an "easy" 500 lb lift.
  • In another round I focused on Front Squats...the first day of the second overload week, I managed 4 sets with 185 lbs...by the fifth day of that sameweek, I blew out 44 SETS with 185 lbs (not a typo...that's 11X the volume with the same weight in 5 days time).

I'll tell you right now...in my ENTIRE 20+ years of training, I've NEVERgotten such amazing results in both strength and muscle mass this quickly with ANY OTHER TRAINING PROGRAM.

My wife will back me up on that...every single time I came up from my basement gym, I was ALWAYS in shock at how well the program was working. I would open up the door and shake my head and she would know EXACTLY what I was going to say...

"This is the BEST FREAKING
PROGRAM I'VE EVER USED!"

This is NOT your average muscle-building program that lists a bunch of sets and reps and bombards you with loading parameters and percentages that you have to figure out before you can even train.
This is a BULLDOZER of a program that systematically adresses each your "genetics limitations" to literally rebuild your physiology from the ground up to maximize it for muscle building.
This program is for intermediate to advanced trainers who are ready to DEMOLISH plateaus and achieve growth and strength increases previously thought unattainable.

If that sounds like YOU, then this
program...Muscle Explosion -
28 Days to Maximum Mass...
is FOR YOU
.

Now check out the results that people
have gotten with Muscle Explosion...
WITH THIS PROGRAM, YOU WILL BUILD MORE MUSCLE AND STRENGTH IN THE NEXT 28 DAYSTHAN YOU HAVE IN THE PAST 6 MONTHS...

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