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IRON MAN E-Zine: Issue #488:
Easier Training and Big-Muscle Gaining
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Easier Training and Big-Muscle Gaining
Q: I’m getting close to 60 years old and have been training with weights for almost 40 years. After trying to use heavier and heavier weights, I have a lot of joint aches and pains and can no longer do many exercises. I just wanted to say thanks for your 4X Mass Workout. I’ve been using it for a month and am seeing new muscle size. I’m amazed. Even many of my joints are feeing better because of the medium weights that must be used for 4X. Thank you–but I wish you’d come out with 4X about 20 years ago. Maybe I’d still be able to do bench presses and military presses.
A: We’re glad the 4X method is working so well for you. We’ve had a lot of feedback from older trainees saying that 4X is a revelation and that they are finally gaining muscle again without much joint stress. Heal-alujah! Even IRON MAN publisher John Balik, now in his mid-60s, has been using it with great success.
We’ve also had lots of positive results from younger bodybuilders who are mesmerized by the lasting pump it creates—size they can often see for days.
We can’t take all the credit for 4X, however. While we first used it as a density finisher for each muscle group, an offshoot of 10×10 training, it wasn’t until Steve interviewed Bodybuilder X, who trained with legendary muscle sensation Danny Padilla, that we got the BIG idea to do a total-4X program. Padilla’s results convinced us that it would work, even though the training poundages are NOT super heavy…
According to Bodybuilder X, who didn’t want to be identified because of some inside info he revealed in the interview, Danny preferred 5×12 instead of our 4×10 or 4×12. He also did anywhere from three to five exercises per muscle group. Being totally drug free, we prefer the Positions-of-Flexion 3 exercises–or maybe one more as a finisher.
He used the same weight all the way through his five sets and rested anywhere from 30 seconds to one minute between sets depending on the exercise. We also use the same weight on all four sets and rest about that long as well–only the length of time it takes our partner to finish his set. On any exercise we just go back and forth until all four sets are complete…
Steve is in his early 50s and has made some spectacular progress with 4X. Jonathan, in his mid-30s is also making excellent gains with it, so it’s not just for older guys. The question is, Will integrating some heavier sets every so often make it even better? Possibly, but it ‘s obviously not necessary for significant muscle-size increases, as you’ve discovered…
There are ideas and suggestions on integrating heavier sets into 4X in the Q&A section of the 4X e-book. Also in that chapter are key excerpts from Steve’s interview with Bodybuilder X that focus on building mass drug free. For Part 1 of Steve’s intervieww with Bodybuilder X, check out the November IRON MAN magazine, which is on newsstands now.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
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This Special Report was submitted by Jonathan Lawson and Steve Holman.
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