IRON MAN E-Zine: Issue #599: How to Get Extreme Muscle Fiber Growth and Expansion

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IRON MAN E-Zine: Issue #599:
How to Get Extreme Muscle Fiber Growth and Expansion

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How to Get Extreme Muscle Fiber Growth and Expansion

Q: In 3D Muscle Building [the Positions-of-Flexion mass-building manual] there’s a program based on the three-days-per-week Size Surge routine called Mass F/X. Since your findings with 4X mass training, do you still think that’s a good program for adding muscle size? I’ve been using 4X for a while, and this looks like something different I can use for a few weeks of new gains.

A: We think it’s a great program for building mass. At one workout your rep ranges are 9-12 for each exercise. So while it’s myofibrillar dominant–the myofibrils are the actin and myosin strands in muscle fibers that produce force–you will get a bit of sarcoplasmic size as well.

Then at your second workout for that bodypart, you stress the sacroplasm more by including rest/pause and drop sets (we’ll have an example in a moment)…

The sarcoplasm is the energy fluid in muscle fibers that expands due to longer tension times and/or shorter rests between sets. Rest/Pause, with about 10 seconds between sets, and drop sets, where you reduce the weight and continue repping out, expand the sarcoplasm to new size and fullness very effectively…

We suggest you follow that Mass F/X "Force" workout from 3D MB as it’s listed–straight sets to muscular exhaustion with 2 to 3 minutes of rest between)…

Workout 1
Squats, 2 x 9-12
Leg extensions (X Reps), 1 x 9-12

That’s brief, intense, myofibrillar-dominant training. As we said, the Mass F/X program in 3D Muscle Building alternates two workouts for each bodypart, so here’s the Friday quad routine for "X-tended" tension and sarcoplasmic-expansion emphasis…

Workout 2
Squats (R/P), 1 x 9(6)(4)
Leg extensions (drop), 1 x 9(6)

For "R/P," or rest/pause, you do your first set to exhaustion, rest 10 seconds, then do another set to failure. Rest 10 seconds again and rep out one last time.

For "drop," or drop set, do a set to exhaustion, reduce the weight and IMMEDIATELY do another set to failure.

You can keep that "X-tended set" routine as is–or go ahead and adjust the leg extensions to a 4X sequence for even more sarcoplasmic size effects. Or try squats in 4X form and keep the drop on extensions. The Size Surge Phase 1 program is basic and very flexible so you can infuse it with all kinds of change-to-gain methods, including 4X, rest/pause, drop sets and even X-centric sets.

We’re totally sold on 4X for boosting the size-building component of ANY program. It’s one of the best ways to grow. Keeping some form of it in your routine will do good things for hypertrophy on many levels, even ANABOLIC hormone output. It’s like your mass-building safety net–if other methods are only building strength, you can rest assured that 4X is packing on mass…

For those not familiar with 4X mass training, you pick a weight with which you can get 15 reps, but you only do 10, rest 30 to 40 seconds, then do 10 more–and so, going to failure on the fourth set. If you get 10 or more on that last all-out set, increase the weight for that exercise at your next workout.

Mass-building Bonus: The Mass F/X program in 3D MB is a three-days-per-week program, and you begin each workout with either squats or deadlifts. It’s based on the original Size Surge Phase 1 program. As we’ve mentioned in previous e-zines, that’s First-T-Burst training–you get an immediate testosterone surge, which research shows helps the muscles trained after GROW big time. If you’re looking for a winter mass-building program, try Mass F/X or the original Size Surge routine–the one Jonathan used to gain 20 pounds of muscle in 10 weeks.

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

–Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson

www.X-Rep.com

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This Special Report was submitted by Jonathan Lawson and Steve Holman.
The IRON MAN Training & Research Team
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