New Muscle-Mass Tactic: TORQ Sandwich

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New Muscle-Mass Tactic: TORQ Sandwich (no, it’s not a snack; it’s our get-big attack)

Q: At the X-Rep Facebook page I saw a mention of TORQ sandwich for building more mass. What is that?

A: Well, it’s not turkey and pork on whole wheat. It’s our wacky name for a method of training that can super-charge your mass gaining.

For those not familiar with TORQ, it stands for tension-overload repetition quantity. It’s an off-shoot of Mr. America Doug Brignole’s high-rep downward-progression method (Super TORQ). Here’s our standard 3-set TORQ drill…

Pick a weight with which you can crank out 25 to 30 reps–and get 30. Go to failure.
Rest 45 seconds, then go to failure again, getting 15 to 20 reps.
Rest 45 seconds and go all out one last time, hitting failure between 10 and 15 reps.

Ideally, your reps will go 30, 20, 15. By hitting those rep numbers, your tension times will be in the high-end hypertrophic zone–60 to 90 seconds.

Most bodybuilders never get that, so they miss out on some incredible growth. Researchers confirm that the time under tension for OPTIMAL muscle growth is 40 to 90 seconds. TORQ gets you there. (Most bodybuilders’ sets last around 20 seconds, the STRENGTH TUT; no wonder growth is so slow for most.)

So what is a TORQ “sandwich”? It’s based on the three Positions-of-Flexion exercises for each muscle–midrange, stretch and contracted. You use TORQ on the first exercise, midrange, and the last, contracted. For the middle stretch move you use standard heavy sets, resting one to 1 1/2 minutes between.

Studies show that there is a definite upsurge to muscle size from stretch overload–such as the animal study that produced a 300 percent mass increase after only 30 days of stretch-only “workouts.” Heavier stretch moves are a good hypertrophic catalyst to TORQ…

Let’s take the POF Tension-Overload 4X Mass Workout triceps routine from The 4X Mass Workout 2.0 e-book and give it a TORQ sandwich…

Midrange: Decline close-grip bench presses, 3 x 30, 20, 15
Stretch: Overhead extensions, 2-3 x 9-6
Contracted: Pushdowns, 3 x 30, 20, 15

You can do that for each muscle group in that 3-way split workout–or any POF program for that matter. Do it at every workout or alternate it with standard POF or other methods (TORQ is covered in the 4X 2.0 e-book. Brignole’s Super TORQ is in the Power-Density Mass Workout 2.0)…

Also, you may be able to add weight on each set of the first exercise, since you’re fresh, resting longer than standard 4X, and it’s a multi-joint move.

Try a TORQ sandwich to hit a new mega-mass groove.

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.
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