IRON MAN E-Zine: Issue #894:
Slight Volume Uptick to Get Big Quick (major muscle-building tactic)
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Slight Volume Uptick to Get Big Quick (major muscle-building tactic)
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Q: I have found that your change-to-gain method works. I have put on five pounds in the past month, but I know it’s more muscle than that because my abs are sharper. My question is, do you consider adding sets enough of a change to grow?
A: Absolutely, SLIGHT volume increases can trigger hypertrophy–but they must be small and gradual….
In other words, you don’t want to go from doing four sets per bodypart to 20 for obvious reasons–namely, you might not be able to brush your teeth for days due to soreness. Lol.
One of the simplest ways to gradually increase volume is to add one set to an exercise for a bodypart and hold that for a week.
Then the following week add a set to a DIFFERENT exercise for that muscle group and hold that volume for a week. And so on for five to six weeks…
After that, back off to your original total without any sets to failure. This medium-intensity week will allow for super-compensation (total recovery and growth).
At the end of that week, you could move to a different program (modified Pre-Ex, etc.) and start the process over again…
Another good change-to-gain tactic is to switch exercise order and/or volume every two weeks, zig-zagging volume. There’s an example of that on page 52 ofThe 4X Mass Workout 2.0 e-book–a 9-week itinerary…
With that you use Positions-of-Flexion and rotate exercises while using both 4X and 3X sequences along with TORQ (30-20-15).
It’s a great way to push the mass accelerator to the floor.
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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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