Chisel your body with our fast and efficient muscle-building plan.
Every guy wants that classic bodybuilder physique. We all would like bigger muscles and smaller waists, but we don’t always go about it the best way.
Bodybuilders have the time and genetic gifts to isolate every muscle and hit it with lots of sets in workouts that last more than an hour. But most of us with full-time jobs, families and average genes don’t have that luxury. If you want better results in less time, you have to be smarter about your training.
Our bodybuilding programme offers you a more scientific and streamlined approach to building a lean and muscular body, along with loads of functional strength. Try it for four weeks, and you’ll see how modern thinking can get old-school results.
Why it works
Rather than train a different body part each workout, you’ll work your entire upper body in one session and your lower body and abs in another. This allows for more recovery between workouts – and more of the hormonal release necessary for growth.
You’ll use slow negatives (the lowering portion of a lift) on some exercises to hit your muscles extra hard, and a variety of rep ranges to ensure you hit every type of muscle fibre. Best of all, nearly every exercise works your muscles in a functional way, so the strength you gain is applicable to life and sports.
Directions
FREQUENCY Perform each workout (1, 2, 3 and 4) once per week.
TIME NEEDED 45 minutes.
HOW TO DO IT Exercises marked with a letter (6a, 6b, for example) are done in sequence. Perform one set of a, then one set of b, etc, and repeat for all the prescribed sets. Exercises without a letter are done as straight sets – complete all the sets and then move on to the next exercise.
This story is from the June 2016 edition of Health & Nutrition.
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