For those of you that don’t already know I recently did an article on how before and after photos are created using the tricks of the trade.
Here’s the photo and you can click here to read the article:
I wasn’t overly happy with the ‘after’ photo as I felt I had taken a slight step back over the last few years.
This is me one year ago:
So, as my two sons are on holiday with their mum for two weeks, I’ve decided to use this week and next week to use every little trick and advanced technique I have ever learned to see how much change I can possibly make in a fortnight.
I’ll keep you updated as to what I’m doing and how I’m getting on every day or two.
If you are a ‘hard gainer’ (someone who struggles to gain quality muscle), I’m sure you’ll get some useful tips out of the emails.
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You read that correctly – I expect the training itself to leave me with slightly increased body fat and decreased muscle mass.
It is tactical use of ‘over-training’ that should produce a huge hormonal shift and put my body into a ‘muscle growth’ state.
The programme is three full body workouts split over two days (ie: Monday AM, Monday PM, Tuesday day, etc).
So I will have 48 hours rest until I repeat the same exact workout and as little as 8 hours some days before I train the same body parts again.
This flies in the face of much of the advice you will received (including from us) about ‘over training’.
But it a purposefully designed stimulus designed to cause a specific reaction from by body, which, coupled with optimal nutrition and supplementation will cause be to ‘grow before your eyes’ in the 5 day rest period.
Because of the level of over-training I’ll be doing I expect, as well as getting slightly fatter and losing muscle, that I will:
Be thoroughly depressed by about Wednesday
Struggle with sleep
Find it hard to eat from about Thursday till the end of the next week.
I’ve made a pact with myself that I’m going to get through it and that the result will be worth it.
Wish me luck 🙂
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