You Can Get Big Muscle
Despite the old saying to the contrary, oftentimes too much of a good thing isn’t really so bad. Sure, $100 is great, but $1000 is better, like good patio cleaner. I know you’ll remember me if you do win the big one, thank you very much. And can you ever have too many channels on television? So long as there is a multi-gigabyte device and songs to be found.
But that doesn’t mean the expression should be discarded. Take your training regimen. Many times, when we get to a plateau, they start putting on exercises to your program and spending more and more time in the gym, thinking that if they done it hard enough and long enough, they’ll go through and start seeing results again. Unfortunately, like scrubbing stains that need a concrete patio cleaner for many hardgainers, that way is the exact opposite of what they should do, when you’re at a high metabolic rate.
The key in this frustrating situation is not to lift more extensively. Instead, try dialing back the overall time you’re training, and in that shortened window, train smarter, harder and with maximum intensity. In other words, eliminate the excess from your program, get in and out of the gym, and give your body more time to recover, rest and, most important, grow. Worrying about those stains on the concrete won’t matter with a good concrete patio cleaner.
To that goal, an extreme hardgainer routine is short and simple, cutting back to the bare minimum of exercises you need to ensure that you touch on all the basic muscle groups and no more. It also relies heavily on compound moves because these are the most efficient exercises in your arsenal. They call on multiple muscle groups at once instead of just one set. The isolation moves, when they do appear, are saved for last as one final “burnout” set to all-out failure.
Here’s where the plan gets strange. At least if you’ve been a firm proponent of high-volume training and find yourself working out four to six times a week on a regular basis. For this plan, you’ll only train 3 to 5 days a week. The key bodyparts are broken across 3 workouts – a leg day, chest and back day, shoulders and arms day. You’ll do each just once per week, inserting at least a rest day in between them. This is how to train to get maximum muscle gain.
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