The Giant Leap in Efficient Mass Building No Matter What Your Age

 The Giant Leap in Efficient Mass Building No Matter What Your Age

You may know me as the former editor-in-chief of Iron Man, the trusted bodybuilding magazine that began in 1936.

No, I wasn't the editor back then.

Mike Mentzer, top pro from the 1970s who helped bring science to bodybuilding training. He was on the right track with brief, intense training. New research says you can supercharge that approach. (Photo by John Balik)

I'm not quite that old. I started in 1987, putting out monthly issues for 27 years and interviewing icons of the sport from Arnold to Mike Mentzer to Tom Platz.

I learned a lot about building muscles from those legends, and I also built my knowledge with the help of researchers who wrote for the magazine and the studies they discussed.

Much of the latest research is verifying bits and pieces of how the icons of bodybuilding trained for mass and how you can use those methods in workouts that take very little time for major muscle results.

The methods?

Progressive muscle-fiber loading on the ideal exercise for each muscle, Speed Sets, and Stretch Loading.

This will take your physique to new levels of muscle mass faster than you thought possible.

The Giant Leap in
Efficient Mass Building

All through my 45 years of lifting, efficient drug-free bodybuilding was my focus—big results with minimal wasted time.

And over the years, I collected many innovative ways to pack on muscle.

But now there's been a giant leap in efficiency-of-effort mass-building—new discoveries.

And the hard truth is...

These new eye-opening findings have me and a number of experts throwing out much of what were believed to be muscle-building truths.

Even some sacred exercises are being dethroned…

After a year of applying this new info, all I can say is that the results have been spectacular. Even more impressive: I built my new age-60 physique in a bare-bones home gym with only moderate-weight, 35-minute workouts…

I built the latest version of my 60+ physique in a bare-bones home gym. All I had was a 50-pound selectorized dumbbell set, an adjustable bench and a doorway chinning bar. No heavy weights available, but I still grew like crazy with 35-minute workouts three days a week.

And people are noticing.

A neighbor recently asked me why I've been getting younger and more muscular while he gets older and fatter.

I told him, "It doesn't take as much time as you think" — as you'll see...

"Plagued" With a
Muscle-Building Dilemma

My new-muscle awakening was the direct result of a few converging events over a year and a half...

The first was the pandemic. I had no idea gyms would close for so long. It was an unwelcome surprise, as my home gym was pathetic.

As the pandemic hit and gyms closed, I was feeling pathetic physique-wise. I had to do something, and my sparse home gym was the only option.

How the hell was I going to build muscle with moderate-weight dumbbells and a bench?

The max I could use was 50 pounds in each hand, and not a barbell or squat rack in sight.

My motivation had already been bottoming out due to boredom at my commercial gym and stagnant results from my hour-plus workouts.

While I used to be proud to peel off my shirt, suddenly I was embarrassed. And with gyms closed, I had a bad feeling that everything would only get worse…

It did. I started missing workouts and sunk even further into looking like a cranky, non-training old man.

I was about to give up and start wearing socks with sandals, but then it hit me: I had to take this as a slap-in-the-face challenge…

"Come on, man. You've got decades of training experience. Ditch the old-codger nosedive and at least prove you can build a decent physique with limited equipment."

Then a second key event occurred that set my motivation on fire:

I was reacquainted with former Mr. America Doug Brignole...