I just got this article in my email from Nick Nilsson and wanted

to pass it along before I call it a day and head to the park with

the family.

 

Oh and if you haven't picked up Muscle Explosion you still

have a few hours to save $40 by clicking here.

 

Keep training hard,

 

Mike Westerdal

CriticalBench.com

 

I USED to think I was a hardgainer until I figured this stuff out. Now I can
pretty much gain muscle and strength whenever I want. You can too...once
you know how to do it.

Here's what you'll do...

Step 1 - Pull Back

If you've hit a plateau, the first step I recommend is taking some time to deload
(which is a fancy way of saying do less). This can be total rest or it can be
reduced workload on your body.

The idea here is give your body some time to heal and recover. I recommend
4 to 7 days of this, at minimum, depending on how overloaded your body
was when you hit the plateau.

Step 2 - Go On A Diet For a Week

So how does going on a diet help you with building muscle? Several reasons...

1. You'll drop fat. Obviously, by going on a diet, you'll lose fat. This is just a good
bonus and not even the main reason you'll be dieting.

2. It gives your digestive system a break. When you're trying to build muscle,
you're eating a LOT of food. Your digestive system is just like your muscular
system and nervous system. When you use it constantly, that uses up it's resources.

By going on a diet, you give it some time to regenerate and recuperate. By not
asking it to constantly digest food, you're giving it a break...and that means when
it comes time to eat big again, it'll be ready.

3. Going on a diet (especially a low-carb diet, which is what I recommend) will
increase your insulin sensitivity. Insulin is your body's primary storage hormone
and is CRITICAL for building muscle. By making your muscles more sensitive to it,
it'll give you greater muscle-building bang for your buck when you go back to eating
carbs in greater quantity.

4. You give your body the idea that it's in a famine. So why is that a good thing?
When your body senses "famine" conditions, it slows your metabolism down and
becomes more efficient with the nutrients it's taking in (a.k.a. the dreaded fat-loss
plateau). This process takes about a week to start really going into full effect and it
sets up ideal conditions for building muscle when you come off the diet in the next
phase.

Step 3 - MASSIVE Overload of Training and Calories

Time to put the pedal to the metal. You've just finished a week of strict dieting...

- your body is empty of reserves and it's desperately looking to fill those back up
- your metabolism is slower and more efficiently using the nutrients you're putting in
- your sensitivity to insulin has increased

Now you're going to overload it in a BIG way.

You're going to start eating in large quantities and you're going to start training with
massive volume.

And I'm not exagerrating when I say your muscles will soak up the calories and
nutrients like a sponge at this point, especially when you start in with the high-volume
training. It's an incredibly anabolic time for your body and it can pile muscle on like
nobody's business.

Drink a LOT of water, because your body will be processing and storing a lot of carbs,
which love water. You can also load creatine to further increase the water-loading effect.

Now, besides the obvious benefit of hydration, the massive influx of water has the
secondary effect of stretching the size of the muscle cells, due to the increase in
glycogen (what carbs are stored in your muscles as).

Your muscles are literally BATHED in nutrients...your training is high-volume, which
is extremely anabolic on it's own...and your muscle cells have expanded, which actually
helps stretch out the fascia surrounding the muscles themselves, giving them more
room to grow.

(and ok, maybe I'm strange but I get all whipped up talking about this stuff...it's that
amazing of a setup for muscle growth :)

I find this process can be pushed for about 5 to 7 days before you need to reduce the
training volume again.

Step 4 - Back to Baseline Training

At this point, you've overloaded your body with calories and training volume. It's time to
pull back to lower-volume training and eating.

You can go back to just about any type of muscle-focused training here, as long as it's not
high-volume. Your body needs the break from that overload. You can also pull back on
your calorie intake a bit here, too.

During this phase, you're basically solidifying and continuing the gains in muscle you made
in the massive overload phase. Keep this up for at least 2 weeks (or more, if you're still
making gains).

That's it!

With this framework, you can essentially gain muscle and strength whenever you want to.
This is a very powerful blueprint that, when you step back and see how your body works,
makes perefct sense.

Now, coincidentally enough (and without a shred of irony, of course ;), this is exactly the
framework my Muscle Explosion program follows.

And I'll tell you right up front...you don't HAVE to follow my program to benefit from this
framework. You can absolutely use this framework to design your own program based around
these concepts.

However, I've taken the step of laying out EVERY single day of this framework using all the
tips, tricks and techniques I've read, come up with and mastered over my past 20+ years of
training (and this is some crazy-good stuff).

I've laid it out so that each training session and dietary segment is designed to build on the
previous and set up the next so you fully maximize the muscle-building effects you get from
this pull-back and overload framework.

And like I said, you're welcome to do the work yourself...

...or you could just let me do the work for you and just hand you the optimal plan on a silver
platter :). All you have to do is supply the effort.

Get Muscle Explosion now for 40 bucks off...

Nick