Bodyweight exercise for "mass building" (Seriously?)

Published: Wed, 10/24/12

Most guys at the gym just don't "get" this simple fact...

Muscle isn't dependent upon some fancy machine down at the gym.

In fact, the one form of exercise that's been shown to be far better
than any other is BODYWEIGHT TRAINING.

Want proof?

In the bodybuilding world, old school pro Lee Haney credited his
legendary barn door-sized back NOT to his gym's pulldown machine...
but to bodyweight pullups.

Olympic gymnasts have some of the best bodies on Earth and are
masters of bodyweight exercises.

And here's a skinny guy who went from 148 lbs. to 187 lbs. using
nothing more than bodyweight exercises.

Why are bodyweight exercises so powerful for building muscle mass?

Well few gym rats understand that ALL muscle growth is the direct result
of how well you can "activate" your central nervous system (CNS).

You see, when you train a muscle, an electrical signal is sent to your CNS
to recruit muscle fibers as well as wake up every biological function that
supports building more muscle - hormone release, oxygen use, you name it.

The stronger that signal, the more your body is going respond and help you
build more mass.

Electrical readouts of muscle stimulation have shown that a bodyweight
exercise program
recruits the most muscle fibers of any type of training
and therefore prime your body for massive growth.

Bodyweight squats... pushups... pullups... chinups... handstand presses...

If you're not doing these, then you need to add them to your routine right away.

Trust me...even if you can only do one pullup, it's going to help you more
than doing 10 reps of pulldowns in the long run.

Keep training hard,

Mike Westerdal
CriticalBench.com

P.S. There are numerous exercises you can use, but you need a plan on how
to pair them correctly and convert them into real muscle.

Mike Thiga has a great bodyweight exercise program that's a proven mass-
builder. It's located at The Muscle Experiment.

You can see his own transformation as well as what's included at his website.