Posts Tagged ‘gain’

Werewolf Training: A Weightlifting Routine to Gain Muscle

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009


Werewolf Training
Werewolf Training

Gain Muscle

Originally posted: 11/27/09
Updated: 12/15/09 (routine updates), 12/21/09 (supplements), 12/28/09 (recovery and other minor updates), 12/31/09 (minor updates), 1/12/10 (added shrugs to day 13, added Excel spreadsheet workout logs)

This training routine is designed for you to gain muscle. That’s it.

If you’ve come here to lose fat or to learn how to bench 700 lbs, you are better off reading Werewolf Training for Strength Gains. Although, truth to tell, you will probably get significantly stronger following this program.

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How to Build Muscle Mass Fast with Kaatsu Training

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Douglas Robb at HealthHabits posted the other day about the Occlusion/Kaatsu training method, which is popular in Japan. While not necessarily useful to me, I found it a very interesting read.

Kaatsu Training
Kaatsu Training / Occlusion Training

What Kaatsu Training Does

Kaatsu training looks like it can increase muscle hypertrophy significantly more than regular resistance training over an extremely short period of time. In fact the results of the studies show that 2 weeks of Kaatsu training increases muscle mass to a higher degree than 5 weeks of regular resistance training.

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