Lightweight Loophole

Today is for the boys. Sorry ladies… I mean I have dedicated a couple posts to women already, but none exclusively for men. With that said, its time to make up some ground.

Guys I found a loophole just by eavesdropping at the gym last week. It also occurred to me that I have executed this loophole properly myself back when I was about 16.

When building muscle by lifting free weights or resistance machinery we’re burning calories anyway right and getting exercise and are sweating the same as if we were doing intense cardio. I feel like your body is going to let you know that it needs to refuel anyway and you’ll naturally follow orders. Maybe just eating in general is good after your regiment. Obviously protein promotes muscle synthesis the best out of any block on the food pyramid, but still just eating regularly and frequently does help the muscle as well.

I spoke with a pro body builder about a month ago and he said the same thing. He said if you really want to pack it on you should eat several times a day. He was doing something ridiculous like 12 times a day. That’s an extreme example but it showed. He was shaped more like a refrigerator than a homosapien.

Now forget nutrition altogether for a second. Throw it out the window.

That was just a bonus tip I picked up last month that I felt like sharing.

Now onto the loophole.

I overheard something that hit me like a bag of bricks. I actually had a flashback of crushing some serious weight in my early lifting career. I didn’t eat differently then, didn’t sleep differently, didn’t drink protein or take any sort of supplementation.

I just lifted my testosterone oozing teenage ass off!

I hit it hard everyday and kept upping the weight and reps never being content or satisfied. The results showed. I did one exercise like a mad man though. I did a modified military press where I took the bench bar as a free weight and faced towards the bench rack. I did this exercise quite a bit, vigorously, but I forget for how long. But the results showed. My lats (latimus dorsi) not only grew in size, but in shape, and hardness.

Now, as I snapped out of the flashback I heard them talking about the same basic principle. Not giving the same muscle groups a break, and hitting them 3 or 4 days straight.

However, take it from me, this takes time to work into. Your muscles can become strong enough to handle a weekly non rotational training schedule, but working your way into it slowly and cautiously is the key I think. Trust me here, I know from experience.

If you do it right, whatever muscle group you’re really passionate about getting tighter, leaner, harder, bulkier, or whatever it might be, can be worked on a non rotational basis.

The guys I overheard were talking about another guy they met that was muscularly gigantic, but he wasn’t lifting giant weights. How could this be?

My theory is that he understood this loophole in the world of weight lifting. He could lift lighter weight and target every muscle group (doing a full body workout), 6 or 7 days a week without giving any group a break, and without pulling anything because the weight wasn’t too high. Keep in mind its also easier to keep proper form with lighter weight.

Something like that sounds like it would make you really strong overtime right? And the stronger you are, usually the bigger you are muscle wise.

An interesting theory, but with no 100% solid evidence or any guarantees here. I remember I used pretty big weight for my small framed body back when I did it this way. I haven’t tried the light weights with a crazy amount of reps regiment yet, but if I do in the future as a 60 day experiment or something like that, I’ll let you know how it pans out.

Yet another loophole brought into the light…