Nick Nilsson’s “Mad Scientist Muscle” eBook is all about doubling your muscle building results. The program is based on 2 Principles.
#1 is Planned Overtraining and Rebound
In this section you will learn how overtraining is good for muscle growth. Many fitness experts have always said that overtraining is a bad thing. In the Mad Scientist Muscle eBook, you’ll learn that overtraining can be good for muscle growth and continued training results.
Your body is constantly adapting to whatever your current workout is. This is why you will hit a plateau after 3-6 weeks with the same training. With Nick’s show, you will use this to your advantage. For a few weeks, he will constantly increase his training to the point of overtraining. Once you get to that point, it’s time to rest and steadily cut back on your workouts to the point of no training.
This is a concept that I had never known. It’s great for me because when I try to build muscle I always have a tendency to have problems after I’ve been training for several weeks. I suddenly have neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, or back pain from all the heavy weights. My body just can’t sustain this for more than 3-4 weeks. So I just end up giving up heavyweights.
#2 is all about training to better support muscle growth
The first part of better supporting muscle growth is building a stronger frame. You may have tried to build muscle before and felt like your body couldn’t keep up because of your frame. This is how I feel when everything starts to go wrong. My framework just isn’t capable of it. This section will focus on bone, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and fascia.
The second part of better supporting muscle growth focuses on the fascia, which is the connective tissue that covers the muscles. This section will teach you how to stretch your fascia so that your muscles grow. This stretch is not after your workout, it is during your workout and with resistance. I always tried to stretch after my workout. The key here is during your workout so that your muscle can still expand while you exercise.
The third part of better muscle growth support is pumping nutrients and oxygen into your muscles to repair them. Nick explains how this workout is done with a high rep workout. This will force a large amount of blood into the muscles over a long period of time. I always thought this was just people trying to tone up. This could almost be like doing drop sets. Those reps definitely get the blood pumping to your muscles.
The fourth part of Better Support for Muscle Growth is about the nervous system and how to make it work at its maximum capacity. This involves using a moderate weight but doing 2x more reps than you normally would with it. These repetitions will be without negative resistance. I always thought the kids in the gym were just playing. They probably were and didn’t realize that this could help them gain strength.
Over all this book has some great tips to gain muscle. I definitely could have used it many years ago when I was in my prime. I will definitely give it another chance and this time I will succeed.
