The 6 ForgoTTen FacTors oF

hyperTrophy For IgnITIng

colossal gaIns In sIze and
sTrengTh

Free reporT
compliments of the pros:

By Vince del
Monte of
www.VincedelMonteFitness
.com

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 & Benjamin
pakulski of
www.Benpakulski.com

The highly anticipated hypertrophy M.a.X. system

releases “privately” on december 18, 2012

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M.A.X. stands for Monthly Anabolic
Xtreme:
The First Program in History to Deliver 12 Months
of Unique Hypertrophy Models & Elite Coaching For
Colossal Gains In Size & Strength!

here We GROW agaIn….

If you walk in to any gym in the world right now, you will inevitably find people
doing bench press, a few walking on the treadmill, a few doing kettlebell swings
(lord only knows why!), a few doing some work on the TRX, and a whole lot of

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 people that come to the gym day after day to do the same monotonous routine that
gets them minimal muscle gain and zero fat loss.

So many people are victims of the 2 steps forward and 2 steps back routine that
personal trainers and gym businesses thrive on!

TEll US IF THIS STORy

SOUnDS FAMIlIAR!
We all have a friend that just has to tell you all about
their newest workout routine: “It’s the best thing ever
invented…!” “It’s the “exact” workout some pro uses…!”
This workout is going to get him great results and he is
SO excited to share it with the world. Our promise to
you for reading
After a mere three weeks on this program your friend this report!

is starting to look different. He’s in the gym every day

with his notepad and water bottle filled with some cool
looking “secret formula” neon green drink. He wears a stopwatch that beeps to
measure rest intervals. He focuses on every rep like it’s his last. His muscles
look fuller and more defined. You offer him your most sincere compliment and
he smiles and kicks back a thank you and rushes off to his next set. He’s a man
on a mission and on track for his best body ever. Where did all this newfound
motivation come from, you ask yourself?

Six weeks go by before you see your friend in the gym again. This time the
stopwatch is not beeping, his muscles look softer and less defined, and he’s no
longer carrying his notepad or neon green drink. You notice he’s not dripping with
the same confidence he did six weeks ago and you ask him, “Everything okay?”
He informs you, “I haven’t been in the gym for three weeks. That program was

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 great at first, then I got used to it, stopped seeing results and lost motivation. I
need

something new…” hMMM, sound FaMIlIar?

This story is more common than you might think. You
discover the latest workout routine or diet trend, which
sparks a newfound motivation. You’re excited! You see
some quick results but the results are short-lived and
the initial excitement wears off and you’re left wanting
more. Don’t raise your hand if this is you but it’s kind of
like individuals wanting to date someone new every
month! You buy into the lie that the grass is always
greener on the other side of the fence. But the truth is
that the grass is greenest where you water it!

We call this the shiny red ball syndrome.

Anything new is great at first. You’re motivated, it’s
different, you’re intrigued to see what might come of it,
and then all the excitement wears off and you’re left
with the same old crappy dull red ball you had before.

You don’t get a body like this

relying on bro-science!
Sounds a bit exaggerated but ultimately it’s true. We all love to see the shiny red
ball, but before long, it’s not so shiny, it’s not so cool, and then we want a newer
ball.

The same holds true with workout programs, training techniques, nutrition
methods, supplement stacks and recovery rituals. Instead of searching out
timetested and scientifically-validated principles and theories, you’re always on
the lookout for the next trick and trend!

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We all get excited over the newest thing. Even us. It’s the premise on which all
marketing is based - get people’s emotions flowing over the big red shiny ball! A
few weeks later, we forget all about it. We have all been there. The cycle repeats
itself over and over.

The problem mosT people have Is ThaT

InsTead of embracIng ThIs facT of human naTure, They Try
To fIghT IT.
For instance, if you KNOW that you lose motivation in the gym after four weeks
on the same program, PLAN to change it! If you lose motivation every six weeks,
plan to change it every six weeks. If you stop seeing results after just a few
weeks, PLAN to change it, ASAP! Why fight yourself into believing that you need
to push through this lack of motivation when you’re clear cut solution is right in
front of you: change the program. We’ll talk about six overlooked ways to change
your program in a moment.

But first, before we teach you the six forgotten factors of hypertrophy for colossal
gains in size and strength we must address the…

4 lIes aBouT BuIldIng Muscle

you MUST sTop BelIeVIng...
lIe #1 - There Is a MagIcal prograM ouT
There.

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 December 2010 at The Firehouse ...
Discussing how to transform your body!

Time to set the record straight on something. There is NO such thing as the
PERFECT workout!

Everyone out there these days seems to be making the claim that their workout
will be the magic workout you’ve been looking for all your life. Well, we call that
BS! If there truly was a magic, “easy” workout plan out there, everyone would be
walking around looking like an ultra-shredded HULK wannabe, benching 500lbs
and squatting 1000lbs.
The truth of the matter is that there are basically TWO types of workout programs
out there:

1) prograMs Based on proVen scIenTIFIc

prIncIple and;

2) prograMs Based on Bro-scIence.

In all honesty, both of these types of programs could be effective for you. The
difference lies in the consistency of the effectiveness. Let me take a minute to
explain.

When you begin ANY new program, your body is going to respond. There is a
new stimulus and the human body is designed to adapt, get stronger or build

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muscle so that it can more easily perform this task in the future. The problem is,
after a few short weeks of adapting to this new stimulus, your body is no longer
required to respond. It’s already used to what you’re doing so it sees no need to
continue to grow new muscle.

Bro-science essentially boils down to what you see being done in the gym by
about 95% of men and women. They go to the gym with no plan, no structure,
and really NO idea how to stimulate growth. We call it “Throwing darts at a
dartboard…blindfolded!”

Sure, eventually you’ll hit something, but most of your time is spent hoping that
you’re aiming in the right direction.

When it comes to training the bro-science way, you have no idea what variables
you should be manipulating, in what order, how often they need to be changed,
how often to rest, how long to rest etc. You just go to the gym and do what you
“feel” and hope is going to do SOMETHING!

It’s as dumb as trying to save a million dollars without a financial planner and
ignoring your bank statements. Good luck!

We don’t know about you, but from day one, this “throwing darts at a dartboard
blindfolded” approach sounded like a huge waste of time and we felt like
dumbasses every time we stepped in the gym without a plan. Wouldn’t you
agree?

A scientific based plan on the other hand is based on manipulating the

variables of exercise that are proven to cause the greatest amount of change. As
we know, the human body is very quick to adapt to anything we subject it to so it
is important to know which variables we can and should be changing:
- Rest intervals (both between sets and between workouts)
- Repetition speed/tempo (how fast or slow you move the weights)
- Load (how close is the weight to your 1 repetition max (RM))

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 - Number of sets (per exercise, per workout, per body part)
- Duration (length of workout time)
- Frequency (how many workouts per day and per week)

Once you understand the science behind every one of these variables, you can
take control of your physique.

Imagine being able to grow consistently, forever, without plateaus! This may be a
little far fetched, because obviously we all have our genetic limitations, but if
you’re anything like us, you’re damn near ready to start challenging those
genetics and are motivated to push beyond all of your limits!

The TruTh. There is no such thing as a magical program, there are only
great phases and they must be PERIODIZED, ORGANIZED and SEQUENCED
intelligently. The key to growing without plateau is to combine a series of phases
throughout the course of a year, which manipulate all the factors of hypertrophy.
That’s the first reason Hypertrophy M.A.X. was created -- to bust through your
plateau!

lIe #2 - There Is only one Way To TraIn.

This is actually a pretty cool and interesting topic. When people are “new” to the
muscle building world (or at least new to following our principles) and first realize
how many different ways there are to train, they tend to get really excited and
dance around like school kids on Friday afternoon.

What if we were to tell you that we could teach you SIX (6) new models of
training that would completely prevent you from ever hitting another plateau again
in your life? Would that excite you? We thought so!

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I know when someone first revealed these training models to us we were more
excited then we ever were on Christmas as a kid.

“dude…this is aWesome!” (sorry we get excited!) Heck, that’s one of the reasons
we still hire people to design many of our programs for us! It’s always something
new and different – amazing! We still remember the day when we discovered the
approach to changing our workouts EVERY day if we wanted to! This catapulted
our game to another level.

Coming from Captain ADHD himself over here (Ben speaking here) let me tell
you this felt like someone had just told me I could eat all the peanut butter
brownie sundaes I wanted and still get huge and ripped! (Well, almost!).

The point of my little rant is just that there is no need to be bored with your
workouts EVER AGAIN! That’s another reason Hypertrophy M.A.X. was created --
to unveil unique models of training that have never been published in any other
magazine or website.

The key is to identify a goal, and then determine what variables you need to be
manipulating to achieve your goals. Want to get faster? Train for speed. Want to
get bigger? Stronger? Train for strength. Leaner? Learn about metabolic
resistance training, and get moving. Taller? Kidding! I guess we can’t do
everything!

Not exactly confident how to differentiate between each of these training styles or
how to attack your goals? Don’t worry - you’ve come to the right place!

Each and every one of these goals must be trained for in a specific way, and the
best part is, it’s EASY to do! Hypertrophy M.A.X. will periodize the forgotten
factors of muscle growth into a 12-month muscle building program that focuses
on a different variable of growth each month. As a user of the program you’ll see
and feel how your body rapidly changes when you expose it to the different
variables in a structured, progressive and step-by-step manner.

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The TruTh. There are SIX specific ways to train for size and strength
and you must use them all. Neglecting just one will stall your progress and result
in a plateau. On top of that, the more advanced you become the faster your body
adapts to constant training. Advanced athletes need to be changing their routines
every 3-4 workouts if they expect to see continuous results.

lIe #3 - assuMIng The BIg guy In The Mags or

The rIpped dude on youTuBe knoWs WhaT
he’s TalkIng aBouT.
Who’s kidding who here? We ALL know by now (or at least you should) that
many of the biggest guys in the world, top pro bodybuilders included, have NO
idea how to train. This goes for many of the lean and ripped fitness models on
YouTube. Why they train the way they do, or how to improve from year to year is
as much a mystery to them as it is to us. This is why you see so many young
bodybuilders achieve their genetic potential very young and then disappear off
the face of the planet. Many of the top bodybuilders show up year after year after
year, looking exactly the same, never improving weaknesses or putting on any
muscle at all. The only variance is whether they were able to not cheat on their
diet this year and get into great shape, or not. As for the fitness models, when
was the last time you saw them overweight or out of shape? Never! Why? Most
of them had shredded abs even before they started working out!

We see many of the most muscular guys in the world, and even in our local
gyms, all using different form, a different “style” of training and we wonder what is
REALLY right and what is a complete waste of time?

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 The good news is that after 15 years of research,
trial and error, and being a guinea pig for almost
every workout plan
that exists in the world, it is finally possible for us to
tell you
UnEqUIvOCAlly that there are definite and
measureable factors that must exist within every
workout plan if it’s going to be a success. Ignore
one and you’ll fall short of your goals.
Don’t get upset if you’ve never been exposed to these factors in theory or in
practice. There is a lot of information out there. Sifting through it all takes hours of
tireless commitment. The good news is that we’ve made it our job to rigorously
seek out the most knowledgeable men and women in the world - the people
doing real life university studies, or the coaches working with the best pro
athletes in a real-world environment – to bring the BEST of it to you!

We would’ve given anything for this quality of information when we were just
starting our muscle building days. We would have avoided so many wasted
workouts, so many misguided meals, so many hours of hard work doing the
completely wrong things. Looking back on it all now we can’t imagine how
successful we would have been if someone had offered us proven, factual,
effective workouts and nutrition information in ONE place. We know we were
misled by catchy marketing ploys and the appeal of the “huge dudes” in the
magazine ads just like you have been.

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Don’t get us wrong, it’s okay to get excited about the supplements in the
magazines - supplements can be great! But if you’re not rotating the six forgotten
factors of hypertrophy into your program over the course of the year then no
supplement in the world is going to help you -- you’re just wasting your money on
expensive urine!

The TruTh. There are two kinds of

coaches - those who substitute knowledge for experience and
those who substitute experience for knowledge. There are people
out there with degrees and certifications who couldn’t get their
body muscular or to 8% body fat if their life depended on it. Then
there are those bodybuilders, powerlifters and fitness models who
have no business being in the personal training business because
everything they do is based on “It works for me…”

Your take home lesson is to understand that it’s wise to learn from a combination
of science + intuition. The best results come when the coach helps guide the
student to the answers and the trainee is A PART of the training process. That’s
another reason we’ve decided to create Hypertrophy M.A.X. Each month you’ll
get access to a professional fitness model and a professional bodybuilder with
more than 25 years of cumulative experience. Users will get exclusive access to
a private membership forum and group phone coaching each month to give you
an opportunity to ask questions and customize factors further.

lIe #4 - BelIeVIng you’Ve TrIed IT all and seen IT

all.
Trust us, when you think you’ve seen it all, or know everything there is to know
about training and nutrition, you meet someone that puts you right back in your

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place.

This honestly happens to both of us a few times a year. We’ve completed

four years of university on the topic, and we attend certifications or courses
on almost a monthly basis just in the hope that we might learn a few new
things each time that will help our performance and efficiency even 5% (heck
we’ll take 0.05%)! Each time we leave a course, we realize how much more
there is to still learn.

The truth of the matter is that there are so many

variables to training and nutrition that you can
pretty well be assured
that unless you devote 12 hours a day for the next 20
years to tirelessly read and research everything that
exists in about
seven different languages, you don’t have a hope of
learning
“it all”! Just hope to learn as much as you need to get
your physique to where you want it to be!
For us, getting our physiques to where we want them to be means being
among the best physiques in the entire world. For someone with many genetic
shortcomings (Ben speaking here believe it or not) this requires an extremely
scientific approach to everything I do. I can’t afford to get stuck in a rut or

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experience any setbacks. So seeking the BEST information in the world is the
ONLY OPTION for me.

To become an expert in anything it is said that you need 10,000 hours of

continuous work. Exercise encompasses biomechanics, anatomy, physiology,
nutrition and each of these areas alone takes 10 or more years to become an
expert in! Feel free to quote me when you encounter the next “bro-science
meathead” in the gym who claims he “knows it all”! “Take it up with bpak” is always
a class favorite response at my seminars.

We recently had the tremendous honor of attending a five-day Hypertrophy

Camp put on by the world’s number one strength and
conditioning coach, Mr. Charles Poliquin. We equated each day of this course to
be about the equivalent of one year of college level education.

The amount of information offered was incredible and mind-boggling at the same
time. Just when you thought you were starting to get a solid grasp on everything,
Coach Poliquin would throw some incredible new information at you and make
you feel like a 17-year-old kid again that had just discovered “super sets!”

The TruTh.
There are ALWAYS new ways to improve if you’re open-minded and willing to
learn. There is ALWAYS someone smarter than you. The more you learn, the
more you realize how little you know. This is another reason we created
Hypertrophy M.A.X. -- our goal is not to help you learn more and more about less
and less (the Internet already does a great job at that) but it’s to get you to “see
the light” and get crystal clear on the SIX forgotten factors. If you learn how to
manipulate just these SIX factors then your genetics don’t stand a chance! We
also want to introduce you to our inner circle of brilliant therapists, doctors,

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coaches and athletes. We want to give you access to who we go to for the
answers so you completely “get it”.

enTer The ForgoTTen

“super heroes” oF
Muscle groWTh.
We are all after the same goal: OUR IDEAL Physique. So, allow us to address
this in a really direct and informal way, as we would tell a best friend.

We KnOW what you want. you want what every

one else wants (ourselves included). you want to
build a WICKED body that attracts the right kind
of attention and earns
you the respect you desire, and you want to do it
in the FASTEST way possible! Right?
The great news is that this is not the impossible dream. Take it from me (Ben
speaking), a guy with below average genetics, from a home of unfit, unhealthy,
overweight people. You just need to learn how to do things right. It’s not as hard
as it sounds. We’re here to give you the most direct line to THE most cuttingedge
info in the world, all in one place.

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Learn to MASTER each of these Forgotten Growth Factors, and take control of
your body NOW!

groWTh FacTor #1
To IgnITIng neW gaIns:
MaX-TensIon
WhaT Is IT?
By now, you’ve all heard someone talk about “tension”. If you haven’t, you better
read carefully. This is the number one MOST IMPORTANT thing to understand
when it comes to building any amount of muscle. Whether you’re a 110-pound
yoga mom or a 260-pound rugby player, and if you’re looking to improve your
physical body, tension is about to become your new favorite word and your new
best friend. Here’s why…. (don’t worry we’ll keep it brief):

First off, tension is a relative term. The amount of tension we place on our bodies
varies greatly, and this directly dictates the amount of muscle, and also the
amount of bone tissue we carry. If you want to carry more muscle tissue on your
physique, you must subject your body to increased tension on a regular basis
and allow it to recognize an immediate need to solicit new muscle growth.

Let us do our best to explain the concept of increased tension with regard to
muscle and weight training:

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Imagine we use a very thick rubber band - the kind you may see power lifters
using to increase the tension in their workouts - and we dangle a 30 pound
dumbbell from it. This particular band is so strong, that it does not rip and the
dumbbell does not touch the floor when we hang the top end of the band off the
desk in Vince’s office. As you can now clearly see with your eyes (if you were
here in the room, or you can imagine yourself), the rubber band has a lot of
tension going through it, right? It’s pulled pretty tight. Once this dumbbell stops
moving, the amount of tension in the band is consistent and probably
measureable. Now what if we pull the dumbbell a little further toward the ground?
Did the amount of tension in the rubber band just increase? Of course it did. But,
did the amount of weight being used change? Nope. Still just a 30 lb dumbbell,
BUT we increased the amount of TENSION going though that band MANUALLY
by adding a little extra resistance to it.

Why should you care?

This whole system is very similar to your muscles! It’s really what goes on inside
your muscle when you exercise. The cool thing is that you can INCREASE
TENSION without increasing the weight! Yaaaaay! Amazing… what a
breakthrough! This is why you see some really big and muscular guys in your
gym who are not lifting the heaviest weights! They know how to create an
enormous amount of tension in the muscle without the reliance of heavy weights
that oftentimes do more harm than good to your body.

Think of it this way (assuming you’re not emotionally attached to feeding your
ego): Why lift 60 pounds when you can get the same or better results with 30
pounds? This is what we’ll be teaching you every single month in the videos that
accompany Hypertrophy M.A.X.

Less weight, less joint damage. More direct tension for more muscle growth. The
only thing left to say now is “yaaaaaaa buddy!”

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here’s Why VInce has a BIg chesT and
Ben has huge legs.
The idea of “genetically strong” body parts is simply to do with the amount of
tension that your body puts through a given muscle. If your quads are big, it’s
because your body structure is such that you tend to take a lot of tension on your
quads and not on the supporting muscle.

If you have huge pecs, it simply means that your body is aligned in such a way
that puts a greater amount of tension on your pecs, rather than on the other
surrounding muscles, or muscles with similar functions.

So, what does this mean to you? Well, if you can begin to understand this
concept, then you can learn to manipulate tension, optimize tension and grow
any muscle at the exact rate of every other muscle in your body.

WhaT happens IF you don’T

Focus on IncreasIng TensIon?
You’re doomed! You are only as strong as your weakest link. What if you went to
a soccer match and one of the guys on the team was 70 pounds overweight and
a slow ass? Do you think the other team would learn to exploit that weak link and
prevent the team from making any appreciable progress? Or course. All the
moving parts need to be up to speed in order to make the system work best.
Here’s something to think about, “you can only progress as fast as your weakest
link!”

With regard to exercise, training, and building freakish muscles, this becomes
applicable if you have a weak muscle in the chain. That weak muscle WILL

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absolutely hold you back from achieving the body you want. Ever notice when
training your back, your arms tire first? Or perhaps it’s your grip? How about a
crazy pump in your feet when you train calves, or worse yet, quads? We know
you’ve all been there, and chances are you still do experience this from time to
time. Our question to you is, how do you expect to build a big back if your arms
tire first?

How are you going to get big quads if you’re constantly worrying about how much

your feet are pumped and not focused on squeezing the working muscle? Answer:
YOU CAN’T and YOU WON’T! No drug or supplement can disguise your limiting
factors.

Let us get you thinking about a controversial topic:

Do you think that squats are an unhealthy exercise? Are they “bad” for your knees?
Should you squat “all the way down?” The answer to all of these questions is, “It
depends!” (Quite cutting edge info there, we know, but it’s true).
The irrefutable truth of the matter is that squats ARE NOT bad for your knees! We
don’t care what you read, who said otherwise or what you “think” you know. A
squat, when done PROPERLY is in NO way detrimental to the knee joint. Therein
lies the problem. What does properly mean, and how do we do them properly?

In order for you to perform a squat properly (or ANY exercise for that matter),
you have to ensure that the joint is properly prepared to do it. For example, if you
can’t control knee flexion while seated on a leg extension, how in the world are
you going to control knee flexion when you ask your ankle, knee and hip joints to
work together? It’s IMPOSSIBLE and this is when injuries occur and guys
complain of excessive muscle soreness.

Bottom line - all the muscles in that area (or the kinetic chain as you might have
seen it called) must be functioning and distributing tension appropriately. If one of
the muscles of the chain is out of whack, squats instantly become bad for the

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knee joint. Think about it like a door on hinges. If the door is in proper alignment,
it can swing on those hinges for decades. If you loosen just one screw at the top,
or add just a little weight to the top of the door, over time, you’re going to rip the
hinges right out of the wall. It may not happen the first time, or even the fifth time,
but eventually you’re going to notice those hinges starting to come out of the wall.
Result: knee problems and you’re going to walk away thinking, “Squats are
bad…” when really it had nothing to do with the squat exercise itself.

Creating proper muscular tension ensures that the joints are safe, you are
recruiting each and every muscle involved in the movement, and you are
ensuring the movement is maximized and so is your growth potential.

Try ThIs To BuIld Muscle:

So you want to build muscle do you? But, do you REALLY want it? Or do you just
want it, kind of, sort of? Well, if you’re serious about building muscle then the first
thing you need to do is geT ouT of your oWn Way!

Too many people get in their own way because their ego prevents them from
learning how to do things properly and actually use weights their bodies can
manage. In Hypertrophy M.A.X, you’ll hear us say that, “control is the
currency of growth!” If you can’t control it, you have ZERO business touching those
weights.

Here is the very first step you MUST do when you get up from wherever it is you
are doing while reading this:

learn hoW To creaTe maxImum TensIon In your muscles.

Don’t worry; it’s easier than it sounds if you can keep your ego in check for a few
minutes!

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Either right now, or the next time you go in the gym, pick an exercise (ideally ALL
of the exercises you ever do again), and LEARN HOW CREATE TENSION
BEFORE YOU MOVE!

Let’s use the example of the bicep curl because you can all grab a soup can or
your tub of Isoflex protein. Now, from a fully stretched position (lengthened
arms), I want you to create tension in your biceps BEFORE you move the weight
an inch. Can you do it? If you can’t create tension with a soup can, good luck
creating tension while you think you’re curling 40-pound dumbbells.

You can also try this on a push-up. As you lower yourself into a fully stretched
pec (bottom of a push-up), create tension in the pecs before you move anywhere.
Think about PUSHING THE GROUND AWAY FROM YOU. Stop thinking about
moving
your body away from the ground and visualize the floor as the “world” and you
are pushing the “world” away from you. IMMEDIATE TENSION! Crazy, eh?
Seriously, go down to the floor and PUSH THE FLOOR AWAY FROM YOU.
Want to feel it even more? While pushing the “world” away from you, think about
crushing it together (but shoving your hands inward). Insane sensation, right?

Once you feel that tension building up in the muscle you’re intending to work,
then finish the rep! You’ll notice your rep is much slower, more controlled and
more intense! Simple? Get to it

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 groWTh FacTor #2
To IgnITIng neW gaIns:
MaX-densITy
WhaT Is IT?
Now on to the least utilized growth igniter in the family! Density is the factor that
most people can very easily understand, but yet neglect to utilize to their
advantage. Maybe it’s just the nature of human beings to be lazy and not bother
to pay attention to this type of small detail. Manipulating a workout’s “density” is a
very good way to immediately spark some new growth, see measurable
progress, improve your work capacity, reduce stress on joints and even burn fat.
Hear us out: The term “density” has taken on many different meanings in the area
of fitness and muscle building. With regard to workouts, density refers to the
AMOUNT of work done in a given time frame.

Doing 12 sets for chest in 30 minutes is said to be a MORE dense workout than
doing 12 sets for chest in 45 minutes. Doing 16 sets in 40 minutes is denser than
doing 12 sets in 40 minutes. Density is the amount of work you do in a given time
frame. Do more work in that time frame, and the workout is denser. Pretty simple,
right?

We know it’s simple but yet it seems no one uses it to their advantage. It may be
one of those variables that is just so simple it slides under the radar, but we
suspect it’s a method many people avoid because it’s hard. To do more in less

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time is like sprinting around the track faster -- it’s going to hurt! Let’s admit it --
many of us avoid the truly hard workouts because we don’t like getting out of our
comfort zone. In Phase 2 (Month 2) of Hypertrophy M.A.X, we teach you how to
double your gains with density workouts. If you can get through the four weeks
then you’ll see your fastest gains ever -- whether you’ve been training one year or
10 years. The greatest benefit of increasing density of a workout is the immediate
adaptation of the cardiovascular system. Try doing the same workout that you did
last week, and do it in 20 minutes less time. It’s going to kick your ass (and you
might end up passing out)!

You’ll find that the first few times you do it, you’ll end up dropping the weights you
use by a lot. Don’t worry, your body will adapt quickly. Density training is training
your muscular endurance, and making your body more efficient at converting
energy into fuel (a bell should be going off in your brain right now)! A more
efficient body means stronger, leaner, more muscle!

Ultimately, we want our bodies efficiently using every nutrient we put in so that
our muscles constantly have the fuel they need to contract and grow big and
strong. Inefficient muscle means bad pumps, and plenty of fat storage. Some
people have a really hard time increasing the density in their workouts because
A) it’s hard. B) you use less weight.

But let us be the first to remind you, your muscles have no idea how much weight
you’re using. Your brain can not know the numbers on the dumbbells. By using
less time between sets, you are preventing your muscles from having ample time
to recover and therefore forcing them to recruit new and MORE motor neurons
and muscle fibers - muscle fibers that have been dormant and “asleep” because
you’ve never given them a good reason to wake up! Recruiting more “dormant”
muscle fibers means EXPLODING new growth off your (perceived) slow-to-grow
body parts!

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Try ThIs chesT WorkouT To BuIld Muscle:
This is the exact workout I (Ben here) followed last week, and this week I decided
to try it using HALF the amount of total workout time! Insane? YES! Effective?
INCREDIBLY!

- 6 sets incline barbell press x 10 reps (Rest 45 seconds)

- 4 sets flat dumbbell press (with internal rotation of the humerus on

concentric) x 8 reps (30 seconds rest)

- 3 sets push-ups x 20 reps (inward and downward intention, focus

on pushing the ground away from you and together) (20 seconds
rest)

Record your workout time from the second you start the first rep to the
second you finish the last rep. During your next workout, attempt to finish
it faster. For instance, if the workout above took you 25 minutes, try to do
it a few minutes faster. Here are the requirements though: A) the tempo
stays the same (do not move the weights faster), B) the weights stay the
same, and C) reduce the rest periods about 10-15 seconds on every set.

geT ready for The WorkouT of your lIfe!

The chest workout above doesn’t sound like much, and chances are you will get
angry with us for making you use such light weights to finish the prescribed reps,
but guess what? The goal isn’t to lift heavy weight (at least that’s not the ultimate
goal). The goal is to build muscle and these types of workouts will GREATLY
improve efficiency and will build the dense lean muscle you’re after.

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If you successfully finish the workout faster, pat yourself on the back - you
improved your work capacity and it’s only a matter of time before you look bigger.
If you didn’t improve, it’s time to re-evaluate your recovery and nutrition (by the
way, each month of Hypertrophy M.A.X will include our newest supplement
stacks and nutrition protocols for size and strength)!

groWTh FacTor #3
To IgnITIng neW gaIns:
MaX-lacTIc
WhaT Is IT?
We have all heard about lactic acid. Some of us fear it; others crave it. Love it or
hate it, lactic acid is something that we can all benefit from greatly! At one point in
your life, you have experienced some degree of lactic “burn,” whether it was from
walking up a steep hill, carrying too many grocery bags, or lifting heavy weights in
the gym.

To most of us, lactic acid is a terrible thing. Why would anyone

desire this? The fact of the matter is, people who learn to love the
burn associated with lactic acid have done so because they know its
benefits and have learned to love the after effect.

We will avoid the chemistry lesson, but it is very important to note the physique
enhancing effects of extreme lactic acid build up. Lactic acid is a byproduct of

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cellular energy production. When your body experiences increased demand for
oxygen and energy, it gives off greater amounts of lactic acid as a result. In a
roundabout way, this is your body’s way of telling you that the activity you are
partaking in is demanding and that you can’t do it forever (thanks goodness)!

Anyone looking to improve the physical appearance of their body must learn to
exploit the benefits of increased lactic acid levels. Obviously over the past few
years there is great debate over whether someone should be doing High Intensity
Cardio, or low intensity-long duration type cardio. Well the fact is there really is no
debate. High intensity exercise of any sort is MUCH more effective at burning
body fat than any low intensity-long duration exercise and the reason is due to
lactic acid accumulation

Lactic acid increases the acidity of the blood and as a result can cause a
dramatic increase in growth hormone. Growth hormone as we all should know,
is the best hormone in the body for losing massive amounts of body fat, FAST!

In Phase 3 (Month 3) of Hypertrophy M.A.X, you’ll be introduced to MAX-LACTIC

workouts! Easily one of the most excruciating workouts you’ll experience in your
life.

MAX-LACTIC workouts result in faster fat loss than aerobic programs, but they
will also increase strength and muscle mass -- in fact they can make you bigger
and stronger if you choose a variety of rep ranges (as we’ll teach you). With
aerobics, all you get is fat loss and weakness. Why train your body to become
weak?

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Another great benefit of MAX-LACTIC workouts is that they prepare you for our
future heavy lifting! We call these workouts “Ball Builder” workouts (sorry women
who are reading this) because they are not for the weak of stomach!

Try ThIs To gaIn colossal sIze:

Someone looking to gain muscle and optimize body composition at the same time
needs to learn how to train to manipulate lactic acid levels to their advantage.

Here are a few great training tips for maximum muscle building, massive
growth hormone releases, and losing body fat in the fastest way possible by
utilizing the benefits of lactic acid:

1) Training bigger body parts will have a greater capacity for lactic acid
production because of greater energy demands placed on the body. So,
when trying to grow or optimize body composition, make sure to train larger
muscle groups often and hard.

2) Incorporate more muscles into one workout. The more muscles you
use, the greater the energy requirement on the body…the greater the lactic
acid.

3) Higher reps and greater time under tension are the BEST ways to
increase lactic acid levels. Now, this does not mean that this is how you
should always train if building muscle is your goal, but learning to balance
ALL the growth igniters is essential to your success.

4) Take your current workout and do a massive giant set on all your
exercises. For example, if your back workout has lat pull downs, seated rows,
t bar rows and pullovers; instead of doing them in straight sets, perform a

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 giant quadruple set and then rest for 2-3 minutes. Take no rest between each
exercise. Don’t worry if you have to drop your weights. Just focus on working
through the lactic acid. It’ll suck! Good luck trying to get through it more than
two or three times without feeling sick! If you can make it through a few
rounds then you can be sure that you’ve generated maximum growth-
hormone production and you’ll see your body get harder and leaner every
workout.

groWTh FacTor #4
To IgnITIng neW gaIns:
MaX-InTensITy
WhaT Is IT?
OK, make sure we have your full attention here for a moment.
The word “intensity” is easily one of the most frequently misused and
abused words tossed around in the fitness world, and as a result, people
have no clue what true intensity really is (hint hint: it has nothing to do with
how intensity is portrayed in the magazines).

When you see the word intensity, what comes to mind? Hard work, insanely
difficult, big meathead bodybuilders laying on the floor after squats, etc. Well,
GET THAT OUT OF YOUR MIND! As far as exercise goes, that has nothing to
do with intensity.

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Since we all now pride ourselves on being the most educated fitness athletes and
muscle builders (Yes, that’s ALL of you!) we know that in our community of
scientifically educated bodybuilders that “intensity” is defined according to how
much an individual can lift in relation to how much weight they can lift for 1
repetition. This is defined as 1-repetition maximum, or 1RM. For instance, if you
are capable of lifting 100 pounds for 1 repetition for a given exercise set, that
exercise set has a greater intensity level than an exercise set in which you lift 95
pounds. What’s confusing for people is that the scientific community does not
relate intensity to the number of reps. Although lifting 90 pounds for 10 reps may
feel much harder then lifting 91 pounds for 1 reps, based on scientific weight
training terminology, 91 pounds still has a greater intensity level.

Another example - someone working with his or her 4RM is experiencing higher
intensity than someone doing an 8RM, despite the effort experienced. It’s correct
in saying that power lifters do more intense workouts than bodybuilders (which
doesn’t mean bodybuilder workouts are not tough, but by definition, power lifting
is more intense than bodybuilding).

To hammer this home one more time, 6 sets of 3RM workout is more intense
than doing a 6 set giant set workout, even though the giant set might leave you
laying on the floor in a pool of your own sweat and wondering if the gym has a
wheelchair service to escort you to your car! In scientific terms, the giant set
workout is still less intense. Next time you see some guy on YouTube say, “I just
did 45 sets
on chest. man, that was intense!” you can think to yourself, “no it wasn’t, it was just
long!”

In Phase 4/Month 4 of Hypertrophy M.A.X, you’ll be introduced to MAX-

INTENSITY, which is completely dedicated to moving you towards your 1RM! In
fact, we’ll be flying out to Colorado to film this phase at the gym of the defending
Mr. Olympia champ, Phil Heath! (We’ll be there the first week of July if you want
to stop by and see us).

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Why should you care aBouT TraInIng
For REAl InTensITy?
In the proper scientific sense, intense workouts are designed to make you freaky
strong, fast! Learning to manipulate the variables of a strength workout is
essential to the success of any intensity workout.

If you do too much, your joints will hurt and you will actually get weaker. Too little
and you won’t get stronger.

The reason you’re here reading this right now is because there is a PROVEN
scientific approach to intensity training known to stimulate MAX strength gains
and minimize any negative effects of extended periods of intense workouts (sore
joints, weakness, central nervous system fatigue).

WanT To lose FaT and geT rIpped up?

Intensity training is an essential component of any effective muscle building or
body composition program (fat loss). By adding strength in the short term, it
allows you to use greater loads in your subsequent training models and therefore
achieve greater muscular hypertrophy. Beware though, we have all known
someone who goes into the gym week in and week out, does single reps, triple
rep sets and after a while you notice that there are no longer strength gains and
only wear and tear on the joints. We also want to point something out before we
go any further. Exercise itself IS NOT bad for your joints in ANY way. In fact,
there is more evidence to suggest that exercise is the best thing for your bones
and joints. What IS bad for your joints is:

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 A) Doing things improperly i.e. training like a weight lifter instead of a
bodybuilder. Weight lifters are solely concerned with getting a weight from
point A to point B no matter how sloppy it looks, without any regard for
control and using momentum to do three quarters of the lift! When the
muscles are not in control, the stress shifts to the surrounding tissues such
as joints, ligaments and tendons - and your muscles don’t even know you
went to the gym! Can you imagine that? You lift heavy weights, but if you
asked your muscles they would say, “our muscles haven’t worked in years,
but our joints sure hurt!” Sad but true story.
Every month that you’re a member of
Hypertrophy M.A.X you’ll receive a 2-
3 hour hard copy DVD that includes
explicit instruction on how to train like
a bodybuilder and stimulate your
muscles, not your joints. Learning how
to lift safely will literally save you
thousands of dollars in therapy when
you turn 40 and the damage is too
late.

B) Doing exercises and techniques your body is not prepared for i.e.
attempting to do exercises more complex than your body is ready to
handle. It’s a great idea to make sure that every few months you re-assess
your body’s preparedness for any and all exercises. Back to the squat
example - how in the world can you expect to control knee flexion during a
multi-joint squat exercise if you can’t even control knee flexion during a
single-joint leg extension exercise? It’s IMPOSSIBLE! We will discuss this
is great length in Hypertrophy M.A.X and will progress your exercises from
month to month so your muscles grow and your joints thank you for being
smart.

C) Repeating the exact exercises and techniques over and over i.e.
relying on the same movement patterns cause, what is called, wear

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 patterns in your joints and bones. Kind of in the same way we must rotate
our tires on our cars, we must also rotate our movement patterns through
exercise. Here’s an example you can do on a chest press machine:
instead of simply pushing the weight forward, start shoving the handles
downward while you press forward! So now you are changing the wear
pattern, i.e rotating your tires. When you push, you can also shove the
handles upward as you press.
These simple techniques create incredible resiliency within your joints.

Try ThIs To gaIn colossal sTrengTh:

Below you will find one of the safest and smartest INTENSITY programs ever
designed. Try this exact workout every five days for three consecutive workouts.
You should be looking at putting 20lbs on your bench press in 2-3 weeks. No
joke!

Beware though: this is a very strenuous workout and you must ensure your body
is PREPARED to do something like this or you will end up hurting your joints or
worse.

What does it mean to be prepared?

Structural balance, optimal range of motion, ideal execution, and joint integrity.
Are you in control of all of these variables? Are you aware of HOW to be in
control of all of these variables? If not, do not attempt this program. When you
sign up for Hypertrophy M.A.X, you will be ready once you progress through the
first few phases.

InTroducIng: WAvE lOADInG

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The idea behind Wave Loading is to maximize strength and something known as
MUA, motor unit activation. Greater MUA means your body will be more efficient
at firing a greater overall percentage of muscle fibers per contraction and make
you stronger, faster!

This approach can be used for any of the compound movements and main
strength building exercises. Doing this for isolation exercises is not going to
benefit you.

Let’s take a look at how to apply this to your chest workout:

Compound Exercise One: Flat Barbell Bench Press

6 sets 3010 tempo

(120 seconds rest between sets)

Set 1: 7 reps@135 lbs

Set 2: 5 reps@ 145 lbs
Set 3: 3 reps@ 155 lbs
Set 4: 7 reps@ 145 lbs
Set 5: 5 reps@ 155 lbs
Set 6: 3 reps@ 165 lbs

Compound Exercise Two: Incline Dumbbell Press

6 Sets 4010 tempo

(60 seconds rest between sets)

Set 1: 10 reps@60 lbs

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 Set 2: 8 reps@65 lbs
Set 3: 6 reps@70 lbs
Set 4: 10 reps@65 lbs
Set 5: 8 reps@70 lbs
Set 6: 6 reps@75 lbs
As you can see, wave
loading involves moving
the load up and/or
down within subsequent
sets of the same
exercises. This method
recognizes the
neuromuscular
adaptations within a
multiple set exercise
arising from exposure
from higher load. The
biggest benefits of
wave loading are
accelerated strength
gains, increased
explosiveness and
increasing your work
capacity.

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There are NO forced reps in strength training. The only time a forced rep is used
is to literally save your life. Forced reps cause lapses in form and increase
potential for injury. Focus on keeping your form perfect and reaching the exact
number of prescribed reps each set. Always have a competent spotter to ensure
your safety but not to lift the weights for you! If you can’t get the weight on or off
the rack then it’s too heavy to begin with because you’re NOT in control of every
variable of the lift. Sorry to burst your ego but you need to earn the right to lift
heavy weights and control is the only way you earn it!

don’T Worry, We’ll be TeachIng you hoW To conTrol some

heavy-duTy
WeIghTs In The max-InTensITy phase of hyperTrophy m.a.x!

groWTh FacTor #5
To IgnITIng neW gaIns:
MaX-Frequency
WhaT Is IT?
Many fitness and muscle-building enthusiasts get caught up in the fact that a
week has seven days. This fact is a wonderful thing when it comes to keeping
track of the seasons and calendar year but has ZERO relevance when it comes
to your body and building muscle.

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There’s no short cuts in life to
anywhere worth going!
The trend of training body parts once per calendar week started in the
1980’s when there was literally zero science and research when it came to
training. Your body has NO idea when Monday is. Your body only knows
work hard, contract, recover and grow. So why the idea of training each
body part once per week has become so popular escapes us.

Another goal of Hypertrophy MAX is to not dumb you down and just tell you what
to do but to explain why so that you will become the most intelligent lifter in your
gym! The goal of weight training is to stimulate new muscle growth. In order to
stimulate new muscle growth, we train with weights to break down muscle and
ask a muscle to adapt and grow. This growth process occurs by means of protein
synthesis. Therefore, by deductive logic, we know that the goal of weight training
is to stimulate protein synthesis and new muscle growth. Makes sense right?

So, if the goal of training is protein synthesis, and training a muscle is known to
stimulate protein synthesis for 48-72 hours, what happens after this 72-hour
period is over? Well, the truth of the matter is that after this 72-hour “growth
period”, the body starts breaking down the protein it just synthesized in order to
return to homeostasis.

Why should you care aBouT ManIpulaTIng

TRAInInG FREqUEnCy?
If the hardest weight training will only stimulate a greater rate of protein synthesis
for a maximum of 72 hours before your body starts breaking down that muscle
again, would it not make sense to conclude that you should be training that
muscle again as soon as possible after the 72 hour period is over? Makes sense
to us. Sure sometimes soreness lasts longer than that, but that is usually a result
of improper nutrition and a lack of recovery support such as sleep and
supplementation. When using an increased frequency of training, your recovery
habits become even more essential to your success.

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Of course, there is a flip side to every coin. If you train each body part every 72
hours your joints and tendons may not have adequate time to recover from the
constant bombardment. Learning to periodize your training and utilize EVERY
type of training modality is essential to success at any level. Manipulating
volume, density, frequency, intensity are all necessary for healthy muscles, joints
and optimal muscle growth.

Let us ask you this:

When was the last time you intentionally decided to train only 2x a week? How
about 4x a week? How about 8x a week? Ever thought about training 12x a week
then taking a 5 day layoff to super compensate?

The bad news is that you’re limiting your gains big time. The good news is that
you have SO SO much more room to grow if you haven’t ever manipulated
training frequency. Both of us learned this first hand in January when attending
Charles Poliquin’s 5-day Hypertrophy Camp and went through 15 workouts (3
workouts per body part from Monday to Friday) in five days! Was it overtraining?
Absolutely 100% yes! But after we were instructed to take five days off, all 17
class participants gained 3-5 pounds of lean mass after that experience! It was
temporary overtraining but because a five day of “absolutely nothing” rest was
followed up, every body made insane gains. This is an extreme example of
manipulating training frequency but something we’ll continue to do once a year
(it’s that intense only once -- maybe twice -- a year is enough).

Try ThIs, and groW Those sTuBBorn Body

parTs:
Pick one body part that you want to grow, and train it every 72 hours for three
weeks. We recommend using the exact same three workouts every week so that
you can easily chart your progress, but also to allow your body to adapt to the

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new training program. Take a look back at all the factors of hypertrophy and
make sure you’re considering each one within the weekly schedule.

The more advanced you become the closer you might be able to come to training
each body part every 48 hours. For the first try however, stick with every 72
hours. Remember, your body will adapt to anything you subject it to, but you
need to be patient and allow it time to adapt. Then you need to follow up with a
“de-load” or active recovery to ensure super compensation. Going back to once
every seven days after once every 48 hours will allow for some extreme super
compensation, i.e. growth.

groWTh FacTor #6
To IgnITIng neW gaIns: MaX-
VoluMe
WhaT Is IT?
It seems the word “volume” is almost a 4-letter word in the muscle building
industry these days. Most people avoid it like a fat kid avoids vegetables. People
have been brain washed industry-wide over something called overtraining. It’s
crazy, if you go on any bodybuilding forum you’ll find more people concerned with
how little to train rather than how much! It’s no wonder our society is getting lazier
and lazier but it’s sad to see this mentality slide into our world of bodybuilding.

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The idea of high volume training has many warranted benefits, as well as many
known detriments. The key then, is to first identify what volume really means.
Volume refers to the amount of work done in a given time frame. The truth of the
matter is that many people actually respond better to high volume training than
they do to low volume training. And from our experience, most people are
undertrained and not even close to being overtrained.

Endomorphs are shown to see greater benefit from higher volume workouts and
are less likely to “overtrain.” They can benefit from frequent bouts of high volume
workouts. An ectomorph would want to keep the frequency of their high volume
periods less often, but they can definitely still reap amazing benefits from volume
training that is strategically planned into their yearly training calendar.

Do you have a yearly training calendar or do you just wing it and hop from
program to program? About 99.9% of trainees don’t have a plan that goes much
further than three or four weeks! The problem with this is that you don’t have
synergy. Hypertrophy M.A.X solves the problem of no planning and maps out 12
months of periodized workouts!

remember, If you don’T knoW

Where you’re goIng In lIfe, any road
WIll geT you There! If you do knoW
Where you’re goIng Then you need To geT on The rIghT
road!

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Why should you care?
Volume training is extremely beneficial for improving the efficiency of muscular
contraction. High volume training forces your body to adapt to a greater workload,
and recruit a greater percentage of muscle fibers or motor neurons to complete
the required task. Both high and low threshold motor units, fast and slow twitch
muscle fibers are forced to work to complete the designated workout (that is,
provided you know how to incorporate those types of fibers into your training).

The idea of overtraining has to do being in the gym for too long, too often and
training too hard. Training with high volume does not mean that this has to be the
case. When you tell someone to do 20-24 sets per body part, the world screams
overtraining. If people didn’t spend so much time discussing the weather, their
fights with their girlfriend last night, and reality TV they would realize that they
could easily get it all done in much less time than would ever be considered
“overtraining.”

The few people that swear by the training system popularized by Mike Mentzer
and Dorian Yates, the “heavy duty” training systems, are the biggest proponents
that everyone should only be doing ONE set to failure to stimulate growth. Well
let us tell you all a secret, we can guarantee that NO athlete with less than 10
years of experience training at a very high level will grow from this type of
training. These heavy duty disciples are usually the biggest adversaries to any
amount of volume training. They are convinced that anything more than one set
is overtraining. In actuality, most people that benefit from heavy duty training
styles are people that have actually trained with very high volume in the past,
trained their muscles to be more efficient, and when they stopped seeing gains
from volume training finally had the foresight to change up one of the factors of
hypertrophy!

MOST of the time, training with short, intense bouts of exercise is the best way to
ensure an optimal hormonal environment for growth. HOWEVER, high volume

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training to improve the effectiveness of muscular contraction is something
everyone should consider doing a few times a year.

One of the big mistakes that does result in overtraining is defining volume in
terms of sets, not reps!

you can’T assume ThaT all reps are creaTed equal.

Squatting and deadlifting reps are more demanding then a curling or triceps
extension reps.

Think about this: does 24 sets on quads create the same muscle damage,
hormonal response and fatigue on your body compared to 24 sets on forearms?

Absolutely not! 24 sets on quads will kick the crap out of your metabolic, neural,
hormonal, immune and psychological system far greater than hitting a small
muscle group like forearms.

One of the keys to controlling volume is to focus on reps per body part not sets
per body part. For example:

Low volume: 12-72 reps per workout

Medium volume: 73-200 reps per workout
High volume: 201-360 reps per workout
Ultra-high volume: 361-450 reps per workout

And this mini chart will need to be taken a step further as well because 450 reps
on deadlifts will be a completely different experience than 450 reps on some
bicep curls! This is the info we’re planning on sharing in Hypertrophy M.A.X --
imagine how much control and confidence you’ll have in every workout!

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Try ThIs WorkouT and pack on
soMe serIous sIze!
Incorporating periods of high-volume training is mandatory to achieve maximum
muscle growth, especially in lagging body parts. One of our goals is to help you
not be afraid of strategically training longer (which is also great for reducing body
fat). Here’s your homework for the week:

TraIn for 75 mInuTes! buT, WIThIn The 75 mInuTes your

goal Is To do all 31 seTs. The WorkouT prescrIbed beloW
WIll Take 73 mInuTes If you hIT The prescrIbed Tempos
and resT perIods.

Here’s your shoulder workout for the week:

Exercise Sets Reps Tempo Rest
Standing Press: 8 4 4010 180

Seated DB Press: 6 6 4010 120

Seated Lateral Raises 5 12 3010 60

Bent Over Raises 5 12 3010 60

Front Plate Raises 5 12 3010 60

DB Front Shrugs 2 15 3020 30

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We’re giving you a 2 minute “head start” and have strategically written a high-
volume workout that keeps all the reps within 4 and 12 but enough tension so
you’ll want to kill us! Bring your carb powder and aminos and start sipping 30
minutes in. This will combat the cortisol. Record how much you do. Your goal
next week will be to reduce the rest periods by 15 seconds on each interval while
using all the same weights. This will make the workout more dense and indicate
improvement.

Our goal is for you to realize that workouts with a higher number of sets,
exercises and reps are needed to bust through plateaus, wake up lagging body
parts and improve your work capacity. Yes, your cortisol levels will be elevated
but don’t worry, your carb powder will spike your insulin and minimize the
damage. Keep in mind, this is a temporary phase, consider it a “ball builder”
workout - one of those workouts that will give you big cajones (again, sorry
ladies)!

We look forward to putting you through our own personalized MAX-VOLUME

phase to show you how to crank up your volume intelligently so that you can
grow from it.

To eXperIence hyperTrophy M.a.X.

I.e MOnTHly AnAbOlIC
XTREME, you MusT learn
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 PERIODIzE EACH FACTOR InTO An
ORGAnIzED
& PROGRESSIvE SySTEM
On December 18th, the the highly anticipated Hypertrophy-MAX
will be released to the world and if you’re reading this report then
you’re about to see the offer of the century!

In short, we’ve created an offer you won’t

be able to refuse! you’ll see what we
mean shortly… We’ve nEvER done
anything like this in history (nor have Any
of our fitness colleagues)!
We will say that Hypertrophy M.A.X is for serious trainees. Serious in the sense
that you place a high priority on education, having a coach/mentor, being
inspired and getting connected with like-minded individuals like yourself. If you’re
a know-it-all or not truly committed to designing your best body ever, then this is
NOT for you. Leave your copy on the shelf for someone else once we go live.

Hypertrophy M.A.X is the first program in history that organizes all six growth
factors into a periodized program; concentrating on one variable each month and
delivering cutting-edge print information and step-by-step instructional workout

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videos to your front door (yes, this is
going to be a hard copy program)!

We trust this report helped you

appreciate the magnitude of the 6-growth
igniters, which are more accurately 6-
anabolic factors of hypertrophy. We
understand that the word ignite could
imply you isolate each one, but that’s not
completely accurate.

Yes, you can and should isolate each

igniter during different training phases but
the take home message is:

each groWTh facTor Is In our opinion, the greatest bodybuilding

physique ever: Milos Sarcev
InTerconnecTed WITh The
oThers and each facTor WIll have an effecT on The oTher
facTors
Igniting new muscle growth every 28 days boils down to how skillfully you
progress and balance these six factors of hypertrophy. If you’re emphasizing one
more than another, you’ll be limited in your growth. If you neglect a handful, your
gains will be limited. If you are only manipulating one or two factors then, of
course, you’re going to hit a rut and see your progress stall. It’s inevitable.

If you’re currently utilizing only one or two of the factors then consider that very
good news because your body has a lot of room to grow.

If you’re currently manipulating three or four of these, then consider that good
news too - your body still has room to grow.

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boTTom lIne, unTIl you IgnITe all sIx of These groWTh
facTors, you’re noT even close To IgnITIng your full
poTenTIal.
Why have you not learned or heard about how to unlock some of these targets in
the past?

We aren’t exactly sure but we do have an idea…

It could be that the people you’re taking advice from got their own physique
purely because of genetics; or they just decided to stop learning; or they don’t
read the research journals like we do.

We are both Kinesiology graduates, we still research journals, we surround

ourselves with the smartest doctors, therapists and coaches, have 25 years of
combined experience with this stuff; and we’re die-hard fitness junkies who test
everything out on ourselves and we think our physiques speak for themselves.
We live bodybuilding all day, every day. We have no other day job or mission but
to teach you what we know.

Building muscle is not as simple as training hard, eating big and resting or else
every person you know would have a phenomenal physique. This information is
not common sense.

Again – unless you start unlocking each of these growth factors to ignite new
muscle growth, you’ll never experience colossal gains in size and strength.

buT here’s The caTch…

The more advanced you become (i.e. the longer you’ve trained), the harder it is
for your body to respond and the harder it is to hit these six different growth

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factors. They must be combined in a precise way to build the complete package
that you deserve.

So we’re sure you have a lot of questions, which is why this conversation does
not end here. Over the course of the next week and a half, we’re going to be
sharing even MORE powerful information to help you maximize your full muscular
and strength potential.
Talk soon,

Benjamin Pakulski
Honors Kinesiology Degree
IFBB Pro Bodybuilder
Creator of MI40

Vince Del Monte

WBFF Pro Fitness Model
Creator of No Nonsense Muscle Building
Honors Kinesiology Degree
P.I.C.P. Level 1 & 2 Certified
Precision Nutrition Certified

aBouT VInce del MonTe

Meet “Vince Del Monte,” the only Fitness Guru who has been coined The Skinny
Guy Savior. He earned this name by dedicating his life to transforming the lives of
the skinny, scrawny wimpy guys & skinny girls – helping them become healthier,
fitter and more confident in their bodies. In the end his students transform
themselves to “Live better, Look better & Know better!” Vince has transformed
thousands of lives of the skinny, scrawny wimpy individual with a perfect mix of
encouragement, humor, no BS, inspiration and fun with his popular best selling
“No-Nonsense Muscle Building” system.

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Vince has the most popular “skinny to muscular” transformation stories in the
world. He was the poster boy of the “I can’t gain weight or get the girl” story.
Vince became known as “Skinny Vinny.” He was 140-150 pounds at 6 feet tall.
The nickname didn’t die; it stuck with him all through college.

He tried everything to gain weight any way he could, never reaching past 149
lbs., dripping wet. He went through the battles to gain like no other. As a former
competitive long distance runner, Vince used running to survive the
embarrassment and insecurity he suffered from being too skinny. He formed an
identity for himself as one of those lean, mean, running machines.

Vince studied Kinesiology and received a Honors Kinesiology degree from the
University of Western Ontario. After college, he found a mentor who “told him to
burn all of his fitness magazines and stop wasting money on supplements to gain
weight.” Vince’s life started to change. He gained some weight, got muscles and
then met the girl of his dreams – whom he calls his B.M.W. – Beautiful Marvelous
Wife!

Vince helps thousands of individuals with “muscle unfriendly genetics”; make a

plan to create new habits and commit to it. He helps with motivation, confidence,
and teaches the basis for training smarter not harder – individuals see muscles
within 2 weeks, not 2 months! They eat better and have a more balance life. And
in the end, each individual becomes a better man or woman all while reaching his
or her goals.

Vince is the Author of “No-Nonsense Muscle Building: Skinny Guy Secrets

To Insane Muscle Gain.” The book has sold more than 80,000 copies in more
than 120 different countries. He is also a WBFF Professional Fitness Model.

Vince continues to compete in the fitness-modeling world and has won the
Canadian Fitness Model Championships. In June 2008, he competed again and
placed 3rd at the World Fitness Model Championships. He enjoys the natural
bodybuilding and fitness lifestyle, and continues to practice what he preaches.

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Later this summer he’ll be competing in the Pro Division of the WBFF World
Championships.

To join vince’s free newsletter for his latest workouts, videos, articles
and updates, please visit

www.VincedelMonteFitness.com
aBouT Ben pakulskI
I grew up as a very athletic kid. I think I played just about any sport I could.
Around the age of 15 is when most sports start to become competitive.
Testosterone starts to flow and young men starting thinking about college and pro
athletics. Being a pretty high level athlete at the time, I started to look for the
edge. I found myself in the weight room with a couple of my close buddies.

Things started to change quickly for me. I got strong faster than the other guys
and began to realize I loved the way this made me feel. I was hooked. I was in

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there everyday, rain or shine. People started to notice, I felt myself getting faster,
and I definitely noticed an improved athletic performance and overall confidence
in my game.

I vividly remember my first encounter with a FLEX magazine, it was Nasser El-
Sonbaty on the cover, and my exact words were “Oh my god! I don’t ever want to
be that big!” ….my how things change. Haha.

Needless to say, that magazine piqued my curiosity and I continued to read FLEX
for the exercise and nutrition info, although I’ll be honest, Mens Health was much
more my desired look at the time.

After a year or so of training, I had achieved the “men’s health” look and still
wasn’t content with the way I looked, I wanted more muscle. I joined the local
“hardcore” gym and my true passion was discovered! Bodybuilding.

Two brothers that trained there were the guys setting the standard for being the
Gym monsters. These guys were big, strong, and to my surprise at the time, were
only a couple years older than me. At the time, I was that skinny kid watching
from across the gym. They lifted heavy, so I lifted heavy. They squatted, so I
squatted. They deadlifted, so did I. After about a year, I had put on a lot of weight.
I was still nowhere near as big and strong as they were, but my desire was great.

I think it was well over a year before I had earned my dues to be able to train with
them, in fact, it may have been two years. These guys LOVED to train, and
watching and emulating them is what started my career down the path I am on
today.

A love for training, a desire to work harder and improve everyday.

Today, Vic and Dan are both happily married and still train hard. They both
continue to be some of my greatest inspiration because they look inside and see
that little screaming kid with desire bigger than his muscles.

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When I began training, my dad always told glory stories of his youth and his
tremendous leg and shoulder strength. Who doesn’t want to emulate dad! My
quest to be my greatest self, began there.

One of my earliest gym memories is of an older gentlemen explaining the art of

the squat to me. His words shaped my approach to training….. „son, the body is
an amazing structure, and as with any structure is must begin from the ground
first! Build a strong base with your legs, and the rest will follow!” I first found
myself getting faster for sports. I became a better overall football player, my
speed increased for baseball and I began to blow away many of my counterparts
on the hockey rink.

After training for two years I was ready to allow my dad to come to the gym to
watch me squat. He had been bugging for awhile after seeing me add muscle
and boast of my strength gains(come on, who doesn’t brag to impress their
parents!). At this point I was 17, a religious member of „Macks Gym” in Toronto,
and eager to learn the sport of bodybuilding. I squatted well that day, 4 plates,
405lbs for 3 sets of 8. I weighed 175lbs at the time. Dad was impressed, and took
me that weekend to sign up with the guy known as Canadas bodybuilding coach
at the time, Scott Abel.

4 years with Scott saw me go from 175lb kid with little abs and a little muscle to
a 250lb 20 year old with abs. He taught me to be diligent with my training and
log books, and NEVER miss meals!

My idol and mentor, the late Tom Hall(IFBB Pro, never defeated) was the most
influential to my bodybuilding career. Tommy taught me wrong from right inside
the gym and out. Tom took the time to teach me the correct biomechanical way to
do every exercise, showed me how to eat like a bodybuilder and why. He also got
me my first Muscletech contract at the age of 18(they liked the calves too!). Tom
passed away 3 weeks after my first ever show on Oct 1, 2005. He never got to
see me compete, he had some family things to attend to that weekend. My
second show, 3 weeks after he passed, was to be the first time he saw me

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compete. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but I did that show, and every
show for the rest of my career in that great mans honor.

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