Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

ad all hard-gaining trainees followed programs
akin to those promoted in this book, there would
be tons more muscle in the world. ere would also be
much less drug use because it would no longer be necessary
to take steroids to make training programs work.
And there would also be a lot less use of the label “hard
gainer” because so many people would consider themselves
relatively easy gainers.
To maximize your gains in muscular size and strength
you must organize your training, nutrition, rest and
sleep in order to ensure progressive training poundages.
Everything you do must be built around providing the
optimum environment for the production of progressive
training poundages while using consistently good
exercise form. To ensure that the strength gain yields
growth, you may, however, need to avoid very low reps,
partial reps, low-rep rest-pause work, and overly infrequent
training.
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