Muscle Gaining Secrets: Here’s How to Gain Weight Fast

Oct 27th, 2009 by Mehdi Posted in Reviews | Print

You’re sick & tired of your skinny look. You’re training hard and tried everything, but can’t gain weight. You’re still skinny and weak, and you have no idea of how to get rid of your belly fat while building lean muscle mass.

Worse: the lack of results makes you lose motivation to go the gym. Maybe they are right after all: you can’t gain weight because of your bad genetics and fast metabolism. That’s why you must keep training harder. A lot harder.

Right?

Wrong!


Top 3 Mistakes Hardgainers Make. You’ve been lied to. You don’t have a fast metabolism or bad genetics. And you don’t need to train harder. You need to train smarter. Stop making these mistakes:

  • Eating Like a Pigeon. The reason you can eat anything without gaining weight is because you don’t eat a lot. I know you think you do, but you don’t. Otherwise you wouldn’t be skinny. Track calories for proof.
  • Training Like a Pro Bodybuilder. Isolation exercises 6x per week don’t build muscle mass & bulk. And unless you use steroids, you’ll overtrain by going to the gym so many times per week.
  • Wasting Money on Supplements. Most don’t do what they promise and they’re always useless without a solid diet & training program.


Here’s How to Gain Weight Fast. It doesn’t matter how skinny you are or how long you’ve been struggling with this. You can gain weight. You simply need to use the right methods. These are:

  • Eat Like a Horse. If you’re a hardgainer you’ll only gain weight once you start eating at least 5000kcal/day – consistently. Milk, pasta, nuts, eggs and tuna should be your new friends.
  • Train for Strength. Did you know Schwarzenegger could Bench 440lbs & Deadlift 660lbs? That’s how he built his physique: heavy and free weight compound exercises. Body part splits came much later.
  • Take Rest Days. Muscles grow when you rest, not when you train them. If you go the gym 6x/week and train to failure all the time, your muscles will never get a chance to recover and grow.
  • Be Consistent. You won’t gain weight if you eat 5000kcal today but only 2000kcal the rest of the week. You also won’t gain weight if you go the gym 1x/week and skip your 2 other workouts. Consistency is crucial.

Muscle magazines try to tell you supplements are key to gaining muscle mass. Truth is that each major muscle magazine owns a supplement company. Their routines are ineffective on purpose: to get you hooked on supplements.


Muscle Gaining Secrets. The only eBook that I know of that gives you the exact methods to gain weight naturally is Jason Ferrugia’s Muscle Gaining Secrets.

Jason is an ex-hardgainer who struggled with his skinny look for years. When he finally gained 100lbs drug-free muscle, he decided to do something about all the bad advice. He published his methods in an eBook: Muscle Gaining Secrets.

What are Jason’s Muscle Gaining Secrets? His methods are inline with what I’ve been stressing on this site: eat more, get stronger, no supplements. That’s why I joined his affiliate program and get a commission for each sale.

Here are some of the things you’ll learn inside Muscle Gaining Secrets:

  • 7 critical factors your training program must address if you want to gain muscle mass naturally – without supplements or steroids.
  • Mass building nutrition: must-eat carb & protein sources to gain weight and 10 nutrition rules you must follow to lose your skinny look forever.
  • How to gain muscle mass without gaining fat: how to use carb cycling to build muscle while maintain or even decrease your body fat.
  • Muscle building meal plans: example weight gain diets of up to 6000kcal per day, including weight gain diets for vegetarians.
  • Top muscle building exercises: detailed descriptions & pictures of more than 100 exercises that will make you gain weight.

Muscle Gaining Secrets is a downloadable eBook that counts 147 pages. You get 7 free bonuses on top of it, including a composition tracker, a 60min audio course, lifetime private membership access and lifetime eBook updates.


Special Offer for StrongLifts.com Readers. I reached out to Jason and told him I wanted to review Muscle Gaining Secrets on this site. As always: I asked him if he could come up with some special offer.

Jason agreed. If you order Muscle Gaining Secrets before Friday October 30th 2009, you’ll get these 4 bonuses on top of it for free:

  • Secrets of Super Strength. Q&A with Jim Wendler – a 275lbs powerlifter with a 2375lbs total also known for his 5/3/1 program. He shares how to increase your Bench, Squat & Deadlift and how to improve technique.
  • Renegade Cardio. Which kind of cardio you should do to gain maximum muscle mass without gaining fat. You get different cardio approaches based on your body type, goals and training experience.
  • Advanced Mass Building Guide. How to keep your muscle gains going past the beginner’s level by cycling your training intensity and by using set extension techniques. Training program and sheets included.
  • Armed & Dangerous. How to add 2 inches to your arms in 8 weeks. This is a 2 phase biceps & triceps training program with sheets included.

The total value of this deluxe package is +600$. You’d normally pay 107$. But if you order today you’ll only pay 77$ and save 30$ (almost 30%).

Click here to download Muscle Gaining Secrets now.

Muscle Gaining Secrets comes with an 8-week no-risk money back guarantee. If you don’t gain muscle mass after 8 weeks, contact Jason and he’ll send you a full refund. No questions asked.

Click here now to order Muscle Gaining Secrets today.

This special deal is only valid for 3 days, until Friday October 30th 2009.

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How to Build Bigger Chest Muscles

Oct 22nd, 2009 by Mehdi Posted in Build Muscle | Print

Build Bigger Chest
Hercules. Image credit: ty law.

If you train in a big commercial gym, you’ve probably noticed Monday is National Bench Day. Everyone seems to be training their chest. Tuesday is often National Bench Day part 2 with more of the same.

But how do you train your chest efficiently for maximum growth? In this post I’ll explain you which mistakes you must avoid to build a bigger chest and the right method to increase your chest size.


Top 3 Chest Building Mistakes. Training your chest muscles 4x/week using pro bodybuilders routines is wasting your time. Especially if you’re skinny.

  • Isolation Exercises. You can’t stress your chest with heavy weights using exercises like dumbbell flies. So you won’t trigger the release of Testosterone & Growth Hormone as much as with compounds.
  • Eating Like a Pigeon. You’ll never get a big chest if you’re 120lbs at 6′. Training your chest 3x/week won’t get it bigger unless you eat more.
  • Isolating Your Chest. Although your chest has to 2 main heads, it’s 1 muscle and contracts as a whole. You can’t isolate your upper or lower chest. You can only emphasize it.


Here’s How to Build a Bigger Chest. The key to increasing the size of your chest muscles is to eat more and get stronger. Build a foundation before you even think of adding isolation exercises.

  • Eat More. Your chest will never be big if you’re underweight. Check the minimum weights for your height. To gain weight: eat every 3 hours and focus on calorie dense foods. Read the weight gain & GOMAD guides.
  • Do Heavy Compounds. Free weight compound exercises like the Squat, Deadlift, Bench Press and Overhead Press are the fastest way to build overall strength & bulk. Do them often & heavy.
  • Train Your Legs. Squats & Deadlifts help chest growth by increasing the release of muscle building hormones like Testosterone and Growth Hormone. Get stronger at them. Read 5 reasons to train your legs.
  • Rest. Your muscles grow when they rest, not when you train them. Train your chest maximum 2x/week. Eat your calories so your chest gets the nutrients it needs to recover and grow bigger.
  • Lift Fast. Lifting fast recruits more muscle fibers and lets you use more weight, which stimulates chest growth. Lift as fast as you can on the way up with good technique. Way down under control but not slow.
  • Use Proper Technique. A partial bench press doesn’t work your chest through a full range of motion. Touch your shirt on the way down, lock your elbows at the top. Lower the weight if you have to.
  • Set Realistic Goals. Even if you train and eat exactly like your idol, you’ll never get the same muscle shape. Developing your muscles is training and diet. But the shape of your muscles is genetics.
  • Be Patient. Especially if you’re still a teen. Your body is still developing. You won’t get the chest development of a 30y old if you’re only 15. Build the foundation and be patient. Your chest will change as you get older.


Top 4 Chest Building Exercises. Don’t do things like Bench Pressing to your neck or with your elbows out. Both are potentially dangerous and will injure your shoulders. Use exercises where you can go heavy safely.

  • Bench Press. Allows you to stress your body with heavy weights. Forget about getting a bigger chest if you can’t at least bench your body-weight for 5×5 (so at least 160lbs for 5×5 if you weigh 160lbs).
  • Push-ups. Closed-chain exercise. Useless done for reps without added resistance. Do Push-ups against a resistance band or weighted.
  • Weighted Dips. If your shoulders can take them: dips between parallel bars while wearing a belt with weight will build your chest muscles.
  • Dumbbell Press. Increase chest growth by stretching your pecs on the way down. But you can’t use as much weight as with barbells.

Check StrongLifts 5×5 for a strength training that includes many of the above concepts and that which help you gain weight and increase the size of your chest. Read the success stories and start a training log.

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