By: Sean Nalewanyj
Submitted: 2009-11-13 03:06:27 | Word Count: 935
The time span that will determine extreme muscle growth success or failure is shorter than you can imagine. In fact, your entire margin of success in the gym can ultimately be reduced to just a short time span of 60 seconds.
You see, every individual set that you perform in the gym is ultimately being performed for the benefits that will be achieved on the last 1–2 reps. The way to trigger your body's extreme muscle growth mechanisms is through stress, and your body gets stressed at the end of each set when you think you're at the brink of muscular failure.
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So if a given set has 6 reps, then reps 1–4 are done to get to reps 5 and 6. Reps 1–4 will do very little in terms of stimulating extreme muscle growth, but are necessary to perform in order to overload the muscles on reps 5 and 6. As long as you perform the last couple of reps with full intensity during this small time frame at the end of each set, you are looking at massive muscle gains.
I believe it's important to train to muscular failure, and if you've read any of my articles, you probably already know my thoughts on this. Ultimately, there is no better way to get your body's adaptive responses going and to achieve extreme muscle growth than to get your muscles to the point where they cannot move the weight another inch.
The closer you are to muscular failure, the more dramatic is your body's response.
This critical point in time is measured in mere seconds. Say you put down your weights 5–6 seconds earlier than the guy standing next to you; you are sacrificing your muscle growth substantially and will get nowhere near extreme muscle growth.
Why is this a 60-second time frame? If you are performing 10 total sets per workout and the margin is 6 seconds between success/failure, you are looking at a total of 60 seconds per workout where you are either achieving extreme muscle growth because you battle it out or settling for mediocre gains.
Your extreme muscle growth success depends entirely on the short, precise moments at the very end of each set and how much effort you're willing to put in at that time. If you can force yourself to train to all-out muscular failure, you'll achieve extreme muscle growth.
Drop the weight 3 seconds before and watch your results drop too. Drop the weight 8 seconds before muscular failure, and your growth is compromised even further.
Take that 60-second figure, multiply it by my recommended 3 workouts per week, and your bodybuilding success in the gym will actually be measured by that one short 3-minute period each week.
It's interesting when you think of it like this, isn't it? You can achieve extreme muscle growth by training hard and exerting full effort. When your muscles ache and burn with discomfort you must fight through until true muscular failure is reached.
If you stop too soon, even by a second, your gains will be compromised. Keep this in mind at all times in the gym and you'll experience better results than ever before and promote extreme muscle growth.
