#1 Training Myth

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Let’s get right into it. I’m going to keep this short. Simple. To the point. Just facts and one thing you can do today to turn things around.

First of all, this IS NOT the most important step in building your ideal body. That comes in a few days. But from a training standpoint, this is HUGE stuff.

There are two kinds of hormones when it comes to building muscle: the good and the bad.

Good

Testosterone (test)

Human Growth Hormone (hgh)

Bad

Cortisol

Cortisol is a stress hormone. It’s our body’s reaction to stress. It’s released to bring energy (fuel) to our vital organs. This fuel comes from our muscle and our bone.

Test & HGH…

They combat cortisol. They also promote recovery (help us actually build muscle) and elevate fat loss. We need these hormones to build our ideal bodies, but also for health reasons.

The Training Myth That Makes Us Skinnier & Fatter

Walking into the gym where my mentor worked, I was SKINNY. That first day we went over what I was doing in the gym and some immediate changes I could make was eye-opening.

“You need to be training in a way that promotes and elevates the GOOD hormones, and diminishes the BAD ones,” is one of the first things he told me.

I immediately thought the guy way going to hand me a needle and tell me to pump a vile of steroids in me arse… luckily, that’s not what he meant.

From a purely training standpoint (we’ll cover nutrition soon), longer workouts promote higher cortisol levels – after 60 minutes of intense training, cortisol is released and our muscles begin to be used as fuel.

One way you can diminish this effect is by having a source of carbohydrates during your workout (or having BCAAs during or before your workout) – but I’ll save nutrition for another message.

What you can do immediately is to cut your workouts off at the 45-50 minute mark. I even train for as little as 30 minutes in each session.

One way to do this is to double and triple up on your sets (like in the Thor Workout that I gave you).

Try giant sets:

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A2.

A3.

Supersets:

A1.

A2.

Each are great tools to shorten a workout but create MORE muscle damage in less time.

Think of it like this:

The goal of a workout should be to create as much muscle damage in as little time as possible.

We’re after “Optimal Returns”. What that means is there’s such thing as too much. Or “over-kill”. Take tanning for example. We get a tan at 15-minute of lying in the sun.

If we go over that 15 minutes we’re just killing skin cells. We won’t actually get a “better tan”. We’re just damaging our skin further.

If you want a tan, lie in the sun for 15-minutes, then get out of there.

The same with your training. If you want to build muscle, train for 45-50 minutes, 4 days a week. If you go over that prescription, you’re just damaging your body to the point where it can’t repair itself.

Bodybuilders Changed Everything – In a Bad Way

We look at bodybuilders and we think, they have that much muscle, if I train like them, I’ll get the muscle I want.

I thought this too. But it just doesn’t work like that.

The way bodybuilders train is a breeding ground for elevated cortisol levels. They way they combat this is through illegal drugs.

… Keep in mind, if you take steroids, all good. It’s just not my cup of tea, and I don’t think the benefits outweigh the negatives.

We’ll get into this more in the future, but I see I’m already 3 pages deep!

For now, shorten up your sessions and lift 4 days a week.

I’ll get into some more detail (a pretty huge secret) later on this week.

Until then,

Make Big Things Happen.

Chad “wish I learned this earlier” Howse