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In the next 3 minutes you'll create your custom Kaizen Workout that will forcefully start building muscle mass on your HARDGAINER frame - FAST
Create Your Kaizen Mass Building Workout Now
Gain up to 15 lbs (7 kgs) of muscle mass within 5 months.
Add up to 1.5 inches to your
arms within the first 6 months.
Use the most productive workout ever created for hardgainers.
Grow to your full genetic potential the fastest way possible.
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Two simple workouts with each performed 3 times every 2 weeks allowing each body part to be trained frequently enough for continued growth while receiving ample rest.
Training 3 times a week with each session lasting 50 minutes lets you achieve maximum intensity and focus on all your reps and sets while minimizing overtaxing your recovery.
Five basic exercises with 13-14 sets total per workout lets you put all your effort into exercises that will give you the biggest growth stimulus and bang for your buck most efficiently.
Key aspects of the workout automatically customized based on your inputs so your muscles are forced to grow while you impeccably progress towards your milestones.
Workouts are based on the proven mass building technique of seamless progressive overload combined with forced muscle engagement which guarantees muscle growth.
Specifically designed for drug-free natural males with average or below genetics (known as Hardgainers) who have low tolerance for excercise and struggle to gain muscle mass & size.
Gain up to 15 lbs (7 kgs) of muscle mass and add up to 1.5 inches to your arms within the first 5 to 6 months plus have the mass blueprint for your full genetic potential ready.
Open & community-driven membership with supportive members ready to keep you motivated in reaching your mass gaining goals while enjoy sharing your progress with likeminded lifters.
This is the only workout which maps out your full genetic potential and gives you a clear roadmap to reach your milestones in a seamless way while you enjoy every workout.
Your Body Does NOT Want to Build More Muscles
Extra muscle is metabolically demanding to your system so your body really doesn't want to build any more muscle than what is essential for your survival. Muscle uses a lot more energy than fat to exist so it's counterproductive for your body to build more muscles than what is necessarily for you to live. That's why external stimulus such as weight training combined with adequate food is required to force muscle growth.
With muscle building being such a stubborn process, exactly what type of training works best to get them growing?
Training With Light Weights DOESN'T Work
Light weights that allow you to do 15 or more reps are not ideal for building muscle mass. High reps simply don't create the demands moderate to low reps do. A correct rep range is very important to hit all the muscle fibers and stimulate optimal growth. Also, higher reps do not help when one is trying to 'cut' or lose weight. There's no such a thing as high reps for cutting and low reps for bulking.
Creating a caloric deficit is the only way to 'cut' and lose fat. Most people start training with relatively lighter weights when in caloric deficit mode simply because they don't have the energy to push through their regular poundages. High reps are ideal to build muscle endurance though. If you were to train for a cycling competition then doing sets of squats for 25 reps would be highly beneficial.
Focusing On Lifting Heavy Weights DOESN'T Work
'Heavy' could mean different things in weight training depending on what your goal is. Those looking to build strength focus most of their training with very heavy weights and low reps. Weightlifters, powerlifters, strongman competitors and strength athletes use this sort of training. Although you can build some amount of muscle with such training, it's far from optimal for gaining muscle mass.
Some genetically gifted individuals can grow to decent size from low reps and heavy weights. But the majority of us will simply not respond that well to such training. Have a look at how much weight weightlifters and powerlifters can lift and then compare that to their level of muscle mass development. You'll find a huge discrepancy.
Training Like the Professionals or Genetically Gifted Will NOT Work
Professional bodybuilders are almost always on all kinds of chemical stimuli (steroids, growth hormones, insulin, testosterone boosters, etc). So any advice they give is applicable to THEIR context only. The same applies to genetically gifted individuals. These guys can workout for 2 hours straight and train 5 times a week and still grow.
Genetics play a huge role at determining how tolerant you're to stress generated by exercise. Most of us have low tolerance to exercise stress so are classed as Hardgainers. This is why we are tired after 50 minutes of a hard session. We also find it difficult to train hard 2-3 days in a row. Our nervous system is just not geared up as well as the gifted guys who can do 20 sets for chest with multiple drop sets and still grow. We have to train much smarter and efficiently to even the playing field. High volume with continued intensity will simply tax our nervous system to the point where our gains grind to a halt.
Gaining Strength DOESN'T Always Equate to Mass Gains
Although muscle gain is a by-product of strength gain (only when you train PROPERLY), you can gain a lot of strength without gaining any muscle at all. If you stick to very low reps, heavy weights and take long rests between sets, unless you're genetically gifted, you'll gain very little (if any at all) muscle mass. If the gains do happen, it will be painfully slow and soon you'll be squatting 405 lbs (4 plates each side) with pencil legs.
Pure strength gain is primarily based on conditioning the nervous system to lift heavy. And the nervous system can be easily worked quite well without inducing much muscle growth at all. The famous 5x5 strong lift program is a good example of this scenario. To see the evidence simply find the dozens of youtube videos on the 5x5 program where many guys are doing really heavy squats and deadlifts with dreadful muscle mass to show for. If strength gain is your priority then such a program is excellent. But it's very inefficient for gaining shear muscle mass and size.
Progressive Overload Training MUST be Done Right to Work
In order for your muscles to grow larger, you need to overload it over time. So you must add weight to the bar over time. Using the same weight for months on end will not force your body to respond. However, overloading your muscle has to be done correctly or you'll burn out fast. And almost every hardgainer gets this process COMPLETELY wrong.
Cycling your weights by using loading and de-loading is very inefficient for continued mass gains. Every time you de-load you'll be taking a few steps backwards in your progress. Increasing your weight or rep after every workout will see you hit plateau fast. Hardgainers cannot afford to waste a single session on an unproductive workout. The secret to properly managing your progressive overload is the key to you enjoying unprecedented mass gains. Get this process wrong and everything else you do will be a big waste of time in the long term.
The Kaizen Workout will have your weight increments customized for every exercise in the routine. The increments will have milestones to track your progression. The structure of the overload progression will make your motivation level go through the roof and you'll look forward to every workout like never before. You'll never have to cycle or de-load the weights nor will you be required to beat your last workout. You'll never hit plateau yet make steady strength and mass gains right to your full genetic potential.
All Exercises Must Target their Primary Muscle HARD
Have you seen guys lifting heavy weights yet they look like they don't even lift at all? One of the main reasons for such a huge discrepancy between their strength gains and muscle size is because they don't target their primary muscle when performing the exercises. If you focus on just lifting the weight from a to b, you'll naturally start to use a lot of other muscles to aid the lift. You'll also start to use momentum to complete the reps faster.
As humans we are naturally bound to take the easiest route. So chances are that you're doing your exercises in the correct form but still not working the targeted muscles hard enough. At the other end of the spectrum some people over complicate their lifts with super slow tempo/cadence. The Kaizen Workout has a simple but strict lifting protocol that will help you avoid all these traps. Fast gains happen when you're able to forcefully engage the main muscle being worked using major basic lifts.
Correct Reps, Sets, Rest Between Sets All Matter
To build muscle mass the rep range you use matters a lot. So does how many sets you do and how long you rest between those sets. Rest too short and you cannot optimally train in the next set. Rest too long and the effect of the previous set diminishes. People who train for strength rest up to 5 minutes between sets. Such long rest periods are great for strength training but very ineffective for mass gains.
Very short resting periods are also not great. Short rests between sets turns your workout into a semi-aerobic session and drastically affects how much weight and how many reps you're able to do in the sets that follow. The Kaizen Workout has developed a perfect balance between reps, sets and rest between sets. These three factors once balanced out will maximize your muscle gains in every rep of each set in every workout your perform.
Optimal Recovery MATTERS But So Does Training Frequency
Muscles are stimulated and broken down when you train them. But they actually grow bigger when you rest them. So the actual muscle building process happens outside the gym. Hence adequate rest is VERY important for optimal muscle growth. However, too much rest is actually counterproductive for continued growth. Most typical lifters train each body part just once a week. Although you can make gains from such a low frequency, much greater gains can be made with just a bit more frequency.
Your muscles are fully recovered and ready to be trained again after 3 days of rest. So giving them 6 days rest is not ideal. Unless you train with decent volume and very high intensity AND have great genetics, training a body part once a week will give you disappointing results. The Kaizen Workout has optimally balanced training frequency with recovery to give you continued muscle growth with every workout session.
Protein Intake Matters But Most People Over do it By Far
Protein is the primary building block for muscles. As important as this macronutrient is, a lot of lifters overdo their protein intake. High protein intake is more suited to bodybuilders on chemical enhancements since they can synthesize protein at a much higher rate. For the average person excess protein will simply create an unnecessary caloric overload which will lead to fat gains.
Also, the notion of consuming protein every 2-3 hours to keep muscles growing is a big myth. Our digestion system takes anywhere from 3 to 10 hours to fully digest protein (depending on the type of protein). You could literally eat your entire protein intake for the day in just 2 meals and have a continuous supply. The idea of consuming high amounts of protein frequently has been popularized by fitness magazines in order to push their lines of protein powders. With the Kaizen Workout, we will give you the exact formula to work out your daily protein requirement to maximize your mass gains without gaining excess fat.
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