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Can you go from scrawny to brawny in just 10 weeks? MF’s Sam Rider investigates
After more than a decade of intensive weight training in an attempt to pack on muscle I’ve got nowhere. My bodyweight has flat lined since I turned 17 and I can’t seem to put on any mass no matter how much I train or eat. So I’ve sought the help of transformation specialist Adam Gethin, founder of Creating Physiques, to help me overcome my ectomorphic genes. We set out a top-end target of adding 10kg in ten weeks, but right now anything would be a bonus.
In the above video you join me at the halfway point. To help me cope with the vast quantities of healthy food I need to eat to grow I’ve been making weekly orders of lean meat, nuts and egg whites from Muscle Food. I’ve also been using PhD supplements to support my training.
That’s a carb shake I’m swigging and those pills I keep popping are branch chained amino acids (BCAAs). The shake gives me energy and helps me hit my daily calorie target of 4,500 calories (turns out I was seriously under eating for my rapid metabolism). The pills reduce muscle breakdown. And I certainly need them, because this upper body hypertrophy workout Adam’s got me doing includes three punishing supersets. Nobody said it was going to be easy.
Watch the video or follow my blog. Here’s part 1: http://bit.ly/1p5qZFJ
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How to build muscle – Sam’s bulking transformation part 2: http://bit.ly/1nbOVaX
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