It has been an interesting fun-packed 5 weeks, but I have finished phase 1 of the Get Big workouts. So naturally the first question most people will have is “Did you get big?” Well yes and no. I didn’t get huge, but I did get bigger, I would say the most noticable effect was the increase in my overall strength. By the end of the first phase I was doing 75lb. dumbbell incline bench press. My deadlifts have reached 230+ and many other exercises have gone through the roof. This workout plan seems to being coming along great and I am looking forward to some more strange workouts in Phase 2!

So I have completed the “get used to my routine” part of the Huge in a Hurry book and have begun with the first real set of routines. The plan is called “Get Big” and once again involves full body workouts but increases us from 3 exercise to 4. The actual exercises change as well. The exercises take a bit of getting used to, and keeping track of all of those reps can be very difficult so I have been using an app on my iPhone called Gym Buddy and is great for tracking exercises, reps, sets, rest time, gains, and tons more stuff. The best part about this app is the fact that you can create your own routines and put notes in them about how many reps you are supposed to do. You can also set 3 different rest timers which works great for the routines in the book. If you haven’t checked out this book yet follow the link on the right to amazon to get a good look at it.

After my first week of Huge in a Hurry’s Get Ready workout, I am feeling the pain. In case you don’t know, Huge in a Hurry is a book about new fitness techniques for building mass and strength. The book follows it’s ideas with scientific evidence and great examples of why this new approach to fitness is sure to beat out any other. At first I was very skeptical, I mean from my experience I have seen great gains using traditional 3×10 workouts, with split body parts each week. This book flips that idea, don’t focus on sets, focus on reps. The book wants us to focus on a set number of reps, say 25, now that doesn’t mean you do just one set. The book wants you to use different weight ranges, for example, Light weights which are 20-22 rep max weights. Medium which is 10-12. Heavy which is 4-6. Super heavy which is 2-3. Now each workout includes only 3 exercises; upper body pulling, upper body pushing, and legs. The reasoning is simple, all of the workouts we will be doing are compound full body workouts 3 days a week. It is recommended to do workouts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday’s to allow adequate rest.The biggest change in our workout will be speed, you have to perform all exercises at the fastest speed you can  (while maintaining perfect form and control). The author says that by working your muscles with different weights, but more speed our muscles are recruiting the largest fibers to help with the lift instead of just our smallest motors. This recruitment of large fibers is what provides us with superb strength and muscle growth.  Read more here...