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Feel free to change up the accessory movements every eight weeks for similar exercises, as long as you stay the course. He’s created this bulking program that uses heavy weight, low reps, high reps, and a ton of tension through tempo control to really stress your muscle fibers.

Now you’ll need a plan, which is where strength coach and bodybuilding prep coach Eric Broser ( comes into the equation. You’ll look better, sure, but you will also be robbing yourself of about four to five pounds of potential muscle mass. If you’re nowhere near your goal weight (say you’re 185 pounds and hope to be 220 one day), then you’re better off abandoning the idea of a caloric deficit and extra cardio just to sport abs for three months. Our point is that putting on mass means playing the long game. Celebrity fitness and nutrition expert Obi Obadike says that 1.5 pounds of muscle per month is more like it. “Ten to 15 pounds in someone’s first year of weight training is realistic for anyone.”Īlso, the more experienced you are, the harder it becomes to force your body to grow. “I’d say a pound or two pounds of muscle is very attainable to do naturally,” says Sebastien Lagree, a former competitive bodybuilder, the creator of the renowned Lagree Fitness Method, and the inventor of the Megaformer and Supra machines.

You can’t put on the amount of muscle that’s advertised by celebrity trainers who say that their clients gained 20 to 30 pounds of mass in three months for whatever superhero film is set to release this month.
