Mad Scientist Muscle Review: Double Your Muscle Building Results
Nick Nilsson’s “Mad Scientist Muscle” e-book is about doubling your muscle building results. The program is based on 2 principles.
# 1 is planned overtraining and rebounding
In this section, you will learn how overtraining is good for muscle growth. Many fitness experts have always said that overtraining is a negative thing. In the Mad Scientist Muscle e-book, you will learn that overtraining can be good for muscle growth and continuous results in your training.
Your body constantly adapts to your current training. This is why you will hit a plateau after 3-6 weeks with the same training. With Nick’s program he will use it to his advantage. For a few weeks, you will constantly increase your workouts to the point that you are overtraining. Once you get to that point, it’s time to stop exercising and constantly reduce your workouts to the point of under-training.
This is a concept that I have never known. It’s great for me because when I try to build muscle I always have a tendency to have problems after I have been exercising for several weeks. Suddenly I have neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, or back pain from heavy weights. My body just can’t handle this for more than 3-4 weeks. So I end up giving up heavyweights.
The n. # 2 is all about training to better support muscle growth
The first part of better muscle growth support is building a stronger frame. You may have tried building muscle before and felt like your body couldn’t keep up due to its structure. This is how I feel when everything starts to go wrong. My frame just can’t do it. This section will focus on your bones, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and fascia.
The second part of better supportive muscle growth focuses on the fascia, which is the connective tissue that lines the muscles. This section will teach you how to stretch the fascia so your muscles can grow longer. This stretch is not after your workout, it is during your workout and with resistance. I was always trying to stretch after my workout. The key here is during your workout so your muscle can still expand as you exercise.
The third part of better muscle growth support involves pumping nutrients and oxygen into the muscles to repair them. Nick explains how this workout is done with high rep training. This will force a lot of blood into the muscles over a long period of time. I always thought this was just people trying to tone up. This could be almost like doing drop sets. That amount of reps definitely gets the blood pumping to the muscles.
The fourth part of better muscle growth support has to do with the nervous system and how to make it work at its maximum capacity. This involves using a moderate weight but doing 2 times as many reps as you normally would with it. These reps will have no negative resistance. I always thought that the kids in the gym were just playing. They probably were and didn’t realize that this could help them gain strength.
Overall, this book has some great tips for gaining muscle. I definitely could have used it many years ago when I was in my prime. I will definitely try again and this time I will be successful.