Gaining Mass - How to Gain Weight and Muscle
Gaining Mass is the popular program by Anthony Ellis designed specifically to gain weight and muscle. For the uninitiated Anthony was one of the joint winners of the first Body for Life competition. More importantly he was the only finalist to be chosen purely for gaining weight. He went from 135lbs and 11% body fat to 167lbs and a 7% body fat… and he did it in 12 weeks. Some people have accused Anthony of simply replicating the program in Bill Phillips’ book called Body For Life and then selling it online.
That couldn’t be further from the truth. Body For Life is a basic, generalized fitness program that does nothing for us hard gainers with our super fast metabolisms (it did nothing for me anyway). Gaining Mass is a completely different program both nutritionally and from a training perspective, and good job it is!
This program differs from the others in that it consists of a physical workbook and training manual. This has both advantages and disadvantages. On the positive side you have a way to record your progress and I always find it easier reading printed material than on a monitor. But there are downsides too.
You pay more, significantly more, for hard goods compared to electronic information because they have to be printed and bound. And then you’ll pay for shipping costs as well (which also means you have to wait a week when all you want to do is get started). It’s no trouble at all to make you own training diary in a scrapbook if you have record your progress. It will cost you nothing and does the same job.
As you’d expect both the training and nutritional elements are covered in detail. But there’s something that sets this program, along with Shawn LeBrun’s 7 Steps to Weight Gain apart.
We now know that the hormonal response to exercise is one of the major factors, perhaps THE major factor in gaining weight and muscle. In particular it relates to the levels of naturally occurring testosterone following a training session.
There are very specific training and nutritional guidelines that must be followed to keep hormonal balance at its optimum in gaining weight. They’re very simple but absolutely essential, especially for naturally thin hard gainers if they want to noticeably gain weight and muscle.
Both Gaining Mass and 7 Steps to Weight Gain cover this step superbly.
There is also well-researched advice on supplements and Anthony does advocate the use of a very select few… but for convenience only. You don’t need to spend a fortune on pills and potions every month. In fact you shouldn’t.
To sum up, if you want to gain weight and muscle, if you’ve hit a plateau or if your naturally very slim there are only two programs you should consider – Gaining Mass and 7 Steps to Weight Gain. Click here for the full review of 7 Steps by Shawn LeBrun. Follow either one, to the letter, and you will gain significant weight.
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Advantages
Excellent program developed for skinny guys by someone who’s been there and conquered it.
Disadvantages
Expensive, even more so with the shipping costs. You will gain as much weight and as quickly with 7 Steps to Weight Gain for less than half the price.
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