7 REASONS WHY CORONAVIRUS WILL ACTUALLY INCREASE YOUR MUSCLE HYPERPLASIA GAINS - FULL BODY NUCLEUS OVERLOAD™ AT HOME

Mar 18

Many people have lost access to their gyms due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. This has led to many thinking they will magically lose their gains, when really, this is an opportunity for most of you to put on even more muscle than you ever have in the last few years. Here are 7 reasons why training at home for the new few weeks/months can catapult your gains:

mTOR reset: It’ll give you a chance to reset your mTOR, if you haven’t done so in a long time. mTOR is one of the main enzymes responsible for protein synthesis (mRNA translation) via its effect on ribosomes. In short, it gets you jacked. The problem is, it becomes desensitized to training, the longer you workout without breaks (1). The best way to resensitize it is by avoiding its stimulation for a brief period. This is the most important part of Nucleus Overload™ and HSP Training™. And no, you will not lose muscle permanently during this brief 1-2 week detraining period, since the nuclei within the muscle will remain intact (2). This will allow you to not only regain whatever “size” you lose quickly (muscle memory), but you will grow even faster past your previous point, since your mTOR is now more sensitive to training stimulus.
Pump training: it will allow you to train at home using much higher reps than you’re accustomed to. The benefits of high rep or pump training are vastly unknown by the majority of lifters, due to the over-abundance of shitty advice telling people that all they need to focus on is increasing their one rep maxes if they wish to put on muscle. If you watch my video on progressive overload NOT being the driver (but the cause) of hypertrophy (3), you’ll know what I’m talking about. But in short, pump training will maximize cell swelling, pull water into the muscle (which increases protein synthesis), and maximize lactic acid concentrations. Lactate is linked to higher testosterone production, higher IGF-1 and MGF (Mechano Growth Factor) levels, higher chances of IGF-1 conversion to IGF-1 DES(1-3) (a more potent version of IGF-1), higher satellite cell activation, bigger reductions in Myostatin and increases in Follistatin, and more (4). Even better, the temporary muscle thickness you experience immediately after a “pump” workout is MORE correlated with future hypertrophy than your actual strength progression in the gym. Yes, yet another proof (there are so many) that strength and size are NOT strongly correlated.
Calisthenics: Training at home will allow you to experiment with new exercises you’re not familiar with or paid little attention to due to the privilege of having a gym. Body weight movements are gravely underrated, yet are just as powerful (and in some cases even more powerful) as free weights. Exercises such as dips, pullups, inverted rows, handstand pushups (for chest, triceps, lats, rhomboids, upper pecs, upper traps and arms) can cause remarkable muscle growth if programmed correctly. They also recruit more stabilizer muscles and core strength than their free-weight and machine counterparts.
Nucleus Overload™: Training at home will also give you an opportunity to prioritize your lagging body parts and drastically increase muscle satellite cell activation using my Nucleus Overload™ 30-day program. Use it to blast your side delts, back, chest or arms etc., using bodyweight movements or high rep dumbbell work.
Kaatsu: Training at home also gives you an opportunity to experiment with blood flow restriction training (occlusion training), which has been shown to be even more effective (on a risk to reward basis) than traditional strength training for increasing muscle growth. The bands are very affordable, and your workouts will be much shorter due to the short rest periods involved (5).
Training twice a day: Since you will be performing short, non CNS taxing workouts, from the comfort of your own home, you will be able to train up to twice a day. Studies on twice a day training (especially with kaatsu) have been superior at promoting muscle gains, for obvious reasons. More weekly volume, more frequency of stimulus, more gene activation, and more anabolic growth factors being released (which is even more important given the short half life of IGF-1, MGF and the short lived period of myostatin reduction from training).
Sleep: Finally, the most important part of training, which is RECOVERY. You will be able to sleep more, and take more naps. You now have no excuse to sleep at least 10-12 hours a day (when you factor in the naps), which is so critical for optimizing muscle mass. It is no coincidence that your most anabolic hormones (like IGF-1 inducing Growth Hormone, and Testosterone) are released while you sleep. It is also no coincidence that prison inmates respond so well to training. It is also no coincidence that during the period in your life where you grow the most (when you’re a baby), is also the period where ALL you do is sleep. Sleep equals growth, period. Not to mention that your dopamine receptors (responsible for motivation, energy, controlling impulses etc.) are highly dependent on your sleep quality.

In conclusion, these next few weeks/months can easily be the most anabolic period of your life, if you follow these steps carefully. Remember, always look for opportunities even in the most desperate situations. That’s what we do over here at Team3DAlpha. ZERO excuses.

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