Gain 10 Pounds Of Muscle In Just 4 Weeks

Weeks 1-2: Heavy Hitter

The first two weeks are focused on heavy lifting in combination with compound exercises for bulking up. The sets for all the muscles except the abs and calves are designed to have 6-8 reps.

So, if you’re accustomed to doing 8-12 reps per set, you’ll have to get used to lifting heavier weights than usual. This phase includes just a few isolation exercises for chest, back, shoulder and legs. This is due to putting the focus on lifting greater weights in order to add strength and increase size.

The volume is moderate. This phase includes 11 sets for large muscle groups, except for the shoulders, which require 15 sets. Each part of the body is trained once a week. The reason for this is that your muscles need enough time for recovery in order to grow. When you do sets without end, your body can go in a catabolic state. Your lean tissues starts to break down instead of building up. In order to gain 10 pounds in such a short period, you need the right balance of adequate volume, providing your body with much needed rest and recovery.

The four days split pairs in each workout the larger muscles groups with the smaller ones like biceps, triceps, traps, calves. This way you preserve your muscles fresh for the heaviest compound exercises.

putting the focus on lifting greater weights in order to add strength and increase size.

The volume is moderate. This phase includes 11 sets for large muscle groups, except for the shoulders, which require 15 sets. Each part of the body is trained once a week. The reason for this is that your muscles need enough time for recovery in order to grow. When you do sets without end, your body can go in a catabolic state. Your lean tissues starts to break down instead of building up. In order to gain 10 pounds in such a short period, you need the right balance of adequate volume, providing your body with much needed rest and recovery.

The four days split pairs in each workout the larger muscles groups with the smaller ones like biceps, triceps, traps, calves. This way you preserve your muscles fresh for the heaviest compound exercises.

Weeks 3-4: Intensity Boost

The second two weeks of the program are focused on maximizing the size, by slightly increasing the reps and putting emphasis on intensity. In most exercises you’ll do 10-12 reps, which is thought as best in promoting muscle growth.

During these weeks, the overall volumes mark just a slight increase. This is due to including isolation exercises, which are performed before the compound exercises focused on large muscle groups.

This is known as a pre-exhaustion technique, and drastically boosts the intensity of workouts. The isolation exercise first exhausts the main targeted muscle, and while in this state of fatigue, you do a compound exercise that leads to failure of main muscle before the secondary muscles collapse.

This phase also employs the four-day split. Yet, the pairing of body parts is different. For example, you train the chest and back on the same day, the biceps and triceps on the other. In this way you provide your muscles with added incentive for new muscle growth. Drop sets are included in each workout. However, you do only one set for each part of the body, thus avoiding overgrazing.

As a conclusion, we’ll once again stress out that best results are achieved only with consistency and focus. It’s not enough just to visit the gym for two hours each day. You need intensive and fast-paced workouts. Having this in mind, try following the program we’ve offered. We can’t promise easy results, yet you’ll soon find that they were worth every drop of sweat. In the end, there are 10 pounds of muscle to look forward to in just one month.

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