So, you’ve worked your butt off for 6 weeks with MI40-Xtreme…
You’ve just about crawled past the finish line…
You’re beaten…
You’re bruised…
You’re desperate for a break…
BUT… what if I told you this is actually the most important time to stay vigilant?
Really? Why?
Because NOW is the absolute BEST time to profit from your efforts & make tremendous gains!
Let me explain…
If you followed MI40-Xtreme as prescribed while putting in the required effort, you have primed your body for SUPER-COMPENSATION – a window of opportunity during which you can experience higher than usual growth spurts.
This is due to the ‘Planned Overreaching’ built into the MI40-Xtreme program which results in a hyper-growth rebound-effect if you play your cards right.
If we were to continue on with the level of effort and volume required during MI40-X, we are likely to cross a threshold into a zone counter-productive to muscle-growth and recovery, resulting in stagnated muscle-growth and continued decreases in performance, or worse, possibly even overtraining.
(The graph below provides a brief depiction of overreaching (and supercompensation) vs. overtraining:
The black line represents the aim of normal training — damage the body, then let it recover to a level above where we started. The red line represents the effect of overtraining, where we keep pushing our body without giving it enough time to recover, which inevitably leads to regression.)
Overtraining is what happens when we train for too long and too hard; despite our best attempts to recover via sleep, nutrition, and supplementation, the body just cannot recover – like taking one step forward and two steps back.
(* All Access Xtreme and VIP-Inner Circle members – you can read more about planned overreaching vs. overtraining here.)
Simply put, MI40-X should have pushed your body to its limits, so now it’s time to back off before we cross that line…
…but we should do so intelligently.
In the environment left by MI40-Xtreme, we don’t need a program with lots of fireworks – we need a simple but smart program that works. A program that largely lets the magic happen via facilitation, not via annihilation.
Supercompensation
Immediately after completing MI40-Xtreme, take at least 3 days off (from training) before you begin this program.
During this time, follow the Phase 7 diet calculators that came with MI40-Xtreme.
If you have the required All Access Xtreme or VIP Inner-Circle membership, give this a read for an optimal nutritional approach during this time – it will help you to make sure you get the most out of this rare growth opportunity.
Don’t waste it!
The Program
At this point your body should be accustomed to high volume and high frequency workouts. All things being well, MI40-Xtreme will have forced an up-regulation of your recovery ability to keep-up with the demands the program placed upon it.
For a time, your body will remain in this state – meaning that it will continue to produce adaptations beneficial for hypertrophy and recovery at an elevated rate.
We want to take advantage of this.
Enter, the Post-MI40-Xtreme Protocol!
The key now is to switch gears strategically.
We want to offset the decrease in performance you are likely to achieve if you were to keep ploughing on, while at the same time maximizing your opportunity for some SERIOUS growth over the next 6 weeks…
This is a relatively low volume program causing minimal muscle damage (primarily to aid in your recovery) and focuses on cell swelling and different angles.
By decreasing our-workload, but training strategically, we can simultaneously get the recovery we need while maximizing hypertrophy.
…LESS WORK but MORE GROWTH!
This program is simple in its approach, as it should be in the context of what we’re trying to achieve. Despite it not being the sexiest program you ever choose to do, it is a SMART program to follow with an expressed purpose… to make the most of your window of opportunity!
The first few weeks are a great opportunity to focus on contractions and re-perfecting your form… make use of this time!
Progression is built into the program so that as your body become accustomed to lower volume, there is a crossover period whereby the workouts become more challenging to keep you moving forward.
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If you have just completed MI40-Xtreme and are looking to squeeze every inch out of the window of opportunity created for massive jumps in muscle-growth, the Post-MI40-Xtreme 6-Week Protocol will get the job done.
Less work, more growth = intelligent gains.
Maximize the hardcore grit you put into the past 6 weeks by following it up with the Post-MI40-Xtreme 6-Week Protocol…
Ben
