Low Calorie Mass Building? What?!
Pssst… Hey…
You wanna secret formula for some powerful “home-brew” muscle building hormones?
I don’t mean the crap they sell on the streets- I mean the good stuff… real insulin, testosterone, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1)…
You know, the stuff that really works and packs on muscle like nothing else in the world!
If so, keep reading…
Because there is indeed a way to flood your body with a natural, powerful “hormone cocktail” that produces RAPID increases in muscle mass.
In fact, researchers have shown this relatively simple muscle building “secret” has allowed test subjects to put on 4.38 lbs of lean muscle in ONLY 12 days.
It entails specific cycles of calorie restriction (a “cutting” cycle) and a follow up calorie “overfeeding” cycle in which rapid gains were realized.
Here’s What The Research Says – Overfeeding
In one study by Forbes, et al., entitled the “Hormonal Response to Overfeeding”, showed a progressive increase in IGF-1, testosterone, and insulin (which doubled in 14 days).
However, the hormone levels peaked & began to decline on day 14 during the high calorie overfeeding.
(READ: Muscle gaining benefits of overfeeding began to decrease after 14 days)
By day 21, the subjects gained 3-6lb of lean body mass and gained a few lb of fat as well.
However, these subjects did NOT perform any resistance exercise, and the excess food during overfeeding provided only 6% of energy from protein…
PLUS the test subjects were women. So the testosterone boost could be even GREATER for Men, leading to more muscle accumulation.
Now HERE’S Where Things Get Interesting…
A very similar study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition studied the effects of overfeeding by 3600 calories per day, and within 12 days they gained 4.38lb of lean mass and put on just 2lb of fat.
The SAME study showed that when test subjects followed with a restrictive diet for 12 days, they lost, on average 4.6lb of fat, and only 2.4lb of muscle.
As you can see, in the overfeeding phase, the amount of lean mass to fat gained was 2:1, and during the cutting phase the ratio of fat to muscle lost was 2.1.
What’s more is that after switching back to the bulking phase in week 5 (after the cutting phase), the muscle gaining affects were again duplicated – resulting in another hormone spike and even more muscle gain.
And THIS Is Where The Rubber Meets The Road…
There are 4 Interesting factors in these studies:
1) In the overfeeding phase, the additional calories were composed of ONLY 6% protein (you know, the stuff that actually builds muscle).
So theoretically, if the energy from protein is increased during the overfeeding phase, there is potential for even MORE mass gain.
2) The test subjects were women…
Meaning that there could be an even GREATER boost in testosterone in men – resulting in more muscle mass over the 12 day period.
3) The test subjects performed ZERO resistance training.
Zero resistance training, and they STILL packed on slabs of muscle in just 12 days. Add some gym time and your chances of packing on beef are even greater.
4) The cutting phase of this study was comprised of an extremely restrictive low calorie diet.
We know that extreme diets can cause muscle wasting, and special consideration may not have been taken to preserve as much muscle as possible during the cutting phase..
But what do you think would happen if you were able to pack on 4 lbs of muscle in 2 weeks, then follow it up with a diet that was DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY to burn fat FAST while preserving all your new muscle…
And then continue this cycle week in and week out?
I think we’ll both agree the chances of maintaining the additional muscle we just added would be GREATLY increased during the cutting phase…
Resulting In EVEN FASTER GAINS
And MORE Fat Loss!
Ironically, this is the exact “cutting” strategy employed by the “Vaporizor Method” program (www.FatVaporizor.com) developed by Todd Scott, a Fitness Advisor to Men’s Fitness Magazine.
Since the Vaporizor Method is designed to shed fat super fast while using a special nutrition program to maintain your current muscle mass, it is perfectly ideal for the cutting phase.
Out of the mouth of a Doctor:
“It is not simply a matter of eating a very-low-calorie-diet. The diet-must-contain specific amounts of protein and nutrients in order to cause fast fat loss, not lean muscle loss. When done correctly, this type of program appears clearly superior to slower acting programs.”
- Dr. Dana Myatt, bariatric family physician
Here’s How To Put This To Work
For You RIGHT NOW…
Step 1: Grab A copy of the Vaporizor Method at www.FatVaporizor.com
Step 2: Decide whether you want to start with the Bulking Phase, or the Cutting Phase.
For the BULKING PHASE Do This:
- Increase Your Calories for Overfeeding
- Follow a 4-5 day split Workout Program
- Train Hard & Eat Good
- Follow the Bulking Phase for 2 Weeks
- Immediately Shift to the Vaporizor CUTTING PHASE after 2 weeks
For the CUTTING PHASE Do This:
- Open the Vaporizor Method
- Calculate Your Calories
- Follow the Vaporizor Method PSMF Feeding and Training program for 2 weeks.
- Immediately shift to the Bulking Phase after week 2.
Step 3: REPEAT The Cycle for Massive Gains and Tons of Fat Loss
Every few years this same stuff comes around. It’s not new. It just keeps on getting repackaged by people who “think” they’ve come up with it. Ho-hum. Move on, nothing to see here people….
Jeff can you provide links to these studies, thanks.
well well well , I read my mail and clicked on the link, was expecting to read waht food to eat etc…………. then I found nothing , I came to the conclusion that is is yet a nother ad for another program that they want us to buy …….. I got used to receiving mails from Jeff that promised the earth ..sadly when I click on the links and read ,,,,,, what do I find !! fairy talesssssssssssssss . every body out thre is trying to make money out of nothing .back to my kitchen . Thankyou very ncuh indeed
Sam (PhD)
sorry for the typo mistakes , just got back from the gym still tired …
Yea I agree with Sam and Cozy. I am tired of receiving emails that look like they might be a good read but then turn into regurgitated crap and a sales pitch. It’s just about “unsubscribe time”
It’s called good copywriting folks – compose enticing subject lines to get ‘desperate’ people to open up the email with the hopes that at least 3-5% of the traffic makes a purchasing decision. And remember, YOU signed up to receive communication from Jeff – if you don’t want it anymore then unsubscribe.
Great find but I agree with Jarod, can you please reveal your sources? Thanks
Thanks for the info Jeff, I’ve read similar studies to this before.
I’m hitting a bit of a plateau in my cutting phase so its maybe time to add in a short bulk to get the ball rolling again.
Hey Jeff you should check out Ori Hofmelker’s Warrior Diet. It’s based on the same basic principles but its on a daily basis instead of 2 weeks. I’ve been using it for almost 4 months and gained 23 lbs with it while staying at the same bodyfat (6%).
Would you recommend the Vaporizor Method over your Optimum Anabolics program?
This sounds effing awsome! You could potentially get pretty huge it sounds like.
Agree with some previous posters – this is referred to as Anabolic Burst Cycling. It couples two week phases of bulking and cutting to maintain a relatively lean physique while gaining muscle. It’s definitely effective. I can’t vouch for the studies that Jeff cites, but the method definitely works. I don’t know anything about this Vaporizer diet, but there are plenty of VLC (very low calorie) diets out there (Velocity, Get Shredded) available for free that I can’t imagine that would be less effective than this Vaporizer thing.
I agree with the bunch of guys that have commented already, Jeff sent out some really great stuff and now every email is a promotion to other things. I don’t even know whether I should subscribe anymore
my most dissapointing thing is that theres no new updates on anything, especially the Homemade Supplement ebook which was expected to be updated a while ago. Idk jeff…idk….please do something, no offence man…but lately, your emails have gotten a little under par compared to your usual stuff.
Point taken Dmitro…
I’ve actually been doing a lot of research lately and we’re in the process of adding a ton of new content and online presentations soon.
More to follow and thanks for the constructive feedback!
~ Jeff
Hi, Jeff, I’m very pleased with your Optimum Anabolics Program! One year ago I transferred over from iron weights, benches and machines to Bodylastics, it’s just as demanding and so much more convenient,(It all fits in a bag the size of a cereal box). I am now even more pleased with how Optimum Anabolics works for me.
The Vaporizer sounds good for the women in the study. From my personal research on the subject of women, I’ve found that hormonally they are very different from me, a 65 year old man. So I’m expected to pay $47 to find out just how closely I correspond hormonally to these unknown age group, presumably fat, women? Place your bets everyone…this is a gamble.
So, in the Vaporizer loading phase you gain x muscle and y fat. In the cutting phase you lose y muscle and x fat. Hmmm. I conclude that just by doing my optimum anabolics I will gain z muscle, exactly in the targeted areas, lose some fat, get my hormones flowing, and save $47. WOW! Beat that!
I really enjoy getting these tips. Thank you!
Hey Jeff, All this is still new to me so don’t let those busybodies rub you the wrong way with their negativity. Keep the info coming and I’ll keep absorbing. I learn by repetition.
This sounds interrsting, but my body mass is under sized. I have been trying to gain mass and have very little body fat. Is there a good program that I can follow? Thanks, David
Vaporizatiooon…buy it people! You gotta buy it!
especially if it’s a calorie counting meal plan like empowered nutrition is…I mean everybody loves to count calories right? WRONG! I’d like to see you follow stuff like this for 6 months: 250g of cottage cheese, 1/2 of some vegetable 1/2 a cup of some other vegetable (why da f… would you measure vegetables for the love of God), 2 tbs of something, 1/2 a cup of blueberries, then lunch something something grams of some meat, oh but you gotta do fish for dinner and weight your snacks too and if breakfast is eggs you’re cooking AT LEAST 3 times a day! Yeah sure let’s spend the whole day in the kitchen…I’ve done this for 8 months…not easy, insane actually!
theres no secret formula; we should be following powerlifters for guidance..to hell with all the muscle magazine type routines designed to fleece the gullible.
Training for “size” and training for “strength” are two entirely different things Tracy. Powerlifters will tell you the same thing (which is why they train like…er…”powerlifters”.
I remember reading something similar in the mid-late 1990′s by a doctor called (from memory) Torbjorn Akerfeldt, who was Swedish or Danish, and he called it ABCDE (Anabolic Burst Cycle of Diet and Excercise), same sort of thing, two weeks of over feeding and heavy lifting followed by two weeks of low calorie and increased aerobic activity to accerlerate the fat loss. I am sure you can find this by googling it. It was also promoted by Bill Philips at EAS in his magazines at the time.
I have to say that I agree with the previous advice. When I was younger, I heard the SAME thing from EVERYONE! You know what? It really didn’t work well. NO SURPRISE, huh? EVENTUALLY, I found a book that has a stupid hypy title. Amazon sells it for less than $12!(I bought it a couple decades ago though.) It basically has one exercise, and one constant in the diet, I tried IT, and it worked like you would not believe. It is a pity that I don’t have the time or space to keep up, have a bad aorta/back, and I let myself go so much. But HERE is the rub! It claims all the big guys do it, and it goes back for so much time previous to that. So they are just OLD tricks!
heck, the guy started a company and the only supplement they provide is their own protein, which they say is really only that, they provide very few books, and for general strength, they don’t really provide much. And you don’t get ads all the time.
Today, everyone modifies something, etc… and sells stuff for who knows HOW much. They claim their product works so well and you feel that THEY really feel it must not work at all, because they are always advertising something else to do the SAME thing. If I buy THE best radio ever, I expect them to sell me music, speakers, headphones, etc… I DON’T expect them to keep trying to sell me radios.
Frankly, after a while, coming here starts to sound like a broken record.
Steve
This makes a lot of sense. Combined with the Blood Type diet, a lot could be accomplished in a short time. Probably, long-term, the nervous system still needs the exercises.
Wow well said Pierre. Yea I used Jeffs optimum anabolics program for about a year and did get good results but if I would have known about the program I use now, Max-OT, I would have never looked any further. Max-OT was a breath of fresh air. It’s free and it works and is used by real NATURAL bodybuilders, not some skinny dude hucking it for cash.
People,
If you want to gain muscle you need to eat enough calories, clean calories.
Get your calories from oats, eggs, lean meats, fruits and vegetables, nuts,
beans, and cottage cheese. Those foods will help you gain muscle without
adding much fat, you have to eat enough calories for your weight or lean body
mass. You will also have to do full body excercises like squats and deadlifts
powercleans with presses. These will help your body produce more testosterone
to help you build more muscle. Make sure that you give your body enough time
to rest, you should only have to workout about 3 to 4 times a week. Try not to
work out each body part directly more than once a week and get aleast 7 to 8
hours of sleep each night because this is when your body releases growth
hormone to allow your body to grow.
Getting muscles without training? I’m in! Why bother training (which doesn’t produce any results anyway) when you can eat yourself to bigger and stronger muscles?
It would be nice if someone can try it so we know if it works outside of the lab world.
LOL!!! How funny!! What an angry bunch! Spent all your money on roids now you’re ranting and raving about an email. No news is really news anyway. There’s nothing new under the sun, but to the person that hasn’t heard it yet…well it is news. Value is only like beauty, it’s in the eye of each individual. So what you don’t want to pay for somebody else will. There’s nothing wrong with trying to sell something…it costs money not only to host, but maintain websites. And anyway, aren’t we a capitalist nation? Chill dudes!! Just press delete!! And if you want something free go look for it yourself. Why should somebody else spend their time, energy and money delvering to you without getting anything in return. If you unsubscribe Jeff’s not going to lose anything anyway…all you do is go in the store and never buy. If you do unsubscribe though…you may miss out on some news!!! LOL!!!
LOL!
Thanks for having my back Manny!
Look y’all…hell yeah, I’m going to try to sell you something. My family has this need for something called “food”.
But if you know me at all, you know that what I believe is:
1. It’s my JOB to tell you about stuff that works
2. I only promote what I firmly believe will help you get better and faster results
3. I always try to put solid, actionable info into every email
4. If you don’t like it, don’t subscribe…period. (Also stop watching television and reading muscle mags…commercials and supplement manufacturers are trying to sell you stuff too. I know…shocking, isn’t it?)
Stay or go…up to you.
Personally, I hope you stay and contribute something meaningful to the conversation. Everyone is welcome, even differing opinions.
i am just beginning in the fitness industry and am sourcing info aswell and have the same problem as samready for the big life changing answer and BLAAAMM, an add to cart page so i joined up with musclehack. com and the dude that owns that site actually replies to you and has PRIMO INFO in all aspects of the fitness world, so have a gork at that…. laters
Everybody is different, and not everything works for everybody. Almost all of this stuff is not revolutionary, and seems redundant to those who have been into the fitness world for a long time. For people just starting out, this is new information and we as experienced lifters or fitness buffs should not be so hasty to come down on a product that we have seen before in a different package.
Good to hear your still there Jeff. Keep up the Good work!!