My new training partner has introduced to me a training style that, for the purposes of this article, I will call 'High Reps to Hugeness Training.' The following routine details days of training, exercises, etc. Try it out if you dare!
Sometimes, who you train with can be HUGE. Well, my training partner is HUGE and it has lit a fire in my belly akin to eating hot peppers covered in Ex Lax. My butt is on fire! My new training partner is Lin McAteer. He is an employee of our largest distributor for Scivation and the EXCLUSIVE distributor for Primaforce-Europa, but in the gym, we are just two warriors knocking it out.

He has introduced me to a training style I WISH I knew about years ago. It is THE ONLY way he trains, with the exception on a few things we will do instinctively, and it has allowed me to GROW while dieting at BELOW 5% body fat! What is this program? For the purposes of this article, I will call it "High Reps to Hugeness Training!"

Muscle Growth While Dieting!


What we do is 2 sets of 15 on everything except for the first exercise of a workout, where we will do one to two warm-ups before our working sets. We then do two sets, sometimes one if it kicks our butts, until we get 15 reps. We still go heavy and sometimes will even use rest-pauses to get that magic 15.

We usually get 15 but if we fail beforehand, we rest and knock out the reps we owe rest-pause style! This has helped keep me injury-free and unlike other 15-rep sissy workouts, we go hard and heavy, so the muscle stimulation is more than enough to get big, lean and HARD.

We train Wednesday through Sunday and have Monday and Tuesday off to work with our training schedule, so any five-day split, whatever days you can make it, will work fine. Our split is as follows:

Monday: Off
Tuesday: Off
Wednesday: Back
Thursday: Chest
Friday: Legs
Saturday: Shoulders/Traps
Sunday: Arms
We do calves and abs every training day. Our calf exercises are either donkey calf raises, seated calf extensions or leg press calf raises at three sets of 25 reps. We do abs most days at three sets of 15-20 reps.


How Much Of My Max Should I Use?


Choose a weight that allows you to get 12-15 reps. As soon as 15 reps comes easy, it is time to raise the weight for set number two! After a couple of weeks on this program, you will find that you are lifting the same weight for 15 reps as you were for eight reps. It is an unreal feeling!


What If I Can't Complete 15 Reps?


If you reach failure after say 10 reps you should rack the weight, take 5 deep breaths, and then bang out your last 5 reps. This is called a rest-pause set. The goal of this program is to always get 15 reps NO MATTER WHAT! Even if you have to rest twice that is fine.

You may end up doing something like 9 reps, take 5 deep breaths, 4 more reps, take 2-3 deep breaths, and then complete your final 2 reps. The most important thing to do is consistently add weight to the bar while completing your 15 reps. As was said in the preceding paragraph, as soon as you can complete 15 reps you should up the weight.