t o a n oth e r e xer ci se f o r th a t sa m e b o d y pa rt a nd
i m me di at e ly d o a n o the r se t. F or ex am p le , l y in g
extensions followed by close-grip bench presses for
triceps.
Tr i - s e t s :The same as supersets, only you use thre e
exercises instead of two.
High re p s :Using a weight that allows more than 15
repetitions.
X Reps:At the end of a set to failure, you move the
weight to the X spot on the stroke, usually below the
midpoint, and pulse in a five-to-10-inch range.If you’ve been to our site, http://www.X-Rep.com, you know which
of those techniques has produced the best results for us.
(Heck, we even named the Web site after it.) We got such
spectacular muscle gains and fat-burning results in only one
month after using X Reps, that it’s become a mainstay in our
p rogram—and we’ve had a much easier time staying leaner
and bigger thanks to that training innovation.
X-traordinary Results
So why do X Reps, or power partials at the end of a set,
work so incredibly well? One big reason is that they allow you
t o l ea pf r og n e rv o us sy s te m
f a i l u re. As we explained in T h e
Ul timate Mass Wo r k o u t, eve ry
time you do an all-out set—to
w h e re you’re grinding out those
important last reps that create the
most muscle gain—your nerv o u s
s ys t em f i zzl es. It st o p s the
muscle dead in its tracks, leaving
as much as 50 pe rcent of the
Jonathan’s X-Rep results. For the
exact training program we used
during our X-Rep transformation,
see The Ultimate Mass Workoute-
book, available at http://www.X-Rep.com.