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November 3, 2008

INTRO

The training madness articles are real stuff that we do at the old school gym the official gym of musclepharm. We like to train no holds barred with a a mixed crazy concept of bodybuilding, power lifting & functional training. I am passionate about the way I train & want to change others around me, but also screw the conventional 3×10 bullshit you got to make it intense, tough & get out of your comfort zone to really change your body. We leave it all out on every workout. I am here to change all of the musclpharm disciples into straight up animals in the weight room.& if you already train that way here is some new shit.

Article #1 FREAK your Lats OUT– Pullups for 1 hour or 200 reps +

Story:

Most guys in the gym shy away from pull-ups because they are hard but the gym rats who really know what the do for your back & shoulders go right after the pull-ups bars hanging off the concrete wall at the old school gym. Everyone has to start somewhere my first day of pull-ups I was 15 & doing back with Dustin Myers my partner at the Old school in his dad kims garage. He weighed in at about a wet 125 then & he ripped off 25 pull-ups on his first set. I jumped up then & hit 1 yep 1 freaking rep. 3 sets of 1 wow pretty impressive uh. So don’t misunderstand me go after the pull-ups & it will make your back freaky don’t shy away because they are hard. Once you get good they are something to be proud of my best yet now 33 reps or 2 reps with 100 lbs hanging off my waist.

I came up with the great idea to really freak out my back that we would do multiple type of grips & handles to hit Pullups for 1 hour straight only 2 of us with the lowest amount of rest possible. Other days we would do 200 reps & that takes about 1 hour or so also. So me a my boy Dust would hit the first 4-5 sets overhand wide boys. Next we would go with a close overhand grip. Your lats are so full of blood by this point you feel like a freak. Then we would incorporate the seated row bar or ROCKY 4 pull-up’s we call them for a few sets. . Next Dustin’s favorite we go with wide behind the neck pull-ups which are tough by this point. Lastly we will go with your traditional under grip bicep type pull-ups. You are a dogg if you can finish this routine & I know some of my muscle pharm boys out there are ready for the challenge.

Workouts looks like:

Pullups for 1 hour or 200 + reps

Wide grip overhand

Close grip overhand

Seated row bar rocky 4 style

Behind the neck wide

Anabolic Diet by Cory Gregory Musclepharm VP

November 2, 2008

The Anabolic Diet was developed by a man named Dr. (Doc) Mauro Di Pasquale. Doc thought about how bodybuilders always struggle with low fat, high protein diets and how power lifters get weak cutting weight by using that diet method prior to events. The Anabolic Diet gives a natural guy a way to raise test, growth, insulin and create the ultimate anabolic window for muscle mass. I also know from experience you stay stronger, look fuller, and are able to maintain 10% or less all year round while being strong. Bodybuilders would always experience this after a contest. They would diet many months then gorge the night of the show and always look better the next day; meaning fuller, nasty, dry, veiny, etc. Their test, insulin, and growth shot up all while the muscle was replenishing with glycogen. Dr. Pasquale wondered what would happen if you created that formula each week. So he developed the diet and wrote a book about it; high quality fats with high protein Monday-Friday with no more than 30-50g of carbs, followed by 12-48 hours of high carb loading, lower protein, and medium fat on weekends; everything goes. You then create a weekly hormone spike naturally, which you can feel for sure.
Well I read his book and studied this method under Dr. Eric Serrano, one of Dr. Pasquale’s friends, and I am here to tell you it works. I was at 212 lbs when I started and slowly got myself down to 190 lbs, all while still cheating 24-36 hours on the weekend then cleaning it up, but not super tight on Sundays. Once I hit 190 lbs, I was only eating lower glycemic carbs on my weekend loads like sweet potatoes, brown rice, oatmeal and bananas. To get into contest shape, I added HIT cardio session 4x weekly with only 1 glycemic meal per week after leg day, because I am so insulin sensitive. I still did not limit my fat calories and reached a bodyweight of 180. Then I just started to cut back my fat calories by cutting out nuts, though I still ate lots of cheese, whole eggs, fish, turkey, and my bodyweight came down to 172. I was pretty lean, around 6-7%, and then I competed back-to-back weekends after my water drop. I was a tight bodyweight of 168. The key is that the whole time I trained like a power lifter and my joints were fine. I board pressed (4 boards) 315 for 2×10 reps one week out of my show at 172 lbs with no joint pain.
Now that the show is over I am a still tight but much larger and stronger 180 lbs than I was on the way down. I added nuts back to my diet, along with the other foods from before, but will now go back to going all out on the weekends. I am looking forward to putting up some great numbers in the 181 class in power lifting. The plus to power lifters is that you are probably your weakest and lightest on Fridays, but that is the night you weigh in for a meet and you can all out eat both after weigh in and the morning of. And guess what… the body is used to doing this because you have conditioned it that way and you will be a freak at your meet.

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Good Luck
Cory Gregory

Training Madness,Motivation & Success

Freak your BACK out & GROW

Anabolic Diet by Cory Gregory Musclepharm VP