You’ve probably heard something about MI40 by now, but what the heck does it stand for? MI40 is a muscle building system that uses breakthroughs in kinesiology and biomechanics to produce more muscle in less time. MI Stands for Mass Intentions, its creator Ben Pakulski, designed it to address the problem of never having a load heavy enough to produce monster results in muscle growth. The principle of overload tells us that a muscle will grow more as more and more stress is applied to it over a period of time.
But depending on what level you’re at, it may be more efficient to train with “Intentions” added into the mix, instead of adding more weight. Intentions are more than the mental intent to make a muscle work harder, it is also about making very small tweaks and changes to the angles of which you are pushing or pulling when performing an exercise. These are subtle adaptations that the guys in the gym probably wouldn’t notice, but they would make a significant impact on your workouts and apply a new kind of stress to your muscles.
In the DVD Ben shows you how to apply this concept of “intentions” to basically every exercise. Ben has a Kinesiology degree from the University of Western Ontario. Proving and testing his own methods has led him to a lean 270 pound frame. He has placed in the Top 10 at the Arnold Pro Show, Top 5 at the Flex Pro show and is well on his way to qualifying for Mr. Olympia next year.
MI40 is built all around the number 40, not because it’s a lucky number, but because it is the most frequent scientific number that appears when you analyze the muscle building process and helps us keep things simple:
-40 day program duration for quality gains
-40 second set duration
-40 second rests periods
-40 muscle building exercises for a complete workout program
-40 foods to help you pack on size
-40 day meal plans
Ben hates the feeling of going to the gym and leaving knowing that he still had more in him, even after a hard workout. What he craved was something to push him more than ever before to create even more muscle growth than before. In his obsessive quest to find ways to take his muscles to the limit Ben created NOS. NOS gives you a muscle pump stronger than any you’ve felt in the gym before and produces bigger growth.
Regular straight sets produce a decent pump, but they can’t and won’t be able to produce the neurological adaptation, hormonal response, and therefore growth, that a NOS set is capable of. NOS stands for Neurological Overload Set. This type of set was developed to ensure maximal muscle overload to break down the greatest number of muscle fibers. Taking a muscle to this level of exhaustion releases the greatest amount of growth hormones. So you can train hard, but you won’t get massive growth if you don’t reach this point of anabolic overload.
A NOS set is performed by extending your sets in a certain way. You want to maintain tension on the workout muscle while keeping perfect form for as long as possible. For example, you can start with a weight you can use for 8 repetitions. Next, decrease the weight by 20% and continue to perform as many repetitions as you can (probably 5-8), complete this process 4 times. You will do 3 drops, and 4 sets total with good form.
