When someone goes on a quest to build muscle, they will undoubtedly discover that the way to gain muscle is to go through the bulking process. This process consists of high intensity workouts usually involving weights, less cardio, and a diet consisting of eating everything in sight.
As they find out, it’s quite amusing for the first couple of days. Just imagine being able to eat as much as you want without serious consequences. In fact, those Thanksgiving family feasts may start coming to mind. But don’t fool yourself, remember how you usually feel after that big feast? (assuming you’re the kind that hasn’t puked yet)
Not Good, that’s for sure. You feel stuffed with turkey, which was stuffed with stuffing. You feel full but not full of energy. You’re tired and you’re sleepy. Okay then, now imagine doing something like that on a daily basis. Each day you would ALWAYS feel full. You would need to constantly keep eating and working out hard so you could gain that muscle.
Let’s face it. Gaining muscle takes work and commitment. Bulking can be damn hard sometimes. You can see now how attempting to do bulking day after day would be demotivating and a little depressing. Your digestive system just can’t take it that way.
In addition, you end up gaining unwanted excess fat by doing bulking for long stretches at a time. This is never a good thing. After all, most guys get into bodybuilding to improve their physique not tarnish it, right?
So what’s the solution? A different way of bulking that uses a natural 21 day cycle. At the most basic level, it is this: You focus on 2 weeks of bulking and follow it up with one week of rest so your digestive system could recover, your muscles could recover with lower intensity workouts, you burn more fat by increasing cardio during that week, and you prepare for another 2 weeks of focused lean mass building.
That’s the 21 day Fast Mass Building Program in a nutshell.