Mike Mentor wrote often about Hans Selye’s strain model of organisms in the real world. It states that for evolution in the universe any organism must be exposed to significant stress, allow a reasonable recovery time, and then evolution can occur.
Selye’s model will help you learn how to bulk up fast because it will help you understand why people with high-stress lifestyles need to modify their current weekly workout routines. If you are skinny or short, and want to get bigger and stronger, the first thing you should do is look at your current lifestyle in terms of stress.
Are you working a high demand job over 50 hours a week? Are you handling stressful situations in your family life, such as caring for a sick relative? Are you the type of student who is attending classes 18 hours a day, studying at least 30 hours a day, and working two part time jobs to cover the costs of your education?
Contrast that with the lifestyle of a lean individual as described above with that of a genetically gifted bodybuilder who doesn’t work a high-stress job. The bodybuilder will be able to recover faster, especially if using recovery supplements, and therefore be able to tolerate higher amounts of workout volume and/or workout frequency. For a lean person to force his body to grow, however, he would need to eat enough and drink enough water; And he’ll need to reduce the frequency of his workouts because of the already high levels of stress his body is subjected to day after day.
Reducing the frequency of his workouts will give him enough time to recover, which is the second step in Seely’s model. Eating and sleeping adequately are part of the recovery process for weight gain goals. Only after adequately recovering from a workout that provides enough stress and his day-to-day high stress levels will the lean lifter be able to grow and increase muscle weight, which is what Selly’s Stress-Recover-Grow formula suggests. The third step is ,
Assuming you know how to train intensely and appropriately, as well as know how to eat and sleep properly, consider reducing your workout frequency. You should start gaining quality muscle mass fast with your modified weekly workout routine.
Source by Matt Mc Dermott
