![]() ![]() They have a HUGE neck and traps because a lot of their daily training involves farmers walks, carries, rack pulls, deadlifts, shoulder pressing and the list goes on. Some other real life examples include powerlifters. ![]() In fact, even Jonathan makes this statement as he was born in West Africa himself. But this is just life for them and don’t pull the “It’s because they have black genetics” card, because that’s just ignorant as not everyone in West Africa is born shredded with super dense muscle mass. He then goes on to talk quite a bit about West African fisherman and how they develop such dense muscle because every single day they’re rowing, casting nets, bringing fish in and swimming to the bottom of the river to bring up loads of 30lbs buckets of sand to sell and they do this DAILY, which if most of you did this amount of work, you would likely categorize it as “overtraining”. Some of my favorite parts of the video is when he talks about being a kid in West Africa and seeing the merchants who would ride bikes up and down hills everyday with all their merchandise and even though they were under-eating and thin in their upper body, their legs were still really developed, especially their quads. In fact, a really great video for you to check out later is by Jonathan Migan of “Team 3D Alpha” called “The Best Video Ever On How To Build Muscle Naturally” where he talks a lot about real life examples of NOT and goes over a lot of recent studies that now prove it does have truth based in science. Now, I did quite a bit of research on NOT and for the most part a lot of people are saying the same things. Actual growth obtained from additional myonuclei in the muscle.Muscle Memory (which DOES apply to me and I will explain why).Newbie Gains (which doesn’t really apply to me but should still be noted).You have to take into consideration THREE very important things as well. There’s a lot more to this than just “seeing” growth. So at face value I can say to those people, HELL YEAH, NOT DOES work! But that wouldn’t be very scientific would it? Let me explain. Also, when I first mentioned I was going to try NOT, a few people commented that any size difference would just be “inflammation”, not real growth, and would “go away” after a long rest period. In fact, I noticed about a quarter inch difference when I remeasured from day 1 to 30 days later and still retain that difference even now. To be honest, I want to continue with NOT for other body parts, but always use this video as a point of reference so I don’t have to re-explain everything, every time.įIRST THINGS FIRST, did my biceps ACTUALLY GROW?Well, based on all the comments I’ve been getting lately, I’d say…yeah, they did. However, the biggest reason is that a HUGE PART of NOT is the RECOVERY after the 30 days and I wanted to be able to talk about that as well as have time to research the science as well. I had all kinds of family visiting from Brazil for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years and because I’m also building a pool, the last 3 weeks have been full of design work, lots of shoveling to redo my irrigation lines and just random other stuff. ![]() ![]() Well, The holidays were a big part of it. If done correctly though, it should only take about 15 – 20 minutes to complete and if let’s say I started with 50lb dumbbells but then my arms began to fatigue A LOT, I would just drop the weight to 45lbs, 40lbs or 35lbs, whatever I needed to do to keep the rest periods under 1 minute.īut the REAL QUESTION is, why did I wait SO LONG to show you my results as I did this from October 10th through November 10th. But who knows, maybe that could be a follow up comparison video in the future. Call me stubborn, but even though I’m loading up on volume I still felt like I needed a bit more stimulation than just curling 10lb dumbbells 100 times in a row. The reason is because I didn’t want to have to go TOO light. I was completing 100 reps as fast as I could, usually in 10 sets of 10 reps. Also, I wasn’t pumping out 100 reps in a row. Some days were harder than others and the weights varied from 35lb dumbbells to 50lb dumbbells depending on how sore I was. ![]()
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