How to Gain 34lbs of Muscle in 4 Weeks

by Ravi Raman on May 1, 2007 · 8 comments

in 4-Hour Work Week, Health and Fitness, Physical Performance

Tim Ferriss has another motivating post about how to gain a massive amount of muscle in a short period of time. It is almost too big a change to believe, but I’ll let you be the judge.

What’s the most weight (muscle or fat!) that you’ve gained in a single month?

For me: +10lbs. Back in 1998, after school let out for the summer, I had an internship in NYC. I went from running, swimming and biking a ton, to just lifting a ton (and eating a ton) and not doing much else. The weight came on pretty easily. After the first month, I gained about 2 pounds each of the remaining 2 months.

During my 12-week challenge last year, I managed to gain +10lbs of lean muscle in 12 weeks.

Gaining 34lbs in 4 weeks is crazy. Even 1/4 that gain would be tough. The kicker is, Tim did it while training only 8 hours a week! I need to learn that technique.

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Michael M @ freshome May 1, 2007 at 3:31 pm

Gold information, thanks for the link.

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2 Michael M @ freshome May 1, 2007 at 3:33 pm

And I think you have a little mistake in the title, please check.

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3 moltar May 1, 2007 at 6:34 pm

I say it’s BS. The guy is probably gonna start selling some ebooks or come up with some other scam.

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4 ravisraman May 3, 2007 at 5:19 am

Hey there, scam or not, I am going to give it a try!

I did my first workout using this method yesterday. It felt great. I have also cleaned up my diet and am eating more high quality (high protein) calories.

We’ll see how this experiment goes!

I will say, though, that when I was in college, our varsity athletes all trained using the principles that Tim Ferriss is referring to….one-set of 6-8 exercises to failure, using a slow rep count.

They were some of biggest/strongest folks I have ever seen.

If it worked for them, I hope it would work for me.

I’ll be blogging my progress.

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