The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
he's 56 and weighs 200 pounds with a 30% bodyfat percentile, in order to increase his bench
press from 200 pounds to 300 pounds, it is critical to increase lean muscle mass. Our man will
need more muscular firepower.
Any " tness expert" who tells the uninformed that they can add 50% to their bench press in
short order with no weight gain by using (or more likely purchasing) some utopian bench-press
routine is either delusional or a shyster. There is no magical, mythical exercise routine that will
miraculously add 50% to the bench press without a concurrent gain in muscle mass. It takes a
10% increase in lean muscle mass to net a 50% increase in strength, and that's being optimistic.
Period.
Our hypothetical athlete starts o weighing 200 pounds and will need to push his lean
muscle mass up 1520 pounds over a 26-week period.
muscle mass up 1520 pounds over a 26-week period.