How I grew 10 kilo’s of muscle in six weeks

How I got Inspired

Regularly I have discussions about sports or better said, Martial Arts. Sometimes I claim certain things, and a lot of times I ask certain things to become a better all-round martial artist and of course human being. I tend to look for the best place to train and to look for the people who made a lot of progress in a very short amount of time.

In this quest, that is not only limited to Martial Arts, but to life in general, I keep my eyes wide open. On one of my ‘lucky moments’ I happened to bump in to a book, in the local bookstore The book I found was: ‘The Four Hour Workweek’, form Tim Ferriss. This book is  a book that talks about certain aspects of Time management, but also about achieving, and specially achieving quick and effectively.

Among a lot of subjects, Tim Ferris wrote about his fitness tricks, and particularly about weight gaining and weight dropping. I was, at least to say, pretty interested in his method. But it took until my return from South-America and before my brother introduced me to the method Ferriss his used for his weight gaining.The technique is called High Intensity Training and was developed by Arthur Jones.

Another inspiration for weightlifting I found in the book ‘Integral Psychology’ form Ken Wilber. Wilber (also) writes about about the positive affects of weightlifting for your body, including the brain, and with that your mind.

Back from South America

As I was just back from Peru and Brazil, to train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Cholitzu (a style of Mixed Martial Arts). I lost a few pounds/kilo’s. I weighted 90 kilo’s. I missed my strength, but also was excited about the promise of Tim Ferris and Arthur Jones their methods.

When I was back in Holland I decided to set my goals with weightlifting, before I would train BJJ again. Since I was 90 kilo’s and wanted not only to be back at my 92 kilo’s, but gain even more. I figured that 100 kilo’s would be a perfect weight for my length at 1.96. I decided to work out for 3 times a week, with my brother, cousin and at times by myself, and occasionally with my roommate. My goal was sett for a gain of 10 kilo’s.

In 6 weeks of time I achieved my goal. I must say it has cost me some pain, since I did not train any kickboxing or taekwondo, but also no MMA or BJJ. But the physical pain that I had was even worse, SINCE THIS IS A RADICAL METHOD!

How did I do it?

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