Mark Sherwood - Quick Workouts For Quick Muscles: Build Muscle and Burn Fat in 15 Minutes or Less

When done properly, short workouts can be highly effective. A well-planned fifteen minute workout is enough to provide the necessary stimulus to build muscle, increase strength, and burn fat. This can only be accomplished by doing a lot of work in a short amount of time. While this will not be easy, the mistake of training too hard should be avoided. In order to achieve consistent results, training intensity must be carefully controlled with an optimum level of effort. Only then can you squeeze a lot of work into a short amount time in a productive manner. The instructions in this book are designed to help you accomplish this.

Since short workouts are being recommended, you are probably wondering if there is any evidence as to whether or not brief workouts are effective. Historically, Peary Rader, Arthur Jones, Mike Mentzer, and Vince Gironda are a few notable people who favored short workouts. Of these men, Peary Rader won several weight lifting contests and was the original editor of Iron Man Magazine; Arthur Jones was the originator of Nautilus equipment and Nautilus training methods; Mike Mentzer used brief workouts to win Mr. America and Mr. Universe contests; and Vince Gironda was a top bodybuilder in the 1940s and 1050s, plus he trained many top bodybuilders including the first Mr. Olympia, Larry Scott.

Most of the men listed tended toward high intensity training. This type of training is based on pushing to do the maximum number of reps possible for each set. Normally a small number of sets are done when using high intensity training. The workouts in this book will include a modified form of high intensity training. However, much of the training methodology will resemble the style of brief workouts that Vince Gironda advocated. Girondas form of training was not only good for building muscle, but it was also good for burning fat. Vince believed in doing as many sets as possible in a short amount of time. When using his method, intensity builds from set to set and reaches a peak by the last set.

Vince gives an account of how he discovered the effectiveness of short workouts. It started when he decided to enter physique competitions. He had reached the point where he could no longer face the long tedious workouts he had been doing. Because of this, he decided to try to get his workouts over as fast as possible. After making this change, Vince said, Now for the first time, I began to show real muscularity and gains. The men who judged the contests at this time were puzzled by so much muscularity. What seemed to be a compromise when Vince decided to do shorter workouts actually turned out to work in his favor.

Vince successfully trained multitudes of people over the course of forty plus years and his methods still work today. Some of what is taught in this book will be similar to Girondas methods, but the training will be organized and adapted to fit within a time limit of fifteen minutes or less per workout.

One of the methods that Vince favored was to repeat the same exercise for six to eight sets with very short rests between sets. This is called straight set high density training. It will be used for some exercises in the 15 minute workouts in this book. Higher intensity training with heavier weights and fewer sets will also be utilized for other exercises. These two forms of training will combine to form the foundation for workouts that build muscle and burn fat. When used in conjunction with an optimum training intensity and the correct exercises, these methods will enable you to engage in brief workouts that produce exceptional results. The rest of this book will provide the details for how to accomplish this.