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Workout Review: Jim Stoppani’s 12 Week Shortcut To Size With an opening gambit of ‘Real Science, Unreal Results’, I couldn’t help but be interested in. After all, a quick search on YouTube for other reveals a myriad of hokum, quasi-debilitating looking exercises and gratuitous use of the word ‘bro’. For example, just have a look at detailing Greg Plitt’s ‘MFT 28 Shoulder Shred’ workout. Now I’m not doubting his physique, but probably 90% of people interested in following his videos won’t be able to do these particular exercises. It’s absurd – concussion is far more likely than muscle growth. Whereas Dr Jim Stoppani PhD has a doctorate in exercise physiology. I know who I’d go with Shortcut to Size overview Warning: if you plan on following the full 12 week Shortcut to Size programme, then I advise you to start putting aside money for new clothes now.
The upper body gains in particular were Hulk-esque. If we were to give Shortcut to Size a label, it would be ‘Linear Periodisation’, as each week you perform a different rep range: Week 1: 12-15 Week 2: 9-11 Week 3: 6-8 Week 4: 3-5 I love the variance.
Very few programmes will include strength work, but this one looks to build size and strength. Not bad, not bad at all, eh? You then repeat this for two further four week cycles, by which time you’ll be looking like something carved out of Marble. Robert Schimmel Unprotected Rarlab here. (It’ll probably be the statue of the thalidomide woman if you follow Greg Plitt’s workout.) Rather than guide you through the programme week by week, just click on the following link which has everything you need, including both instructional videos and a useful PDF: With this review I’m simply going to give you my personal highlights of the programme. ‘Rest-pause’ saved my life Perhaps a slightly grandiose statement, but I think this technique is one of the principle contributing factors to the success of this programme. During weeks 1-2, after the final set of each exercise you rack the weights, rest 15 seconds, then go again to failure.
In weeks 3-4, you do the same but reduce the weight after the last set and go once again to failure. I had this discussion with a fellow Gymtalk employee: “Why do rest-pause, shouldn’t you just go to failure on the final set?” It’s a valid argument, and, indeed, Stoppani encourages you to go to failure, but the real beneficiary of rest-pause is that it allows you to squeeze out a few more reps to failure, but with better technique. Let’s face it, you can be the best lifter in the world, but when you know you can’t physically lift that barbell off your chest, a primordial instinct takes over and you contort your body in any way possible to get it up (insert phallus joke). Good technique is, of course, all important in bodybuilding – unless you’re Branch Warren. Seriously, watch this video from about 6 minutes onwards. Sure, it’s a heavy weight, but I’m surprised his lungs don’t collapse: New exercises The age old adage in bodybuilding is that you need to be constantly ‘shocking’ your muscles. Monotony breeds muscle inertia, but, by the end of Shortcut to Size, I’d done 7 exercises I’d never done before in this form: • Standing pull-down • One arm cable front raise • Single leg leg press • Behind back cable curl • Reverse grip incline dumbbell press • One arm smith machine shrug • Incline cable curl How could I help but build muscle?
Confession time Forgive me Stoppani for I have sinned. I did not do any of the abdominal work (I’m not that vain) nor did I follow the diet (I simply don’t have the time at work to eat all those meals).