Page 6 - Old Man, Young Muscle - Ebook by Steve Holman :: Flip It & Read It

Doug also trashed the traditional he-man back

squat that most of us feared and revered as the
ultimate mass-building exercise. Blasphemy!

Then I saw that Doug had recently won the AAU
Drug-Free Mr. Universe at age 59 (see his photo)
using only the exercises he deemed

"biomechanically ideal."

I contacted him, and after hearing his analysis of the

perfect moves for each major muscle, I tried them—
at least the ones I could do with my limited
equipment.

I got some big pumps with only a few sets.

Also—and this is important— the joint pain I

thought I had to live with if I wanted to keep
working out into old age disappeared after only a
few workouts.

I was ínally getting excited about building muscle
Doug Brignole won the AAU Drug-Free M
again—safely and eïciently… Universe at age 59 using only the ideal
biomechanically correct exercises for eac
muscle. He taught this old dog, me, some
I decided to merge some of his ideas and exercises
new muscle-building tricks that were key
with my own research and techniques.
my latest muscle-building success using o
35-minute ultimate-exercise-based
What did I have to lose?
workouts. (Photo by Lance Kincaid)

At this point the waist of my trousers was creeping
toward my chest and shuðeboard was starting to look appealing.…

Shocking Most-Muscular Reality

I designed a couple of short 35-minute "precision" workouts, using only
moderate poundages—because that's all I had.

I emphasized the "ideal" exercises, followed by a set or two of other scientiícally
proven mass moves. But my workouts stayed at just over half an hour each

three days a week—upper body at one and lower body the next.

I was feeling great and could tell I was building muscle.

I just didn't realize how much until…