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You’re about to discover how to jack up your growth hormone levels by a pretty huge amount – 1700% to be exact.

And you won’t need to buy anything!

Just use a certain “cadence” when lifting.

Increased growth hormone will stimulate a release in IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor) helping you to grow faster...and lose fat much faster.

INCREASE GROWTH HORMONE 1700%

This comes from a study [1] conducted by some Brazilian scientists. They took 16 experienced lifters, split them into 2 groups and had:

1. 1 group do 8 reps at 70% of 1 Rep Max using a cadence of 1 second push, 1 second lowering
2. 1 group do 8 reps at 70% of 1 Rep Max using a cadence of 1 second push, 3 seconds lowering

They measured growth hormone levels for half an hour after the training session was over.

At around the 15-minute mark, growth hormone levels peaked for both groups, but were a massive 1700% higher in the slower negative group – the group that took 3 seconds to lower (technically called the ‘eccentric’ part of the rep).

That’s 17 times higher! The researchers concluded:

“Muscular adaptations result from a multifactorial process involving mechanical, metabolic, and immune/inflammatory factors in addition to various hormonal responses. Therefore, if the emphasis in resistance training periodization is to induce a greater acute metabolic stress and GH response, we recommend manipulating the eccentric movement velocity.“

 

I totally agree!

Those of you using my free THT training routine, know that I highly encourage you to CONTROL the negative on every single rep…of every single set…on every single exercise.

I say this because we have known for some time that this approach recruits more muscle fibers. But this new research really hammers the point home!

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So…stop “dropping” the weights after you’ve lifted them.

2 posts of mine related to this topic are:

1. Triple growth hormone levels in the morning
2. To grow, feel the muscle NOT the weight

 

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NOTE: You’ll also want to jack up and maximize levels of testosterone naturally. So I put together a short guide that reveals 8 ways to optimize test levels so that you can have more lean muscle, increased strength, increased energy levels and less body fat.

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Stay Motivated!

Mark McManus

Reference: [1] “Acute Effects of Movement Velocity on Blood Lactate and Growth Hormone Responses after Eccentric Bench Press Exercise in Resistance-Trained Men.” Biol Sport. 2014 Dec; 31(4): 289–294.