Now let’s take a closer look at the
four ways in which high levels of
ATP cause anabolic effects
1. Deeper Fiber Recruitment
– Because high levels of ATP allow
you to “dig deeper” and grind
out about 40-50% more reps per
set, this activates many thousands
of latent muscle fibers that have
never been recruited before. And
this is why you train in the first
place… to “recruit” muscle fibers
so they can adapt and grow larger.
2. Increased Protein Synthesis
– Here’s something that will shock
you… Many scientific studies
clearly show up to a 50% less
ability to synthesize protein when
ATP levels have been lowered by
exercise! 50%... that’s a lot! So
the infusion of pure ATP into your
body is extremely anabolic and
anti-catabolic.
3. Increased Endocrine Function
– Remember, ATP is pure cellular
energy so every cell in the body
will work more efficiently, including
your Hypothalamus and Pituitary
glands which cause a natural
Testosterone and Growth
Hormone release. Also, low ATP
levels have been known to reduce
the rate at which the Leydig
cells (in your testes)
synthesize Testosterone.
So ATP is an “augmenter”
of your vital endocrine system,
not a “thief of it” like synthetic,
testosterone-based anabolics.
4. Increased Capillarization
– This is the training method
used by Arnold, Draper, Chuck
Sipes, and the rest of the “boys”
at Muscle Beach and Gold’s back
in the day. They were all “reppers”
grinding out 200-300 reps
per bodypart, per workout, and
that’s a lot of reps! But since they
were taking moderate doses of
red blood cell producing, and ATP
producing steroids like Dianabol
and Test, they could withstand
this type of training volume and
were able to “pump up” to such a
massive degree that they induced
a response called “Capillarization.”
This amazing phenomenon
causes an increased number of
capillaries, and since capillaries
carry blood, your “muscles grow”
by the process of increased blood
volume. Additionally, since capillaries
need nerves to compel them
to function, new “nerve beds” will
develop in skeletal muscle
which will further facilitate
deeper fiber recruitment
and thus more growth.
5. Massive
Thermogenesis
– In every fat cell there
is what’s called an A1-
adenosine receptor which
greatly inhibits lipolysis
(fat-burning). However, if these
receptors can be “desensitized” or
shut-down, they can no longer inhibit
fat burning, and fat literally
melts away. And the best way to
shut down these receptors is with
the chronic administration of A1-
adenosine’s natural agonist, ATP!
The reason for such dramatic fat
loss is because these fat storing
receptors become less “dense” and
less in number… thereby greatly
reducing the body’s fat stores!
Quite obviously, over time, this
effect becomes greater and greater
as more and more receptors
shutdown. In fact, after 3 months
of chronic administration of ATP,
A1-adenosine receptors downgrade
by up to 83%!
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9. Heavy Training:
Low Rep vs. High Rep
Heavy training can, and should,
be a part of your periodization
strategy. In fact, heavy training is
so important to talk about when
talking big arms, that it merited a
whole separate section.
A lot of people train individual
sets and reps in an exercise, or
they’ll superset or tri-set or giant
set. We recommend you doing at
least one of those every 10 days or
so. Train normally, and then crank
up the heat.
But what of repetition number?
This has been a hotly debated
issue for years now – to train
with higher rep or lower rep, and
whether to keep weights heavy
and still use high reps.
The answer is both.
Guys like Shawn Ray got to be as
consistently hard and conditioned
and full by training heavy almost
all the time. Not powerlifitng
heavy, but bodybuilding heavy.
And unlike a lot of other lazier
pros, he kept the intensity high by
keeping the weights high and the
reps high. On average, he would
train at least 10-12 reps per set,
sometimes going to failure when
he felt it was necessary.
Truly a “by feel” trainer, that’s
how you should employ rep and
set schemes. Pay attention! Pay
attention to anything and everything
that happens to you during
a workout. Eat to accommodate
training, not appetite and you’ll
have the energy to train heavy and
high intensity/ high rep.