I hope this isn't too off topic, but there was a little discussion a few weeks back about the Power of 10 workout and I wanted to share my experience with it and Fast-5. I got a used copy of the Power of 10 book and I've been doing the routine and it REALLY can be brutally tough if you do it right. You lift weights once a week, one exercise per body part, one set per exercise. Five to eight reps, ten seconds up and ten seconds down each rep. You really can't use heavy weights so check your ego at the door. ;) It's very much in the mentality of Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty workouts in that you do one set per body part per week. I'm used to that because I've done it for years. But ten seconds up and ten seconds down is ridiculously easy at first but as you fatigue it gets insanely difficult and painful. THEN on the last rep, after you can't move anymore, you keep pushing for a count of eight! I tell you, you need a week just to let your mind heal!
So I've done this routine for maybe 3 weeks now and I seem to be gaining muscle mass already. Fast five supports it very easily as the Power of Ten workout is only 45 minutes a week. The only change in my diet is that I'll eat a couple of extra eggs on the day that I lift.
I'm just really excited to have found a way to live that gets results so easily. Eat once a day, lift once a week. Fast-5, Power of 10. LOVE IT!
-Rick
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