By Brian Bullman, BsC

For years athletes in the west have looked on enviously at their Eastern European counter parts when it came to competition. Their athletes were dominating not only on the Olympic stage but also in strength sports and even bodybuilding, after all the great Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former seven time winner of the Mr. Olympia title was from Eastern Europe.

One of these Eastern European athletes discovered by Max Muscle was IFBB Pro Manfred Petautschnig, weighing in at over 250lbs SHREDDED just wasn’t enough for the Austrian native, he needed to research and develop a technique that would help him surpass his already amazing levels of hypertrophy, but more importantly he wanted to be able to help others to do the same. His research led him to our scientifically advanced products and he combined them with the training principle of maximum volume overload – GIANT SETS!

After the fall of the Iron Curtain many of the secrets became known to us here in the west, as coaches and athletes alike defected in order to escape the clutches of communism. They took up roles in the west as coaches and doctors and our athletes once again began to dominate in international athletic competition.

No more was sport something that was merely a past time, no more was it up to the coach, who was most likely merely a former athlete, to get what he can out of an athlete by pushing them physically as far as they could go. Now we too had scientists dedicated to increasing athletic performance. Experimenting in fields such  biomechanics, sports psychology and of course exercise physiology.

This new field of sport science became so successful that we now have institutes dedicated to athletic performance. In one of these Sport Science institutes in Eastern Europe MM Sports Nutrition discovered a bodybuilder who displayed amazing levels of muscular hypertrophy and vascularity levels that were normally reserved for the FREAKS of bodybuilding such as Ronnie Coleman and Dorian Yates.

When I asked Manfred how he managed to maintain such extreme pumps and full vascular looking muscles, he told me that it was simple really, he broke down the workout from preparation to the actual workout and finally post workout recovery. He realized that the most critical point in his workout to infuse nutrients was that of maximum hyperaemia – which is defined as an excessive accumulation of blood in a part of the body – in other words THE PUMP!

 He went on to say “I thought to myself when this blood wave hits, I need to have MAXIMUM nutrients surfing that wave to the muscles engorging it with muscle building amino acids.”

This infusion of amino acids creates an inflated state of Muscle Protein Synthesis (MPS) however; this blood wave that you have saturated with nutrients can be turned into a muscle building tsunami simply by maximizing your pre-workout preparation, the workout itself and your post workout recovery. It seemed that we really were looking at a 3 stage system that would elevate your muscle building and strength gain into the stratosphere! So with this theory in mind, Manfred set about creating the Max Muscle 3 Stage System, a combination of MM Sports Nutrition’s scientifically advanced formulas and the hyperaemia inducing workout principle of Giant Sets, which allows one to push every drop of blood possible into the muscle!

Try the Max Muscle 3 Stage System for yourself – unless of course you don’t want insane pumps and unbridled muscle growth!!