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Q.
There are all kinds of bodybuilding systems out there.
How does yours compare to the others?
A.
Today, it seems that
so many athletes
are searching for a
miracle supplement
or a miracle training
technique that will transform their
physiques overnight. What they
don’t realize is that they must take
a comprehensive approach to
bodybuilding.
At Parrillo Performance, we
teach you the basics. A set of interrelated
programs that are
“synergistic;” that is, they all
work together to produce the
best results. There are five interdependent
components involved:
proper nutrition, supplementation,
training, stretching,
and aerobics. These work synergistically
to produce results.
I’ll briefly explain each one:
1. Proper nutrition: This involves
training your metabolism to
partition food more effectively so
it can be used to burn fat and
build muscle. A diet that achieves
this is a high-calorie one (between
2,000 and 10,000 calories a day
or more) with five or more meals
spread throughout the day and
spaced two to three hours apart.
The meals in this diet should include
the proper combination of
lean proteins, starchy carbohydrates,
and fibrous carbohydrates.
This combination of foods
slows your digestion for consistent
energy levels and increased
endurance throughout the day and
provides a constant supply of nutrients
for muscular growth and
repair.
2. Supplementation: Vitamins,
minerals and electrolytes,
amino acids, medium chain fatty
acids, aspartates, lipotropics, and
other supplements increase the
nutrient density in body cells, activating
your body chemistry for
growth. Supplements, however,
will never replace proper nutrition.
Once you’re eating correctly,
supplements can be added to
your diet to maximize the results.
3. Workouts: The optimum
training routine employs heavy/
low rep sets to build mass and
thickness and high rep sets to
build shape and “cardiovascular
density.” By cardiovascular density,
I mean the size and number
of blood vessels. When this circulatory
network is increased,
more nutrients are carried to the
muscles while performance-inhibiting
toxins are effectively transported
away. All of this results in
muscular growth. In other words,
the greater your cardiovascular
density, the bigger you can become.
26 John Parrillo’s Performance Press • June 2000 Orderline: 1•800•344•3404