If you've been reading closely so far and understanding the concepts of my new Maximize Your Muscle program, then you've probably noticed several patterns by now. Each separate phase is four weeks of change and adaptation that boosts me- tabolism, stimulates new muscle growth and challenges your central nervous system.
All of these phases target a different goal, whether it's strength, mass, fat loss or endurance. However, they all work together to get you to one goal; massive muscle gains and serious fat loss. Most programs will get you to one or the other, sending you on extended cycles of bulking and cutting. This one accomplishes both by using advanced methods that keep your body guessing from one phase to the next and challenging your cen- tral nervous system to adapt to each one.
Train Your Brain, Change Your Body
This phase of Maximize Your Muscle is all about plyometrics. If you're not too familiar with plyometrics, don't confuse it with isometrics. Isometrics is all about stillness; plyometrics is all about movement. The purpose of plyometrics in this phase is to a) increase explosive- ness and b) train your central nervous system.
In several other posts in this series, I've talked about how you can use certain protocols to train your central nervous system to increase muscle fiber recruitment, speed recovery and increase motor neuron stimulation. This is another one of those phases, but the end goal is to use these neuromuscular changes to increase your explosiveness like never before.