As you may already know the new version of the Adonis Index workout is going to be available tomorrow. Some of the insiders have already been using the new program and have seen the new manual.

Adonis Index Workout 3.0

We’ve given the program a facelift along with new information on topics and questions that have come up over the past year.

Each year we refine and improve the program based on feedback from everyone who is using it.

One of the biggest and most notable additions is the Muscle Index manual. this is a completely new way of measuring your progress and I think will eventually become the gold standard for measuring a well developed lean muscular body.

The main workout program and structure is the same, but we’ve refined the workout flow pattern and added a new foundation/beginner workout and included booster series workouts that used to be an optional item…we added the boosters this time because it seemed like lots of guys were using them with the main program with good success.

Some of the new stuff that is in here:

Giant Cycles and Mega Cycles

the “flattening effect”

Permission to be Light

New Information About Supplements

The “Slow Leak Theory” of muscle building

Each year the program grows to help serve you better. If you already have the system you get all of these new items for free. If you don’t have the system now is a good time to get it!

The Venus Index Workout

Venus Index is in the final stages and will be available the second week of November.

The Venus Index

In the Venus Index we will deconstruct many of the myths and fears that hold women back from really developing the body that they’re after. We’ll talk about the fear women have of lifting weights (as they don’t want to get ‘bulky’) and why endless cardio sessions without doing weights is never going to improve the look or shape of your body.

We’ll also tackle the body dysmorphia issue of believing that ‘lighter is always the answer’.

In other words the Adonis Index workout is about getting guys into a realistic attainable shape without needing drugs and helping guys get over their erroneous belief that they have to always be bigger. We give guys permission to be light and understand that having a great body isn’t about being as heavy as possible.

On the opposite end of the spectrum the Venus Index teaches women that the answer to a great looking body isn’t just weight loss at all costs. Developing and refining your muscle through targeted workouts is how every woman should work to achieve their best shape.

Body Fat Doesn’t Define You

Popular magazines directed at women talk about the various body shapes (apple, pear, banana, hourglass) as if this were really the only shape your body could be.

The truth is that these shapes are actually fat distribution patterns, however the true shape of your body is defined by your muscles. As you reduce your bodyfat level you can change this shape and start creating the shape you want by developing your muscles. This is what the Venus Index and Adonis Index workout systems are all about.

Finally we also try to keep things realistic and as simple as possible (but not simpler) with the structure of both workout systems and our nutrition philosophy.

Your Best Size and Shape has a Specific Weight

When someone says they want to lose weight what they’re really saying is that they want to change the look and shape of their body.

Weight loss itself isn’t much of a goal without a specific look that you think it’s going to produce.

In reality everyone that wants to lose weight is really after a specific look.

This simple thought experiment will prove my point.

Imagine an alternate world where weight didn’t add up to size…

In this world imagine someone who is 100lbs overweight, pretty big gut, big butt and big legs, flabby arms and just big all over.

Now imagine they lost 100lbs but their body stayed the same size but simply weighed less. In this imaginary world somehow dieting made you lighter without making you smaller. So your body could weigh 100lbs less but stay the same shape and size?

In this world do you think anyone would be concerned with weight loss? Ever? Not likely.

What they would really want is a way to change the size and shape of their body.

This thought experiment is to show you that ‘weight loss’ isn’t the goal, but rather changing the shape and size of the body is.

It just so happens that in the real world weight and size and shape are all connected, and we all have a specific weight range where we will look our best.

John

Best Sumo Wrestler EVER!

Body fat is distributed all over your body but it’s not an even distribution. For example there is a at least a little bit of fat stored in places like your forehead and the back of your hands, but obviously this isn’t a major fat storage site.

For men the main site of fat storage is the gut/belly, and for women it is a mix of hips/thigh/butt and belly.

Each person will have a slightly different specific pattern but the general trend for men and women are more or less the same.

There are different specific locations of the fat.

Visceral fat is the fat that is stored underneath your abs and is all around your organs. This is basically what makes up a ‘gut’. Researchers are finding out that this fat is what contributes to a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes)

Subcutaneous fat is the stuff just under your skin that you can pinch. This fat also accumulates in the belly area for a double whammy on top of visceral fat. Lower body fat is also subcutaneous.

Intra-muscular fat is within the muscles themselves.

We store fat close to the middle of our bodies simply because from an evolutionary and functional perspective it allows us to still move around and use our arms and legs.

Think of it the other way around. If we stored all of our fat in our arms hands feet and legs it would be a functional disaster. We wouldn’t be able to walk or move our arms.

So as people get heavier they start to look like a sphere, with the additional fat all accumulating in the gut and butt area.

The reason it seems to take so long to burn fat from these areas is simply because more fat accumulates in there.

It takes longer to remove enough fat from these areas to see a difference. So when you’re losing weight it shows up in places with minimal fat first, such as your face, hands and arms. This doesn’t mean you’re not also losing fat from your belly or hips/butt, it just means there is more to lose from those spots and it doesn’t show as quickly.

We don’t like to admit it, but many of us have or had enough fat stored in our bellys/hips/butt that a 10-20lbs loss still doesn’t look like much…that just means you have another 20 to go before these area’s really start to look lean.

Every fitness competitor and bodybuilder I’ve known or worked with is always shocked the first time they diet down and realize how much fat they really had to lose.

It’s always more than they think, and they always end up lighter than they guessed they would be by contest time.

John

Weight loss and fat loss are almost always assumed to be the same thing. Bodybuilders assume muscle gaining will translate in to weight gaining. And we all assume that weight gain in general means fat gain.

YOU are MOSTLY made of WATER!

To be clear your body is mostly water (see picture above), and most of your day to day fluctuations in body weight are due to changes in water and have little or nothing to do with changes in fat mass or muscle mass.

It’s not unrealistic to have a 4-5 pound swing in bodyweight throughout the day due to changes in water content.

If you’re trying to lose 1 pound of fat in a week, you’ll never be able to measure your progess on the scale considering your goal of 1lbs lost is approximately 5 times less than your daily fluctuation (5lbs).

If you’re trying to measure fat loss then you must take a long view and use monthly measurements and pictures/mirror check vs  daily or weekly scale measurements.

Daily and weekly scale measurements are more consistent with your current body water and food content.

The dramatic weight loss many people experience at the beginning of any diet is usually due to a large drop in body water content. Interestingly bodybuilders will ‘drop water’ with diuretics at the end of their diet before a contest and routinely lose an additional 7-10 lbs of bodyweight the day before a show.

note:

* Muscles are full of water so there is some decrease in muscle volume/hydration but the protein content does not change. *

In both cases the dramatic changes in bodyweight are solely due to changes in water and have little or nothing to do with changes in fat mass or muscle mass per se

John