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    Intro to Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET): Two Metabolic Weight Training Conditioning Programs for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain
    Intro to Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET): Two Metabolic Weight Training Conditioning Programs for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain
    Intro to Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET): Two Metabolic Weight Training Conditioning Programs for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain
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    Intro to Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET): Two Metabolic Weight Training Conditioning Programs for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain

    By Scott Abel

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    Metabolic Enhancement Training or just "MET," was designed to improve conditioning, build muscle and induce hypertrophy, and speed up the metabolism.

    Why do gymnasts, sprinters, and certain positions in the NFL look great year-round? What lessons can we learn from their training and training programs?

    Many of these athletes look as though they could step onto a bodybuilding stage "contest ready" and wipe the floor with the actual bodybuilders there, all without having to diet down for months on end, or doing endless bouts of cardio! They just look great every month of the year. 

    MET is the strategic combination of functional training movements with traditional bodybuilding training methods to induce hypertrophy, build muscle, burn fat, and increase your metabolism. Scott's been using it with his coaching clients for over a decade now. It's often used in conjunction with Scott's Cycle Diet approach for staying lean year round while gaining muscle.

    Whether you're looking for conditioning, muscle growth, training for a fast metabolism or just a workout to help you get abs, Metabolic Enhancement Training can help by introducing new totally training stimuli and movements into your current regimen.

    This booklet is an introduction to MET, with a full and complete 4-day program, plus a "figure" variation.

    Included are two 4-Day MET Hybrid Programs, consisting of various sets of quad-plexes. These are training circuits where you do the first set of exercise A, B, C, and D one after the other before taking a rest, then you go on to your second set. However, with both variations of these circuit training programs, there are specific guidelines to build up to the full four exercises over a few weeks, and then to taper down again at the end of the program. (For example, you start with just doing exercises A and B in the first week.) Both versions are good for the whole body, though the figure variation was designed for female figure competitors, so there's a bit more emphasis on glutes, capped shoulders, and that kind of thing.

    In these particular programs, if you want you also have full choice of exercises, so for example, for exercise A you can choose "any compound chest movement" or something. There is a list of exercises you can pick and choose. Also included are versions of both programs with all the exercises chosen for you, just in case you're not sure or are just getting started with this kind of circuit training.

    Here are the benefits of Metabolic Enhancement Training:


    • GROWTH and WICKED metabolic conditioning
    • Have FUN in the gym again
    • Neural activation
    • Learn new movements and push your body in new ways

    This is a healthy bodybuilding or weight training program for both men and women.

    Get your intro to MET training book now and get started with MET training today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Abel
    Release dateJul 24, 2015
    ISBN9781516346486
    Intro to Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET): Two Metabolic Weight Training Conditioning Programs for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain

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      Intro to Metabolic Enhancement Training (MET) - Scott Abel

      Scott and Kevin training in Scott’s home training Dungeon

      (High to Low Tubing Choppers)

      Tracy going through a quadplex in a figure program

      (Dumbbell Side Lateral Throws)

      The Focus of MET

      Create maximum metabolic effect.

      Heavy resistance. Note that body weight can be resistance, and this doesn’t need to mean low reps, nor does it mean single plane, single joint exercises (although these can be viable too).

      Time under tension and type of tension. Create metabolic stress 45-90 seconds and beyond, by using complexes. Train in multiple planes and multiple ranges of motion. Enhance excitation thresholds.

      Employ incomplete recovery and monitor your oxygen debt (heart rate monitors are okay, but your own subjective biofeedback is better)

      Maximize density of work (hence the complexes).

      Introduction:

      The Development of MET Training

      Put simply, Metabolic Enhancement Training (or just MET) is a term I coined a few years ago for a specific kind of functional training. Now, that said, there are a few different facets to it.

      We know that certain sports are more metabolically demanding than other sports. Certain sports also have different demands on muscle systems. However, everyone in the bodybuilding, figure, and fitness industry is generally more interested in cosmetic changes, and the actual training demand or fitness level of what they do doesn’t ever really enter into it. There are some exceptions, but the end goal is cosmetic; any training demand is a really just a means to an end.

      In and of itself, this is perfectly fine. It’s become obvious over the last few decades that traditional bodybuilding movements, contest preparation routines, and other protocols offer little in terms of metabolic enhancement, especially when you’re thinking longterm. They burn calories, to some extent, but metabolic enhancement? Nope. Sometimes it’s just the opposite.

      People that have been in this game a long time know that year after year, getting contest ready seems to get harder and harder, and more and more sacrifices need to be made. (Most of these are extremely unhealthy, partly because of the current drug-mindset that exists across the board in competing, and partly just because of short-term thinking.)

      I was never really a part of the whole bodybuilding subculture (and for that I am quite thankful!). Instead, I tried to embrace a different mindset and approach. I tried to see myself and those I coached as athletes. Why? Because when you’re an athlete, there is a lot more demanded of you, just in terms of honouring the game and being true to your sport. And with the mindset of an athlete, I was very fascinated with all the demands of other sports, especially physically, mentally, and metabolically.

      I’ve noticed that in the last two decades is that, in the bodybuilding arena, so-called athletes have lost their athleticism. Their metabolisms, instead of being stoked by activity, seem to be thwarted by it. I have studied and researched this over and over, and until I really started incorporating what here I am calling MET, I saw it in my own clients as the years progressed.

      Metabolisms just seem to get more and more sluggish, and results are more difficult to achieve and harder to come by. Partly of course this is age. But whether it’s bodybuilding or figure competition, this leads to really short-term, unbelievably dangerous practices. These metabolically and physiologically-damaging practices have become the accepted norm of contest prep in bodybuilding and figure. Metabolic Damage in figure athletes is becoming more and more an issue. This seemed like a

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