Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy.

And in this episode, you're going to learn just how quickly or slowly, depending on your outlook on life,

you can expect to see gains in muscle mass after you start a muscle

building program.

In today's fast-paced society of instant everything, where buying something online

without having to leave your house isn't enough, we also need it delivered the same day,

well, it seems to be getting harder and harder to wait for anything. Even fitness is

being rushed by people who seek out quicker and easier hacks to achieve what we used to be

happy to accept as a long, hard road to greatness. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think this is

necessarily a bad thing. It's really just the way the world is moving.

Although, with the new research suggesting that Arethro-Poietin, or EPO for short,

you know the substance that cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to using in his Tour de France victories,

well, apparently it doesn't actually work.

So maybe we've learned our lesson on

trying to take shortcuts? Well, probably not. But that's not what I wanted to talk about today.

We'll save that for another day. For at least 30 years, trainers, athletes, and scientists

alike have all assumed that gains made in the first few weeks

of a weight training program are an illusion. Not the kind that you see at a magic show or at a

science museum, but more of a biological sleight of hand. The sport scientists all agree that swelling

that's caused by muscle damage is what makes muscles

seem bigger and that for any real muscle size improvements, you'll have to wait at least

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