How to Gain 50 Pounds of Muscle! Part 3: Bill Pearl’s Advanced Mass-Training This is the 3rd part of my Classic Bodybuilding series based on an article that the great Gene Mozee wrote for IronMan magazine in 1992. The first part covered the “Golden 6” training program of Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you’re a beginner, or if you need to get “back-to-the-basics,” then I would start there. The second part that I posted a few days ago was another full-body program based on Larry Scott’s Gironda-inspired mass-building techniques. I would advise reading those pieces first. And definitely don’t just leap into the training program presented here without a couple years at the minimum of (mostly) full-body workouts. Bill Pearl has long been one of my favorite bodybuilders. In another piece I wrote last year, I mentioned that I believe Pearl to be one of the 5 greatest bodybuilders of all time....
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