Jay Cutler teaches you how to build mass for the rest of your life

Few bodybuilders have achieved the level of achievement that four-time Mr. Olympia has Jay Cutler. Look at the most important training-room lessons he has learnt along the road. When you're a well-known, successful businessperson bodybuilder, You're paid to go to the gym and bulk up. As a result, you may either work your way up the corporate ladder and make it large or you can find another job to pay the bills. Jay Cutler, four-time Mr. Olympia and king of the bodybuilding hill, is someone who knows a thing or two about muscle growth.. Even if you have no desire to compete in the Olympia Games, you may learn a lot from Jay's illustrious career. After all, success leaves behind traces. The most significant things Jay has learnt from working out in the gym and performing on stage? We recently met up with the Olympia's newest resident, a Las Vegas transplant, just in time for its 50th anniversary. STRENGTH TRAINING AND BODYBUILDERS Jay's training are as rigorous as they come, and he boasts that only a few other pros can keep up with him. But it's not extraterrestrial poundages that set Jay apart from the rest of the group. Jay even confesses that he has no idea how much he can bench press. "You shouldn't be worried with how much weight you can lift if you're a bodybuilder," he told Bodybuilding.com. "Everyone has a few lifts that they're really good at. Some men can bench press a lot of weight, while others cannot. I was one of those guys who could never curl much weight, but my arms were nearly 23 inches long." Attempting max lifts increases your risk of injury with no discernible benefits, says Jay. Instead, he chooses a weight he can lift for 8-12 reps. "For sure I could use more weight, but the focus when I was competing wasn't on building even more strength. I'm already pretty strong, but that wasn't the goal of my training." So what yardstick did Jay use to measure progress? "People want to judge progress by how much they can lift," he says. "That's absolutely backward from what bodybuilding really is. I just wanted to train harder and harder each workout. According to Jay, doing max lifts increases your chance of injury while providing no obvious advantage. Rather, he selects a weight that he can lift for 8-12 repetitions. "I could definitely use more weight, but while I was competing, the goal wasn't to gain even more strength." I'm already rather powerful, but that wasn't my objective when I started exercising." So, what metric did Jay employ to gauge his progress? "People want to measure their development in terms of how much weight they can lift," he adds. "That's the polar opposite of what bodybuilding is all about. I really wanted to push myself to work out harder and harder each time. I used to evaluate [a workout's success] by how sore I was afterward. I'd become very sore during the height of my career. I'd be in excruciating pain for days and days." FAILURE VS. VOLUME Jay has also abandoned another common training method used by many modern bodybuilders: going to failure. In fact, he claims he's never trained to failure on a single set in his 20-plus years of working out. While that may appear to be heresy, give him a chance. "You can't perform both high-volume and high-intensity at the same time," Cutler explains. "I'm a 20-plus set man," he says. Regardless of whether the body part was the chest or the biceps, I'd perform 20 sets. It didn't make a difference. It was up to 30 sets for the back. And there are 35 sets for the legs. Your neurological system can only absorb so much punishment. "Doing high volume and training to failure—even past failure—is just too much for me, for anyone." I've never thought it was essential to use a strategy like forced repetitions." Jay has used this high-volume technique for his whole career, even when he was just starting out as a bodybuilder, and he has seen instant results."For the past 20 years, I've very much been doing the same thing," he adds. "To be honest, I don't do anything special. I don't do anything fancy with my setups; they're all straight. The reason for this is that it has always served me well. I'm not sure why I'd want to modify something that's already functioning. I'd never had any serious injuries and had consistently improved over the years, so I didn't see the need in changing things up." REDUCING REST TIME AS A MEASURE OF PROGRESS Cutler's method isn't simple, despite the fact that the Massachusetts native doesn't train past failure. In reality, according to exercise science, determining an increase in overload is not restricted to weight or reps; it may also be achieved by reducing the rest time. Jay's exercise companions are left panting and puffing at this point. "There were a lot of males that observed my performance videos They assumed they'd be able to stay up with me since I never train past failure. They come here to workout with me, but they eventually pass out from exhaustion. They are unable to keep up with the pace. That's because my rest period between sets is about 45-60 seconds at most. It takes some time to become used to a rest period of 60 seconds or fewer, but many people find it beneficial particular training ignore this variable. Not Jay. When he begins his next set, he's still partially fatigued from the previous set, and that's his intention. Drenched with sweat, he rocks out set after set with minimal rest time. No matter. It's this relentless approach that sets the four-time Mr. O apart. "Some of the golden-era bodybuilders, from Arnold to Gaspari, trained this way with very little rest between sets, and I really think that's what bodybuilding is about," Cutler says. "It's about volume training, going in there and getting the muscle full, and damaging the tissue and then getting out of the gym so the process of repair can take place." This variable should be ignored. Jay is not one of them. He intends to be partly exhausted from the previous set when he begins his second set. He blasts out set after set with no recovery time, drenched in perspiration. It doesn't matter. The four-time Mr. O is distinguished for his unwavering attitude. "From Arnold through Gaspari, some of the golden-era bodybuilders trained this manner with very little rest between sets, and I truly believe that's what bodybuilding is about," Cutler adds. "It's all about volume training, getting the muscle full, injuring the tissue, and then getting out of the gym so the healing process can begin." Jay would claim that his education is as simple as it gets. "People nowadays complicate matters much too much; there is simply too much information available on the Internet. We didn't even read the Internet as much a decade ago. There were many misunderstandings about what I was or wasn't doing, but the fact is that I just trained harder than everyone else. I went to the gym and knocked it out of the park." DESTROY IT LIKE CUTLER