Visual Impact Muscle Building Review – Practical Considerations

Visual Impact Muscle Building Workout and Diet Facts

Okay, so you’ve decided to give Visual Impact Muscle building a try, what will you actually have to do?

• What commitments will you have to make?
• How much time will you spend in the gym?
• How long will it be before you see results?
• How much time and effort will you need to spend on diet?

These are the sort of questions that I will answer in this article, so that you can go ahead and do the Visual Impact Muscle Building Program more easily, safe in the knowledge that you know exactly what’s being asked of you, and what you need to ask of yourself.

The Workout Plan

Your training will be split into three phases, each phase is designed to give you a specific look, or affect your body in a specific way. Each phase builds on the last, leading toward that ‘Hollywood Lean’ look (think Brad Pit in Fight Club or Taylor Lautner in Twilight).

Rusty recommends that each phase lasts about 2 months, but gives guidelines for how you can change the lengths depending on where you start, how quick you adapt and how your muscle building develops. As I said in the first review, knowing how to individualise your program is hugely valuable and takes this program from a ’1 size fits all’ (and therefore perfect for nobody) to ‘truly effective for you’.

Phase 1: Building New Muscles

Massive Muscles are not necessarily attractive

The first phase is all about massive muscle growth. Rusty sets out a plan that forces your muscles to grow as much as they possibly can, every session will be pushing your body and your muscles to new limits.

During this first phase you will be doing a type of routine that builds cumulative fatigue. This is a method that is well proven in the weight room and pretty much guaranteed to give you decent results, as long as you truly put the effort in. After all you can’t expect your muscles to grow if you don’t push them! I would expect you to leave the gym after each of these sessions feeling truly ‘worked’, but also feeling satisfied that you have pushed yourself just that little bit further toward your goal.

One thing that I feel was missed was an explicit mention of logging your results for the purposes of knowing how and when to progress, and to monitor your progress. I guess this is explicit in the printable workout plans, but I would have liked to see it expressed more clearly.

As Rusty explains his rationale for the design of the routine, he lays out why it makes sense to group muscles together during this growth phase, and then to separate them during the strength and muscle density phases. I agree with this reasoning, and find that the progress you can make when you have grouped your workouts like this is greater than reversing it.

Phase 2: Muscle ‘Hardness’ Foundation

Daniel Craig showing decent muscle size, but not great definition

In Phase 2 you are going to take your newly grown muscles and make them look harder, whilst maintaining the mass you have developed. This is a trick that many miss, when going from a growth phase to a shaping, or cutting phase. Most trainees think that you must go higher reps to produce ‘tone’, but some advanced trainers know differently, and Rusty is one of them.

I have never truly understood the ‘high reps for toning’ routines, all you have to do is look at various types of athletes to see what the effects of high rep and low rep training will be. Want to look thin and weedy? Do high reps like a marathon runner or professional cyclist. Want to look like a sprinter? Do lower reps, keep the intensity high, and mix in some High Intensity Interval Training (anyone who’s ever done some 200m or 400m training will know what I’m talking about here).

What Rusty does in this phase is blend the effects of the first and third phases. Creating a mix of new muscle growth and forcing the existing muscle to look and feel harder, more dense.

Phase 3: Maximum Muscle Density

The typical 'athlete look' sprinter

You can think of this phase as preparing your muscles to look ‘shrink wrapped’. What does this mean?

It means that you are going to take the growth and pre-hardness you developed in the first two phases and cut that fat off, whilst making the muscles look harder. Think of it like this; your’re going from soft but big muscles to hard, full and useful muscles. This is the look that power and explosive athletes develop. If you’ve ever seen a martial artist at the peak of fitness during a contest you’ll know what I mean.

During this phase of your training you’ll be training your muscles and your nervous system to make those muscles look rock hard. Your strength will go through the roof, and you’ll leave the gym feeling like you could lift the world on you back, and have energy to spare. For anyone that’s never experienced this type of training effect, it’s superb, and addictive.

What about diet?

I realise I haven’t really talked about diet in either of my reviews so far, this is deliberate; I like to keep my articles reasonably short, and putting in my thoughts about Rustys diet and nutrition plan would take me well over my limit. Let’s just say that he takes a slightly different approach than most trainers, and it’s one I find effective and easy. Stay posted for my next review, which will take you through the details, and my thoughts about them.

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Postscript:

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