Colorado Experiment

During the winte of 1972-73', CASEY VIATOR, an advancedbodybuilder who I had been training for several years, and the youngest person to ever win the Mr. America contest (at age 19 years of age in 1971) was injured in an industrial accident, lost a finger and then almost died as a result of an allergic reaction to a tetanus injection; under the circumstances he had to stop training for several months, so he reduced his intake of food in order to avoid getting fat while out of training, and he lost both muscular size and strength but remained quite lean.

So I saw this opportunity to demonstrate just what could be done with a very brief exercise program, made arrangements with the Department of Physiology of Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, and went there for this research(really much more in the ways of a "demonstration" than "research"because I had a pretty good idea about just what the results would be), and this program was started on May 1 1973, and continued for a period of only four weeks, 28 days, until May 29, 1973.

Results?

According to the tests conducted by Dr. Elliot Plese and other doctors at the university, Viator gained more than 45 pounds of bodyweight while losing about 10 pounds of fat, which means that his gains in muscular mass was more than 60 pounds. Results that were produced by only 12(high intensity) workouts with an average length of less than 30 minutes.

                                    -Arthur Jones
                                    IRONMAN, Sept '93
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