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TRAINING DAY: KAI GREENE

BY SEAN ANDROS // PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAVEL YTHJALL

Kai Greene’s leg workout was 
like a symphony. Not a classical symphony like a work by Beethoven or Mozart, but rather a symphony of 
organised confusion filled with dissonance and 
fury. There was a harmony of sets, reps, muscle and contractions that made beautiful music.

Greene’s mind is the conductor and his muscles are the orchestra. The weights are the instruments and the music is the physique he displays onstage.

Greene has developed a connection with his body that every bodybuilder should dream to achieve. His workout is all about this connection and his ability to harness it on that particular day. He is after a feeling, and once he gets it, he moves on. The onlooker might see only sets and reps; but a closer look reveals the masterpiece Greene is creating.

Follow along as Greene builds, refines and 
perfects some of the best wheels in the game. This is Training Day.

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BIG PLANS

BY JIM STOPPANI AND JOE WUEBBEN // PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAVEL YTHJALL AND KEVIN HORTON

If you think the world’s best bodybuilders use the same training protocols all year to add inhuman size and then rip it up come contest time (using the same programme) to take home the first-place hardware, as simple as that, we’ve got news for you. Jay Cutler, Phil Heath and others devise a carefully planned, yearlong training schedule so they can peak for the Mr. Olympia or other contests just as gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps does for the Olympics or World Championships. So if you want to be a little more like Cutler and Heath, map out a detailed plan that will have your body adapting to new stimuli so that you’ll make your best gains when you’re finished. And the best part? You just start up again so you can keep growing. There’s only one way to do this: periodisation.

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NUMBER 13

BY GREG MERRITT // PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL COMSTOCK

“Your best is good enough!” a voice bellows from the audience at the Mr. Olympia press conference after Phil Heath speaks. Cut to 34 hours later, and Heath is standing at centre stage shoulder to shoulder with Jay Cutler — his close friend, his mentor, the four-time and reigning Mr. O — and before their final pose, Heath claps his hands, savouring the moment he dreamt about for a decade, and grins that Gift grin as he winds up his most muscular, and any lingering doubts evaporate as he shows everyone — judges, journalists, fans and critics — in Orleans Arena and the bodybuilding world 
outside that this is his time, this is his stage, this will soon be his title. His best is good enough. He will be number 13.

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