The MI-40 Cell Expansion Protocol

With zero genetics, CEP can stimulate muscle growth!

In 2007 I hit a crossroads and decided that I would no longer accept mediocrity in my life. I met a man named Peter, who would later become my best friend, and he opened my eyes to understanding what training was meant to be, and more importantly, how to do it effectively and with purpose and how to manipulate training so that it was no longer taken for chance.

Peter taught me movement. The way a muscle is intended to move from a biomechanical perspective is the most important factor for determining how to do any exercise. It’s about being able to intelligently and strategically choose exercises that stress the muscle you’re intending to work and taking control of your workouts instead of mindlessly accepting that because you’re lifting a weight, something must be contracting. Well, you’re right, something is contracting but it’s almost never what you want it to be.

How about the “no-curl biceps curl,” or a bench press that doesn’t work your chest?

I see them both almost daily, yet the guys doing them think they’re doing something awesome to build huge muscles. I used to shake my head as I passed, but now I feel bad for these guys. They really just have no idea what they’re missing. Real control. Real muscle growth. Real physique changes.

Peter taught me tension. Muscles know tension and torque. Muscles do not know weight. Maximize tension and torque in a muscle with proper execution and proper conscious thought processes (where to place your focus, unlike as in the above chest press example), and you massively change your capacity to recruit and build muscle.

Peter taught me that genetic limits are a thing of the past. Not only was Peter the first guy to suggest to me that “genetics” was soon to be a thing of the past, but he opened my eyes to new research and the potential to create new muscle.

You see, new research indicates you can actually reprogram how big your muscle cells can get. Most cells in the body have a single nucleus, where DNA transcription or protein synthesis takes place. Protein synthesis is the means by which cells are rejuvenated and repair themselves.

Yet muscle cells are unique in that they have multiple nuclei. Why does this matter to you?

Well, in the simplest of ways, your growth is regulated by the amount of protein that can be synthesized in each given cell. No protein synthesis, no recovery, no growth.

Scientific research indicates that this seems to be one of the main reasons some people can train hard and not get nearly as much soreness as other people. They simply have more nuclei per cell to quickly repair and rejuvenate their muscles.

For example, a competitive bodybuilder might have 10 or 12 nuclei per cell, whereas you may only have four. He will recover faster, and you will feel beat up for days.

The bodybuilder can synthesize a lot more protein than you can within that muscle in a short period of time. He can train more often and still be able to recover from these insane workouts. This also seems to be why some people build muscle easily while others build very little.

This nuclei theory of muscular development may also account for “weak” body parts. Your strong body parts may have more nuclei, whereas your weaker ones may have fewer.

Does this mean you’re doomed to a fate of skinny jeans and pipe-cleaner arms forever?

Well, if the number of nuclei per cell is the limiting factor holding you back from building more and more muscle in less time, what if scientists found a way to actually increase the number of nuclei per cell?

As it turns out, research has now proven without a shadow of a doubt that—in response to extreme types of stress and extreme mechanical tension via exercise—there is a special type of cell that actually attaches itself to a muscle and “donates” a nucleus to that muscle cell to help increase the cell’s ability to recover.

The process is called satellite cell differentiation, and it can be achieved in literally four minutes using the technique I’ll explain right in this article.

Now, of course, there are a few known mechanisms of hypertrophy that can increase the size of your muscles. They are all important and recognized. However, this one in particular seems to be the missing link … the true limiting factor to new muscle growth.

Previously, we were limited in our growth potential by our ability to recover. Something called the “repeated bout effect” is known to be one of the most influential factors limiting growth potential. Basically, the more often you can train, the more muscle you can build. And training muscles once per week because we simply don’t have the recovery capability just isn’t going to cut it for “non-enhanced” athletes.

When you place a massive amount of stress on the tissue for a prolonged period of time (the extended time under maximal tension not possible during contraction), the body senses the increased stress and the demand for increased recovery capabilities. It subsequently sends satellite cells to assist in the recovery of that stressed tissue.

Satellite cells donate a nucleus to the stressed muscle cell in an attempt to assist it in the healing and recovery process. Once that cell has the extra nucleus, it seems to stay there for life.

The amount of stress needed to recruit satellite cells is very high—the type of stress that, until now, was limited to highly trained athletes, bodybuilders, and powerlifters.

However, using something called the cell expansion protocol, this type of stress is possible for anyone at any level.

The cell expansion protocol was constructed following countless hours analyzing and studying the results of the majority of available research studies done on muscle building and exercise adaptation.

After looking at numerous well-conducted studies, I put all the theories into practice and proved them in a controlled study conducted in an elite university performance lab. Using this study, I was able to determine which aspects are most effective when applied to building appreciable amounts of muscle over the long haul.

My cell expansion protocol (or CEP for short) is based on a combination of known factors of hypertrophy. The most recent breakthroughs in muscle building research have demonstrated two massively influential factors of hypertrophy that have previously been overlooked or seen as less relevant; we have learned how to put them to use to create muscle growth that most, until now, have deemed impossible.

THE 5 PRINCIPLES ON WHICH CEP TRAINING IS BASED:

1) Cell swelling
2) Intra-set stretching
3) Time under tension
4) Blood flow restriction (BFR)
5)Hyperemia (massively increased nutrient uptake)

As you take a closer look at CEP training, you’ll see that it will greatly maximize the hormonal effects of high intensity exercise, as well as myosatellite cell differentiation and new muscle growth. To help you fully understand the program, it’s best to take you through the entire process of each set and rep.

You can see me giving a detailed demonstration of CEP for biceps in the video on this web page: www.Mi40X.com

So, how does this weird four-minute CEP trick work?

First, it takes every cell in your muscle fibres and—via cellular swelling—expands them.

Training with CEP is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. And it takes a whopping four minutes per exercise to trigger the response.

So, rather than ripping all your fibres to shreds, you selectively stimulate. You use the four-minute CEP training principle to force these cells in each specific muscle into hyper-recovery mode.

Think about it: If you were to train the old-fashioned way, your cells would swell up temporarily. That’s the pump we all love, right? And as you know, that pump goes away.

Now, imagine if your pump never went away? What if you were given the key to “tricking” your muscle cells into expanding, and expanding. And your cells recovered so quickly, it looks as if you have a constant pump?

How would that feel? Amazing, that’s how.

Now, there’s a reason why this happens with CEP training, and not with any other form of muscle-building training. And why it cuts everyone’s gym time nearly in half at the same time.

It goes back to what I mentioned to you before: myosatellite cells.

We’ve proven that stimulation of muscle tissue using CEP training dramatically increases myosatellite cell production. Satellite cells are cells made by your body to help repair muscle damage.

So, just think about it for a second: CEP produces far more satellite cells than traditional training. That means you recover much faster. And faster recovery means faster muscle growth, because a muscle only grows during recovery.

Getting the really big picture now? Less time in the gym. Plus four minutes of CEP training at the end of a movement. And you get a ton more of your body’s most powerful muscle-building recovery cells speeding to your aching body parts. Blasting your recovery through the roof. And expanding the size, recovery capacity, and volume of each muscle cell.

Listen, they say seeing is believing. Yet when it comes to CEP, trust me when I say that once you feel the protocol for yourself, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. And because I want you to enjoy the benefits of this breakthrough new method, I provide a full step-by-step demonstration of CEP for biceps in the video on this page: www.Mi40X.com.