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The 5-Minute Workout

Once we hit 20, the average American loses 5 pounds of muscle every decade. At the same time, we're gaining 10 pounds of fat.

That means we lose 15 pounds of muscle and replace it with 30 pounds of fat by the time we're 50.

The good news is — it's never too late to reverse this disturbing trend. The better news is that it doesn't take much time.

In a recent Growing Bolder segment, I asked Dr. Ellington Darden to create his shortest workout that can still achieve impressive muscle-building gains.

A while later, Dr. Darden invited me back to his private gym to try his routine. I made sure that I had my videographer along as Ellington instructed me through each exercise, repetition by repetition. From the first exercise, you'll see that it didn't take me long to feel my 56-year-old muscles contracting and stretching — with the necessary intensity — to become bigger and stronger.

Five minutes, two or three times a week, may be all you need to improve significantly your strength and fitness.

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• Bodybuilding

[werbeone]

Ellington Darden (PhD) has forgotten more about weight training than most of you critical morons will ever know! I had the good fortune of training with Ellington at Nautilus in DeLand, FL, and he knows his stuff! He no longer retains his massive physique because he no longer enters contests. This in no way means that what he says is BS! On the contrary, it's worked for me for over 40 years! If I couldn't train in this manner, I WOULD QUIT TRAINING! Follow his teaching. It works!

[induplac]

spade is homo loves to take it up the ass

[MyTrumpton]

HIT takes the fun out of working out. Plenty of people build good bodies, and they enjoy the process of working out, too. That's how it shoud be -- not super short workouts that make you feel as if you're about to die.

[faffaflunkie]

He probably ruined his workout by running the next day.

[lazur1]

1/Tell him to stop groaning. Relaxed, free breathing is relatively silent, more productive long-term, & safer. 2/ For as hard as Mark makes this out to be, he isn't breathing the way you do on the last rep to failure on the last exercise. Give this more weight or make him do more reps. I wanna hear some desperate panting, damn it!

[victorrod9669]

hes a beast

[DrewBaye]

@bootiack Let's see how well you look when you're in your mid 60's. For his age he's in very good condition.

[steroidsR4fantastic]

@xanthromera

he was a chriopractor and had a phd in nutrition... which he got from a bs weekend class he took at a fake colege lol

[express375]

Larry David!!!

[jrhafelein]

@eugdog106 .."...you are retarded."

See? I can write extra short and vague comments, too.

[faffaflunkie]

This is cutting edge. THREE EXERCISES to total failure once a week. And it works.