"Return To Prime" Regenerates the Key Systems In Your Body That Decline As You Age So That It Can Physically SUPPORT The Muscle Mass It Used To... And Even Build MORE!

This is me, Nick Nilsson, with 16 years in between pictures...and I'm still holding onto ALL my muscle mass and strength now at age 50 that I had when I was 34, using the strategies I'm going to tell you about below.

(the first picture was apparently shot with a potato)

I've got a short video rundown for you here, if you prefer that to reading.

Aging Muscle Problem #1 - As you age, your body progressively eliminates the tiny blood vessels that feed your muscles.

As these tiny blood vessels (called capillaries) disappear, your muscles are no longer able get enough nutrients to support their current size... so they shrink.

Your muscles get smaller, and no matter how hard you train, you can't build them back to where they were never mind building them bigger.

Your Solution: Build NEW Blood Vessels With Angiogenesis Training

Angiogenesis is the process of creation of new blood vessels, specifically the capillaries where oxygen and nutrient exchange take place.

This training phase improves the blood supply to your muscles. The greater the blood supply, the more nutrients and oxygen your muscles will get, the faster waste products can be removed from the muscles, the better they can perform and the more they can GROW.

By improving your circulation in the first phase, we set the stage to make everything else you're going to be doing after that even MORE effective.

You can see a full chest workout taken directly from the program here (opens in a new window).

Your blood supply will be more efficient and your muscles will be able to more easily maintain their size and grow to their true potential when trained.

Aging Muscle Problem #2 - As You Age, Your Connective Tissue Dries Out and Healing Nutrients Can't Get In As Efficiently

As you get older, your connective tissue fluid levels diminish. Your body isn't able to push structural nutrients into the tendons, ligaments, cartilage and fascia as well as it used to.

This means your connective tissue gets weaker and weaker, and because injuries take much longer to heal, you shy away from lifting heavier weights because you don't want to hurt yourself... and this takes away the strongest reason your body gets to strengthen that connective tissue.

It's a vicious cycle of weakness begetting weakness...

Your Solution: Force Circulation Through Your Connective Tissue With Heavy But SAFE Compression and Decompression Training

This unique style of training puts steady loads on the connective tissue, which compresses it over a longer length of time than standard training. This effectively squeezes the fluid OUT of the connective tissue.

Then we decompress the connective tissue, which forces it to essentially SUCK fluid back in, creating a hydraulic or "bellows" effect.

By strengthening connective tissue, your body will no longer try to limit muscle size and strength in order to protect itself from high-level stresses and loading. The connective tissue will be able to handle whatever your muscles can throw at it and your muscles will GROW.

If you've never purposefully trained your connective tissue, you are leaving a LOT of pounds on the table in terms of your overall strength.

Your connective tissue will no longer be a weak link, holding back your strength and growth.

Aging Muscle Problem #3 - You're Losing Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers More Than Slow Twitch Fibers (And You're Losing THOSE, too).

As you age, your body starts to lose the larger and more powerful fast twitch muscles fibers...the ones that make you strong and explosive.

Part of this is because people tend to not move powerfully and explosively as they get older due to concerns about injury... (I'm looking at you, connective tissue).

Beyond that, just in general, the body starts to reduce muscle fiber number over time, making it MUCH harder to maintain muscle size and strength.

You're essentially aging into "hardgainer" status, even if you weren't one before.

Your Solution: Use Resisted-Stretch Training To Make New Muscle Fibers

Your overall muscle size is largely determined by the number of muscle fibers you have. Hyperplasia training, while controversial in humans, is designed to create NEW muscle fibers so you have more of them to work with. More fibers = more growth potential.

Resisted-stretch training has been shown in animal studies to result in 300% greater muscle size.

With the high-tension, high-frequency resisted-stretch training you'll do in Phase 3, you can achieve hyperplasia (via satellite cell activation) and get more muscle fibers so that you MASSIVELY increase your long-term growth potential.

The enhanced blood supply from the first phase and the improved connective tissue strength from the second phase allows you to push your muscle fibers to the limit and get the most out of this phase. If your connective tissue isn't strengthened, your body will shut down the set before you achieve optimum stretch tension.

The end result is you'll have MORE muscle fibers, which means instantly greater potential muscle mass.

Aging Muscle Problem #4 - Your Nervous System is Losing Nerve Cells and Your Muscle Activation Is Decreasing

As you get older, your nerve cells gradually die off and they CAN'T grow back (I've researched it and it's not currently possible).

As well, the ability of your nervous system to fire strongly and ACTIVATE your muscles fades, too.

This results in an overall decline in strength and power as you get older.

Your Solution: Make The Nervous System You've GOT More Efficient

Let's say most ordinary people walk around at about 50 to 60% nervous system efficiency. You've been training awhile, so you're likely up in the 70% or more range. Elite athletes can access 80 to 90% of their capacity.

What you may not realize is that yes, you're better at lifting now...but your nervous system is STILL not as efficient as it could be (unless you're an elite athlete!).

Even if you've been training for YEARS, you have a LOT of strength gains left in you...and a stronger muscle is going to be a bigger muscle. With the right training to UNLOCK your nervous system, you can be almost INSTANTLY stronger.

This is similar to how "weight class" athletes build strength without adding muscle...they're training their nervous systems to be more efficient and have greater activation.

After the first three phases, you've got more muscle fibers to contract, so you'll be stronger. Your connective tissue has been strengthened so your body won't inhibit muscle contraction power. Your circulatory system has been improved so you recover faster in between sets and workouts.

This is the phase where it all comes together, allowing you to build SERIOUS strength extremely quickly.

I've got a sneak peek of one of the nervous system "hacks" that will allow you to be instantly 10% stronger on dumbbell curls here (opens in a new window).

The strength is already in you... you just need to learn how to use it. I'll show you how.

The Bottom Line...

The Return to Prime program is designed to do just that...return to you to the prime of your life, when you could build muscle and strength much more easily because your body physiology was still in a peak functional state.

The training you'll find in this program can get you there...

It will be challenging, but YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY DO IT...and I'm here to help you every step of the way.

You're already working hard in your training... make the most of that effort with a solution to aging muscle that will make EVERY OTHER PROGRAM you do after it work that much better.

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To help you decide if this program is a good fit for you, I've put together an FAQ of the top questions I've been asked about it.

If you don't see a question that YOU still have about it, just hit reply and let me know! I'll be checking email frequently and I'll do my best to answer you personally as soon as possible!

1. Who Is This Program Best Suited For?

• If you just turned 40, now is the perfect time to hit this style of training and set yourself up to KEEP your hard-earned muscle...and build more, if that's your goal.
• If you're over 50, like me, you're getting into the critical time where the more you do to prevent the decline, the better off you'll be in the future.
• And if you're pushing 60 or 70+, this will really help bring your body back to where it was years ago. It's really like hitting a "reset" button.

2. Is this program ok for beginners?

Honestly, I wouldn't recommend it if you've been training less than 6 months to a year. Your body is still in the "beginner gains" rapid adaptation phase where you're actually getting a TON of benefits from normal training.

When you're ready, the program will be here.

That being said, I'm actually working on a more beginner-oriented version of this program that I'll be aiming to release early next year.

It'll include similar physiological goals but with more appropriate workouts for those who are just starting out in their training careers or are coming back from a long time away from training.

3. Will this program work for women?

Absolutely. It will work just as well for women as it does for men. The basic structure of men and women are essentially the same in terms of the physiology this program targets.

Women will benefit especially from the connective tissue training...it's incredibly effective for keeping the bones strong as well. I think mine are made of adamantium at this point, after 30+ years of doing stuff like this.

4. Can I be too old or too young to do this program?

I don't think it's necessary for a teenager to be doing this type of program...not dangerous, just better to focus on building an overall base of strength at that age.

As far as too old, nope! The only thing I would do recommend would be to adjust the training volume and frequency of workouts as needed. The actual workout protocols will be VERY effective, even at very advanced ages.

5. Is it potentially dangerous to train these aspects of the body's physiology?

In my opinion, it's actually worse NOT to train these things.

Weakness is FAR more dangerous than strength and the more you can improve these basic functions of the body, the better off you'll be, not only in muscle and strength but in overall health as well.

6. There are four phases of 3 weeks each. Do I have to go through the entire program straight through in 3 months?

Not at all! One of the nice things about how this program is split into phases is that you can do these phases on their own, in smaller chunks.

Want to just work on circulation? Do that for 3 weeks then move onto a regular program. Come back to the connective tissue phase when you're ready.

The changes we're aiming to make are persistant changes to your physiology.

Now, that being said, I think you WILL get the best results by going through all these phases in order together. I've specifically designed the program so that each phase builds on the previous one and sets up the next one.

But it's not 100% necessary and I'd rather you actually USE the stuff in the program, even if it's in chunks, rather than waiting for the perfect time to do the whole thing all at once.

7. Do I need to take a lot of supplements for this program to work?

There are a lot of supplements you CAN take, but not really any you MUST take.

L-Citrulline in the first phase and collagen/vitamin C in the second phase come close. Those supplements provide the raw materials needed to maximize the results of those phases and can really help a lot.

You can directly download the full Supplement Guide PDF from the program here so you can see EXACTLY what my supplement recommendations are!

8. Do I need a lot of special equipment to do this program?

Nope, standard free weights (and, ideally a rack or Smith machine) are all you need. Machines can be used, too.

I do include a section on training equipment and how certain unique items can be beneficial and useful for the training, but literally every part of the program can be done with just simple free weights like barbells and dumbbells.

9. Can this program be done at home?

If you have the necessary equipment at home, absolutely! This is a program that doesn't really lend itself to bodyweight training, to be honest, though.

10. Will I look stupid when doing these workouts?

Well, I will tell you straight up that people will likely wonder what you're doing and you'll potentially get questions about it. A lot of it is VERY different than what anybody else in the gym will be doing and that will get attention.

The exercises themselves are primarily variations of normal movements that you're probably already doing...it's just HOW you do them that will be different.

Once you explain WHY you're doing what you're doing, you may get even MORE questions... feel free to send those people my way!

11. Do I need to follow a specific diet while doing this program?

Nope, but I do have some dietary recommendations that can help with the program.

For example, in the first phase of training to improve circulation, we want to have plenty of carbs available as they increase your body water levels. Increased water levels means your muscles are more hydrated and your blood vessels are more "full."

If your carbs are reduced, your muscles will be flat and you'll have a harder time getting that important pump that really blows open those new blood vessels.

12. How long are the workouts and how many times per week do I do them?

Most of the workout are 45 minutes to an hour. During the Hyperplasia phase, the longest ones can go 90 minutes, but I'll show you how to trim those to an hour, if you need to or prefer to.

Most of the training weeks are 4 days...the Hyperplasia phase is 6 days a week.

That phase is unique in that while we are doing high frequency training, it's not super demanding because you're not really lifting anything for most of it (you'll see).

The good thing is, if you need to add in more rest days or reduce the frequency of the training, you absolutely CAN. Just as I said above with doing the program straight through, I'd rather you actually USE the workouts and get the benefits, even if that means stretching out the 3 week phases into 4 weeks by doing three workouts a week instead of four.

13. Will this program help me lose fat?

Not directly. It's not targeted for fat loss (that's a whole different set of training methods!). It WILL, however, help a lot indirectly.

When you're able to hold more muscle mass on your body, that means you'll have an overall higher metabolism. You'll burn more calories 24 hours a day when you have more muscle.

14. Can I do this program if I have previous injuries or issues?

You can, but HOW you do it will depend on what those injuries are. As we get older, we tend to become a bag of injuries (me included). Personally, I can't do a single rep of an upright row without my shoulders screaming at me, and when I was in my 20's I pulled something in my back so bad I could barely move for days. When you push yourself, things sometimes happen.

So as with any program, learning how to train around prior injuries or issues is important. And this program is not rigid in terms of you MUST do very specific things. There are ways to work around just about anything...and you can certainly avoid movements or methods you're not comfortable with and work with the stuff you ARE.

Phase 1 References

- What makes vessels grow with exercise training?, Prior BM, Yang HT, Terjung RL., J Appl Physiol (1985). 2004 Sep;97(3):1119-28.

- Regulation of fiber size, oxidative potential, and capillarization in human muscle by resistance exercise, Green H, Goreham C, Ouyang J, Ball-Burnett M, Ranney D., Am J Physiol. 1999 Feb;276(2 Pt 2):R591-6.

- Effect of high intensity training on capillarization and presence of angiogenic factors in human skeletal muscle, Jensen L, Bangsbo J, Hellsten Y., J Physiol. 2004 Jun 1;557(Pt 2):571-82. Epub 2004 Mar 12.

- Muscle capillary supply and fiber type characteristics in weight and power lifters.Tesch PA, Thorsson A, Kaiser P., J Appl Physiol Respir Environ Exerc Physiol. 1984 Jan;56(1):35-8.

Phase 2 References

- Implications for connective tissue and bone alterations resulting from resistance exercise training., Stone MH, Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1988 Oct;20(5 Suppl):S162-8.

- From mechanical loading to collagen synthesis, structural changes and function in human tendon., Kjaer M, et al., Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2009 Aug;19(4):500-10

- Effects of continuous and intermittent forces on human fibroblasts in vitro., Carano A, Siciliani G., Eur J Orthod. 1996 Feb;18(1):19-26.

- The Role of Mechanical Loading in Tendon Development, Maintenance, Injury, and Repair, Marc T. Galloway, MD, Andrea L. Lalley, BS, and Jason T. Shearn, PhD, J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2013 Sep 4; 95(17): 1620–1628.

Phase 3 References

- Skeletal muscle fiber hyperplasia,. Antonio J, Gonyea WJ., Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1993 Dec;25(12):1333-45.

- Motor unit fibre density in extremely hypertrophied skeletal muscles in man. Electrophysiological signs of muscle fibre hyperplasia.  Larsson L, Tesch PA:  Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol 1986, 55:130-136.
- Satellite cell activation in human skeletal muscle after training: evidence for muscle fiber neoformation., Appell HJ, Forsberg S, Hollmann W., Int J Sports Med. 1988 Aug;9(4):297-9.
- Progressive stretch overload of skeletal muscle results in hypertrophy before hyperplasia. Antonio, J. and W.J. Gonyea, Journal of applied physiology, 1993. 75(3): p. 1263-71.

Phase 4 References

- Neural adaptations to resistive exercise mechanisms and recommendations for training practices. Gabriel DA, Kamen G, Frost G. Sports Med. 2006;36(2):133-49.
- The effect of a complex agonist and antagonist resistance training protocol on volume load, power output, electromyographic responses, and efficiency. Robbins DW, Young WB, Behm DG, Payne WR. J Strength Cond Res. 2010 Jul;24(7):1782-9.
- Changes in dynamic exercise performance following a sequence of preconditioning isometric muscle actions. French, D.N., Kraemer, W.J., & Cooke, C.B. (2003). Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 17 (4), 678-685.
- Postactivation potentiation response in athletic and recreationally trained individuals. Chiu, L.Z., Fry, A.C., Weiss, L.W., Schilling, B.K., Brown, L.E., & Smith, S.L. (2003). Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 17(4), 671-677