Neil Hill Academy - Y3T

Last Autumn Andy introduced me to Y3T after he himself started a plan from Neil Hill.  After just a few weeks into the programme I started noticing huge difference in my strength and how I challenged  and pushed myself in the gym.  Not only this the "science"behind Y3T completely fascinated me and changed my whole mindset on training going forward.

Neil takes on 30 students every 6 months to train up in the Y3T system, however a place on the course is by application only.  I was lucky enough to secure a place out of over 250 applicants and start the course on Tuesday.

Quite a lot of my clients who I coach are now using some or all of the Y3T principals and have seen great results as well and like myself their mindset has totally changed on resistance training.

For those of you who have never heard of Y3T, it was developed by Neil Hill, the key fundamental principles of Y3T as a training system include a Multi-Dimensional Approach.  The majority of training systems out there are 1 dimensional and stick to one form of lifting.  The majority of people follow the same approach all the time the body then adapts to this and your left continually forcing adaption to happen and progress becomes hard to achieve.

Y3T is multi-deimensional for muscular hypertrophy.  It prevents the common occurrence of plateauing and works over a 3 week window, broking into 3 cycles.

• Week 1 Cycle 1, Heavy, compound movement with high volume and low reps
• Week 2 Cycle 2, Moderately heavy, compound & isolation movements with moderate volume and moderate rep ranges
• Week 3 Cycle 3, Low Volume, high reps, maximal intensity training, going to and beyond failure.

By utilising different rep ranges, training volumes and changing the overall emphasis was week Y3T is continually introducing a new training stimulus, which shocks the body into responding.  

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