Putting the right combination of back exercises together can have a dramatic impact on your physique. For the Metabolic Masterpiece Prime Time Pump back workout I selected a superset between Pull-Ups and Dumbbell Pullovers to begin the workout. Check out this back blasting superset…

Sculpt a Masterpiece,

Scott Tousignant

About The Author

Scott Tousignant, BHK, is a Certified Fitness Consultant with a passion for transforming fitness enthusiasts into physique artists. His most recent program, Metabolic Masterpiece guides you through the process of sculpting your body into a work of art, by applying what Scott has coined, “The A.T.T.R.A.C.T. Formula.

With his synergistic, boredom busting body sculpting workouts you will melt stubborn fat and gain muscle while skyrocketing your metabolism!

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If you have hit a plateau in your journey to lose fat and gain muscle, it’s easy to blame your lack of progress on genetics. Now before I move onto the valuable lessons that I’ve learned about genetics, it is important to note that we do have some genetic limitations when it comes to transforming our body. I definitely acknowledge that. BUT, most of us are nowhere close to achieving our genetic potential or reaching those limits.

It’s my hope that today’s video lesson and my personal example, will ignite a fire under your butt to step up your game and make the absolute most out of the gifts that you have been given.

As I got older and entered my 20’s I began to train even harder, but I had a very difficult time gaining muscle. Here is a couple dorky pictures of me showing off, what I thought was a pretty good physique, even though I weighed only 123 pounds soaking wet Note: I’m 5′7″

Although I looked pretty good, I was a bit embarrassed about how small I was. A slight breeze could blow me over. I’ll never forget a moment when my girlfriend at the time introduced me to one of her guy friends. I over heard him tell her, “I thought you said he was big and muscular.” Wow! What a shot to the ego that was.

I couldn’t blame him though. I mean… look at those stick legs Yes, that was a nick name that I got at work too. Another blow to the ego. I had so many people tell me that I was genetically predetermined to have skinny legs and calves. So I believed them. It was easy to believe them. I hated training legs and never did. If I had crappy genetics, why bother training legs?

I was a bit discouraged and a self proclaimed “Hard-Gainer”. I thought it was damn near impossible for me to gain muscle. I was spending hundreds of dollars each month on supplements that were supposed to help me build muscle, yet it just wasn’t working.

So I went on training really hard and not getting anywhere. Then I opened my own health club, worked 16 hour days, ate like crap, and didn’t have time to workout. Kind of ironic eh?

For anyone who ever thought that I had amazing genetics that kept me lean, I sure proved them wrong when I gained 45 pounds at the speed of light. This was the most depressing time of my life and I’ve never felt more uncomfortable in my body.

This was definitely a time when I realized that I can gain fat just as rapidly as anyone else if I’m living a crappy lifestyle. It was also a time when I realized that, “Hey, I can’t possibly be a “Hard-Gainer” if I can get this fat this quickly.”

That was an eye opening experience and it was a time for me to re-examine the kind of workout and nutrition program that I had been following.

I’d love to say that the results happened over night, but the reality is that it’s taken years of educating myself, going through trial and error, and learning to listen to my body and what it needs to lose fat and gain muscle.

I have a photo shoot scheduled for 40 days from the time I made this video. It’s provided a huge motivational boost to blast through my plateaus and drive toward my genetic potential. The photo shoot also provides me with the incredible opportunity to capture my moment of success… To celebrate my victory… To see just how far I have come.

Before I show you where I am at right now, just 40 days away from the photo shoot, I would like to show you my previous photo shoot from a couple years ago…

I was really proud of my achievements back then, but I was still struggling with a limited mindset. I believed that it was incredibly difficult to build my chest. I thought that due to my genetics I could never have a big and massive chest.

Well, I may not have a big and massive chest today, but in the past few months it has grown pretty dramatically…

For my chest, it was a matter of narrowing my grip a bit, bringing the bar lower on my chest, and keeping my elbows closer to my body.

…that, and incorporating strength training into my workouts in addition to hypertrophy training. I had been neglecting strength training for years because of my lack of time and brief short bout workouts. These workouts made me lean, but I really sacrificed a lot with them.

The same was the case with my legs. Well, that and the fact that I never trained legs for many years, much like most young guys in the gym.

Above all, it’s my level of focused intensity. It’s that mind-body connection. It’s my ability to hear that inner voice say, “Stop at this rep, that’s enough” and block it out, then replace it with my conscious voice that says, “I know that I’ve got 2 more good reps in me. Push through it and show me what you’re really made of!”

It’s my ability to block out all distractions and really be in that moment. To feel that connection with the dumbbells and barbells as if they are an extension of my own body.

It’s also been my ability to create workout programs that challenge my body and forces it to lose fat and gain muscle. I give my body no option but to improve.

It’s only been a few months where I have this renewed passion for building my best body possible. This marks the beginning of something truly wonderful that I can’t wait to experience.

I have discovered a joy with fitness that I have never experienced before.

I have discovered a fascination with my body that I’ve never experienced before.

I have discovered that I do not want to settle for mediocrity… I deserve the BEST!

It’s easy to settle and give into the genetics excuse. But reality is that genetics only account for approximately 18% of your results. It’s what you do with the other 82% that makes all the difference in the world.

Are you willing to make the most out of that 82%, because that’s where your BEST Body awaits you!

Before you go blaming your lack of results on genetics ask yourself, “Am I REALLY doing everything that I can in order to make progress?”

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant and Vince Del Monte have been helping skinny guys gain muscle and lose fat for over a decade.

Vince is a national competing fitness model champion, the most sought out fitness coach in his area, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the world’s top muscle building course for hardgainers, No Nonsense Muscle Building.

Scott has overcome his “Skinny Guy” genetic limitations, igniting a passion to help his fellow hardgainers take their physiques to the next level. He’s been featured in magazines, on television, on the radio, and is the creator of the Metabolic Masterpiece Body Sculpting Workout Collection, designed to help you get RIPPED!

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I have another great episode of Live Large to share with you today. In this episode Vince Del Monte, author of No-Nonsense Muscle Building, takes you behind the scenes and into his muscle building and fat burning kitchen in addition to providing a great muscle warm up tip and lots of motivation advice…

Here’s a summary of what’s included in today’s Live Large episode wiht Vince Del Monte…

The #1 shoulder exercise to do before every workout to ensure they are juiced up and ready to lift strong and safely.

The absolute BEST fruits, veggies and fats to prevent muscle breakdown and keep your body in a muscle-growing state. Without these foods is like trying to swim upstream in Niagara Falls!

A really unique way to stay SUPER motivated. This tip is very overlooked and hardly anybody even knows it…

What you can learn about living large outside of the gym while riding the Hollywood Tower of Terror in Walt Disney!

The topic of stepping outside of your comfort zone really resonated with me today. Maybe that’s because I have a killer leg workout scheduled for today and I’m actually a little bit scared about it It’s week three of this program and the previous two leg workouts really took a toll on me (in a good way of course), but I’ve had to step outside of my comfort zone to complete the workouts. I know that this is a key to growth in all areas of life.

Enjoy today’s episode and be sure to let me know what you think.

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant and Vince Del Monte have been helping skinny guys gain muscle and lose fat for over a decade.

Vince is a national competing fitness model champion, the most sought out fitness coach in his area, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the world’s top muscle building course for hardgainers, No Nonsense Muscle Building.

Scott has overcome his “Skinny Guy” genetic limitations, igniting a passion to help his fellow hardgainers take their physiques to the next level. He’s been featured in magazines, on television, on the radio, and is the creator of the Metabolic Masterpiece Body Sculpting Workout Collection, designed to help you get RIPPED!

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It’s one thing to set a goal date to achieve your muscle building and fat loss goals, but it’s an entirely new ball game when you make the commitment to step on stage and compete on your goal date.

This picture of Vince Del Monte was taken the day prior to stepping on stage at the Fitness Atlantic Championships in the Fitness Model category. You better believe that making the commitment to enter this contest, forced Vinny to stay on track and become ultra-focused on achieving his goal.

This is definitely the biggest and most ripped that I’ve every since Vince. Every year that I’ve known Vince he has improved his physique dramatically and I can guarantee that he’ll look even better next year.

Now I’m not one to step on stage in a speedo, but I have found a way to experience a similar way to kick my results into high gear. For the second time in a couple of years I have scheduled a photo shoot on my goal date.

Scheduling a photo shoot creates an event around your deadline. It makes your goal at least a thousand times more concrete. It creates that sense of urgency. Here’s a picture of me 41 days away from the photo shoot. The pressure is beginning to kick in

One thing that Vince and I both have done to elevate our game is to announce our events and goals to as many people as possible. Public accountability is a massive driving force. Once you make your goals public it generates those feelings and thoughts of, “Well now I’ve got to get my butt in gear and make sure that I look amazing on my goal date.”

I encourage you to not just set a goal date for your muscle building and fat loss goals. Create an event around it and make it public. This will boost your motivation and create that sense of urgency so that you don’t put things off to a future date or blow off a workout for some lame reason.

If you have a goal date or event be sure to share it with us here. We’d love to hold you accountable.

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant and Vince Del Monte have been helping skinny guys gain muscle and lose fat for over a decade.

Vince is a national competing fitness model champion, the most sought out fitness coach in his area, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the world’s top muscle building course for hardgainers, No Nonsense Muscle Building.

Scott has overcome his “Skinny Guy” genetic limitations, igniting a passion to help his fellow hardgainers take their physiques to the next level. He’s been featured in magazines, on television, on the radio, and is the creator of the Metabolic Masterpiece Body Sculpting Workout Collection, designed to help you get RIPPED!

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Beach season is approximately 14 weeks away and I’ve been getting a head start with my current transformation program. My primary goal at the moment is to burn the fat off my body with a secondary goal of gaining some muscle. During the past 21 days I’ve been proving that you can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. Check out my pics…

Well, do you see some progress there? Can you believe that I achieved those results without counting calories and eating all this junk…

Multiple glasses of wine (on one occasion), 1 light beer (on two occasions), a few mixed drinks while on vacation (Rye and Pepsi Max), pizza (on two occasions), Spinach and Artichoke snacks, chocolate covered almonds, Girl Guide mint cookies, Veggie Stix (chip like snack), Peanut Butter Oat Bars, French toast, cheesy home fries, Cherry Cheese Cake, ice cream, Melba Rounds, coffee with half hot chocolate, homemade peanut butter cookies, homemade vanilla pudding, honey roasted peanuts, dill pickle chips, Breyer’s Vanilla ice cream, Breyer’s Dark Chocolate Velvet extra creamy ice cream, popcorn, and a Quizno’s sub.

Sure doesn’t look like any kind of starvation diet to me? What do you think?

I certainly haven’t felt deprived in the slightest since I embarked on the Transformation Fascination journey. I have enjoyed every bit of this process along with the results.

Check out everything that I ate, the workouts that I’ve followed, and my thoughts throughout this journey by simply clicking on the following link to download the most recent and updated version of Transformation Fascination.

My fat loss results are definitely obvious, but the really awesome news is that I’ve been building muscle at the same time. I’m noticing it in my chest, shoulders, arms, and legs. You really can lose fat and gain muscle at the same time and I will continue to be living proof of this throughout my transformation.

One valuable lesson that I have learned this past week is the power of experiencing quality sleep. We’ve heard it many times before, but very few of us do anything about it. After several days of quality sleep I was hit like a ton of bricks when I went one night with only five and a half hours sleep. I felt that for the next 36 to 48 hours. It impacted my workouts and my day.

After reading Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat book and watching his free videos at his Inflammation Theory website, I’ve really made it a point to get a great night sleep in order to create an optimal environment within my body to burn fat and build muscle.

To help me achieve the best quality sleep possible, I began listening to my buddy Jim Katsoulis’ Sleep At Will program a few days ago. These audios are totally melting my stress away and sending me into a deep and restful sleep. I’m loving it.

All in all, I’m ready to take my transformation to the next level this week. On day 28 you’re going to see some awesome results from me. I guarantee it!

Thanks for sharing this journey with me. Please keep me posted on your own personal body transformation and let me know if you’ve been able to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant and Vince Del Monte have been helping skinny guys gain muscle and lose fat for over a decade.

Vince is a national competing fitness model champion, the most sought out fitness coach in his area, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the world’s top muscle building course for hardgainers, No Nonsense Muscle Building.

Scott has overcome his “Skinny Guy” genetic limitations, igniting a passion to help his fellow hardgainers take their physiques to the next level. He’s been featured in magazines, on television, on the radio, and is the creator of the Metabolic Masterpiece Body Sculpting Workout Collection, designed to help you get RIPPED!

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I have another episode of Live Large to share with you today, which takes a behind the scenes look into the author of No Nonsense Muscle Building, Vince Del Monte’s kitchen, as well as a great warm up tip, and a great conversation among our fellow fitness experts…

In this episode muscle building expert, Vince Del Monte reveals the #1 exercise you MUST perform before every leg workout. I’ll definitely be incorporating this warm-up into my next leg workout. Vinny also reveals the top muscle building diet tips and he shares some advice about how to start a career in the fitness industry. You’ll want to check out the really cool segment with him in KeyWest Florida and some famous fitness celebrities toward the end of the video. Great discussion!

What did you think about Live Large Episode #2? Any take home tips that you will immediately implement? I think that the advice on cholesterol and testosterone were great tips.

Share your thoughts in the comment box below.

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant and Vince Del Monte have been helping skinny guys gain muscle and lose fat for over a decade.

Vince is a national competing fitness model champion, the most sought out fitness coach in his area, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the world’s top muscle building course for hardgainers, No Nonsense Muscle Building.

Scott has overcome his “Skinny Guy” genetic limitations, igniting a passion to help his fellow hardgainers take their physiques to the next level. He’s been featured in magazines, on television, on the radio, and is the creator of the Metabolic Masterpiece Body Sculpting Workout Collection, designed to help you get RIPPED!

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Since the age of 14 I have been completely fascinated with our ability to totally transform our body. This fascination is now at an all time high, igniting a fire within me to take my own personal body and life transformation to the next level. In the process it is my hope that you will also become fascinated with the human body and experience a fire lit under your butt to embark on your own personal transformation.

The Transformation Fascination report is a growing documentation of my ongoing body transformation. My goal is always to gain muscle and lose fat. Within this report you will see exactly what I eat and what workout I’m following. You will see daily pictures of my progress to see how my actions are impacting my physique. You will also hear my deepest thoughts about my progress, my body, and how it’s impacting my life.

My plan is to ease into this transformation. I’m not doing anything extreme. I’m not following any particular diet plan and I’m not counting calories. I will have a relaxed approach in the beginning and as I build momentum I will tighten things up, while adding some advanced techniques.

I do have a bit of an agenda with this relaxed approach. I want to prove that the diet world is getting a bit out of control and over complicating things. The majority of the population does not need to obsess over advanced nutrition strategies. What they need to do is simplify things and master the fundamentals. Advanced techniques are important, but they have their time and place. As you follow along with my journey, you will see when those advanced techniques come into play and exactly what they are. I won’t be hiding anything from you.

You can download the first edition of this report by right clicking Transformation Fascination

I will release a new edition each week so you can follow along with my progress and what I’m doing to achieve great results.

I’ve been documenting my journey in the Transformation Fascination report for the past 16 days. Here are my results from Day 1 to Day 14

In 14 days I’m getting a little more definition in my upper abs, my lower belly flab is beginning to melt away and flatten, my love handles are shrinking, there’s more definition between my shoulders and arms.

These results are far from extraordinary. Remember, I’ve just been easing into this transformation. I’m not going for immediate rapid and extreme results.

I achieved these results by eating, French toast, pizza, alcohol (rye and Pepsi Max), cheesy home fries, Cherry Cheese Cake, 1 light beer, ice cream, Melba Rounds, coffee with half hot chocolate, homemade peanut butter cookies, homemade vanilla pudding, honey roasted peanuts, dill pickle chips, Breyer’s Vanilla ice cream, Breyer’s double chocolate extra creamy ice cream, popcorn, Quizno’s sub, and homemade peanut butter bars.

If you’re wondering… no I am not doing cheat days. These treats have been spread out through the 14 day transformation. I’ve adopted Angie’s philosophies and lifestyle of consuming a small treat every day. It’s been working wonders for me.

This report also includes my reasons for documenting my journey, what I believe it takes to achieve an amazing body transformation, and my exact goals.

I’m looking forward to hearing your feedback after you read through the report. Based on your feedback I will add more info to the report, such as recipes and getting even deeper into my thoughts, motivation, and mindset.

I’m here to share as much about this experience as I possibly can and I am grateful that you are taking the time to share this journey with me.

I hope that this inspires you to take action and make today the day that you dedicate and commit yourself to sculpting the body that you deserve.

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant and Vince Del Monte have been helping skinny guys gain muscle and lose fat for over a decade.

Vince is a national competing fitness model champion, the most sought out fitness coach in his area, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the world’s top muscle building course for hardgainers, No Nonsense Muscle Building.

Scott has overcome his “Skinny Guy” genetic limitations, igniting a passion to help his fellow hardgainers take their physiques to the next level. He’s been featured in magazines, on television, on the radio, and is the creator of the Metabolic Masterpiece Body Sculpting Workout Collection, designed to help you get RIPPED!

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I’m a raving fan of Vince Del Monte’s show, “Live Large”. In this video series you get to go behind the scenes and witness what Vinny eats, his killer workout tips, how he stays motivated, and how he lives life to the fullest. Here’s episode #1…

In this episode Vince talks about a “Morning Ritual” that is? designed to alkalinze your body to combat the acidity we? create from toxins in our food and environment and to? ensure our bodies have the ability to gain muscle and lose fat.

What do you think of the tips that Vinny shared in episode #1 of Live Large?

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant and Vince Del Monte have been helping skinny guys gain muscle and lose fat for over a decade.

Vince is a national competing fitness model champion, the most sought out fitness coach in his area, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the world’s top muscle building course for hardgainers, No Nonsense Muscle Building.

Scott has overcome his “Skinny Guy” genetic limitations, igniting a passion to help his fellow hardgainers take their physiques to the next level. He’s been featured in magazines, on television, on the radio, and is the creator of the Metabolic Masterpiece Body Sculpting Workout Collection, designed to help you get RIPPED!

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