I need this program to build functional fitness for my job. I am a 43 year old Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps and have always struggled with bodyfat. This program can not only make me look better, it will make me perform better and possibly save my life and the lives of those around me. I also have a 1 year old who keeps me moving all the time. I’m not looking to increase body weight (currently about 245 and 6’6″ tall), just convert what I have from fat to muscle so I can throw around those young guys when we are training and the bad guys when we are not. And maybe turn a few of the Marines around me on to your program as well. Thank you for all information you have already provided us.

You don’t know how much you’d bee helping me out Lee by giving me one of the free copies.My last day of school was yesterday.It’d be really cool to go back to school with arms that fit my shirt sleeves,hulking shoulders,and a full chest.I’ve been working out for a while now but I’m 6’4 and i have to work way harder than the average sized man so this would help me out greatly Lee.You see i squat 300 lbs and bench 185 lbs but those numbers need to increase quite a lot for my body to look the way i want it to.Also,I’m training to be a professional mma fighter.And we all know you can’t be small and weak when mma comes into the picture.i know mma fighting isn’t near being a firefighter,policeman,or in the army.But hey we all got to start somewhere.Anyways i would strongly appreciate it and put it to good use if i received a copy of you and mikes new program.

I could really use this program! I have very minimal equipment, barbell, dumbells and a 4×6 I use as a bench. I am looking for a really good program, so that I can get the most out of my workouts. I have really benefited from all of your free material, so I am sure that this program would really help. I am a committed trainer, and I assure you that the program would be put to good use! Thanks, and keep up the good work!

At 43 I’m at a point where the quality of life while aging is a major concern . Having a strong body and mind is paramount and I believe aftrer much research that the CRITICAL BENCH system is THE road to the strength and mental toughness that I seek. In an age of skyrocketing health care costs,over processed foods,drug resistant pathogens,and high stress, having a disease and mechanical trauma resistant body is a premium. The discipline and hard work that it will take to follow the CRITICAL BENCH dietary and exercise regime will yield dividens in the form of confidence,focus and of course above all a healthy and strong body. I have personally used several mini routines from the free articles on the CRITICAL BENCH site with very good results !! So much so that I have decided to challenge myself and go with the CRITICAL BENCH SYSTEM. The no nonsense and straight forward advice given by Mike Westerdal and other pros on the site have been invaluble to me and he has earned my trust, I can’t wait to get started !!

My family is full of beautiful people. However, these genes seem to be recessive in me. Realising that I’ll never be pretty, I can at least be BIG! I’ve been very lucky to have friends who have assisted me on this journey, but I always welcome more help.

I was recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and my doctors along with everyone around me acted like it was a death sentence. However, all it did was make me word harder in every aspect of my life including fitness. I am still going to the gym 5 days a week and pushing more than i ever have and I want to continue improving because sky is the limit regardless of my situation.
Because i have a lot of time and finances dedicated to getting better, i cannot afford this program at full price and i do not have much time to work on a program that can even compare to it. A free copy would not only be greatly appreciated but it would be put to use from the minute i got it. I should definitely be one of the 5 people. Thanks in advance, Lee!

i need this program because i wanna explore and find out every possible way to improve my body and learn new skills and exercises and may be i can achieve my dream of being a personal trainer,because working out is the only thing worthy that i do in my life and the only thing i do well.
i’m 23 now, i started working out 2 years ago
(i should v started long ago,but i didnt hv the knowlege, the equipments or even the money to join a gym at the time) but now and i have gained about 40 pounds of muscle, but i kinda reached a plateau and i dnt wanna stop here, really the sky is my only limit, and what makes things harder for me is that im all natural, i dont use steroids, and all my friends who work out do use, and this hard for me to keep up with them its always like eveyone is a head of me, so i keep on finding new exercise tricks and ways in order to keep my muscle stimulated through strength training, toning, or density exercises, so thats why i need ur program because it may be a change for me and im sure im gonna learn some new ways from it that will help me in my mission, because i already learned out out a lot from ur site and many other exercises on ur youtube channel .

Because I want to be the best I can be. I am a powerlifter primarly, but also want the muscle. I see guys in their 50’s such as Tony Conyers,Mike Bridges & Skinny Man Tee Myers still doing some great, great lifting. While I could never lift like any of them – I want a program that will help me to be the best I can be.
I know yours can deliver the goods. While I only recently purchased the critical bench program – it did work !!!

So will your power bodybuilding!!!

i would like to recieve this book not because you feel sorry for me but if you understand what kind of person i am. i am 22 at the minute, 5ft 11 and weigh 9st 9lbs. in september last year i weighed 12st bang on. i have no idea how i lost this weight as i was still training at the gym 4 times a week. i still train at the same gym 4 times a week and cannot increase my muscle mass and strength to what it used to be. i am currently trying out for my local rugby league ( english american football ) but i have no chance of surviving and matches at this weight haha. please feel the pain i would go through playing rugby at this weight and cringe if you do not send me the book hahaha. cheers guys

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Lee, in finding your website last year,I have used some of your training methods. I would asked to be considered for the chance to use your program. I’m in my late forties and being in Law Enforcement, I need to be bigger,stronger and more muscular than most bad guys. when you go to a call for help and you bag the bad guy and walk away alive, then you go and do it again. The “dark side” trains @ times harder than we do in the L.E. profession,but as a DT Instructor I have to teach young cadets and older officers how to survive an encounter,which would help if I can teach them strength as part of their survial tool box.

Nothing increases the appearance of old age as much as puny muscles, pot gut, and gray hair.
As an experiment I have working with free weights. I have found that the more weight lifting I do the better I feel, I stand taller, sleep more soundly, and am more admired by both men and women of any age.
It is great to see the surprise of an older woman who grabs me by the arm and smiles when she realizes that the sleeve of my shirt is full of muscle and not just a bag of cloth. She even took a second feel to make sure!
A diet consisting of limited sugar increased protein and vegetables has dropped my weight by 10 pounds in the last couple of weeks. In the last month I have already gone from a flabby 38 inch waist to a trimmer 37 inches and still shrinking.
Lee; Thanks to your articles I think I can continue to increase my beef and decrease my BMI since the results are so much fun.
By following your articles, daily, I determined that I can be in better shape at 62 than I was at 50.

I’m 45, retired military, retirement lead me down the wrong path, i became…. well a couch potato. Upon my divorce, i looked in the mirror and saw what i had become, something in my mind snapped, i decided to do what i had always wanted to do, build a physique that could compete, show the world my what I’m made of, but recently three things have occurred my oldest son has a child and now my youngest is going to be a father, and i have a new wife. Fat out of shape people don’t live long, and even if they do their in no shape to enjoy life or grandchildren. I’ve turned my life around, i watch what i eat, i train, slowly but surely things are changing, and i realize that it will take time and effort, both of which i have. But i want things to go beyond mere change, i want to make an impact, and i can only properly do that with the right tools. I’ve watched and read allot of Lee’s posts, watched him online, gleaned all i could from his website and that has caused a steady upswing in the re-composition of my body. I feel that with Lee’s program i can attain what i desire. Lee stands out among his peers and i know he has the knowledge i need to succeed. I want to show people that there is no age limit to good health and proper physique.

Hey Lee, i really think i need this big opportunity that you are offering because lifting weights has become part of my life now. I started working out about two years ago and i was seriously just upset with my self all the time with the body i had. I was on the chubby side and i finally decided to do something about it and i decided to start lifting. Throughout the two years i have been lifting i have tried everything i have seen good gains and been through many road block because i don’t really see any results. I started researching bodybuilding and think that it has taught me good things about the proper ways to lift but now i am just looking for the perfect schedule to follow because the hardest thing for me is to help my self because i really don’t think i do the right exercises to get big but i can show people how to better themselves by lifting correctly. I would really appreciate this big opportunity that you are offering Lee.
Thanks for your time. Damian Ortiz

hey! im 14 years old. I am stuck on workingout. I trying to get strong for football season in highschool. I tried many things which helped me. But this one seems the best of all the other ones. I know muscle doesnt just appear in a week. It takes time for muscle to develop. But everything helps. If i win and this programs goes good i would metion it to all of team mates so they can go ahead and buy it too.

I currently work out at my high school and am a junior. I have been working out for 6 months and am still the same size and strength. I feel like giving up because nothing seems to work and I just search the internet all day. I always get laughed at by the other people in the gym because of my small stature and weakness. I just want to be able to show them up one day by being bigger and stronger than them everyday. I dream of this everyday and I know your program will work because you seem like a smart man.

Thanx, John

Lee,
i ordered your “blast your bench” program years ago(still have it on floppy,lol!),loved it!!! it was really helpful,but since then i’ve gotten caught up in the “rat race” you know kids,job ,schedules,yadda,yadda!
December of 2007, my father was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer, and after numerous chemo reactions, radiation burns,anemia,dehydration,and several other complications he passed away in june of 2008 at our home in mississippi. he never was much for taking care of himself, but was a helluva guy to everyone else!!!
That was the proverbial “slap upside th’ head! for me. i’m hoping that this program will be what i need to be the healthiest and strongest i can be and hopefully not end up like my dad. R.I.P Chief!!
david

this year i took a weightlifting class at my high school and got in there and my mouth dropped. everywhere i looked people were benching more than id ever seen in my life. i was embarrassed to even try to bench press because i thought they would laugh at me. so with this program hopefully i can gain some confidence and not be the laughing stock in the weight room. thanks lee

Well, I need a mass and strength program because, I have been the same weight for ages and it seems that no matter what I do I cant put weight on. Also I am a boxer and I find it easier fighting tall people and the heavier I get the taller they will be and also the strength side of the program will help me in the ring with my punch power and it will help me get my opponent against the ropes or in the corner. Also I am want to be in a body building competition soon, but I am not big enough at the moment and I think this program would help me achieve the size I need to enter a competition and to have a chance of winning.

I used to be an incredibly scrawny guy, which sucked because I am very athletic and played sports all of my life. I’ve bulked up a bit (still quite skinny though), but I have hit a plateau. I am not a bodybuilder, but, for me, the gym gives a focus to my life. Though I’m not lifting for competitions, I set goals, work very diligently to achieve them. Doing that in the gym helps me do it in the rest of my life. This program would help me achieve more goals. One such goal is in the bench press. I have recently dropped a lot of weight in my bench because I need to rework my form. I am down to benching 135. I would love to be able to bench 225. Help!

I could really benefit from this because I’m in wrestling and having this program would help me get the extra fitness edge on anyone who steps onto the mat with me. Also I’ve been lifting for about a year and a half now and have yet to find a program that has given me impressive gains, and I beleive thats what this will be able to do for me.

Bodybuilding a way of life that chooses the individual who has the desire to accomplish all they are capable in the realm of physical development. Ahhh yeah! Really who doesn’t want to be in the best physical shape they can and be big as well. I am 51 years old used to train in my earlier years. That time has passed, currently I am married to a wife much younger then I, we have a set of twins who are 3 years old and a 4 year old. Might as well say we have triplets. It is my belief that one day they will be attending school and one of their classmate will hit them with is that your grandfather. I may look like a Grandfather but I would like to have is the body of a Grand Stag. Yes big and bulky so what they say instead is “who is that gigantic guy with your Mom” (yeah that would be me). I believe I have the potential to be big once again. I am also no fool if it has been done and is proven then that is the method I will use. You are telling me this is what you have to offer and at my age I do not have time to try methods that are not going to work. Well, this is my reason for wanting a “Proven Mass and Power Building Training System” to help me achieve my fitness goals Right Now!

I’m 41 and up to 23-24 I was a quite good track and field athlete. I got even weight training and I noticed that I was stronger on max weights than my friends even if they were bigger than me. Then, for ten years I did no sports because of intense professional career and family reasons. About two years ago, before getting 40 I took the decision to not throw away my body and health because of lazyness and other excuses. I got the MGS Program from Jason Feruggia and I trained with quite good results. In the beginning it was hard but now I’m stronger than 20 years ago and this is a big result. All the way i noticed that I have big suffering with high reps (over 8) but no suffering with low reps very hight weighted. So i think that genetically i have much moore white fast fibers than red slow ones. I need a program to built them up in the best way.

I’m a old powerlifter from way back and now I’m thrown into this wonderful world of the bodybuilding lifestyle. March 09, I was 285 lbs. with a 48″ waist line. I am now 235 lbs. with a 39″ waist. I am 50 years old and I am getting ready to mass up and start this long road to my first show (next year 2011 in Reno). I am pretty good and the bascis, but, I need a lot of help the diet and phases that comes along with doing a show. I would be a great choice for this in that, I will bring home the trophy in my division and maybe the overall. One can only dream.

Building a strong and muscular body is important to me simply for the quality of good health and self confidence. Every older individual who hits the iron consistently I admire for the fact that they don’t act or look their age. When I reach “over the hill” I refuse to be limited to what I can do because I’m not physically fit and I would like to have the confidence still to be able to take off my shirt and not be self conscience about a spare tire, man boobs, etc. I need a ‘proven mass & power building training system’ to help achieve my fitness goal because it’s natural. I cannot emphasize how important it is for me to excell without having to resort to using anabolic growth hormones. I’m always trying new programs and ALWAYS research any kind of supplements before use not only because I’m diabetic but because it’s a healthier lifestyle. If it’s new and it’s proven and doesn’t involve drug use, I’m all about it. I do not condone, promote or associate with the use of drugs. programs like these are the best way to stay away from it as well as simple supplements and nutrition knowledge. LIFT FOR LIFE!

I need this program to put on mass because its hard for me too. I use the critical bench program but It’s so hard for me to gain mass. My dad is really skinny and so is my Grand father. I want to change this because im planning on having and kid and i don’t him, if it is a him, to go through the hardships i had. Ive been training for 3 years and yet i can’t put on any mass, it may be because im not that educated but i believe this is the way to BLAST out of this lifetime rut! I want to be fit and big like every man does! When i see pictures of Lee and Mike before and after it seems like your before pictures are bigger than me after, I am truly jealous. Sometimes I want to call it quits when i can’t gain after months of hard training but I do it for, hopefully, my future son! Help me get huge Mike and Lee!