
About Paul Anderton
How my journey from 92Lb ultra-wimp to international competitor can help you to achieve fast results.
Journey from ultra-wimp to international competitor – all natural
You’ll see my journey (and accumulation of knowledge and experience in the time-line on these pages. I was very small and this was my motivation to start training. At 3rd year high school I was 33kg (72Lb). In my last year of high school I weighed 42kg (92Lb) and had started some training at that stage.
I matriculated and headed for university at the grand weight of 47kg (It took me a year of lifting and good eating just to get up to 102Lb!) I left university with a bachelors degree in engineering (electronics) weighing 67kg (148Lb) After eight years of training I had hit a max off-season weight of 73kg (161Lb) and competed ripped at 66kg (145Lb)
Around 2007 I was experimenting more with my theories and mathematical analysis on the factors that influence muscle hypertrophy as well as in-depth research into nutrition. I was training more intensely than ever before, noting, as I had throughout my life, my sets, reps, and weights.
I also started to question the impact on the variables in the training.
For instance:
If you shorten the rest periods, your intensity goes up (Work intensity) – but you might drop a few reps. If you increase your TUT per rep, you will increase the stress on the muscle, but again, you might drop a few reps because of muscle fatigue etc etc (more info in the ebook)
Eventually, I started to wonder . . . . So WHAT IS THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN ALL OF THESE?
It was at that time (2007) that I was experimenting more with my theories and mathematical analysis on the factors that influence muscle hypertrophy as well as in-depth research into nutrition. And then it hit me – the SECRET to muscle growth . . . And the factors we’d been missing all these years . . .
We know that for STRENGTH, we need to lift heavy – it is a matter of using whatever fast-twitch muscle fibres we have as efficiently as possible.But for MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY (GROWTH) – the key is Work Capacity – how much work you can do in a period of time whilst placing the muscle under stress – and this is a factor of the structure of the entire muscle – all the factors that help it perform – this is the muscle system!
And, to force it to grow, we must train it in a way that the muscle elements are all working – we must then find the optimal combination of training parameters that enable the muscle to perform at it’s peak (all elements maximally utilized)
This is how the AMMP(™) algorithm evolved - providing the analysis of the key performance factors that lead to hypertrophy. The data was time-consuming to interpret, so I then added algorithms that analyse all your past performance data and work backwards (reverse-engineering) to effectively predict the ideal workout targets.
Paul Anderton Competition history
- INBA Masters category:
- 3rd place, INBA Mr. Olympia, Masters, 2009, Gold coast
- 5th place, INBA Mr. Olympia, Open Short Class, 2009, Gold coast
- 3rd place, INBA Mr. Universe, Masters, 2008, LA
- 2nd place, INBA Mr. Olympia, Masters, 2007, Greece
- 1st place, INBA Mr. SA, Masters, 2007
- 2nd place, INBA Mr. SA, Masters, 2006
- "Most Muscular", INBA Mr. SA, Masters, 2006
