Bony to Beastly is doing great. Our guys are doing fantastic, and they’re a fun and supportive bunch. Every couple weeks a new jaw-dropping transformation hits the member area, but everyone who’s nearing completion of the program is kicking some serious ass.

Word of our bony-boy muscle-building spread across the interwebs, and we started getting emails from women asking us to make a program for bony babes.

Always up for an experiment, Marco ran a girl through our Bony to Beastly program, bicep curls, beastly eating and all.

The result?

She went off to compete in a  bikini contest. Good job Marielle

Aaaand we’re now beta testing a new program for women: Bony to Bombshell. We’ve just launched our first cohort of beta babes and we’ve got really high hopes. We’ve got a good mix of girls and so far they’re all a blast to work with. We’ve got slender model-esque girls looking to add some curves to their sleek frames, we’ve got a mother who’s married to one of our beasts (Jeff), we’ve got a couple very athletic girls looking to take their sports performance and aesthetics to a new level, and we’ve got a couple girls with “average” physiques just looking to come out absolutely irresistibly feminine.

What’s Bony to Bombshell all about? Muahaha it’s a strength training workout and nutrition program for women. A women’s weight gain program. Check it out!

And stay tuned for the awesome bombshell transformations to come!

Marielle completed Bony to Beastly, our program for MEN, and finished with one hell of a bombshell body, as you can see. Tight abs, round ass, womanly strong curves, and an hourglass physique.

Now, after many requests, we’re putting together a strength training program specifically for women—women looking to lose around 5 pounds of fat while adding a ton of strong healthy feminine muscle in all the right places.

This isn’t a weird fad or diet. Marielle got there by eating healthy and wholesome food and lifting weights—heavy weights. This is a program for real women looking to love life and build a jaw-dropping body.

Curious? www.bonytobombshell.com

Jared, Marco and I have been working hard to launch this program, and we’re happy to announce that after almost 2 years of research and experimentation, 4 months of rigorously testing this particular program, the hard work of our beta testers, and 3 months of long days of writing, our ectomorph muscle building program is finally ready! We actually had a pretty good time creating it—all three of us are long-time skinny-boys and extremely passionate about helping ectomorphs/hardgainers finally develop powerful physiques. You can read the story of our ectomorph transformations and how Bony to Beastly came to be here.

So what does the program do? At first our goal was to help ectomorphs pack on 20-30 pounds of muscle over the course of four phases. Jared and I, over the course of our initial Lean to Mean experiment, had managed to gain over 20 pounds of muscle over the course of 4 months while also finishing with radically lower bodyfat percentages. Pretty impressive results, and we finished looking and feeling like different beastlier versions of ourselves. After a year of research and testing, and with Marco now a member of the team we sought to improve upon those results in every way. This program will pack muscle onto your frame, radically improve your strength, improve your posture and alignment, improve your health, increase your bone density, up your athleticism, increase your testosterone and pheromone production, bulletproof your body from injury, and turn you into a powerful bear of a man.

A year later, with the initial version of our program ready to go, we recruited two trainees: Christian, my childhood friend, and Greg, who had stumbled upon our blog. I also started testing the program. Christian’s goal was to pack some muscle onto his “skinny-fat” frame, Greg’s was to add 20 pounds of athletic muscle to his naturally skinny frame.

The results? Christian gained 22 pounds on the scale and also lost fat. His best estimate is +25 pounds of muscle and -3 pounds of fat. What’s really impressive about that is that he hasn’t even finished the second phase yet! He’s around 10 weeks in and not even halfway through the program!

From Greg:

Spending a majority of my later teenage years at about 5’10 and 120lbs it’s safe to say that I was a pretty skinny dude. I enjoyed my fair share of sports but always seemed to end up with a series of nagging injuries that held me back. A few months ago I decided to address these injuries in the gym, while aiming to pack on some muscle in the process. While researching workouts for ectomorphs I came across Shane and Jared’s blog and was absolutely floored by their results. I left a comment on their blog and was super psyched when I got an email from Shane asking if I’d like to participate in their Bony to Beastly beta. Needless to say accepting the invitation is one of the best decisions I have ever made. In just thirteen short weeks I’ve gone from 133 to 155lbs while packing on insane amounts of muscle. The Bony to Beastly program helped me reach my goal so quickly that I’ve been forced to reevaluate and set new goals for myself. Shane, Jared, and Marco give you all the tools you need to succeed and leave you with no excuses. The B2B program provides you with a gold mine of knowledge including well crafted workout sheets, muscle building recipes, detailed videos explaining each and every exercise, and a user forum where you can share your progress with others as well as have all of your questions answered. If you are ready to make that change look no further because everything you need is right here. Hopefully I’ll see you on the forums!
-Greg

I personally gained 20 lean pounds in a little over two months of the Bony to Beastly programming, putting my initial transformation of 20 pounds over 4 months to shame. Now, almost finished the program, I’m leaner and more muscular than I’ve ever been:

With some small tweaks and refinements made to the program we welcomed in another bigger round of skinny beta testers. Most of them are just now finishing the first phase and have gained on average 9-12 pounds of muscle, putting them on track to gain 20+ pounds by the end of the second phase. The program, if anything, is working better than we expected! Check out our Facebook page to see a couple of the transformations.

We had a couple testers drop off the radar, as we expected we would. The program doesn’t work if you don’t do it. What we didn’t expect was that every single guy who put in the effort is outperforming our very high expectations and growing at a rate that even we find alarming. Obe gained 16 pounds of pure muscle in just 4 weeks and has scarily fearsome abs. Jeff radically transformed his silhouette. Everyone is just kicking ass. We owe all of our beta testers many thanks, and we’re really grateful for the effort that they’ve been putting in. With their help we’re confident that we’ve created the best program out there for ectomorphs. Hell, it’s probably the best program out there for people looking to put on muscle even if they aren’t ectomorphs (but it’s built for ectomorphs).

The program is now live and ready to go! You can find more details about it here. (I’m going to have to re-shoot that video now that I’m another 20 pounds heavier!)

We’ve already got some progress photos starting to come out

Check out the program. I hope you decide to join us!

In the process we teamed up with an incredible strength/athletics coach, named Marco. Marco had been in the same boat that we were—the skinny ectomorph boat. He has long lanky limbs, stands at nearly 6’4″ and struggled with his physique all through high school because he had no idea how to gain muscle. Over the course of 7 years he became a personal trainer, got himself a health sciences degree, interned at some impressive athletic performance gyms scattered throughout the states, and now coaches pro football players into putting on mass, increasing strength and improving their athletic performance — if there’s anyone out there that knows the secrets of how to gain muscle fast it’s Marco.

Jared and I became ectomorph bodybuilding “experts” coming at it from the other side — the geeky side. Jared and I, as you know, are graphic designers. We took to the internet and devoured every single article out there. We rigorously tested every ectomorph workout and diet that had valid research to back it up and  we kept track of a variety of metrics — body measurements, weight, fat percentage, strength gains, etc — as well as photo-documenting everything.

When we posted the results of our four month ectomorph bodybuilding experiment online we got a fair bit of attention from people in the exact same situation as us. I was getting a few emails every morning from ectomorphs that had seen our results and were trying to figure out how to gain muscle and transform themselves.

We decided to make an ectomorph workout / nutrition program with Marco with the goal of transforming an ectomorph into a man with powerful masculine physique and a healthy lifestyle. And we’ve developing an online ectomorph community to go along with it. So far I couldn’t be happier with it — we’ve got a rockstar team of beta testers that are doing phenomenally well. This program focuses on gaining muscle fast, sure, and it’s got a large emphasis on improving aesthetics through postural improvements as well. What really impressed us with Marco’s approach to training though is that it not only builds a physique that looks powerful — it builds a physique that’s athletic, healthy and functional. It will improve pretty much every aspect of your life, from how you look to how you perform and even to how you feel.

We’re really excited about this program. It’s the most cutting edge and in-depth muscle-building program we’ve seen on the market, and our beta testers are already seeing incredible gains to their muscle mass. As I’m writing this our oldest beta tester is 6 weeks in and up by 14 pounds while also seemingly losing fat. The slowest gains we’ve seen, 2 pounds / week, are actually really impressive as well, and puts them on track to gain 32 pounds of muscle over 4 months. Perfect.

And best of all, it’s now live! Check it out here.

Update: I’ll leave this post alive, but beta was a complete success. Read the full Bony to Beastly story here, and check out the finished program here.

We’ve officially entered closed beta for our upcoming ectomorph transformation program. So far our testers are up by 5-10 pounds of lean mass in the first 2 weeks — pretty good! And we think we’ll be seeing even better results soon as they fully gear into the program.

Our 4 month ectomorph transformation:

Read about Jared and I’s transformation here.

Two of our beta testers after just one phase (1/4 through the program):

Read about Obe here.

Read about Jeff here.

The program is 5 months long, specifically geared at skinny hardgainers/ectomorphs like us, and works through 4 phases designed to dramatically transform your skinny-boy bod into a powerful athletic physique. The goal is to get you muscle size in a rapid, functional and healthy way — which luckily is also the best way to achieve incredible aesthetics, strength and symmetry. Here’s an illustrated rundown of how our program packs muscle on an ectomorph frame while also fixing up posture (upper lower crossed syndrome):

After the first month alone you should be up 8-12 pounds and both your appearance and health will have drastically improved. By the end you’ll have a powerful masculine physique and a healthy lifestyle.

If this sounds like a pretty sweet deal you might be in luck—we’ve got a few spots left in our final round of beta testing. If that sounds like it’s up your alley here’s what we’d need from you:

1. Before photos, and photos every month for 3-5 months. Jared’s before photo poses are ideal. No fancy cameras or lighting required, but we do need those poses. We’d need a couple measurements too, of your biceps, thigh, waist and shoulder circumference. And we’d need your weight, taken first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.

2. A commitment to hit the gym 3 times a week for 1 hour each session

3. A commitment to follow the nutrition plan to the best of your abilities — you will need to eat a bunch of whole food. Supplements are totally optional. If you’re a vegetarian or a vegan that’s okay too, but it will make things more challenging on your end.

4. Being active on the forum, giving feedback on the program and keeping us up to date with your results, weekly weight gains, and monthly measurements.

In exchange for your promised efforts in the kitchen and gym, and for helping us shape and polish the final product, you’d get:

1. Access to the ebook and everything you’ll need in their raw but nearly complete form

2. Coaching from us to help you work through any trouble areas

3. Access to our brand new online community with us and our other beta testers.

4. 20-30 pounds of muscle in 3-4 months

5. You’d be helping us out a ton, and making this product better for all the skinny guys to follow

If you’re interested in joining in now and helping us shape the final product send me an email at shane@foxhoundstudio.com with the photos and measurements outlined above. We’re only looking for skinny ectomorph hardgainers that want to dramatically transform their bodies over the next 3-5 months. This isn’t something where you could pick and choose what to follow, take things at your own pace, and get your results slowly and steadily. The program is certainly flexible enough to allow that, but for the beta testing we want to try and push it to its limits and see how dramatic of a change you can make. We’re in the final stages of beta, so you’d need to be ready to start muscling-up right away, too.

If you fit the bill we’ll send along our content, give you access to all the training videos, and hook you up with a membership on our Bony to Beastly forum.

Ready to get in the best shape of your life and go from Bony to Beastly?

Hope to hear from you!

Update: I’ll leave this post alive, but beta was a complete success. Read the full Bony to Beastly story here, and check out the finished program here.

The holidays are over and our skinny man’s muscle manual is coming along well. We’ve got a lot of the content written up, a ton of great recipes, and this weekend we’re filming instructional videos that will explain the workouts. Stay tuned!

Our 4 month ectomorph transformation experiment results:

And Marco’s officially joined the Bony to Beastly / Lean to Mean team. If you don’t think he looks all that much like an ectomorph that’s okay — we don’t blame you. I met Marco back in high school and he was just as skinny as I was. Boy was I ever surprised to see him a few months ago at 210 pounds!

Here’s the skinny Marco that I knew in high school:

Ever see someone you like, but just couldn’t talk yourself into making the first move? Wish you’d done something about it? Electric Courage is all about that confidence. No, not the liquid kind of courage, but rather the electric kind. It’s a social app that lets you spark attraction and start real-time conversations with people in the same bar as you.

It’s dependent on your honey having the app, but if they do have it, it’ll send them a push notification with your photo and message. Pretty cool, right? We thought so, and we had a blast working on this project.

Check ‘em out: Electric Courage

What does it do? Posterboard is a social reporting app. It lets you snag a photo, post it to the app, rate other photos up and down. The cool thing about it though is that it’s location based. All of the photos are located on a map. You can prowl around the city using the map and see what’s going on around you in real time — check out the screenshots.

We love working with young entrepreneurs and cool tech start-ups, and these guys are one of the reasons why. They’re truly a wicked team to work with.

Check ‘em out: Posterboard

This time around we headed down to Manhattan for a week. We rented an apartment using AirBnB, which we highly recommend to anyone looking for more of a local experience and an affordable place to stay. We drove down in Jared’s old cadillac with our then-girlfriends and made a mini-vacation out of it. It was a pretty grand time. We love New York.

As per usual our time in NYC was incredible and our trip home was a nightmare! Right after we finished our (Jared got a tattoo!!) tattoos we went out and grabbed a bite to eat. By then it was starting to get late (10 or 11) so we decided we’d better start our trek back to Canada. The cadillac broke down right smack in the centre of the Brooklyn Bridge. Luckily it broke down right at the “top” of the bridge, so gravity got us down the hill and gave us enough momentum to turn into a sketchy side-street (Delancey) on the Manhattan side. The car rolled to a stop right in front of a really haggard looking discount tobacco shop. Gah… Two buff and cheerful drug-dealer types ran over and helped us push the car to the side of the street. A guy playing music out of his car speakers offered to give us his parking spot, and he moved up the street. It’s amazing how friendly people are. The two friendly guys that helped us push our car into the spot tried to help us fix our car and referred us to a couple of local mechanics — all of which were closed. By now it was around midnight and Jared and I were feeling a bit stressed. It’s one thing being on a sketchy street alone at night. We’re used to that. It’s an entirely different beast when you’ve got two beautiful girls that you adore with you. It ended up taking a couple of hours to find a tow-truck, but luckily for us the two friendly drug-dealers were working their street corner all night and they were the fiercest cats on the strip. We had to deal with a few troublesome people during the wait, but we ended up making it out of there just fine

We stayed an extra day while the car was being fixed… and we ALMOST made it back home before the car broke down again

Shane: 3.5
Jared: 1 (blog post to come soon!)

Other tattoo posts:
Skull
Whale
Shark