Bodybuilding training has become the most common fitness thing you see on social media outlets like Instagram and TikTok. While this type of content is incredibly popular, it is also common to find misinformation all the time.
Sagi over at Beachbody on Demand has apparently created a plan that cuts through this misinformation and will get you results. Let’s see if it is really true.
Before We Get Started, Let Me Say This…
Hey, it’s Kyle. I’m the founder of Noob Gains.
Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂
I just wanted to jump in here to let you know that the program you’re about to learn about might be a total banger… or a complete flop.
(I’m not going to spoil it just yet.)
And while it might do a decent job of getting you the fitness results you want…
There’s one program that I continue to recommend to noobs over and over again because of how effective it is at helping beginners build muscle and lose body fat with minimal effort.
Listen, if you want to build a lean and muscular physique that draws attention…
Without working out more than 3 days per week…
Without forcing down 5-6 bland, bodybuilder-style meals per day…
And without gouging your wallet…
You should consider Superhero X12 by Fit Mole.
Build a Superhero Body Without Training Like One
Getting in shape isn't easy. But this program gives you a real-life approach to building a leaner, more muscular body without obsessing over fitness 24/7.
“Kyle, I’ve never heard of whatever Superhero X12 is. Why should I trust you?”
First of all, you shouldn’t trust me. You shouldn’t trust anyone.
We’re all just strangers on the internet.
That being said, I’m going to do my best to show you why SX12 is a pretty good program for beginners that want to look muscular.
First of all, most workout programs are designed to leech your money and only help you accomplish one very specific goal.
“You want to lose body fat? Sounds good… here’s the program.”
“Oh, you want to build muscle too? Well, you need to buy another program.”
“Wait, you’re not a beginner anymore? OK, you’re gonna need to buy the intermediate program now.”
And on and on and on…
Wouldn’t you rather have everything you need to tackle multiple fitness goals in one place?
Superhero X12 is different because it covers ALL fitness goals.
It’s not just for losing body fat or building muscle. This program teaches you everything you need to…
- Gain muscle
- Build strength
- Improve muscle density
- Build definition
- Get completely shredded
- Take a more AGGRESSIVE shredding approach
- Or maintain the abs you already have
And it has workouts for both beginners and intermediates so you won’t outgrow the program!
| Feature | Superhero X12 | Other Programs |
| Fitness Levels | Multiple | 1 per program |
| Fitness Goals | Multiple | 1 per program |
| Workouts | 3x /week | 5x or more /week |
| Flexible Dieting |  | |
| Calorie Calculator |  | |
| Mindset Guide |  | |
| 2-Day Workout Option |  | |
You don’t have to waste money buying multiple programs because SX12 has specific workouts, diets, and strategies to help you do it all.
Second, a lot of programs completely kill your free time and force you to workout 5-7 days per week.
Often, brands use this as a big “selling point” for their program.
“Are you EXTREME enough to train EVERY SINGLE DAY?!”
Uh, maybe. But a better question is “why do this?”
Nowadays, we’re all busy as hell and we try our best to not let the few precious minutes of free time that we have slip through our fingers like grains of sand.
Personally, I’d rather train fewer days per week, and get back to watching Netflix.
On the other, Superhero X12 shows you how to transform your body in 3 very efficient workouts per week.
There are no unnecessary exercises and no time wasted.
If you can commit to 3 hours of training each week, you can create a great-looking physique…
And maintain it year round!
Finally, the diet portions of many programs are restrictive (and make you hate your life).
Bodybuilders have said for decades that you need to “eat multiple small meals throughout the day to build muscle”.
But guess what? Science doesn’t back this up.
For instance, evidence suggests it doesn’t really matter if you have protein coming in every 2-3 hours, and muscle maintenance is also unaffected by meal frequency.
Do you want to spend your free time portioning brown rice and packing tupperware containers? I didn’t think so!
Superhero X12 let’s you eat your favorite foods every day, have as many meals as you want, and still build muscle.
Do you know why young guys just like you are getting noticeable results on SX12?
It’s because the nutrition plan is easy to follow over the long term and doesn’t turn your meals into a chore.
You don’t have to force down bland, tasteless meals 6 times a day.
You can eat your favorite foods when YOU want to eat them.
But these are the reasons I keep recommending Superhero X12 to beginners:
- You can save money with a program that’s designed for multiple goals and experience levels
- You can spend less time in the gym by working out only 3 times per week
- And you can enjoy the process by eating foods you love at your own pace
But like I said, you shouldn’t take my word for it.
I’m just a random internet person.
Check out Superhero X12 for yourself and see what’s up.
Build a Superhero Body Without Training Like One
Getting in shape isn't easy. But this program gives you a real-life approach to building a leaner, more muscular body without obsessing over fitness 24/7.
About the Creator – Dr. Sagi Kalev
Not often do you have your fitness program made by an actual doctor? Sagi is not only an expert in the medical field, but he is also an IFBB Pro Bodybuilder. In fact, he is a two-time Mr. Israel and has won various other bodybuilding titles.
After serving in the Israeli army, he returned to weight training and started his career in bodybuilding soon after. Of course, he had to build up quite a bit of size – if you don’t know, bodybuilders can weigh close to 300lbs with 3% body fat.
Soon after winning the Mr. Israel title, he moved to California since the U.S. is the mecca of bodybuilding in the modern world. Not a long time passed before he was a prolific bodybuilder getting signed by various companies.
Overall, Sagi has accomplished quite a lot as a physique athlete:
- Senior Director of Professional Personal Trainers Association, a Professional institute for Fitness and Nutrition Certifications
- Repeatedly appeared on the cover of Muscle & Fitness
- Contracted with Lifewave & Impact Nutrition
- Created the Body Beast and Hammer & Chisel programs for Beachbody
Kalev has lived a very busy life and has probably trained in more different ways than you and I could even name. The beautiful combination of muscle and brawn allows him to potentially give the best kind of training information.
But has it really paid off?
The Body Beast program gets a lot of attention. Let’s see if this one deserves the same kind of praise as well…
Sagi’s BOD Exclusives Overview
Here’s a bit of information for you if you were unaware. Take it from someone who does this frequently: bodybuilding sucks. It is absolutely awful, but I’ll probably never stop. The reason for this is that I love it.
Preps, however, suck even more, and Sagi’s BOD Exclusives is actually focused on preps. Preps are, of course, the 12 – 16 weeks you spend trying to lose weight and fat before getting on stage. It is brutal, it sucks, and at some point, your body is going to just stop working if you mistreat it.
So if Sagi can nail this program, it might be revolutionary.
- Fitness level: Intermediate
- Duration: 12 – 16 Weeks
- Workouts per week: 6 Workouts per week
- Average workout duration: 20 – 44 minutes
- Equipment needed: Full gym
- Goal: Build muscle and lose weight
The big thing to remember about this plan is that this is technically just a collection of workouts. Unlike the structure of A Week of Hard Labor, you’ll be left to your own devices about when to train what.
Not only does this program lack a schedule, but it doesn’t have the following either:
- Nutrition guides, which are brutally important to being a bodybuilder
- Cardio guides would’ve been helpful, seeing as doing too little/much cardio can really impact your results
- Posing guides are also not included (good luck winning a show if you cannot display your muscles)
But at least it’s not filled with obnoxious supplement ads. *Cough cough V Shred*
There are some other videos included in the program, mindset tips or prep tips for men and women, respectively. This is great and might appear really informative, but I would’ve preferred the top three…
Sagi’s BOD Exclusives Details
This program is designed for individuals who are planning to stand on stage, so all the training is focused on heavy resistance training.
Training Like a Bodybuilder
Dust off your elbow sleeves. You’re moving lightweight, baby!
Bodybuilders are known for moving some heavy weight in the weight room, which makes sense seeing as they are some of the biggest human beings on the planet.
There are 6 workouts in total in Sagi’s BOD Exclusives:
- Back and Shoulders: This will be heavily focused on the lats, teres major, front, and medial delts. There will be minimal compound lifts like deadlifts.
- Legs: Depending on which division you will be doing, this will be more focused on the quads (anterior) or glutes and hams (posterior). There will be minimal compound lifts like squats.
- Chest: A typical chest workout, but don’t expect to find the bench press in here, as it is a very risky move for a bodybuilder in reality
- Bis and Tris: While everyday people might get enough stimulation from compound lifts to develop arms, as a bodybuilder, you will need to pay some extra attention to those.
- Core: This is a nice and dynamic workout that’ll help your abs pop once you are lean enough.
- Depletion: A high rep workout that is meant to deplete you once you get close to a show
Sounds great, right? Well, let me assure you these workouts have the structural integrity of an eclair.
They are all focused on super setting and just trying to rush through the workouts as quickly as possible. Bodybuilders don’t actually train like this all the time. While the super setting is a thing, there are zero bodybuilders that base their entire workout around them.
Bodybuilders are also focused on progression, specifically in the weight room. This means that they will track volume and load to make sure they are actually getting stronger week to week.
This is not even mentioned by Sagi, which is kind of disappointing.
Anything Else?
Honestly, not really.
There are about 10 – 20 minutes of other material on the program that can definitely be beneficial to a bodybuilder. Things like getting the right mindset, top 10 competition tips, or the whole life story of Sagi.
These are all wonderful videos that definitely carry substance, and they would be highly appreciated by someone 12 weeks deep in a prep doing two hours of cardio. That said, I cannot help but imagine you could find similar ones online or simply by following current bodybuilders.
Also, don’t think you will be getting any information on how to diet or how to pose. No sir, or ma’am.
You’ll have to go to other places to find out that vital information. This really lowers the credibility of the whole plan.
Bodybuilding is really only three things: training, diet, and rest. Missing 66.66% of the whole of bodybuilding is a catastrophic failure in my eyes.
The only other video uploaded is called the Total Body Beast Summit Workout. Just another workout you can do from the comfort of your own home really.
Which should almost never be the case seeing as bodybuilders will even plan whole trips around food or a gym. There is very little about it that is really special, and so saying anything interesting about it is hard…
Anyways, remember when shake weights were a thing? Wild.
The Biggest Sagi’s BOD Exclusives Pro
Its biggest pro also seems to be its biggest con. It’s not a program, just like Joel’s BOD Exclusives.
This is simply a collection of workouts that you can do in your prep, or even better, you can take ideas from the workouts to put into your current training plan.
You have the freedom to choose what would apply to you and what would not.
For instance, female competitors typically need to spend more time and energy on their glutes. For males, you are going to be focused on the V-taper more, and perhaps bigger bis and tris.
This also leads to the cons of the plan, of which there are many, but they do overlap slightly.
3 Sagi’s BOD Exclusives Cons
- This is not bodybuilding training: Bodybuilding training is hard, calculated, and progressive. These types of workouts are anything but and will be so hard to progress on you will surely burn out before you get on stage.
- This is not a bodybuilding plan: A bodybuilding plan has nutrition and rests guides, which this plan does not have. Thus, I do not believe they can market this as a prep guide.
- Boredom: While most bodybuilders are huge fans of monotony, there is zero discussion of dropping volume or changing movements based on your needs – such as the fact that you will get bored! Doing 16 weeks of the exact same movements can get tedious, and most will not be able to stick with it at all.
Sagi’s BOD Exclusives – Final Thoughts
It’s becoming more and more apparent that this plan was not made for bodybuilders. These are simply bodybuilding-like movements that have been slapped together. They then got the biggest guy over at Beachbody to support this and make a few videos.
This seems like a brutal verdict, and that’s because it is.
I am definitely biased, and bodybuilding is one of the hardest things I have ever done. This sport is so particular, so focused, and the fact that someone tried to dumb it down to this is almost laughable.
Is there anything about this plan that is good? Sure, there is always something good to be found. The workouts are fast, and they can help you build muscle.
Is it the most effective way for you to do this? Absolutely not.
The reality is that a bodybuilding program needs to be designed for you. Your training, nutrition, rest, and posing need to fit you. This is why 99% of bodybuilders use a coach that can personalize everything.
While Sagi’s BOD Exclusives is certainly not that, it can be effective for those who simply want a taste of what it is to be on prep. This might, honestly, be a good plan for a mini-cut phase after a bulking phase.
Otherwise, hard pass.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
