Product Description

This definitive guide is for men and women of all ages. And it's for you if you are a beginner or even if you have years of training experience. Follow its proven instruction, transform your body, improve your health. You will learn: how to train - a step-by-step program of just two or three workouts a week; how to master exercise technique - the most complete descriptions on the market; how to avoid new injuries, and heal old injuries - a new approach; how to build a stronger heart from just 30 minutes of cardio work per week; how to eat for training success, and health benefits; and, how to lose bodyfat - an effective, practical, proven method.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95097 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

Customer Reviews

It's not like Brawn or Beyond Brawn
This is a great book for those who are new to weight training, but more advaced trainers will find little useful infromation. The whole book is basically a "how to" for begining wieght training. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have read Brawn or Beyond Brawn and like the rountines and training styles decribed within, I would hesitate before buying this book. This book is not a continuation of the Brawn Books. It has its own direction that focuses more on general fitness, and avoids deep discusion of Hardgainers and abbrevieated routines. AN EXAMPLE of this is most of the routines desribed in this book revlove around 2 full body workouts each week consisting of 10-12 exercises. In the Brawn books, Stuart refers to this as training suicied, yet it is recomended heavily in this book. There is roughly one half of a page that refers to abreaveated training methods like those used in brawn.
With that said, I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars for the updated content on exersise technique. It is also is a great book for beginers, compared to all the other awful choices of books on wieght training. I bought the book in hopes of furthering my knowledge about hardgainer style training, but was disappointed because of the lack of resemblanece to proceeding books. If I had to rate the usefullness of this book after reading Beyond Brawn, and being an advanced trainie, I would rate it 2 out of 5.

Build muscle>lose fat>look great... Its great
I must disclose my position prior to my review as I believe it has a stong influence on verdict. I am what many consider to be a 'hard gainer' , ie. I have great difficulty in putting on weight and muscle. I have only read one of stuart previous books - Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-training Technique. I have been extremely disillusioned with nearly all the bodybuilding guides written by various authors as the methods and techniques given don't seem to apply to me and presume a natural bodybuilding ability and a huge time commitment. 'Build muscle, lose fat and look great' is a complete and comprehensive guide for anyone like me, and communicates in very plain english exactly how to get to where you want to be physically. It contains a huge amout of detailed information. The routine, described as 'The Program' is very realistic in terms of time commitment and therefore achievable. So in conlusion, I highly recommend it.

A good compendium on weight training and general fitness
I highly recommend this book for beginners and experienced athletes, who want a refreshing view on modern training techniques. It is a very detailed book filled with good advice presented by the author in a very personal way. It is the first book I have read on this subject that contains in-depth information and guidelines on safety, risk factors, training moral & ethics, mental attitudes etc. I also enjoyed the chapter on "How too handle weights between exercises", a topic which is seldom mentioned in other books. The author has strong opinions on drug abuse in connection with body-building as well as the classical "myths" and general misinformation, which is widespread and accepted in many training environments.

The cover page and title of the book gave me a negative impression to start with (for me it sends the wrong signals). However, after reading it my opinion totally changed. The sound advice in this book made me change several exercise routines and quit using some machines, which I now consider to present a risk.