Product Description

This is a 512-page encyclopaedia on how to build a terrific physique. This encyclopaedia offers the key to your training success. By acknowledging your individuality, this book teaches you precisely how to train yourself. Become your own expert personal trainer! Whether you're male or female, a beginner or very advanced, young or not-so-young, want to train at home or in a public gym, this book is for you. Apply what you learn and success will follow! The 'how-to' guidance includes: why conventional training is fundamentally wrong and must be bypassed; how to overhaul your training philosophy so that you're destined for big gains; your ultimate size and strength potential, and the organisation to take you there; how to design and personalise your own training programs, step-by-step; how to conquer over training, maximise results, and never let age hold you back; how to eat in order to maximise your gains and improve your health; how to set up your own low-cost but super-productive home gym; and a real-life, step-by-step training cycle for you to learn from.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83160 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Customer Reviews

excellent
An excellent book for beginners or pros alike. It quashes what has become conventional body building training (the 3 or 4 day "split" routine) in favour of 'abbreviated training' which is done no more than twice a week (moving to 3 after a firm foundation has been set) and uses minimal excersies. This is how they used to do it before all the bull, endorsements and marketing crap took over. I took a course in gym instruction a few months ago and brought up some of the 'forgotten ways' outlined in the book and it seemed to fall on deaf ears! Very stupid and very frustrating because it seems every beginner out there is being taught completely the wrong thing. McRobert points out than unless one is genetically gifted and/or on steroids most people will never achieve the type of 'muscle and might' sold to us on a daily basis by most glossy mags, books and fitness centres. I worked with a semi pro bodybuilder for about 2 and a half years and over that time did a conventional 3 or 4 day split and ate 6 times a day. I did get bigger in that time but it was a very long process and I always wondered why I wasn't any bigger after all that time. Last year I bought this book after skimming it in a shop and I quickly noticed that it was telling me that everything I knew was wrong. Sticking to the basic compound movements and conentrating on getting stonger little by little is the name of the game here - none of this pulldown, kickbacks or dumbell flyes nonsense - it's bench presses, squats, deadlifts, dips, pullups and chins if you can bear it! I excitedly hit the gym after a year of no training and stuck to the rules outlined in the book. It bloody well works! I put 2 inches in my chest in 6 months and a year later my arms are feeling very tight in my shirts! If you've continously hit walls with trying to build muscle, ignore what others may try to tell you, get this book, eat properly and grow. This will work for everyone. I always classified myself as a classic "hard gainer" - 6'2 and naturally slim - no brawn anywhere and genetics nothing special. This way of training has made me feel like an easy gainer so I presume if you put on muscle easily it'll work even better for you - you swines!. There you go, can't sell it anymore than that can I? McRobert has a new book out so check that out too and I'd recommend his guide to weight training technique also.
Happy growing!

The best book I have ever read on weight training
I bought this book almost 3 years ago so have had plenty of opportunity to put what it advocates into practice. In summary I would say if you really want to learn how to build a strong physique without the use of performance enhancing substances this book has almost everything you need. I say almost because it doesn't cover workout technique, but Stuart McRobert has written another book covering this in detail.

Much of the advice in this book flies in the face of conventional weight training progams, however it honestly does work. If you are somebody who has tried traning 4,5 or 6 days a week on split programs, with comparatively little success, this book will open your eyes.

In summary a great book, with great information for anybody serious about weight training.

Just a repeat of Brawn + too long on one theory
This is basically a repeat of Brawn with extra pages. Those pages simply go on and on about the same theory, that of abbreviated training. Go for Operation Morpheus from area9.net if you really want a motivational and effective book on gaining mass drug free as the author does not accept that even the least gifted bodybuilder cannot get massive and ripped. It cannot be beaten.