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Summary: Essential Tool on the Path to Success
Review: This book supplies the tools to get into shape and grow lean and strong. It lays out everything from caloric intake, to lifting types, workout types and food suggestions. With self-discipline anyone can follow this plan and lose weight while gaining muscle. It provides pictures, charts nad tables to help you on your way. Furthermore, it gives you examples of how to set up a workout log. It has schedules for eaitng based on workout time and several recipes that are tasty and good for a man on the hard body plan. THis is the best body building book since Bill Pearl's Weight Lifting.
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Summary: A Good Book For The Beginner
Review: This is a very good book for the beginning bodybuilder and/or someone trying to get back into shape. It has all the exercise routines and diets to start off with. I have been pushing steel regularly for 3 years and this book had some good info. I'm not into training the total body in one workout but it will help beginners.
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Summary: Great book
Review: What I like best is that, as in a magazine article, the author quotes various professionals, including trainers, physiologists, and dieticians. The recommendations seem based on the latest research. That's refreshing for a subject that seems to have so many myths, tricks, and old wives' tales. Example: To build muscle, you should eat a huge amount of protein, right? Not really. This book explains why.At the same time, the book doesn't have a science fetish; it doesn't lecture or pontificate. Instead it's practical and concise. An easy read with just enough humor.
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Summary: By far the worst....
Review: workout book I have ever purchased. This book is basically a collection of articles from a men's health-type magazine. When I purchase a book, I expect more than "cut-and-paste" magazine articles binded together in one book. Don't waste your money on this one...
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Summary: By far the worst....
Review: workout book I have ever purchased. This book is basically a collection of articles from a men's health-type magazine. When I purchase a book, I expect more than "cut-and-paste" magazine articles binded together in one book. Don't waste your money on this one...
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Summary: Not a bad plan; Not fantastic, either
Review: Written in the style of "Men's Health" magazine, this book purports to give you a 12 week plan designed to improve your body. And it supposedly is written so that the beginner, advanced, or intermediate athlete will find the program right for him. The problem with it, is like many articles that appear in "Men's Health," this book is written to espouse certain beliefs the authors may have about weightlifting (they tell you to eat substantially less protein, for example, than you'll read in any other program), and in general, it's not quite clear that this book really is for anyone but the beginner. If this helps someone get their butt off the couch and start lifting, fine. If you're anything but a beginner, you've probably read better articles in "Muscle and Fitness" or any other book that targets you. "Men's Health" in general doesn't seem to really take into account the needs of the non-beginner, and that's a problem in all of their books. Still, there's no "bad" information here, per se. In fact they're virtually endorsing what veteran lifters know as HIT (High Intensity Training), which is almost a shock based on the traditionally bland and unsophisticated approaches of the magazine. This sounds like I'm trashing the book, but I'm really not. If you're a 30-something who wants to get in shape, this is a good book for you. If you've been lifting for more than a year, you'll probably find a lot of this pedestrian and uninspiring.
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Summary: Not a bad plan; Not fantastic, either
Review: Written in the style of "Men's Health" magazine, this book purports to give you a 12 week plan designed to improve your body. And it supposedly is written so that the beginner, advanced, or intermediate athlete will find the program right for him. The problem with it, is like many articles that appear in "Men's Health," this book is written to espouse certain beliefs the authors may have about weightlifting (they tell you to eat substantially less protein, for example, than you'll read in any other program), and in general, it's not quite clear that this book really is for anyone but the beginner. If this helps someone get their butt off the couch and start lifting, fine. If you're anything but a beginner, you've probably read better articles in "Muscle and Fitness" or any other book that targets you. "Men's Health" in general doesn't seem to really take into account the needs of the non-beginner, and that's a problem in all of their books. Still, there's no "bad" information here, per se. In fact they're virtually endorsing what veteran lifters know as HIT (High Intensity Training), which is almost a shock based on the traditionally bland and unsophisticated approaches of the magazine. This sounds like I'm trashing the book, but I'm really not. If you're a 30-something who wants to get in shape, this is a good book for you. If you've been lifting for more than a year, you'll probably find a lot of this pedestrian and uninspiring.
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