Brawn

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Summary: This is a great book for beginners in weight traning.
Review: I thought that the suggestions were well thought out and easy to implement into my own training regimen. I made some rapid mass and strength gains as well. This is the perfect book to help a beginner get started

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Summary: No B.S. advice for the newbie
Review: I'm fairly new to lifting (about 2 years) and have read a lot of material from a lot of "Experts". If your a genetically typical person (otherwise known as a "hardgainer") this book in an invaluable tool to help you see results. This book is a down to earth no BS veiw on how to acheive size and strength without using any supplements or DRUGS. McRobert is very down on the rampant drug use in bodybuilding today, in fact downright preachy.
Some may find it frustrating that McRobert does not give you specific routines to follow ("do it exactly like this and you'll be huge!")and this is mainly due to the obvious - not everbody is the same (Shazam! imagine that). What he does give you are the guidlines needed to put together a you're own program.
He also blasts many bodybuilding myths, and puts forth such heresy as only working out 2 days a week and sometmes 3 times every two weeks. Basically the "less is more" principle.
Whether you new to lifting or have been around a while, make sure you re-read sections of the book to make doubly sure you undstand the principles outlined. This is definately the book I wish I could have purchased 2 years ago, it would have saved me time and injury.

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Summary: In a class of its own
Review: I've read numerous bodybuilding books and magazines, and nothing has compared to this book. If you are interested in excercise from a no-hype perspective, without steroids or other pharmaceuticals and you want to build a strong, healthy physique, give this book a try.

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Summary: Excellent content but author needed an editor
Review: I've spent many long hours in the gym for 15+ years. I always modeled myslef after Arnold and followed his Encyclopedia of BB to the letter. At 240 lbs of muscle (6'2)I hit a brick wall. I just couldn't grow or get stronger. McRobert's book really turns the Arnold theory around. Having spent about 1 month now following the advice given in this book, I feel much more rested and ready to push to the limit. He recommends more compound movements whereas most BB mags push isolation. I am buying his later books also. Hopefully in these he will reveal to the readers how important it is to be a meat-eater if your goals follow what is written in his 1st book. 4/5 stars due to rambling writing style. Hard to follow.

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Summary: Strength and Body Building for the genetically average
Review: If you fall in the category of "gentically average" and 99% of us do, you cannot make progress using routines and methods promoted by the body building "muscle glossies". Stuart McRoberts understands this and takes a real world approach to becoming bigger and stronger. Buy this book NOW! It will change the way you approach strength and size training forever.

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Summary: The best book to begin weight training
Review: If you're just starting out or you've been a lifelong weight lifter you need to read this book. It is simply the best out there. It will guide you safely and effectively with no hype and unrealistic expectations. The author's committment to the safety of his readers is ovbious on every page. Please do yourself and anyone you know would benefit a favor and read this now. Especially important for young lifters to provide a sound basis for training.

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Summary: Realistic Common Sense Advice for Building Muscle
Review: Most of the mainstream media on bodybuilding peddles advice suitable only for supermen and sets up expectations that the average weight lifter can never achieve. "Brawn" gives common sense advice in a down-to-earth fashion. Even the scrawniest pencil-neck could not help but pack on muscle by following "Brawn's" advice. It won't turn Woody Allen into Arnold Schwarzenegger, but it will work a magnificent transformation in anyone willing to take the book's precepts to heart.

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Summary: Extensively discussing a variety of training approaches
Review: Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Brawn by body-building and weight-training expert Stuart McRobert is a no-nonsense, "user friendly" instructional guide to bodybuilding and weight training for improved personal health, physical fitness, and physique sculpturing. Extensively discussing a variety of training approaches and problems, as well as addressing injury prevention and other safety concerns, Brawn is a superb and enthusiastically recommended guideline to forming a personal plan of "do-it-yourself" physical self-improvement and fitness enhancement.

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Summary: Great book
Review: One of the few books out there that actually focuses on methods that really work! I've read other books on the subject but most of them discuss methods which probably work only on professional steroid-taking bodybuilders. His techniques are practical and best of all actually work!

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Poor writing style. This book could have been made easier to follow. The chapters are the only division of his ideas. There are no detailed explainations of the lifts. I would not recommend any of his diet ideas to anybody who cares about their physical health. If you drink a gallon of whole milk everyday, there is something wrong. If you want to get big and fat, buy this book. If you care about your health above becoming a monster then look elsewhere for a better book. I gave this book 2 stars instead of 1 because I liked his ideas on cycling. Also, I was happy that I got the majority of my money back by reselling this book.