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Summary: NO B.S. Weight training. Intelligent and insightful.
Review: Want to get big and strong? Want to stop wasting your hard earned cash on fad supplements and tricky training gear? Get this book and it'll change your idea of what weight lifting and strength training are all about! I too began lifting weights at a young age. I never consistently stuck with it because I was discouraged. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the kind of physique I was seeing in all the major magazines. WHY NOT?... I was doing precisely what they were telling me... I was working hard and training like a fool, yet I couldn't get ripped and big and muscular like the guys in the mags. I tried everything short of steroids and nothing but NOTHING worked. That is, until out of sheer frustration (and spending literally thousands of dollars on supplements, training gear, fancy machines and memberships to designer gyms) I decided to order a book I saw advertised in the back of one of the more respectable 'Natural' Muscle building magazines. I read Stuart McRoberts book and it blew my mind. After all the hype, all the crap that is shoved down the throats of weight training enthusiasts... this book spoke the truth. The simplistic, natural, sane truth about bodybuilding. Follow the simple precepts of this book and YOU WILL succeed. McRobert explains in easy to grasp way the amazingly non-complex path to acheive your goals through his credo of "Basics, 'Breviated and Best". Don't get me wrong... McRobert also blows the lid off the weight training myths that anyone can acheive the body of Arnold, Corey Everson, Lee Haney or whomever the latest 'hot' bodybuilding star is, if they just work hard enough and buy a certain magazine and every freakin' bodybuilding product said magazine has to offer. I KNOW this book works. Several months after being on one of the routines from Brawn, I was working out in the local gym with my nephew. We were doing military presses with some impressive weights when one of the local bodybuilding legends walked by... he stopped dead in his tracks. Eyes bulging and jaw dropping he blurted out "What kind of 'juice' are you guys doing!!??" We laughed and shook our heads... that was confirmation enough. My first copy of Brawn is trashed so I'm back to order my next copy. I'll probably end up buying the rest of the series too. Yes! It's that good! WHAT?... you haven't ordered it yet?
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Summary: Very redundant and very poor writing style.
Review: When I was 20, I started to stagnate at 150lbs, and refused to use drugs. I didn't know what to do. I was stuck.
So I read this very book, especially the parts on cutting back, and cycling, and the logic of abbreviated routines.So by the time I was 23, I was up to 195 solid muscle. On 2X/week drug free training only! It simply worked...why? The average natural, undrugged body simply does have the recovery ability to handle much more training. That is the point. This isn't a judgement call, its a fact. Thats why people sit in the gym month after month an never grow, and then are begging their drug dealer to help them after a year of this, because their friends is getting huge off of sustanon, deca and winstrol. These drugs will effectively double your recovery ability, allowing a 4 day split routine or more. Natural muscles need to recover and feel "full", so that you can blast away at them at a higher weight. Plus, if you use compound joint movements like dips or benching, split routines breakdown for natural trainee's because, a bench on one day, will not allow recovery time for the tri's on the next day or even two days after. Hence the need for full body workouts. The logic of the book is obvious, and rational. Its the only way you can gain properly off of a non drugged routine.
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Summary: The only natural training program that works
Review: When I was 20, I started to stagnate at 150lbs, and refused to use drugs. I didn't know what to do. I was stuck.
So I read this very book, especially the parts on cutting back, and cycling, and the logic of abbreviated routines. So by the time I was 23, I was up to 195 solid muscle. On 2X/week drug free training only! It simply worked...why? The average natural, undrugged body simply does have the recovery ability to handle much more training. That is the point. This isn't a judgement call, its a fact. Thats why people sit in the gym month after month an never grow, and then are begging their drug dealer to help them after a year of this, because their friends is getting huge off of sustanon, deca and winstrol. These drugs will effectively double your recovery ability, allowing a 4 day split routine or more. Natural muscles need to recover and feel "full", so that you can blast away at them at a higher weight. Plus, if you use compound joint movements like dips or benching, split routines breakdown for natural trainee's because, a bench on one day, will not allow recovery time for the tri's on the next day or even two days after. Hence the need for full body workouts. The logic of the book is obvious, and rational. Its the only way you can gain properly off of a non drugged routine.
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Summary: This book is awesome
Review: Without a doubt, the best serious book around on bodybuilding. The information is intelligently ordered and precisely delivered. Most bodybuilding books consist of glossy pages with lots of white space and nice big pictures of roid-filled freaks posing; this book is the very opposite. It contains serious detail geared toward the drug-free hardgainer and tons of useful, workable and practical advise on routines, technique and exercise selection.
The author is a very decent guy too. I wrote to him and, a few weeks later, I got a hand-written reply. Such gestures are not commonplace and I never expected it.
This book and the follow up title, is worth every penny: it's about training smart and how to avoid wasting your time and energy on useless exercises. Buy it!
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