Men's Body Sculpting

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Book
Review: One of the best fitness books ever written. It fills in all of the missing pieces to help you finally acheive your goals. The workout routines are easy to follow and include lots of photos of the different exercises. It covers everything including step by step workouts, nutritional information as well as suplimentation. YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED!!!!

Rating:
Summary: Excellent workout information-weak nutriional information
Review: overall I really liked this book. The workouts provided are short and intense, lasting less than one hour. I don't like spending too much time in the gym, it takes away from my intensity. This book helped me shorten my workouts considerably, while not taking anything away from their quality. I have more energy by not draining myself too long in the gym-I hit it hard and quick, and then get out and recover and grow.
While the training emphasis of the book is well done and thought out, I think the author blew it with his calorie recommendations. He calls for way too few calories in all three of his training programs. Calling for only 10% more calories than your basal metabolic rate (which he does in the book)is not anywhere near a recipe for growth. You need substantially more calories than the author claims for muscular growth to occur.
I recommend the book for its' weight training advice, but think it may be best to skip the nutritional advice (namely the small amount of calories recommended).

Rating:
Summary: Very good Book, but it could have been better
Review: There are a lot of books on this topic, more than there should be, hence, finding the right one can be challenging.

This book is not for novice, this is for people, who have been in the gym and they feel that the gains they expect to see are not happening (people like me).

The author has written the book very scientifically and he being a doctor, this is very reliable information. That is the best part of the book.

The author sticks to the topic, all he talks about his how to sculpt your body and he does not waste any text on any other thing, he is very focused.

This book also makes a very interesting, slightly funny read, he is very humble at least in the book.

Bad things:
1. Too many repeatations (drink water: I saw this at least 10 times).

2. He contradicts himself at times (cardio or no cardio).

3. At times, he is selling a certain company's products, which I do not like, when he recommends Nitro Tech whey protein.

4. I expect the author to highly recommend against any sort of growth harmones, and he did not, in fact, he kind of recommends these.

5. Some chapters are boring, while some are extremely interesting, chapter 1 is the best and that is the strength of the author (scientific insight).

All in all, a good book, but this entire book can be much better, and I know the author has the information and the knowledge (both medical and from his own experiences) to improve upon the book.

Rating:
Summary: A solid book
Review: This book is a great addition to any exercise library. It wouldn't be what I can a stand-alone book, and it doesn't try to be one. The book lists and describes about 3-4 workout plans with everything you would need to follow, including nutrition and supplementation. The workouts are well documented and based on solid science, instead of fad ideas. The writing is personable in explaining technical ideas that would normally be a bit boring. Overall, a great book. As for the guy who complained about the "race" issue (no people of color photographed in the book), the book only has 2 people photographed in it. One is DR. EVANS.

Rating:
Summary: why only white men!?
Review: This book shows nothing but white men doing Dr. Evans' exercises. I will avoid calling this racist, but I will call it myopic. In muscle mags, they usually show men of color because they want every man to know that he can lift his weigh to an Herculean figure. Men like Mr. T, Action Jackson, Oscar de la Hoya, and Sonny Landham show that men of color can bulk up and look sexy in their muscles. If Dr. Evans works out in Southern California where one out of every three persons is Latino, he has no excuse for not having models of color. It makes me wonder if he only intended his book for white men. What a shame! How could an educated person in this millenium be so exclusive and inconsiderate?

Rating:
Summary: why only white men!?
Review: This book shows nothing but white men doing Dr. Evans' exercises. I will avoid calling this racist, but I will call it myopic. In muscle mags, they usually show men of color because they want every man to know that he can lift his weigh to an Herculean figure. Men like Mr. T, Action Jackson, Oscar de la Hoya, and Sonny Landham show that men of color can bulk up and look sexy in their muscles. If Dr. Evans works out in Southern California where one out of every three persons is Latino, he has no excuse for not having models of color. It makes me wonder if he only intended his book for white men. What a shame! How could an educated person in this millenium be so exclusive and inconsiderate?

Rating:
Summary: OUTSTANDING
Review: This is the most well-written, up-to-date, comprehensive, best quality/price, and easily the most useful book I've laid hands on regarding the subject of bodybuilding. An absolute must have for any one who wants to get their body in shape.