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Summary: Book For First-Timers
Review: Alpha Male is a well structured book that is a must have for the beginner weightlifter/bodybuilder. It cuts through the hype and rubbish that camoflages the real way in which to build muscle and strength, ie. so-called bodybuilding magazines and their overinflated supplement reviews/adds. It also provides the reader with a feeling of belonging to a 'brotherly' group of hardcore bodybuilders in saying that lifting weights is more than the pursuit to look good, but a means to provide a life of dedication and discipline. I wish that I had read the book before starting to lift the iron....I would have saved alot of dollars on fad supplements and books. It also provides a good insight into Web sites dedicated to no-hype bodybuilding. However, a word of warning to intermediate to advanced bodybuilders, you may have read the books message and information before. Overall, a good book that I would recommend to everyone. Three cheers to the author and those who write like him.
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Summary: Motivation
Review: I enjoyed this book. It is a little overpriced...for 90 pages. But the content is good. The book is probably more motivational than anything else. It does tell the truth about the bodybuilding magazines but it also contains some diet information, a sample flexible workout routine, and a bit of humor. It is by no means the best book out there but it makes you want to get out there and pump iron. Any book that does that cannot be all bad. I really enjoyed the website so I bought the book. There is some overlap but the book is not just a copy of the website. I only wish he had included the beefs from the website which I enjoy reading. Anyhow the book is about natural bodybuilding and contains some information on the truth about several popular supplements. It is not a must have but the owner will not have anything to complain about except price.
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Summary: Motivation
Review: I enjoyed this book. It is a little overpriced...for 90 pages. But the content is good. The book is probably more motivational than anything else. It does tell the truth about the bodybuilding magazines but it also contains some diet information, a sample flexible workout routine, and a bit of humor. It is by no means the best book out there but it makes you want to get out there and pump iron. Any book that does that cannot be all bad. I really enjoyed the website so I bought the book. There is some overlap but the book is not just a copy of the website. I only wish he had included the beefs from the website which I enjoy reading. Anyhow the book is about natural bodybuilding and contains some information on the truth about several popular supplements. It is not a must have but the owner will not have anything to complain about except price.
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Summary: Alpha Male is a great book and has different formats
Review: I find it humorous when I see some of these reviews from readers who were upset that the book contained parts from the author's website. I'm grateful because I love the website. I actually look at the book as a companion to the website. The book does have original content! Especially helpful is the workout program the author put together. Since following the workout, I have put on quite a bit of muscle mass. The view of the book is a great message. Lift heavy, work hard. No BS. If you are leery of purchasing the paperback, you can also get the Adobe Acrobat version on the author's website for a lesser cost. Don't hesitate, the book and the message rocks! Go heavy or go home.
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Summary: Extraordinary, true information!
Review: I first discovered the Brotherhood web page, then I found the Yahoo! Club, and finally I bought this extaordinary book.
I found out that it delivers true information to really pack on muscle, and not just train half-heartedly.
By following the basic routine found in it, I've increased both my strength and size in about 4 months. Presses, dips, squats, deadlifts... those are exercises the average fitness guy won't even mention, but packing on mass comes through hard, honest work!
Some say Sam DeLucia is not huge, is not ripped, etc. Well, he's natural and not afraid to say so, and for that he deserves my respect and support.GO HEAVY OR GO HOME! Long live the Brotherhood.
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Summary: GOOD BOOK...ENJOYABLE STYLE!!!
Review: In my naivete I used to perform those five-to-six-days-a-week workouts and 15 to 20 sets per bodypart in the magazines with nothing more than frequent colds and sickness and loss of strength. After reading ALPHA MALE I tried the abbreviated hard-core basic-exercise workouts, doing no more than three-days-a-week workouts. My gains have come at a stellar pace from following the outlined workouts and basic nutrition in this great book in a much shorter time. Mr. Delucia's straightforward style and honesty makes an interesting read. The supplement companies hold a monopoly which Delucia busts through all the hype and tells it like it is.
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Summary: Informative, challenging, and highly entertaining
Review: Sam Delucia's Alpha Male: The Path To Hardcore Natural Bodybuilding, enhanced with black and white photographs and sketches, is an intense bodybuilding guide by a self-professed "gymrat." Written in deliberate reaction to the over-commercialization of bodybuilding, and the supplement/vitamin ads that fill every bodybuilding magazine cover to cover, Delucia offers frank, forward information about how effective supplements really are, how the bodybuilding corporations plan to make you into their customer-for-life, how to eat for power, and more. Alpha Male is not a book for the gentle-hearted, as its suggested motivations for a weightlifting partner include yelling phrases such as "Worthless must have been on sale, it appears you stocked up!" (and that's one of the more tame examples). However, even those who do not lift weights can find the author's street-speak, no-holds-barred opinions informative, challenging, and highly entertaining.
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Summary: Why buy a book?
Review: That is a verbatim copy of a website? I purchased the book because I found the website informative but the book is a some-what abbreviated version of the website. One does not need to pay [money] for a poorly-written 90 page book when all the information is available on the website. I don't care how motivational some people think the book is, they should get the same motivation from the website. ALL the information and workouts in the 'book' are available for free on numerous natural websites. I returned mine the same day. The author accuses the industry of being greedy and wanting our money. I find this "book" to be more of the same. Especially when the author has no real credentials. A person that eschues steroids but quotes Swartzeneger?
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Summary: good book
Review: This book has definitely set the standard for all books to come on hardcore natural bodybuilding. There is more truth in this book than any other I have read. So much in fact that it will reach out and slap you in the face and wake you up to whats really going on in the bodybuilding world. This book will definitely teach you how to be a hardcore natural bodybuilder by giving you the right attitude, the right workouts, nutrition and most importantly the desire. If you are even thinking about buying a book on bodybuilding I recommend Alpha Male. It is one book you will thank yourself for buying.
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Summary: ALPHA MALE:THE PATH TO HARDCORE NATURAL BODYBUILDING ROCKS!!
Review: This book is definitely the best bodybuilding book I have ever read! It is awesome to see that someone finally had the courage to tell the TRUTH about bodybuilding! This book will teach you everything you need to know to become a hardcore natural bodybuilder. It covers everything from workouts to nutrition to having the right mental attitude. I have read and reread this book and find it informative and very motivating. If you are strong enough to handle the truth about bodybuilding and are ready to become a hardcore natural bodybuilder then this book will show you the way and I HIGHLY recommend it to all bodybuilders and powerlifters. This book is definitely money well spent.
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