Build Muscle Lose Fat Look Great: Everything You Need to Know to Transform Your Body
by Stuart McRobert
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Author: Stuart McRobertEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09
ISBN: 9963916309
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Cs Pub USA
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Book Review: (Re-)Learn everything you want to know about lifting...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is excellent both for those new to the iron game as well as those who may think they know all there is to know, as I once did. I am coming off about a year layoff after developing several physical limitations arising from years of 'hardcore' training: ignored stretching, bulled my way through workouts with increasing weights while joints, muscular restrictions, and other semi-serious pain should have told me something was wrong. Somewhere along the way, I started to let form suffer and the sheer accumulation of small physical traumas that I ignored finally built to up to a level where I could barely function in everyday life, let alone continue in the gym. Mr. McRobert (McR) seems to have gone through a similar scenario in his Beyond Brawn: The Insider's Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle and Might (Brawn), so I felt a real sense of hope when I stumbled across an old edition of that book some months ago. As I've worked my way back to a near-normal life through a sports med Dr., traditional PT, and alternative treatments, I feel I am now ready to start getting back to my lifting career, but where to begin? Right here with this book, it seems. He gives all the caveats and advises for stretching, 'strict' form, basic multi-joint compound (old school) exercises and shows in fairly good detail how to do each piece. I recommend this book highly for these reasons.
As others stated, this book does not go into excruciating detail citing innumerable studies concerning fast- and slow-twitch, type A and B fibers, hyperplasia vs. hypertrophy, etc. I find this fact not a drawback, but rather an asset of the book. Too much of this kind of detail too soon will lead to overload and turn people off - especially beginners who are the presumed target audience for the book. Even for experienced lifters, dwelling on this type of thing leads too much of the time to 'overanalysis paralysis', causing folks to either flounder in indecisiion and quit training altogether or alternatively jump too quickly from one routine to another in search of the holy grail instead of just getting into the gym consistently and giving it 100% intensity each training session progressing over time. Indeed all the hyper-technical data omitted herein can be found in numerous other publications and should probably be reserved for a much later stage of one's training career when progression halts or plateaus and new avenues to increase need to be explored.
One thing I appreciate greatly is the detailed way McRobert explains how to very gradually increase in training 'intesity.' I allow that he does use somewhat vague language in differentiating progressive levels of intensity, but if one reads carefully and closely monitors his lifting (the elusive 'mind-muscle connection') he will understand how to safely and successively ramp up over time from 'easy' to 'nearly hard' to 'hard' training. McR likewise instructs us to exercise good judgement in weight progression, something we could all use a refresher on from time to time. Programming a sound methodology for single- or double-progression into the mental databank from the beginning will prove the most productive, beneficial, and safe in the long term.
There is a great breadth of bodybuilding information here and what lacks in depth is, for the most part, unnecessary for all but the most advanced trainee or those who wish to delve ever more deeply into 'muscle science' for academic pursuits. Detailed instruction on stretching, lifting, and cardiovascular training including many, many photographs make this volume a fairly self-contained A-Z beginners guide to solid physique development. All told, there is a great lot to recommend this book to a wide audience.
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