Beyond Brawn: The Insider's Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle and Might [Paperback]

It is difficult to know what to say that has not already been said about this classic text, but the point has to be rammed home - Add a copy of this to your order of The Insiders Tell All Handbook on Weight Training Technique, and you will have all the instruction you will ever need for weight training success.

Once again Stuart McRobert has left no stone unturned, he has produced a book that is considered by many to be the "bodybuilders bible", and rightly so. Beyond Brawn is a beefy text and once again, I feel it is unnecessary to single out specific benefits & features of the publication. I have found it nothing short of excellent.

Having said that, I would like to point out that Stuart McRobert will not only educate you on how to train productively & eat healthy with this book, he will also point the way on how to gain understanding and treat nagging injuries that you may have suffered with for years.

It would be an injustice to imply this is merely a bodybuilding book, Stuart's experience and knowledge far exceeds 'sets & reps' and it is easy for the reader to feel just how much the author reaches out to help to you.

A very sincere and informative book, written by a very sincere and experienced weight trainer.

He tells me the Squat is important. I believe him. But he then tells me another 100 times! He then goes on to say how he suffered years of knee and back pain - two things associated with a lot of squats!....

The book is quite disorganised and requires re-reading to fully make out what is required. It does odd things like give sample routines only to say that they have problems and should be changed. I'd like to have been given a correct routine or two with recommended sets, reps and work-effort etc. He is trying to get you to work it out for yourself but it's hard going. It's not actually that complicated but he makes it so.

Having said all that this IS a good book. He is right in pointing out that most of the wonder-routines that the famous pros recommend are not suited to normal people not taking steroids. If you persevere with the book you will get a lot of good info and develop routines that work. YOu get a lot of good info on how to cycle through varied effort levels, volumes etc to keep building effectively and avoid injury.

There are not many other books with this level of info.

The book is broken down into easy to manage paragraphs, not too heavy on the old text, definatly not one of those books where the text is that heavy that one of eyes ends up in Bradford, and the other in Bingley!!

It's taken me 8 years in the trade to learn three quaters of what is written in this book, and that doesn't mean I'm a slow reader, it means you can't put a price on experience and Old Stu McRobert has had 30 years training himself and other people.

Buy this book to use it or you'll end up, in a gym, sitting on the end of a bench not knowing what to do next, staring at nothing.
Or perhaps being ill advised by the gyms loud mouth on how he would train, if the guys got a gut like a pot bellied pig why should you listen to him? Sound at all fimilar?