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A 512-page encyclopaedia on how to build a terrific physique. This encyclopaedia offers the key to your training success. By acknowledging your individuality this book teaches you precisely how to train yourself. Become your own expert personal trainer! Whether youre male or female, a beginner or very advanced, young or not-so-young, want to train at home or in a public gym, this book is for you. Apply what you learn and success will follow! The 'how-to' guidance includes: why conventional training is fundamentally wrong and must be bypassed; how to overhaul your training philosophy so that youre destined for big gains; your ultimate size and strength potential, and the organisation to take you there; how to design and personalise your own training programs, step-by-step; how to conquer over training, maximise results, and never let age hold you back; how to eat in order to maximise your gains and improve your health; how to set up your own low-cost but super-productive home gym; and a real-life, step-by-step training cycle for you to learn from.
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Stuart McRobert
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent book for beginners or pros alike. It quashes what has become conventional body building training (the 3 or 4 day "split" routine) in favour of 'abbreviated training' which is done no more than twice a week (moving to 3 after a firm foundation has been set) and uses minimal excersies. This is how they used to do it before all the bull, endorsements and marketing crap took over. I took a course in gym instruction a few months ago and brought up some of the 'forgotten ways' outlined in the book and it seemed to fall on deaf ears! Very stupid and very frustrating because it seems every beginner out there is being taught completely the wrong thing. McRobert points out than unless one is genetically gifted and/or on steroids most people will never achieve the type of 'muscle and might' sold to us on a daily basis by most glossy mags, books and fitness centres. I worked with a semi pro bodybuilder for about 2 and a half years and over that time did a conventional 3 or 4 day split and ate 6 times a day. I did get bigger in that time but it was a very long process and I always wondered why I wasn't any bigger after all that time. Last year I bought this book after skimming it in a shop and I quickly noticed that it was telling me that everything I knew was wrong. Sticking to the basic compound movements and conentrating on getting stonger little by little is the name of the game here - none of this pulldown, kickbacks or dumbell flyes nonsense - it's bench presses, squats, deadlifts, dips, pullups and chins if you can bear it! I excitedly hit the gym after a year of no training and stuck to the rules outlined in the book. It bloody well works! I put 2 inches in my chest in 6 months and a year later my arms are feeling very tight in my shirts! If you've continously hit walls with trying to build muscle, ignore what others may try to tell you, get this book, eat properly and grow. This will work for everyone. I always classified myself as a classic "hard gainer" - 6'2 and naturally slim - no brawn anywhere and genetics nothing special. This way of training has made me feel like an easy gainer so I presume if you put on muscle easily it'll work even better for you - you swines!. There you go, can't sell it anymore than that can I? McRobert has a new book out so check that out too and I'd recommend his guide to weight training technique also.
Happy growing!
Happy growing!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Beyond Brawn
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.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is everything that a good personal trainer should posses and preach. Beyond Brawn is full of advice I would personally use when training my clients, for example, progresive overload (working the muscle within your overload perimeters, basically working hard enough to achieve it).
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?
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Beyond Brawn
Once you have cut through the repetition and editing mish mash, there are some real gems of information to be found. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rusty
not clear enough to work
i got this book hoping it would give me the knowledge to build muscle. what i recieved however was a 500 so paged book that had notes on certain subjects most of the book goes over... Read more
Published 4 months ago by ronnie
great for any steroid free lifter...
i haven't come accross any other material that teaches you how to build muscle without the use of steroids. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Gcrikey
beyond brawn
as most reviews say this is an exclent book full of very good information i would say a must have
Published 11 months ago by Mr. Ian Linton
Excellent Book
First off this Kindle edition is formatted properly, unlike a lot of kindle titles where formatting seems to go out the window and paragraphs and punctuation become a problem this... Read more
Published 11 months ago by steve
best weighttraining book ever
Before buying this book I read a bunch of reviews on amazon and most of them were raving about the book. I thought well, let's give it a shot but didn't expect much. Read more
Published 15 months ago by ronaldsittard
great book
tells it how it is ive trained for 20 years and always believed in this type of training,dont waste youre money on books that are made for steriod abusers buy this instead and... Read more
Published 17 months ago by garry
A very useful guide to weight training
One of the best book that I have seen on this subject. It offers a lot of great advice on weight training and nutrition. Read more
Published 18 months ago by The Emperor
Well padded but the info is there.
I've tried all the suggestions of McRobert/Mentzer etc; super slow, high reps, rest/pause etc and achieved the 300-400-nearly 500 focus with limited results for my determined... Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by Mcghee
It's ok but could have been written in 100 pages not 500
I bought this book on the strength of some of the reviews and on the recommendation of a friend. Call me obsessive but the whole time I was reading it I was trying to suppress the... Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by S. Giles
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