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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bass takes a non-dogmatic and sensible approach, and you can learn a lot about diet, weight training and general exercise from his books. If you are of the kind that will buy only one book on training, make this book it.
The two things I miss are technique descriptions and an Index. Since I return to Bass' books again and again, an index is the one thing I'd really like to see added. As for technique, get Stuart McRoberts "Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique"; it's the perfect companion to "Challenge Yourself".
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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful
The best of the current fitness books. Must reading.
22 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Clarence Bass has again taken current scientific research and mixed it with common sense to create an innovative and inspiring fitness book. His pieces on interval training for aerobics, high intensity vs. volume training for weight work and diet put him in a class of his own.
However, unlike many, including yours truly, Bass feels no need to condemn other ideas as false or their authors as charlatans. This is a gentleman, in every sense of the word.
Basically, what Bass tells us is that we can retire from jobs, but we cannot retire from life. If we want to remain vital, we have to find goals and work toward them. The goals have to be sensible and based upon what we do, not on how we do versus others.
To this end, he has voraciously consumed articles and books on the sciences of diet and exercise. While other authors will tell you to do something because it has worked for their subjects, Bass will present research study and draw his conclusions while allowing you to draw your own for your particular needs and aspirations.
I cannot recommend this book too highly.
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
A core book in your fitness library
18 May 2000
Format:Paperback
Bass takes a non-dogmatic and sensible approach, and you can learn a lot about diet, weight training and general exercise from his books. If you are of the kind that will buy only one book on training, make this book it.
The two things I miss are technique descriptions and an Index. Since I return to Bass' books again and again, an index is the one thing I'd really like to see added. As for technique, get Stuart McRoberts "Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique"; it's the perfect companion to "Challenge Yourself".
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
The best book ever written on bodybuilding nutrition!
26 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
Following the meal plan from this book has allowed me to lose 35 pounds since May of this year, from 200 lbs to my current 165 lbs. At age 39 I look and feel at least ten years younger and my self-esteem has greatly benefited. I should note that my intial weightloss success came after starting one of those internet diet groups; however, because it was based on calorie restriction over food type, I found myself starving and deprived. The secret to Clarence's eating style is the eating satisfaction that comes only from eating high fiber/volume foods that also happen to be low in calories. Contrast that to trying to eat a calorie restricted, high fat/sugar/salt diet that leaves your tummy and taste buds hungry for more, more, more. Lastly, I would like to point out that I have weight trained for a number of years, starting out as most do with a desire for adding mass to a skinny frame, hitting an all-time peak, gaining a great deal of bodyfat during a four year lay-off, and returning to the weights to try and recover my body; but, no matter how much I seemed to progress in my weight training, the bodyfat would not budge. If you are in denial of your bodyfat level, as I was, beleive me when I say you will not see muscle until you lose the fat, and this is the book that can help you lose it.
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