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This book is the collective effort of more than thirty leading experts in the strength and fitness field. These professionals share their insights on topics, such as program design, high-intensity training, motivation, strength building, powerlifting, nutrition, flexibility, and more. This is truly an outstanding reference for planning fitness and training programs.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent book on strength training,
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This review is from: Maximize Your Training: Insights from Top Strength and Fitness Professionals (Paperback)
This is no doubt a great book on optimal strength training from the High Intensity Training (HIT) perspective. It doesn't only give you some individual's personal opinion on how to train, which unfortunately is to common, but it gives more than 30 different experts opinions. Most of it is also backed up with references. This is no book for those seeking information on how to do different exercises. It is s book that gives invaluable information on why to train in a certain way. This book gives a much more in depth information than other books on HIT (for instance Ellington Darden's books). The only reason this book doesn't get five stars, is the lack of references that are used in academic textbooks. There are no footnotes and some of the references a questionable. David Aston Registered Physical Therapist
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4.1 out of 5 stars (16 customer reviews) 19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
HIT: An effective approach with REAL RESULTS,
By R. Bonfiglio "twizz lover" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Maximize Your Training: Insights from Top Strength and Fitness Professionals (Paperback)
As a captain of Princeton University's varsity wrestling team, I had the opportunity to train under Matt Bryzski (editor of "Maximize Your Training" using the High Intensity Training (HIT) program from 1996 through 2001. The HIT program dramatically improved my physical conditioning and performance as a collegiate wrestler. During my first year and half at Princeton I had moderate success in the weight room and on the mat as I continued to rely on a traditional 3 set workout regimen for lifting. However, halfway through my sophomore year, I began primarily using the HIT program for full body workouts, three times a week. The results were incredible. Without the aid of any supplements, I saw drastic improvements in my strength. In the course of a year, my bench press increased from 12 reps at 165 lbs to 12 reps at 220 lbs; my leg press increased nearly 200 lbs; Hammer Strength lat rows increased from 170 lbs to 230 lbs. I saw similar improvements in all major muscle groups. This significant increase in strength translated to success on the mat. I went from 12-13 my sophomore year to 35-7 and first-team All-Ivy my junior year. I later qualified for Division I Nationals during my senior year. I continue to use HIT today with much success. Though I am firmly committed to the HIT program, it should be recognized that this is not the only lifting program that works. Empirically, it is hard to completely discard other programs. It should also be noted that HIT is not a magic formula. In order to get great results, you will have to be diligent in your focus and effort every workout. The intensity required to exercise your muscles to failure takes a healthy dose of commitment and hard work. The intensity I learned in the weight room from HIT also prepared me to train more intensely on the mat. While other lifting programs do work, I feel strongly that the HIT program is the most effective technique for lifting with regards to the time you have to put in. You may be able to get comparable results with another lifting program - but it may take 2-3 times the amount of time required for the HIT program. Anyone who wants to get the most out of his or her workout in the least amount of time - which is everyone from the competitive college athlete to the middle-aged business man trying to stay in shape-should strongly consider the HIT program. But in order to understand how this program works and how it can help you, it is useful to be fully acquainted with the strategies and skills involved in HIT. "Maximize Your Training" is a great place to start. I highly recommend this program and the intelligent and thoughtful approach the authors and editor take in presenting the HIT program. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I might be spoiled, but ...,
By Svein Olav Nyberg "Apeiron" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Maximize Your Training: Insights from Top Strength and Fitness Professionals (Paperback)
... I felt I knew most of what was written here from before. The book would have been great if it had been one of the first books I had read in the field, and there were a few articles that went in-depth that were just excellent. The argument pro one set per exercise was very convincing, as was the case for infrequent traing. And many good rule-of-thumb guidelines were to be found in the different articles. But there were some articles that honestly seemed a bit uninspired, which the book would have been better off without. All in all a good book, but not one you'd buy unless you're a training books maniac or are trying to orient yourself in the field of training for the first time. 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Top notch,
By Robert Spector - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Maximize Your Training: Insights from Top Strength and Fitness Professionals (Paperback)
Matt Brzycki has done an incredible job with this book. I definitely put on the "must-haves" for strength training alongside Stuart McRobert's books.
Brzycki has done a great job in assembling top notch experts in the field of strength training. I read the negative review from Cruickshank and have to highly disagree. First, this is not a "Brzycki" book. Whether or not he trained under Matt Brzycki is irrelevant. This book is not a collection of Matt's ideas/approaches. It's compilation from a wide variety of authors, including Dr. Ken Leistner (Powerlifting guru), Jan Dellinger (nobody knows iron history better that I've seen), Ken Mannie and Dr. Ted Lambrinides - and that's just a few of the authors. So the reviewer's experiences with Matt Brzycki - whatever they were - are completely irrelevant to appraising this book. To be completely honest I didn't like every single chapter. But that's okay. Every chapter has a different author's perspective on different training issues/methods. There are many different ways to do things. But their underlying philosophy of "train, hard, briefly and infrequently" has been proven successful going back a century (do some research on how the old time bodybuilders of the 20s-50s trained before the advent of steroids). There is stuff in this book you simply CANNOT find in any other book that I've ever seen, like Bill Piche's chapter on Powerlifting HIT. I think it's very useful for any trainee - powerlifter or not - to learn some of those exercises like ball squats and trap bar deadlifts. This guy has certainly been in the trenches too - he's noted as having deadlifted 600lbs at a 198lb bw without the use of steroids. This book covers the whole gamut of strength training, with one notable exception - detailed descriptions of the most productive strength training exercises. That's the one thing that's missing with this book. However, given the huge size of this book - it's virtually an encylopaedia with over 400 pages - this is understandable. The editor has published another book - "A Practical Approach to Strength Training - that describes in detail many exercises. I'd also recommend Stuart McRobert's book on exercise technique as well. There isn't any nonsense in this book about miracle supplements or "secret" routines that are pushed every month by the unscrupulous muscle magazines. This book tells you all you need to know about strength training (again, with that one exception of exercise description). My feeling is that there is just too much junk out there in terms of training advice. The best advice I can give to the trainee is to just read a very small number of books - this being one of them - and never EVER read another muscle magazine. Training really isn't that complicated, despite what some con artists will have you believe. Good luck with your training! |
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