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At the heart of the book is a complete, illustrated, six- month course for explosive growth. Exercise by exercise, workout by workout, the reader is shown precisely what to do, and perhaps even more important, what not to do. Dr. Darden also shows why HIT, when pursued steroid-free, is the best way to safely build muscle. Finally, the exercise religion Arthur Jones founded, and Dr. Darden fine-tuned, has its bible.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not really worth the price...,
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This review is from: The New High-Intensity Training (Paperback)
I bought this book as I use the HIT method as a part of my training and thought this book might have some insight or tips to help me further my training goals. However the book turned out to be quite disappointing, it had no real insights except to say "use this system because a veritable god "created" it"... This book is guilty of doing what the authors says other systems do, namely proclaiming that this is the best system but others are rubbish. It misses the point by a wide margin, using what works in the key, instead of an instruction manual explaining how to use the HIT system this book is mainly composed of anecdotes and proclamations about how wonderful this system is. Oh and it has a few exercises thrown in too. Best spend your money on a more complete book if you are seeking instruction in weightlifting and bodybuilding.
57 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Misleading, biased, commercial - almost an anti-HIT book,
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This review is from: The New High-Intensity Training (Paperback)
As an adept of the HIT training system, I found this book very disappointing. The author does not emphasize the theories/advantages/disadvantages of HIT as much as focusing on a one-sided odyssey of the man who commercialised the Nautilus training equipment, Arthur Jones.Almost half of the book is dedicated exclusively to exaggerated praises to Jones (the author makes an effort to present him as a revolutionary man and an adventurer with a wonderful sense of humour, but my personal impression was - disappointingly - of an mean, irrational, eccentric, vain, arrogant, stubborn, crude and rude bully). To further emphasize Arthur Jones' "superiority", the author criticises at great length a number of successful bodybuilders (including - surprisingly - HIT "godfather" Mike Mentzer) presenting unflattering stories of a purely personal nature which I personally found very hard to believe. The other part of the book is dedicated to training. I found it average in terms of information and quite brief, consisting mainly of common sense advice and a few generic "health routines". The author fails (in my opinion) to justify his choices or to present scientific evidence to back up his claims (other than some unverifiable measurements of Casey Viator against a number of non-HIT bodybuilders). Overall, I found the book to be the personal vendetta - paparazzi style - of a bitter, unsuccessful bodybuilder, whose only means to gain attention is to present unflattering, moot personal stories about everybody else. Just my 2 cents' worth...
50 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
appalling,
By mr s woods (liverpool) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The New High-Intensity Training (Paperback)
I gave this book a '1 star' rating so that I can write a review.A '0 star' rating is appropriate. The beginning of this frightening book is quite interesting. There is information about the travels of Arthur Jones, creator of Nautilus and credited by many people as the person that discovered the benefits of high-intensity, infrequent resistance training. Why do I dislike this book? Near page 30 the book becomes a horrible read. Darden seems supportive of Jones' violence. Darden seems like a giggling child describing the 'fun' he had with Jones. He hints that Jones would fight with bodybuilders. Jones would give orders, terrorise, threaten, degrade and humiliate people. There is an account of Jones challenging somebody to a fistfight at a University lecture. Jones discovered that this person refused to fight in the Vietnam war ('hid out' as Darden describes it). Jones described to the audience how he planned to give him an 'ass-kicking' and tear him apart (literally). Darden writes about 'sissies' and a violent powerlifter. Arthur Jones, if these accounts are true, is a mentally ill, psychopathic (perhaps) bully. I recommend 'Muscles in Minutes' and 'Heavy Duty 2 Mind & Body' to people intersted by one set to failure training.
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