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Men's Health: The Book of Muscle--The World's Most Authoritative Guide to Building Your Body

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Exercise ain't easy. The body is a complicated machine, with 650 muscles and 250 million individual muscle fibers. Some would say taming those fibers and building strong, healthy muscles is not an act of labor. Some would say it's an art. Here's a book worthy of that art. The Men's Health Book of Muscle is the big, lavishly illustrated, full-color coffee table book that only Men's Health could produce-one that doubles as the ultimate guide to building a better body. The goal of The Book of Muscle is simple: create a beautiful, artistic guide to the body that also helps guys build great physiques by showing in detail how muscles work and how that knowledge can be put to use. Inside, you'll find lush anatomical illustrations and photographs of a quality that no other book on fitness can match. You'll also find complex biological information, boiled down to language any guy can understand, and three 6-month workout programs, one each for beginner, intermediate, and advanced lifters. It's big muscles, big benefit, and beautiful all at the same time. It's the book you've always wanted from the guys at Men's Health, the fitness experts you trust.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9781579547691
ISBN: 1579547699
Label: Rodale Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 364
Publication Date: 2003-10-17
Publisher: Rodale Books
Studio: Rodale Books


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

excellent training guide for a normal guy who's been training for 20 years -
I purchased this book after learning about Ian King from a reference in Tom Venuto's BFFM ebook. All I was looking for was a new way to split up my workouts.

Background

1. I have been working out for more than 20 years and have read and tried many programs including high volume and low volume workouts.

2. I've followed a 3-6x week lifting regimen. Since turning 40, I settled into 4 days lifting and 3 cardio. My results have always been mediocre. I was following the BodyRX program. After an initial 10 lb weight loss, I actually never lost another pound and ;earned I was eating far too much (thanks BFFM).

3. Mostly I focused on big muscle exercises using machines: Leg Press, Chest Press, Pulldowns, Rows and then supplemented with extensions, curls etc. I have not deadlifted or squatted for over 15 years because it made my back sore and didn't allow me to "focus" on the muscles being worked.

Results:
I started with the Intermediate program because the advanced program had so many strange exercises and rep schemes I hadn't done before. I am now in the 10th week of the program. I workout MWF. I do 30-40 minutes of bike riding 6 days a week because I want to lose 25 lbs. It's my warmup and lifting days and my cardio on off days. I do yoga at home on cardio days for my stretching- otherwise my lifting workouts would be too long.

1. I stopped using wrist straps when I started BOM. For the past 20 years I used them for all of my back exercises because my grip always gave out before my lats did. My forearms are stronger and more muscular than ever. I figured by this time I would always have a weak grip and small forearms. That appears to be untrue. My back seems to not have suffered at all although sometimes my grip gives out at the end of a set.

2. My calves have muscle in places they hadn't before even though I train them less than I did before. I know it is because of squatting because I felt a pain in the same area that muscle subsequently developed.

3. My abs, which I thought were strong, were not. They are getting stronger. I work them 3x weekly vs. my old 1x weekly.

4. My lower back has not been sore from squatting or deadlifting. In fact, I've grown to love these two exercises because they make me feel like I've really worked out instead of my old "going through the motions" workouts.

Am I stronger? Yes.
Am I leaner- surprisingly yes. I credit this to BFFM food tracking, eating less calories and doing more cardio.
Am I more muscular? Certainly in my glutes, quads, calves and forearms. I am hoping to see similar gains in my chest, backs and arms in the coming stages.

This program changes every 3 weeks. By the time I am familiar with the exercise and start to add serious weight, it's time to start a new stage.

This has kept me mentally invigorated and seems to be working.

Go figure- a book from Men's Health and a 3x weekly workout has re-charged this 41 year old guy who just wanted to lose 20 lbs, have bigger biceps and learn a new split.

I also bought "Get Buffed" from Ian King. That's the predecessor to this book. I tried creating a 4 day workout plan from it, but got overwhelmed with the new info and decided to try BOM first. I am glad I did.

Book Review-
The detailed exercise instructions and pictures help a lot, especially for some of the odd exercises like King Deadlifts and 1 leg squats. Also Deadlift and Squats were well detailed. I needed this because I had never done them correctly before.

The exercise physiology and the conclusions drawn from limited studies (very Men's Health like) didn't add much value for me.
I wish the workouts referenced the page the exercises were on. I have to flip through pages a lot when creating my new routine.
I also wish there were templates available for the workout tracker. I create my own in Numbers (or excel). But it would be easier if they were downloadable.

I highly recommend reading this book and trying the workouts if you are not getting the results you want.

Kindle bad, paper good -
I will gladly change this rating from a 1 star to a 5 star if Amazon can tell me how to do one simple task: There are workouts in the back of the book. I want to print a page so that I can take that page to the gym with me to workout.

With a paper version of the book I can copy a page (or three since the workouts are in A, B, C sets for a week) and take it to the gym with me. I can take notes one it and keep track.

With the Kindle I can't even really read those workouts - not even when zooming in on the image. And even if I could I don't think the Kindle would be practical for viewing the workout and trying to take notes on it in the gym.

The book is really in three sections (as I recall... I don't have it in front of me right now) a) good info about how the body works, b) excellent descriptions of all the exercises, and c) Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Exercise Programs.

C is a section you will use 3 days a week for years.
B is a section you will refer to occasionally to make sure you have the form correct and don't hurt yourself.
A is a section you might go back and read every five years.

On the kindle A is easy to read. B is more challenging, and C is almost impossible.

Amazon - Please find a way to let me print a page from the workouts section of this book (c).

Makes things too complicated -
I bought this book back in 2005 and made progress, but lets be serious...I was an untrained n00b, anything would have given me progress. The book takes the matter seriously, but truth is, it over-complicates training; but who could blame them, no way you can keep selling monthly issues of a magazine unless you follow as a philosophy to over-complicate training regimen and dress up the same lame exercises into different variations.

In reality, all you really NEED is the main exercises, the compound ones, like squat, deadlift, press, bench press, clean, and anything else that assist those exercises like rows, pull-ups, dips, etc.

And I have NOT found a book to teach you this fundamental exercises and to guide you towards doing some real work, better than 'Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe and Lon Kilgore'.

Get it and learn the fundamentals, after that you can do whatever you want, but at least get your foundation in order.

The Ultimate Guide to Resistance Training -
The ultimate guide to resistance training...Ian King and Lou Schuler are the best in their fields. I have used King's training methods from this book since it was first published in 2003. I gained 15 lbs of muscle without chemicals and increased my strength in the 3 big lifts and average of 15%, all after the age of 35 and after training for 20 years.

Best Weightlifting Book I've Found -
I recently finished the intermediate program from this book and am very happy with the twenty pounds of lean muscle it helped me pack on. I've been lifting seriously for fifteen years but spent most of those years struggling to put on just a pound or two. With The Book of Muscle, I was able to work out half as much for ten times the results.

Unlike most of the lifting books that I've looked at, The Book of Muscle actually presents information and a workout plan that works for more than just those who are discovering weightlifting for the first time and will see huge improvements from any program. Those who are already very familiar with High Intensity Training (Killing yourself and then resting completely the next day or two) might not find much new here, but it still lays out the science of all the lifts, stretching, nutrition, and resting in a well-written and interesting style. Unlike many books, The Book of Muscle lays out the workouts in tables that can be photocopied and taken to the gym, or you can easily transfer the info to a spreadsheet, which is what I do.

I'm looking forward to using the advanced routine to pack on another twenty pounds.

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