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Alpha Male : The Path to Hardcore Natural Bodybuilding

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Alpha Male is a well structured book that is a must have for the beginner weightlifter/bodybuilder. It cuts through the hype and rubbish that camoflages the real way in which to build muscle and strength, ie. so-called bodybuilding magazines and their overinflated supplement reviews/adds. It also provides the reader with a feeling of belonging to a 'brotherly' group of hardcore bodybuilders in saying that lifting weights is more than the pursuit to look good, but a means to provide a life of dedication and discipline. I wish that I had read the book before starting to lift the iron....I would have saved alot of dollars on fad supplements and books. It also provides a good insight into Web sites dedicated to no-hype bodybuilding. However, a word of warning to intermediate to advanced bodybuilders, you may have read the books message and information before. Overall, a good book that I would recommend to everyone. Three cheers to the author and those who write like him.

Sam Delucia's Alpha Male: The Path To Hardcore Natural Bodybuilding, enhanced with black and white photographs and sketches, is an intense bodybuilding guide by a self-professed "gymrat." Written in deliberate reaction to the over-commercialization of bodybuilding, and the supplement/vitamin ads that fill every bodybuilding magazine cover to cover, Delucia offers frank, forward information about how effective supplements really are, how the bodybuilding corporations plan to make you into their customer-for-life, how to eat for power, and more. Alpha Male is not a book for the gentle-hearted, as its suggested motivations for a weightlifting partner include yelling phrases such as "Worthless must have been on sale, it appears you stocked up!" (and that's one of the more tame examples). However, even those who do not lift weights can find the author's street-speak, no-holds-barred opinions informative, challenging, and highly entertaining.

Let's face it, this isn't the greatest Bodybuilding book on the market, by a long shot. BUT I have to look up to Delucia for being the first (that I know of) to finally tell the truth about supplement scams and the magazines that promote them. I thank Delucia for revealing the truth about certain supplement such as Protein, Creatine, DHEA, and HMB. This book may be great for the beginner that needs the bare basics. But thats all you will get, the very bare basics. The book is way overpriced for what you get. The book just isn't long enough. Most topics are short and unfulfilling. They are basic, some so basic you find yourself skipping over them in hopes to find something interesting to latch on to. I did so much skipping I finished the book in about 15 minutes. Alpha Male has develeped a nice following as well it should, I like the idea, just not so much the book.

This book is great. It will tell you basically everything you need to know about the weight game.

It will also (hopefully) help to dispel the myth of the musclemags for most new trainees.

However, the author gives away most of the information free on his website!

I read everything on his website in order to decide whether the book was worth buying. Based on the website, it is!!

Upon receiving the book I saw that not only was it not much different from the website - it actually was the website, word for word!

As someone who's been an avid weightlifter for 15 years, I thought this book was a breath of fresh air. At times, I would get my workouts from bodybuilding magazines but they would ultimately lead to me to overtraining. This book follows my own philosophy of lifting heavy with basic lifts. As the book says so eloquently, "Go Heavy or Go Home". Highly recommended.

I think the thing I liked the best about the book besides it's no-nonsense method to putting on muscle mass is the book's regard for the mental side of training. It motivated me like no other bodybuilding book I ever read before. A must read for any natural bodybuilding enthusiast!

In my naivete I used to perform those five-to-six-days-a-week workouts and 15 to 20 sets per bodypart in the magazines with nothing more than frequent colds and sickness and loss of strength. After reading ALPHA MALE I tried the abbreviated hard-core basic-exercise workouts, doing no more than three-days-a-week workouts. My gains have come at a stellar pace from following the outlined workouts and basic nutrition in this great book in a much shorter time. Mr. Delucia's straightforward style and honesty makes an interesting read. The supplement companies hold a monopoly which Delucia busts through all the hype and tells it like it is.

Instead of a boring perspective of a pro bodybuilder, this book is from the perspective of one testosterone driven intense lifter to another. If you love the Iron Life, then you will totally get this book. I could see how this book could be the anthem of garagelifters and gymrats everywhere.

That is a verbatim copy of a website? I purchased the book because I found the website informative but the book is a some-what abbreviated version of the website. One does not need to pay [money] for a poorly-written 90 page book when all the information is available on the website. I don't care how motivational some people think the book is, they should get the same motivation from the website. ALL the information and workouts in the 'book' are available for free on numerous natural websites.I returned mine the same day. The author accuses the industry of being greedy and wanting our money. I find this "book" to be more of the same. Especially when the author has no real credentials. A person that eschues steroids but quotes Swartzeneger?

Finally! After years of magazines, movies, talk shows, seminars and of course, books on the subject of Bodybuilding, Only one man has cut through all the marketing and advertising hype. Exposing the hardcore truths on Weight Training, Supplementation, Steroids and Attitude. Telling the truth on how to build quality muscle and strength. Dispelling the rumors and so called "secrets" of the Champions, who are nothing more than hopeless drug addicts searching for that one night of glory. All at the expense of their health and sanity. Alpha Male is a must for anyone who is truly serious about developing lasting strength and size the right way...Naturally. Alpha Male is a "Tell it like it is" book with a Medieval, Rock-n-Roll flavor. Sam Delucia has delivered a simple but effective message-Go Heavy or Go Home! I highly recommend this book!