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Anabolic Muscle Mass: The Secrets of Anabolic Reinforcement Without Steroids

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By the title of this book, I expected an informative book about bodybuilding nutrition. I was disappointed to find out that out of over 200 pages, one was devoted to nutrition and this was simply a plug for Met-Rx products. This entire book, and I mean all of it, is about every way imaginable to do your workouts differently - set schemes, sequencing, etc. If you want a book describing in detail all the techniques for working out that you've already heard about for fifteen years, buy this book. Don't buy it if you want a nutrition summary. One page about Met-Rx is all you will get.

This is one of the most comprehensive and informative books available. I have been involved in the field of bodybuilding for nearly thirty years, and have reviewed most of the material available. Rarely does a book contain as much usable, contemporary, real-world information. In my personal aquaintance with many of the true superstars of bodybuilding (including Bill Pearl, Larry Scott, John Grimek, Jack LaLanne, George Eifferman, Dennis Tinnerino, and many others), I find the author (Dennis B. Weis) to be highly esteemed and respected. Even Dr. Scott Connelly of food supplement giant Met-Rx cites Mr. Weis as an authority (recently drawing unsolicited quotes from Weis' book into the spotlight as the centerpiece of a multi-million dollar national advertising campaign).

If you are a serious bodybuilder, power lifter or want to learn some secrets of the older Soviet workout methods, this will be an excellent resource. Dennis describes variations of technique, sets and reps and idealology that is unavailable elsewhere in one book. He has done a considerable amount of research and nothing is basic or dummied- downed for beginners. The book is not about nutrition. It's about the finer, more advanced additions to routines that the pros and their trainers use. I learned that a small adjustment here and there during a routine from the book gave me a whole new type of pump and I've notice some results. If you are bored with your workouts or just curious about finer techniques, get this book!

I bought this book hoping to get some new information on how to be a non-steroid taking natural body-builder, yet the photos of everyone in the book are all of steroid monsters, and the routines propounded in the book are all the same old stupid techniques of high reps and multiple sets with super heavy weights to develop the ultimate muscle mass, without any concern for what these techniques do in the long run in terms of trashing all of your joints, or even that these are not the most effective techniques of weight training for symmetrical muscular development.

This book is clearly aimed at the intermediate or advanced bodybuilder who is looking for more variety. Unfortunately, the book is padded with way too many pictures of genetically gifted and chemically enhanced muscleheads.
Not a bad book, overall. In fact, I've incorporated a few of the exercises into my own program.

Most of the discussion in this book will prove completely useless and almost discouraging to virtually all natural lifters. Starting with 20+ sets per muscle group recommended to build a serious physique and moving on to 10-set supersets of leg extensions and leg curls with fifteen seconds' pause, this book contains many ways to completely overload any natural trainer's body.

Cluttered with photos of top bodybuilders through the years, some of which have tragically passed away from drug abuse, there is little specific advice: the book reads like a full-length bodybuilding mag. Lots of information is presented about general training concepts and techniques, but I found nothing I could incorporate into my routines with any kind of results. There is little discussion of specific exercises and their form, with no illustration of the ones that are mentioned.

While some people may find new and interesting ways to shake up their rituals at the gym, I've gotten excellent results naturally with an extremely basic, old-school program. I'd suggest a comprehensive book on lifts by emphasis and muscle group over this for anyone clean.

I saw this identical book at the dollar store, guess what it only cost me a dollar, way overpriced here.

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