Big: Bulkbuilding Instructional Guide [Hardcover]

Ellington Darden (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Perigee (September 1990)
• ISBN-10: 9990632308
• ISBN-13: 978-9990632309
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,799,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ellington Darden has a goal: to help people live leaner and stronger longer. For the lost thirty years he has worked with thousands of men and women who wanted to feel better physically, look more attractive, and improve overall health through a disciplined approach to nutrition and exercise. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in physical education from Baylor University and a doctorate in exercise science from Florida State University. Two years of postdoctoral study in food and nutrition set him on the trail that led to the ASAP program. Dr. Darden was director of research for Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries for seventeen years. There he helped develop and popularize the highly acclaimed Nautilus exercise machines. Today, Dr. Darden is the founder and chairman of Living Longer Stronger, a corporation devoted to science and education. His outstanding research, which is applied in his books, is one reason he was recently honored by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports as one of the top ten health leaders in the United States. A Flat Stomach ASAP is Dr. Darden's forty-fourth book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best bodybuilding guides out there, July 27, 2005

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This review is from: Big: Bulkbuilding Instructional Guide (Mass Market Paperback)

Using Dr. Darden's book I was able to put on over 20lbs while actually lowering my bodyfat by 1% This book is a great guide for bodybuilders who need to get out of a growth plateau. A must in your library.

5.0 out of 5 stars It works!, May 21, 2011

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This review is from: Big: Bulkbuilding Instructional Guide (Mass Market Paperback)

Having been stuck fast at a bodyweight of 78kgs for 2 whole years, and despite my best efforts to exceed that weight, 2 weeks on BIG and I was 80kgs! It isn't easy and it isn't fun, but that is where the beauty lays as it takes hard work to grow bigger and stronger, and if you thrive on that, as I do, then you are in for a treat.

5.0 out of 5 stars THE Authority on strength training!, August 7, 2004

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This review is from: Big: Bulkbuilding Instructional Guide (Mass Market Paperback)

While I eagerly await Dr. Darden's yet to be released publication, I have used the protocol espoused in this book since first learning of Ken Hutchins' remarkable findings regarding super slow training. I endured my first super slow workout in 1984 and still abide by the teachings of Ellington Darden. Nothing in the world of high volume lifting provides the level of growth stimulation achieved by slow, momentum free repetitions taken to failure(and beyond)!

Give up your preconceptions(usually misperceptions)about training and yield to the logic and science of Dr Darden!

Although the techniques revealed are ultra demanding, the results make the effort more than worthwhile!