Manly Weight Loss: For Men Who Hate Aerobics and Carrot-Stick Diets, Finally, a Weight-Loss Program That Melts the Fat and Spares the Muscle [Paperback]

Charles Poloquin (Author), L. L. Dayton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 1998

Humorous, yet highly informative. The program is innovative, using weight training to achieve weight loss without the loss of lean muscle tissue.

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For years, Americans have been told that aerobic exercise is the only way to lose weight and keep it off. Weight training is recommended as a way to keep muscle mass while losing weight, but it's never portrayed as the ticket to weight loss itself.

But strength coach Charles Poliquin, who has worked with hundreds of Olympic and professional athletes, says there's a way to lose pounds while lifting them. It's based on physiological principles that are well known to scientists but brand-new to the gym populace.

Here's the idea: If you generate a lot of lactic acid during your weight-lifting sets, your body will then produce more growth hormone. Growth hormone helps your body release fatty acids from your fat cells, which you then use for energy. Result: You get muscle from lifting weights, and you lose fat. For most guys, the net result will be lost weight, without having to run a mile or take a single Spinning class.

To make this work, though, you have to rethink the way you lift. If your idea of a workout is going into the gym and pushing out a few bench presses, then dissecting the latest ballgame with your buddies between sets, you'll find Poliquin's workout techniques a total shock. To generate enough lactic acid to promote fat loss, you have to extend your sets to about a minute, then rest for a minute, then move on to your next set. (Nobody said it was easier than aerobics.)

Besides featuring six weeks' worth of detailed workouts, Manly Weight Loss also includes 14 different daily menu plans--all easy-to-fix stuff that guys will enjoy (one of the menus includes fast-food hamburgers and fries)--and dozens of exercise descriptions. --Lou Schuler

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Dayton Publications (October 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966275217
• ISBN-13: 978-0966275216
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,039,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Whats with the supplement promotion?, July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Manly Weight Loss: For Men Who Hate Aerobics and Carrot-Stick Diets, Finally, a Weight-Loss Program That Melts the Fat and Spares the Muscle (Paperback)

This book seems to have some pretty good information in it, so I'm not completley disappointed. BUT, I am so sick of having fitness experts try to cram supplements down my throat! I thought I was buying a no nonsense book from a world renowned strength coach, and what I ended up with was a sales catalogue for a nutritional supplement company. It even has pictures of several different products posted in the diet section of the book, with a 1-800 number at the bottom of each page so you can call and spend all your money on a bunch of candy bars and other junk that won't help you one iota with your training objectives. My advice: spend your money on something written by Stuart McRobert. The only thing he sells is good advice for the average weight lifter.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing..., April 5, 2000

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This review is from: Manly Weight Loss: For Men Who Hate Aerobics and Carrot-Stick Diets, Finally, a Weight-Loss Program That Melts the Fat and Spares the Muscle (Paperback)

I've admired Coach Poliquin and his principles for years. He has an incredible amount of knowledge and his advice is backed by experience and science. That's why I'm shocked that he has let his name be associated with this "book". It's over priced, and the typographical errors are to numerous to mention. Parts of the workout section contradict themselves. Had I not already been familiar with the program presented, I would have been completely lost. The menu examples are so skimpy they shouldn't even be included. Save your money. Visit the Testosterone website instead.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Set of Routines....that's about it., September 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Manly Weight Loss: For Men Who Hate Aerobics and Carrot-Stick Diets, Finally, a Weight-Loss Program That Melts the Fat and Spares the Muscle (Paperback)

The first few chapters are poorly written and endlessly bash aerobics. I got the point after the first few paragraphs. The workout routines and lifting technique illustrations are very useful. The rest of this paperback "booklet" is hype for a sports supplement company (veiled behind some suggested diet plans). I have a great deal of respect and confidence in coach Poliquin's knowledge and experience with muscle development. I'd buy it again for his workout routines alone.