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Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation [Paperback]

Ori Hofmekler (Author)
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April 29, 2008

Diet and fitness books appear at a dizzying rate – and with a wealth of dubious claims – in a culture facing increasing health problems based on a sedentary lifestyle. Ori Hofmekler’s Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat pulls out of the pack by focusing on the biological principles that dictate muscle gain and fat loss. Written for the widest readership–competitive athletes, bodybuilders, trainers, martial artists, sports nutritionists and coaches, dieters, and anyone concerned about their health–the book builds on the concepts popularized in The Warrior Diet. Author Hofmekler describes in simple, lay terms how under-eating and fasting can trigger an anabolic switch that stimulates growth and rejuvenation; how to reengineer the body at the cellular level to burn fat and build muscles; and how to naturally manipulate the body’s hormones for rapid muscle fusion and faster fat breakdown. Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat offers smart strategies for taking advantage of hunger to stimulate growth, burn fat, and boost brain power; techniques for turning insulin into a muscle builder instead of a fat gainer; and methods for shattering training and diet plateaus–in the process enhancing metabolic function, improving performance, and increasing the capacity to gain, and sustain, prime health.


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“If you are serious about building muscle and melting off body fat, the information contained in this book will provide you with the perfect game plan—the tactical approach you need to turn fitness dreams and desires into concrete reality.”
—Marty Gallagher, Olympic lifting and powerlifting champion; coach of national and world championship teams; and author of The Purposeful Primitive

“Ori Hofmekler's Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat gets into the nitty gritty of the biological concepts that aid muscle gain and fat loss.”
—Beauty, Health, Wellbeing Blog

About the Author

Ori Hofmekler is a well-known political artist and health expert. The founder, editor, and publisher of the national health and fitness magazine Mind and Muscle Power, he is the author of The Anti-Estrogenic Diet and The Warrior Diet.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: North Atlantic Books (April 29, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1556436890
  • ISBN-13: 978-1556436895
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ori Hofmekler is a modern renaissance man whose formative military experience prompted a life interest in survival science. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he received a degree in Human Science, he is a world-renowned artist whose political satire artwork has been featured in books and magazines worldwide.

As editor-in-chief of Mind and Muscle Power magazine, Hofmekler introduced his diet approach to the public to immediate acclaim from readers and professionals. His best seller Warrior Diet book was first published in 2002 followed by a new revised edition published by North Atlantic Books in 2007. In 2005, Hofmekler authored the highly acclaimed Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat/ The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation followed by 2nd edition in 2007. Hofmekler's 2006 book, The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, offers natural dietary strategies against hormonal-disrupting chemicals in our food and environment. His upcoming book Unlocking Your Muscle Gene / Trigger the Biological Mechanism that Transforms Your Body and Extends Your Life, will be published this fall by North Atlantic Books.

His Take No Prisoners newsletter exposes fallacies in the areas of diet and fitness. It presents the true principles of human survival and how to put them in practice in today's world. For more information, please see http://www.defensenutrition.com

 

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of technical information, October 21, 2003
"Maximum Muscle-Minimum Fat" went into the scientific details of why Ori's dietary approach works. "The Warrior Diet" was easier to understand and is a great book. "Maximum Muscle-Minimum Fat" seems geared to people who want to understand the tiny details. Buying "The Warrior Diet" is an excellent choice. Buying "Maximum Muscle-Minimum Fat" is fine as long as you just want to learn more about why "The Warrior Diet" works.
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51 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Must Buy, November 20, 2003
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Shawn (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
Turn off the home shopping channel and put down your new low carb diet book. In a sea of crash diets and fitness fads Ori Hofmekler offers an intelligent well researched and functional blueprint for healthy living. In his new book "Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat" Ori's passion for the beauty and complexity of the human body comes through on every page.

Those of you familiar with "The Warrior Diet" will find new information and further depth in Ori's latest offering. For readers new to Ori's research you will find a detailed exploration into how we can fuel and train our bodies to reach our full potential. A far cry from the usual diet/fitness books that line bookstore shelves, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat offers an unprecedented exploration into the science human performance and in doing so sets a new standard.

Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat is not an easy read. This book is for people who aren't merely satisfied with diet and training tips but rather this is for people with the drive and capacity to ask why and how things work. Ori takes great care in laying out the science behind training the human body and it is his attention to detail that sets his work apart from the masses. This extremely well written book is packed with technical information along with carefully crafted summaries that help turn the science of training into the art of personal excellence.

Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat goes beyond training for the sake of vanity and explores the science behind functional strength. With this work Ori invites his readers to get off the sofa and go to the extreme in their training. By trumpeting the virtues of such training methods as; supersets, under and over eating the author artfully lays out a plan for healthy living that shows readers how to create "super muscles", and a fat burning metabolism.

As a martial arts coach and personal training I have encountered countless athletes and weekend warriors who will suffer and sacrifice in the gym only to fail to reach their goals for lack of proper planning in the gym and at the dinner table. Such people go through their training and their life with a kind of handbrake on, never reaching their full potential. For a practical method of pushing the limits of human performance and to create a functionally strong and fit body I highly recommend Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat.

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Theory is great, but in practice it doesn't seem to work., February 21, 2009
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This review is from: Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation (Paperback)
Hmmm... I was initially very happy with the scientific information contained in this book, about the interplay of hormones within our bodies and how those hormones affected the building of muscle and the use of body fat for energy.

I was looking for natural technics in which to manipulate those hormonal cycles to more efficiently enhance muscle growth, while minimising body fat accumulation, but was sadly disappointed by this book. In theory the book's information sounded great, but in practice it didn't work for me.

I have for the last year and half meticulously tracked my body's weight, body fat %, water %, muscle %, as well as calorie intake each day, whereby I have gained a solid understanding of the hormonal cycles within my body in terms of peaks and troughs affecting those metrics, based upon the effects of diet, weights, cardio exercise and sleep.

Despite the book advocating an eating strategy which flys in the face of established body building and/or cutting technics, especially around ideas for boosting one's metabolism for fat loss, I decide to give it a go and reserve judgement till later. Basically my body metrics were disastrous in terms of the effect of eating 4-5 very small calorie meals, with a very large calorie meal each day. Without changing any of the other factors in my program (weights, cardio and sleep), what I notice was a slowing of my body's metabolism, an increase in body fat and a loss of lean muscle.

In my opinion, the author, if he really believes his strategy works, needs to give his readers a sample framework, a specific eating plan, based upon grams per pound/kg of body weight, etc. Otherwise the readers have no really reference point for properly implementing his proposed strategy. I feel if the author added a few more chapters around the actual implementation in practice, taking into account differing body types (ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph), his work would be more promising.

My recommendations are:

Buy the book if you want a very good understanding of the hormones in our bodies and how they affect each other to maintain the "status quo" for survival.

Don't buy this book if you are looking for a better strategy towards the building of muscle and the reducing of body fat - as the book's title seems to suggest.

A more promising book, based upon reviews in Amazon is:

The Fat Burning Diet: Accessing Unlimited Energy for a Lifetime"
Jay Robb; Paperback


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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stubborn fat gain, anabolic switch, anabolic impact, anabolic cycle, super muscle, recovery meals, anabolic potential, high energy turnover, intense physical stress, maximum muscle, metabolic decline, carb consumption, adrenal actions, muscle gain, steroid hormone synthesis, anabolic actions, anabolic state, anabolic drugs, muscle waste, fat loss, fat utilization, biological capabilities, slow fibers
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Develop Muscle, Superior Biological Capabilities, The Most Powerful Growth-Materializing Agents, The Biological Principles of Fat Loss, Turning On the Anabolic Switch, Timing Is Everything, Cellular Level, Undereating Phase
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