Alpha Male : The Path to Hardcore Natural Bodybuilding (Paperback)

~ Sam Delucia (Author)

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Product Description

When something becomes too commercialized, as bodybuilding has, it loses some of its purity. The bodybuilding magazine and sports nutrition industry is a multi-billion dollar a year runaway freight train. For years, the bodybuilding magazines have instructed people how to train, what supplements to take, and given guidelines on creating a professional bodybuilder style body which in reality is unobtainable through natural means. With the growth of the internet, a growing counter-culture of natural bodybuilding (one without the aid of performance enhancing drugs) has grown steadily with the emergence of websites, discussion groups, and online magazines echoing the anthem of "Go Heavy or Go Home". These lifters take pride in their gains produced through blood, sweat, and tears. Advancements made without the hype of supplements and magazines. In today’s age, people want truth not hype.

Alpha Male delivers on all this and more:

Uncover the truths of supplements and how effective they really are.

Learn how the bodybuilding corporate machine works to keep you an eternal customer.

Find the source of your own motivation and how to become the Alpha Male.

Discover how to pack on muscle naturally and devise your own Hardcore Natural workout. Discover how to eat for power without the use of supplements. Get the list of the top Hardcore Natural websites on the internet.

From the Author

The purpose of this book is to provide a workout for weight trainers who want to pack on SERIOUS muscle mass naturally. The book also provides the reader with the confidence and intensity that is needed to succeed in the gym. This book contains real facts, real advice for lifters who want truth not fiction.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: William Delucia (April 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970960107
• ISBN-13: 978-0970960108
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,206,919 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, challenging, and highly entertaining, September 7, 2001

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Book For First-Timers, November 4, 2001

By	M W Richardson (Canberra, ACT Australia) - See all my reviews

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Alpha Male, March 24, 2002

By A Customer

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.