Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle: the world’s most comprehensive guide to building your body
The Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle: the World’s most Authoritative Guide to Building 
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- ISBN13: 9781579547691
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No remainder mark.
The exercise is not easy. The body is a complicated machine, with 650 muscles and 250 million individual muscle fibers. Some would say taming those fibers and creating strong and healthy muscles is not an act of work. Some say it’s an art. Here is a book worthy of the art. Men’s Health Book of Muscle is the large, richly illustrated, coffee table book, full color men’s health could only produce “one that also functions as the ultimate guide to building a better body. The aim of the book
(out of 107 reviews)
List Price: $ 35.00 Price: $ 18.42
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- ISBN13: 9781579547691
- Condition: New
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No remainder mark.
The exercise is not easy. The body is a complicated machine, with 650 muscles and 250 million individual muscle fibers. Some would say taming those fibers and creating strong and healthy muscles is not an act of work. Some say it’s an art. Here is a book worthy of the art. Men’s Health Book of Muscle is the large, richly illustrated, coffee table book, full color men’s health could only produce “one that also functions as the ultimate guide to building a better body. The aim of the book
(out of 107 reviews)
List Price: $ 35.00 Price: $ 18.42
Franklin Joyner
16 Jun, 2010
Franklin Joyner Opinion The Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle: the World’s most Authoritative Guide to Building Rating: 
I had this book for about 9 months. I recently completed the intermediate program and made great progress. I followed the nutritional advice given in the book and gained 20 pounds. 20 pounds may not sound like much, but it’s a total body transformation when going from 169-190 … and is all muscle.
The trainings are designed so that stress the muscles very hard and then have the recovery time enough to get bigger and stronger.
I ran a marathon and finish a week after I started this book. So basically, start from scratch.
I could bench press from 40 pounds of weights up to 8 repetitions. After the workout I lifted six months intermediate 80 for eight repetitions.
Shoulder press went from 65 pounds of bar press 5 reps of 120 pounds for five repetitions.
Squat was the biggest improvement. Started at 65 to 10 repetitions. Finished at 185 for 10 reps.
The best exercise is in my opinion, I never knew before this book. It is the dead weight. The dead weight I got bigger and stronger than any other exercise in general. And it focuses on a common weakness for most people, the lower back.
Dead was beginning May 65 repetitions. End at 225 5 reps.
The key to this book that takes you through an approach to cycling. By taking you through stages with different sets, reps and exercises, the muscles are always in a state of shock, and if they meet the training sessions.
I’m doing the training through again. After completing a second time I go to the advanced workout. You will never need another book on fitness. This is the best book I’ve read and applied for an extended period of time. The authors have done a wonderful job with writing. Once again, workouts are great and the approach the author takes bicycle with training, can continure to make and never have to switch to another program.
I have very good results following this book as prescribed authors. I keep making progress in strength and size, following this book. Ian King and Lou Schuler have what I consider the best book ever on the subject to get stronger and gain size. The bottom line is you get injury free results if you follow this book.
GymGoddess
16 Jun, 2010
Opinion GymGoddess The Men’s Health: Book of Muscle: the World’s most Authoritative Guide to Building Rating: 
On the positive side, this is probably the best book I read on the subject of weight training. On the down side, boy, there is much that each work is overwhelming.
I have been training under the weight of more than five years and have used the Council for Life and a series of books Kings Health training. This volume, by far the largest number of exercises that are used every week. In the intermediate program, for example, there are 3 separate workouts to be alternated. Maybe if someone has a half hour a day to review the exercises, another 40 minutes to make them (and to tote this beautiful volume to the gym), they are reasonable …. but for someone who has other responsibilities, children, work, home, this is a time and concentration of very intensive program.
That said, I would certainly endorse this book for anyone who wants really a serious long-term program. Too often, the Men’s Health “bibles” programs are limited, leaving the lever that is engaged with the question “why” is coming. This book offers enough variety and different routines to be a good investment long term.
John Gesselberty
16 Jun, 2010
John Gesselberty Opinion The Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle: the World’s most Authoritative Guide to Building Rating: 
Book of Muscle is one of the best books of its class that I have read and seen all. It takes you on a journey through your body and gives a roadmap to keep it in the best possible way. Lou Schuler The text is clear and concise with a sensible approach that is refreshing in this world of “flavor of the month and fitness exercise books. You learn about muscles and how to keep them for life. The training, by Ian King noneother that offer more than a year of quality, well planned routines that will keep you challenged and growing. And Ian definitely follows the principle of more is less, keeping the workouts under an hour. I’ve been doing the program Intermediate 12 weeks and I’m getting stronger and growing in body, mind and spirit. King also manages to keep things lively with changes in routines and innovative exercises and combinations that beat the hell of the monotonous three sets of 10 training sessions to find in magazines. Get Book of the muscles. It’s the best bang for the buck for the novice and the experienced lifter.
Karl Miller
16 Jun, 2010
Reviewed by Karl Miller The Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle: the World’s most Authoritative Guide to Building Rating: 
Finally, Men’s Fitness has been successful – a book does not promise immediate results … but instead of one that helps you formulate a plan, guided in equal parts to the weightroom, sound nutritional advice and key managers to engage in training the mind. This is undoubtedly the best book yet on the value (and importance) of King’s personal fitness.Ian can not be the biggest name in the world of fitness, but among weightlifters, is known for the hard core, no nonsense weight training, with emphasis on the functionality of more than just muscle mass. Along with the health of ordinary men Lou Schuler, who has compiled the best guide to muscle out of Rodale Press – and one of the best guides I read.Along showing the various muscle groups, and thereby explained the details of its importance, the book comes to the fore several exercises for each group. The good thing about exercise is that pages show a wide variation in order to allow complete definition of the particular muscle, and also give a great explanation and illustration for the exercise, allowing the reader the opportunity to really learn more about in the appropriate manner. It’s great to read a book like that that uses pictures to explain and educate, rather than having an excuse to photograph conditions.This chiselled bodies sweaty book has it all – if you are a newcomer, or have been around for years weightroom who are forced to learn some new exercises, or some outstanding money in some old favorites. And the sample programs written by King are well motivated, and offer a creative blend of Hypertrophic construction routines and endurance. And to allow customization to meet specific body parts needs.Great kids book – this has me thinking about subscribing to Men’s Health more (if you just stop running the cheese spice up your sex life “items) .
Justus Pendleton
16 Jun, 2010
Justus Pendleton Opinion The Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle: the World’s most Authoritative Guide to Building Rating: 
In many ways this is the perfect book for someone who seek first to enter the regular exercise. More than most other books in the genre, it seems more than a modicum of scientific understanding of her music. The first sections of the tone is more about the real science of muscles, why they get bigger, and how. The authors know their audience, however, not exceeded in science. However, if you are going to lift weights, then you need a certain level of understanding of what things work and why. This first section gives you that. Personally, I’d like to see more scientific details and references, but I understand that it probably alienate large chunks of their destination audience.After primer introducing the major muscles and exercises that target. There are also sections on diet, heating and stretching. Although none of these sections are global, and many have done better elsewhere, are well enough here that makes the book a single window for viable beginners.Before run out and buy this, however, there are exceptions. One, the book does not answer the home athlete. Depending on how well stocked your home gym is and how creative you are with replacement up with exercises that may not be a big deal, but the exercises do not assume access to bars, dumbbells, and a machine.Two, some of the descriptions of the exercise is lacking in detail or in some cases, simply wrong. The footer row, for example, shows a form – so bring your elbows above parallel – that most trainers and researchers warn against, due to a shoulder injury in many people. I would expect the world’s most comprehensive guide to this.Three mention at least the routines provided sometimes leaves me scratching my head. They give a rate of things like push up hope. The description of this exercise, says “hold for the period of time”, however the actual routines do not specify a period of time. Is it supposed to for 3 seconds or 30 or 90? Who knows? Four routines – at least initially – and they seem to take too long training rather than overtraining. In “Phase One” King prescribed circuit training for three weeks and is supposed to be doing this circuit 2-3 times a day, three days a week. I found that doing the circuit twice took me over an hour. Doing it for the third time I have driven more than 90 minutes of exercise. Throw in warm up and post work out stretching and is looking for a solid two hours. This is for “beginners” and is supposed to do it three times a week.Later in the “Phase One” king piles more work on that. Not only are you supposed to do each circuit 2-3 times, you have to do 2-3 reps of each exercise. At week 6, if you do the minimum number of repetitions, the minimum number of sets, the minimum number of circuits, all with the recommended minimum rest the whole thing will take 93 minutes. Do it three times a week. This is for “beginners.” While I like the training I think this kind of time commitment is more likely to lead to overtraining earnings rather useful. It is true that later it seems that King scales back time requirements but we must persevere through eight weeks of exercises that are easy 90 minutes.