Customer Reviews
If your even considering it ...BUY IT - By: Carl, 18 Feb 2006 
I have been looking for something for years that helps me & this is it. A book written for normal people. I have never reallly been satisfied before with my training, never seem to progress properly & always tired. Now 6 weeks on & not only have i lost over 5 kilos i am steadily getting stonger. Don't mess about, get this book.
You reallly will need the 'Weight training technique' book as well. I also plumped for the tracking book. You don't need it but it actuallly helps you plan & think about your routine. All excellent stuff well written, to the point with no cobblers. He tells you simple rules & promises nothing that is not realistic. A book for the sceptics amongst us, & a book for those who value their time. Buy it.
Best book on weight training - By: N. Hasan, 25 Aug 2005 This is the best & only book you'll ever need.
Truly excellent - By: , 05 Feb 2005 If you want practical, drug free know how then this book is a must. The only book I had read before this was the truly terrible encyclopaedia of modern bodybuilding by Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger's book now sits in a cupboard gathering dust & should probably be burnt to prevent it slipping into the wrong hands & causing more damage.
If you are wise enough to shake of the shackles of traditional training & go against the flow you will succeed. This book could have saved me from four years of mediocre gains, had I discovered it sooner.
I will warn you however, that this book is not a light read. McRobert has done this on purpose. You must be prepared to invest the time to read it ALL cover to cover at least once. The investment of time will be well worth it. Secondly you will also want McRoberts book on training technique.
I am now making consistent progress in my training in just 2 hours a week & couldn't be happier.
Good but very preachy and confusing - By: Splossy, 24 Jan 2005 
I think if you have read lots of bodybuilding books & mags then this will come as a breath of fresh air & cut through the mass of contradictory info that is pushed at you. If you are coming in with an open mind you will wonder why he feels the need to ram the same points down your throat over & over again.
He tells me the Squat is important. I believe him. But he then tells me another 100 times! He then goes on to say how he suffered years of knee & back pain - two things associated with a lot of squats!....
The book is quite disorganised & requires re-reading to fully make out what is required. It does odd things like give sample routines only to say that they have problems & should be changed. I'd like to have been given a correct routine or two with recommended sets, reps & work-effort etc. He is trying to get you to work it out for yourself but it's hard going. It's not actuallly that complicated but he makes it so.
Having said alll that this IS a good book. He is right in pointing out that most of the wonder-routines that the famous pros recommend are not suited to normal people not taking steroids. If you persevere with the book you will get a lot of good info & develop routines that work. YOu get a lot of good info on how to cycle through varied effort levels, volumes etc to keep building effectively & avoid injury.
There are not many other books with this level of info.
Beyond Brawn - By: , 03 Sep 2003 This is everything that a good personal trainer should posses & preach. Beyond Brawn is full of advice I would personallly use when training my clients, for example, progresive overload (working the muscle within your overload perimeters, basicallly working hard enough to achieve it).
The book is broken down into easy to manage paragraphs, not too heavy on the old text, definatly not one of those books where the text is that heavy that one of eyes ends up in Bradford, & the other in Bingley!!
It's taken me 8 years in the trade to learn three quaters of what is written in this book, & that doesn't mean I'm a slow reader, it means you can't put a price on experience & Old Stu McRobert has had 30 years training himself & other people.
Buy this book to use it or you'll end up, in a gym, sitting on the end of a bench not knowing what to do next, staring at nothing.
Or perhaps being ill advised by the gyms loud mouth on how he would train, if the guys got a gut like a pot bellied pig why should you listen to him? Sound at alll fimilar?
