Customer Reviews
Could be condensed to pamphlet - By: , 21 Oct 2005 
As other reviewers have noted this book is incredibly long-winded & takes forever to say very little. Mcrobert's writing style seemed to change enormously over the years from the clarity of Brawn to a strange, indecisive style that lacks any cohesion or purpose.
A great addition, but buy Beyond Brawn first - By: K. Wigley, 15 Jun 2005 
This is a cracking book! All of McRoberts books are excellent. Anyone who finds this book boring, must look in the mirror. The type of person who finds this boring is the same type that only trains chest & biceps & looks like the letter 'p'. McRoberts books are aimed at the general population & he highlights alll the finer points of training that the useless muscle comics & the pro bodybuilding drug enhanced 'elite', don't bother with. McRobert is my only true living hero, now that my idol Mike Mentzer has gone (RIP). As a book on its own, it would be of marginal value. But McRoberts books are designed to be pieced together as a unit - they are quite clearly marked in such a manner on the back cover. I have alll his books & let me tell you, McRobert is an ordinary, drug free man, who speaks the truth when he sees it & he has been in the trenches; so he knows how to lift weights. Forget the pathetic dumbbell curling or the useless triceps pulldowns or the even worse dumbbell kickbacks. Get real. Squat. Bench. Deadlift. Chin. Dip. Get out of the gym & grow. Add incremental poundage increases. This is what REAL training is alll about. Not yapping by the do-it-alll-for-you lat pulldown machine, whilst talking loudly about your latest female conquest. Nobody gives a damn. Get in the gym 2 or 3 times per week & WORK. Follow the information in Further Brawn, Brawn, Beyond Brawn & you will grow! BUY THIS BOOK!
Looking for a needle in a haystack? - By: , 21 Dec 2002 This book is incredibly verbose; I am sure, with tight editing, it would reduce to a pocket book. I found the presentation style extremely irritating, with every paragraph in every chapter numbered - & most paragraphs of one sentence only. One reads & reads, feeling certain that there must be some gems in this great morass of verbiage but, sadly , these are not easy to spot & one soon tires of searching. The most exasperating aspect of this work is that it is necessary to buy a further volume, to get the full effect of instruction given here, the companion book being "The Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique" by (surprise, surprise!) the same author.
Only Average - By: Adrian VK Wong, 15 Jun 2002 
Has some helpful tips but the arrangement & layout of the book is a very complicated & tedious read. Disappointing after reading Brawn.
Excellent, essential addition to Beyond Brawn - By: Mr. C. F. Corbett, 15 Nov 2001 I was a bit skeptical about purchasing this book because I couldn't imagine anything being left to cover after Beyond Brawn. However this book is just as excellent as Beyond Brawn & covers so many new topics & areas, as well as expanding & clarifying in stone some of the theories presented in BB. Again, the actuallly style of McRoberts writing is very entertaining & easy to read, in the same unique layout of his previous books.
