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FitnessProsBooks.com - The New High Intensity Training: The Best Muscle-Building System You've Never Tried
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.713
EAN: 9781594860003
ISBN: 1594860009
Label: Rodale Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Publisher: Rodale Books
Release Date: 2004-09-09
Studio: Rodale Books
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Summary: Don't waste your money.
Comment: I don't know how long ago I bought this book, but I forgot about it, and recently I saw an article about Dorian Yates in a magazine and he was talking about how he adapted his style from Mike Mentzer. So, I was looking for a Mike Mentzer book at the store when I remembered I had bought this one and that it must be somewhere mixed in with all my other books. So, I wetn home and found it.
Much of the book just seems to be Darden's biased opinions: his love of Arthur Jones, his bashing of Arnold and the Mentzers, etc. If you want a book that just talks about HIT training, then you don't want this one. It's not worth the money. You can learn just as much about HIT training by asking on any messageboard that discusses bodybuilding.
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Summary: Where is my book?!
Comment: You want me to review a book I have YET TO RECEIVE, it takes 2-6 business days to get my book, today is the 6th day and I checked my mail - no books. I bought 3 books (each book from a different amazon seller), so far I have one book which I received promptly and paid 1 penny for but THIS BOOK - which cost me $7.50 has yet to show up, much less the other book from another seller for .99. They took my money, the order is complete and there is NO FED EX DELIVERY EMAIL OR ACTIVITY OF ANY KIND, but all 3 orders show COMPLETE, according to Amazon rules, I have to wait until 04/11 (5 days after final due date) to contact the seller and either get my book or a refund, so be it. I want a refund for the full amount and I'll try buying this same book from someone else on amazon...complete waste of my time! Maybe its a good book, I'll never know. It's not about the money, its about the time I've wasted when I have other things to be concerned with. I but things from Amazon all the time, I never have this problem. Do yourself a favor and buy the book from someone else.
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Summary: Bought it twice. Its that good
Comment: I bought this book once and read through it and hi-lighted important parts. I went to the gym and implemented my knowledge and ate healthy . I ate lots of red meat and BBQ food. After just 3 months I had a huge difference. No steroids or drugs. Simply hard work and this book and I was really finally getting some where. This book is based off of proven research and test's and is great to begin with and learn everything you will ever need to know. I was amazed at how many people were in the gym wasting their time with bad posture and work outs. I passed many of them in size, strength and endurance in only 3 months and they had been at it for many more. Plus with the quality of the muscle mass I could out perform often bigger weight lifters with my more quality muscle mass. I passed it on to some one else. This book is effective and will get you results and keep you from getting frustrated because you wont waste your time and you will see results fairly soon . Keep a log containing dates, excercise, reps, and weight and see how you go up in weight in only a few weeks. If you can agree that gorilla's are strong than you can see where Ellington got his data from. It simply works and is all you need to know . I bought it again and may give this copy to a dedicated person who could use it . I really liked this book .
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Summary: Serious training only
Comment: I've been reading HIT books and doing it for a while, especially Mike Mentzer's books.The techniques from this book are very strenuous and perhaps over-the-top. I am not saying that the techniques don't work, but only buy this book if you know you will fully commit yourself to training in a systematical way. These techniques require a range certain training exercises where you sometimes need a spotter in order to do them. Buy with caution
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Summary: not a bad training manual
Comment: The real truth is that nobody can say for certain what the exact stimulus is for muscle growth. Scientists and doctors have almost no practical knowledge on the subject, and will give what amounts to sixth-grade textbook answers to any questions asked. Many pro-bodybuilders are juicing, so their input is useless (unless you're juicing yourself). So what we're left with is our own experiences, combined with that of our peers. Which is the main reason I bought this book. I've been doing hit-style workouts for a while, but have stagnated recently. Even if you're not a fan of Darden, or his writings, you have to admit that he has years of experience training people. Much like Arthur Jones did. So I wanted to gain his perspective on HIT training.
Darden feels that training a bodypart only once a week isn't enough to get optimal results (which is what I was doing). Being an advanced trainee, I jumped into the workout recommendations he specified for the end of the 52 week cycle he outlines. Basically, that means 1 set to failure per bodypart,working each bodypart once every 5 days (instead of 7). To my surprise, my strength has started to gradually increase again (for example : bench went from 225 lbs.X 10 to 240 lbs.X 10 in about 2 months). How could 2 days LESS rest between workouts break my plateau? I suspect it's because I'm not getting nearly as sore from my workouts anymore. It seems that from days 5-7 I was losing what some fitness experts refer to as conditioning. Before, it would sometimes take me up to 3 days for muscle soreness to subside, probably delaying the growth process. Now, I'm beginning to suspect that muscle soreness( though a good indication that you've worked out intensely) may have nothing to do with the muscle growth process. And in fact, may just impede it. Training a bodypart with just 1 intense set every 5 days seems to be a superior protocol than what I was doing before. Though I haven't stagnated yet, eventually I'll throw in what Darden calls NTF (not to failure) workouts, (same weight used, but 2 reps shy of failure) when my progress begins to wane. That seems to be a good way to maintain conditioning and strength between workouts, while also allowing for any extra recovery that needs to take place.
So overall, I'm glad I purchased this book. It sent my training in a direction that it otherwise would not have taken, producing some very positive results. Would I follow Darden's advice to the letter?---Absolutely not! But he does have some valuable insights (derived from years of training experience) that can be of benefit to most bodybuilders and weight-training enthusiasts.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Certain to become the bible of HIT-the training that revolutionized lifting with shorter, far-more-intense workouts-this impassioned guide is the last word on how to achieve explosive growth safely, without steroids!
For many dedicated bodybuilders, the weight-lifting theories of Arthur Jones are gospel. It was Jones, the inventor of Nautilus exercise equipment, who first discovered that short, intense workouts could produce better results than the long, high-volume workouts then in vogue.
Even though research into Jones's methods has proved them correct, a number of high-profile strength coaches use HIT to train their athletes, and the bodybuilding magazine Ironman does HIT-based features every issue, there still are no major HIT books in stores. This new book-by champion bodybuilder, exercise researcher, and best-selling author Ellington Darden, who is a Jones disciple and friend-shows lifters how to apply the master's teachings, along with some new HIT concepts to achieve extraordinary results.
At the heart of the book is a complete, illustrated, six-month course for explosive growth. Exercise by exercise, workout by workout, the reader is shown precisely what to do, and perhaps even more important, what not to do. Charging that too many bodybuilders follow a more-is-better approach-too many exercises, too many sets, and too much frequency-and rely on steroids to compensate for depleted recovery ability, Darden shows why HIT, steroid-free and healthy, is the best way to safely build muscle. Finally, the exercise religion Arthur Jones founded, and Darden fine-tuned, has its bible.
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