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FitnessProsBooks.com - Muscle Logic : Escalating Density Training
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Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.713
EAN: 9781594860836
ISBN: 1594860831
Label: Rodale Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2005-10-25
Publisher: Rodale Books
Release Date: 2005-10-20
Studio: Rodale Books
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Overall good
Comment: This book requires forgetting what you know and trusting the author. When reading the book I thought that there was no way I could get an effective workout in 15 minutes doing two exercises. After my first session I was so wiped out that it took a few days to recover, but recovery was different from a typical 3x10 set based workout. This book will challenge your body in different ways, which promotes muscle growth.
I enjoyed the fact I could set a timer on my iPhone/iPod and then when the music stopped I was done!
The negatives in the book are the exercise routines. They are not laid out well and I believe my book is missing a page.
Slight adjustments to the routines are needed and hopefully the editing will improve with future publications. However, EDT will kick your butt. If you're looking to try something different and can approach the routines with an open mind you'll be a believer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great information
Comment: The workouts are tough. The science behind the method make sense. I have seen improvement in myself. The last half the book contains workout plans, some of which are repetitive.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good and bad
Comment: Absolutely one of the most poorly written, just plain messy books I have ever read. The author should consider taking a writing class at the local community college. Seriously. Where he's going with his strategy is somewhat confusing and the book is organized very badly.
OK, THAT being said...his philosophy of focusing on overall output during a specific time period is very intriguing to me. I can wrap up his views in about one paragraph....
Superset opposing body parts(say, chest and back)-though he isn't very clear on this as a rock solid view as he shows numerous examples of non opposing bodypart supersets-he seems very confused on what he really believes. Pick a weight you can do a 10 rep max with on an exercise for each body part...say-bench and bent over rows. Superset these 2 exercises for 15 minutes...sticking to about 5 reps per set. When the 15 minutes is up...multiply your reps x weight x sets and that is your total output for the workout(or "PR" as he refers to it, though I honestly don't know if the author ever took the time to identify this acronym-yes, he is that haphazard in his writing). Example-10 sets of 5 of 200lbs would be a 10,000lb total output for your specific workout. Next workout, make sure you beat that total output number by a certain percentage. Up your weight next workout if you beat it by his designated percentage.
That's pretty much it.
As I said, very intriguing and a very different way to train compared to what we are used to in the typical U.S. gym.
I'm going to try it. While I do, I hope the author works on his writing and clarity in his future endeavors.
Customer Rating:
Summary: OK - But Not Revolutionary or New for Lifters in The Know
Comment: This was a a decent book, however I believe that the author put a lot of effort into explain a relatively simple concept (that in parts and even somewhat in total have been around for quite a few years!). This could have just as easily been a pamphlet, with the reader instructed to refer to a good book outlining exercises - since exercise photos take up a considerable volume of the book.
Aspects discussed such as progressive overloading, controlling the tempo of your lifting, paying strict attention to form, measuring progress (the old Volume Method of "X amount of Volume in Y amount of Time"), and things like supersets of antagonist muscles have been around a long, long time.
So I overall found it one additional tool that could be used in a part of using the concept of constantly changing lifting programs, but was just made too difficult (in writing) for what the author was clearly trying to say... and it for the most part simply wasn't really anything "new".
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Summary: I do not recommend this book
Comment: I have been a body-builder for over thirty years, and have avidly read and studied many books, perhaps twenty, on the subject.
Most have taught me something useful. If nothing else, I learn a new routine or two, or a useful tip.
However, I learned nothing from this book; the author somehow latched onto his idea of a better way to lift, and offers it with no technical or third-party support for its usefulness. I tried the techniques and found them of no real value. There is a good reason for this: in my opinion, the ideas advanced in this book are useless.
I am not one to go out of my way to cause problems for others, but my sincere advice is to purchase books by other authors, whose insights are the result of great experience, their own education in this field, and are improved by the input of their peers. This book does none of that.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Trainers and Olympic athletes agree that Escalating Density Training (EDT) really works. Now everyone who works out can learn how to benefit from this superbly effective, time-efficient system.
Your muscles will get bigger when you force them to do more work in the same period of time. That's the breathtakingly simple concept behind Charles Staley's innovative training system, EDT.
Over 300 people participated in coach Staley's first-ever EDT Fat Loss Challenge, with spectacular results. This is because EDT is a program that adjusts to the individual. Here's how: EDT designates timeframes (called PR Zones) where as many repetitions as possible are completed. Every workout becomes more effective than the one that preceded it, making each session a personal record. More reps equal bigger muscles and improved health-a simple premise that delivers amazing results.
In this book Staley provides:
· Beginner, intermediate, and advanced programs for athletes interested in maximum performance at any level
· A 2-hour-per-week program for serious recreational bodybuilders
· Simple, effective ways to apply EDT to develop power, speed, and endurance
· Techniques that cut recovery time to train more intensely and frequently to reach goals faster
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