Beyond Brawn

If you thought Arnold Schwarzenegger put Graz, Austria on the bodybuilding map, how about Stuart McRobert and Nicosia, Cyprus? Imagine, one man, on a Mediterranean island no less, who has the audacity to directly challenge most contemporary bodybuilding advice. Instead of being another me-too bodybuilding book, Brawn is unique: its tone is serious, its manner evangelical, but most importantly, its focus is on things that actually work for the average trainee. "Drugs are evil and the scourge of bodybuilding," says McRobert, in effect "and forget about Mr O-type training -- it just won't work for most people. I'll tell you some things that do work". Brawn has most bodybuilding books beaten hands down in the depth department, but its biggest contribution just might be in breadth: Brawn introduces you to over 90 percent of the factors that will determine your ultimate success in the gym. A very useful book, which can help a lot of people to make tremendous bodybuilding progress.

The guidance in this book teaches Course #1. Before anabolic steroids started to infest the bodybuilding world, variations of Course #1 were famous, popular, and responsible for building tons of muscles. But in the 1960s, when the use of steroids became popular among competitive bodybuilders, the popularity of Course #1 began to wane. Since then, the routines most commonly promoted in the bodybuilding world have been those used by physique stars who were genetically gifted for bodybuilding and on steroids. But those routines do not work well, if at all, for most other bodybuilders. This books guidance is founded on the amazing progress that Peary Rader made - around 50 pounds of natural muscle growth following 12 years of failure on other routines. The three primary characteristics of Course #1: 1) It is very effective. 2) It is up to date. 3) It is personalized.

Do you want a terrific physique? Here's how to build one... The answers in this book to over 230 questions will show you how to build a terrific drug-free and healthy physique. The answers revealed inside will show you: How to train more efficiently, effectively and productively; How to apply 'The Golden Fleece' to your training, for relentless progress; How to enhance your recovery system so as to improve your rate of growth; How to satisfy your nutritional needs more effectively, and hasten your progress; How to have more time out of the gym while actually improving your gains in it; How to resist the siren calls of mainstream propaganda, and stay on the path to success; How to stay motivated and train safely and productively for a lifetime; How to take charge of your physique, and achieve your exercise-related goals. This text is the fourth part of the series of four inter-related books that make up The Muscle and Might Master Method. While each book can stand alone as an excellent instructional tool in its own right, together they provide the most complete and responsible package of instruction for achieving physique and strength goals. By acknowledging your individuality this book teaches you how to train yourself. Become your own expert personal trainer. Whether you're male or female, young or not-so-young, a beginner or very advanced, want to train at home or in a public gym, this book is for you. Apply what you learn and success will follow!

BEYOND 'ECSTASY' "MDMA temporarily lowers interpersonal boundaries," said the Harvard doctor. "Hex dissolves them." "The potential for abuse, for mind control, is terrifying," said the Berkeley psychopharmacology professor. Outside, packs of painfully thin kids in hex-sign T-shirts--the "hexies"--quiver and murmur and make their telepathic suicide pacts. Someone is trying to destroy a generation. Sarah "Sunny" Randall wants to know who. The investigative reporter on the story for New York's Metro Magazine, 5'3", Radcliffe-educated Sunny is clueless in the deadly world of dealers and underground labs. But Sunny has a secret weapon: Sasha. Her "boyfriend"--a streetwise, 6'3", 250-pound Soviet prison camp survivor and ex-boxer who is friendly with the Greenwich Village Don. Sasha can help Sunny root out the evil mind at the source of hex. But when her ambition and her passion to save the kids get her in too deep, can he save her life?

This encyclopaedia offers the keys to your training success. Unlike other books, this one acknowledges your individuality, and teaches you precisely how to train yourself. Become your own personal trainer. Whether you are male or female, a beginner or very advanced, young or not-so-young, want to train at home or in a public gym, this book is for you. The author has over 25 years of training experience, has had over 300 articles published and edited Hardgainer magazine since 1989. Act on his expertise and you will achieve your full potential for muscle and might.

WHO ARE THEY AND WHY DO THEY DO IT? –these men who dedicate themselves to building bodies like Hellenistic statues; who crisscross the world competing for titles as grandiose yet as publicly uncelebrated (Mr. America, Mr. Universe, Mr. Olympia) as their gargantuan physiques; whose daily lives are as rigidly defined and regulated by their obsession to mold the ideal body as any other master athlete's is towards perfecting his craft. Yet, rather than the public acclaim that normally follows an athletic triumph, only their fellow muscle men know who they are and know the price they have paid to win their incredible bodies. Novelist Charles Gaines and photographer George Butler have spent the last two years trying to capture the essence of this strange, joyful, exotic world: “We have been to quite a few places tracking bodybuilders, seeing contests and putting together the materials here. If we felt at times a little like 19th-century explorers –like Doughty, perhaps, off trekking through Arabia –it was because we found bodybuilding to be as primeval and unmapped as parts of Labrador. Nobody, we discovered, had been back into it to send a report on what it was like. This struck us then as peculiar, and it still does.

Build Muscle, Lose Fat, Look Great By Stuart McRobert