Muscle
Building Nutrition - Eat to Build Muscle!
Muscle
Building Nutrition, by respected health, fitness, and
medical consultant Will Brink (author of the superb Diet Supplements
Revealed, reviewed
here), is a without doubt, one more fantastic piece of work
from the fitness and supplement guru. With that said however,
let me also say this... Muscle Building Nutrition is
not for everyone. As implied by the title, this publication
is focused towards those who are looking to build muscle, although
several complimentary subsections of the book make it very worthwhile
for others as well...
Anybody
who spends (or intends to spend) money on strength and performance
enhancing supplements -- creatine, methoxy, whey protein, tribulis,
prohormones, and so on. Will reviews many of the "hottest"
products on the market today, and let me tell you... very few
get the coveted "thumbs up" approval rating. What
you'll learn from Will's reviews are worth the cost of the book
alone -- guaranteed!
Anybody
who is looking to ratchet up their training program -- Muscle
Building Nutrition contains a great subchapter from world
renown strength trainer, Charles Poliquin. If you haven't heard
of Charles, he is a well-known trainer of Olympic athletes,
NHL hockey players, NFL football players, and strength trainers
everywhere. His series of 21 Training Principles are definitely
going to be implemented into my weight training regime!
Sidebar:
For those of you who are not into "muscle building",
and are looking more specifically for a weight loss solution,
check out my ebook, The
Ultimate Fat Burning Diet Primer!.
Muscle
Building Nutrition in depth...
Muscle
Building Nutrition Prt I: The first part of the book, obviously
enough, focuses on muscle building nutrition. Will introduces
the reader to the macronutrients (fats, proteins, carbohydrates),
with an intensive discussion of each. I found the discussion
on protein especially enlightening, and enjoyed Will's revision
of the oft-maligned food pyramid. After this it gets a little
more complicated, with intensive instruction on determining
your "most ideal" caloric intake, and from that, gram
requirements for each macronutrient. Although it may get a little
heavy here for those of you who have not yet done much research
on nutrition and/or dieting, the style remains light and breezy,
and Will doesn't hesitate to throw some humour into the mix.
As usual, Muscle Building Nutrition is heavily (yet unobtrusively)
referenced from the appropriate journals.
Comments:
Because of all the research I've done over the years, and for
the writing of my own ebook, The
Ultimate Fat Burning Diet Primer, this section of the ebook
yielded the least for me personally. Sure, I learned
a fair bit, but not enough to cover the cost of the book. It's
the second and the third sections that I really enjoyed...
Muscle
Building Nutrition Prt II: Here Will reviews a many of the
overly-hyped products on the market today, again with the focus
on those that build muscle. Methoxy? Will reviews the data and
proclaims... "a dud." Prohormones? With the exception
of 1AD and 1-Test, they're a dud too. ZMA? In the correct situations,
ZMA gets a "thumbs up", believe it or not. Yes, without
a doubt, Will's reviews of the top supplements will leave many
of you shaking your head in disbelief. This section is worth
the price of the book alone -- a "no brainer" if you
regularly spend money on supplements that build muscle.
Muscle
Building Nutrition Prt III: A great series of training
principles from Charles Poliquin (there's several different
base training programs as well). Basically these are... um...
the "principles" you should be following for the most
efficient training. I've been lifting weights with fairly serious
dedication for 15 years, and there were several real eye-openers
for me. I'll be printing this section off, and reviewing again
with a yellow highlighter marker. This section too will be of
real value to anyone who weight trains and is not happy with
his/her current progress.
Muscle
Building Nutrition also contains a members section, and
a few other goodies that round this very comprehensive package.
The
Package: Surprisingly, Muscle Building Nutrition is not
formulated in the traditional ebook format (PDF) but a rather
slick package that requires an additional download (free) of
the ebook software. Since I'm still stuck on dial-up out here
in the backwoods of rural Ontario, Canada, I find any additional
required downloading to be very irritating... but that could
just be me! :-) Nonetheless, the book looks great, and is easy
to read and navigate, thanks to its left-margin point and click
navigation (very much like a web page actually).
Muscle
Building Nutrition: The bottom Line...
If
you are into any sort of strength/weight training, are looking
to build some serious muscle, and/or you routinely spend money
on supplements that build muscle, you can't go wrong with Will's
book. It's a great product and a great value. For those of you
who are simply looking to lose a few pounds, and are not avid
weight trainers, you'd better off checking out my ebook, The
Ultimate Fat Burning Diet Primer, it likely will suit your
needs more, and is significantly cheaper.
Click
here to check out Will's Muscle Building Nutrition!
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here to check out The Ultimate Fat Burning Diet Primer!
