A Practical Approach To Strength Training

This book is really a terrific guide for anyone who lifts, unless you're a competitive powerlifter. Good common sense advice on high intensity training, nutrition and supplements. It debunks a lot of myths, like higher volume training is better, free weights are better than machines, supplements are good for you, super high protein diets are important if you want to gain muscle etc. I've lifted for 23 years, and I wish a book... Read Full Review

Unlike dozens of other books I've read on the subject of strength training, Brzycki supports his beliefs with plenty of documented scientific research (the reference/bibliography is 16 pages long!), whereas most other such books are purely anecdotal. Or based on the results of a select group of geneticly gifted (or genetic freaks?) body builders.Brzycki provides a through explaination of why certain training techniquies... Read Full Review

Yes. This is the most practical approach I've seen to strength training. I used his single set/maximum weight/total body workout for three weeks and I saw a difference. How NICE to get out of the gym! As a note to readers: the author is an academic. In that circle, you have to back up your observations with other people's claims. I agree that footnotes would have made it more readible. I gave this book 5 stars for... Read Full Review

This is possibly the most intelligent and practical book on the subject of strength development that I have ever seen. If you can only buy one book about weight lifting and strength training, buy this one.Mr. Bryzcki begins by explaining the modern theory of strength development and contrasting it with some of the traditional approaches still in use today. In so doing, he explains how muscles work, how they get stronger,... Read Full Review

As a fairly fit 59 year old coming to Strength Training for the first time, I felt that I was very lucky to have started with this book. It is a serious book based on the author's long experience and his wide knowledge of many scientific studies of the subject. But it is also easy to read and very reassuring. After ten weeks following his advice in the gym I am already seeing the hoped for improvements in body shape and... Read Full Review