The New High Intensity Training: The Best Muscle-Building System You've Never Tried

I would recommend this book to anyone who has lost what they once had and want to regain it. I purchased this book a couple months ago and read it from cover to cover. Years ago I used to train for 2 to 3 hours a day and I was in pretty good shape. Then life got in the way (school, job, etc) and working out became a hassel. Over the course of about 6 years of not lifting a single weight, I lost the muscle and definition... Read Full Review

After 4 weeks of a 1500 calorie diet and super slow lifting 3 times a week, I am down to 179 from 189 and definitely have more muscle and strength. So I probably lost more than 10 lbs of fat because I certainly gained some muscle mass. If you have the guts to eat 1500 calories a day and have the stamina to do 15 second reps, you will see success. The book is not written by Shakespear, but there are valuable pages of exact... Read Full Review

This book is so, so good. This is the best book I've ever read on the subject and I've read hundreds. It is informative, entertaining, and an magnificent read. This is the most fun reading on fitness/bodybuilding you will find. I loved this book. High Intensity Training is the most efficient, most effective workout system ever devised. No question about it. It works so well it has to be experienced to be believed. But, it... Read Full Review

I have known Dr. Ellington Darden for 20 years, and have read almost every one of his books. I consider Dr. Darden my mentor, and realize that most of what I know in the area of strength training I learned from him. Without question, his latest book, The New High Intensity Training, is the best he has ever written. It is not only highly informative, but incredibly interesting to read. Dr. Darden's history of high-intensity... Read Full Review

This latest book, by Ellington Darden, who has written more than three dozen books, including The Bowflex Body Plan, is perhaps one of his best. It is a unique treatment in that it provides a provacative background (with many surprising stories and insights) of high intensity training (HIT), a term that he coined about thirty years ago, together with training direction that is unparalleled in the philosophy and discipline... Read Full Review