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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781583333389
ISBN: 158333338X
Label: Avery
Manufacturer: Avery
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 26, 2008
Publisher: Avery
Sales Rank: 5840
Studio: Avery
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Ten unique programs for fat loss, muscle gain, and strength improvement for beginners and elite lifters.
Want to get more out of your workout and spend less time in the gym? Many guys devote so many hours to lifting weight yet end up with so little to show for it. In many cases, the problem is simple: They aren’t doing exercises based on the movements their bodies were designed to do. Six basic movements—the squat, deadlift, lunge, push, pull, and twist—use all of the body’s major muscles. And, more important, they use those muscles in coordinated action, the way they were designed to work.
The New Rules of Lifting, now in paperback and with more than one hundred photographs, gives you more than a year’s worth of workouts based on these six basic movements. Whether you’re a beginner, an experienced lifter looking for new challenges, or anything in between, you can mix and match the workouts to help you get bigger, stronger, and leaner. In addition, the comprehensive nutritional information provided makes The New Rules of Lifting a complete guide to reaching all your goals.
If you aren’t using The New Rules of Lifting, you aren’t getting the best possible results.
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Rating:  - Lifting Snobbery
There is some good info here, but the authors of New Rules seem more interested in advancing their particular training philosophy than in actually educating/inspiring readers to improve their training.
Essentially, the focus of their 'New Rules' is compound, Olympic-style weightlifting. Nothing earth shattering there, but the authors take their program a step further by basically denouncing all other forms of physical activity as unnecessary. This approach to the subject is both myopic and petty, essentially saying that anyone who's on a 'bodybuilding program' or anyone who doesn't follow their protocols to the letter is wasting time. There's an old adage that there are no bad exercises, only bad exercisers. This snobbery that "if it's not my way it's garbage" belongs more to the high school cafeteria than to a serious training manual. The authors would have done better to propound their strong belief in compound lifts as part of a periodized training program rather than its entirety.
The authors' hatred of cardiovascular exercise and their strange fascination with "twisting" movements (there's an entire chapter on it) seem like something from the Izzy Mandelbaum school of training. The fact is, each individual responds differently to physical activity. Just because one person doesn't see mind-blowing results from cardio doesn't mean that it is useless to all. In fact, cardio, intense weight training and clean eating are the three pillars of physical fitness. A ... Read More
Rating:  - Great book - must read!
I am a health and fitness professional and often find 'fitness' books to be really bad and full of BS - but this book really surprised me. Very scientific but aimed at normal readers. Even quite humorous at times - which helped. More importantly - I have been using these NEW RULES with great success - Go read the book! IOt is good for you...
Rating: - Very Impressive
As a personal trainer, I find it interesting to see the huge variety of workout books. I like this one a whole lot. There is lots of scientifically valid, sensible advice, and a lot of very good workout plans. Best of all, it goes down very easily because the author (I assume it's mostly Lou) is very funny.
Books about weight training, even ones that I enjoy, aren't necessarily "fun" to read. They can be too academic, a footnote every 4 sentences, or at the other extreme, so brief and thinly-sourced that you wonder about the validity of the assertions.
One guy reviewing this was upset because he felt that the book is just a collection of workouts. This is highly misleading, and I think you'll agree if you pick up this book in the store and have a look. There is plenty of supporting background material, and it reads well because of the humor and good style. I think that Lou knows his audience and knows that he can't go on too long with science minutiae. He also knows that there are those who won't read any background material, good or not, so he shows how to cut to the chase if you're one of those readers.
I also like the concept of having 2 authors, as long as they're matched well - you get more for your money.
Of the workout books that you can find in a regular bookstore, many aren't so hot. This one is excellent!
Rating: - "New Rules" revolutionized my workout - but took some time to sink in.
I've been lifting weights in my local gym for about 2 years - doing circuits of the nautilus and cybex weight stack machines. I had been plateaued for a while and wanted a better understanding of which moves work which muscles, how to use the machines to best advantage, proper form etc... I bought "The New Rules of Lifting" looking for a basic guide and what I got was different from what I was expecting. The New Rules is an attempt to shake things up and it attacks a host of standard wisdoms - such as the importance of cardio exercise (your body will choose to adapt slow twitch muscles for cardio over fast twich for power - reducing your power gains) and stretching (stretching is necessary - but it's not about increasing flexibility beyond your usual range). The 'New Rules' also include an eye opening "no machines" rule. Lou Schuler writes the copy and Alwyn Cosgrove cooks up the exercises and the routines. In place of muscle isolating machine exercises, "New Rules" emphasizes free weight exercises that work whole groups of muscles while replicating commonly used movements in the six major movement categories: push, pull, bend, lunge, twist, and walk/run. There are relatively few major exercises listed - but a bunch of variations and supersets and combinations. The routines are mixed to form a whole year of constantly changing routines. I was looking for a guide to how to do standard gym sitting down machine based exercises Schuler/Cosgrove gave me an iconoclastic attack on that whole culture. ... Read More
Rating: - LIFT WEIGHTS!!!
I recently bought their other book "New Rules of Lifting for Women" and decided that I needed this one as well since I am a Personal Trainer. I like how they bring it back down to the basic classics that have worked for centuries. Power lifting is the original functional training. And with all these crazy fads its nice to see some good common sense advice. These moves maybe classics but they are combined with modern knowledge to show why they are effective and how this kind of lifting is best.
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