McRobert - Beyond Brawn, 3rd Ed

Is your training working?

Do you really have some progress in muscle and might to show for your efforts over the last few months? If not, your training isnt working and its time to make major changestime to put into practice the advice given in this book.

This books sole purpose is to teach you how to achieve your drug-free potential for muscle and might. Its not concerned with perpetuating myths and falsehoods, or promoting anything that wont help you to achieve your potential.

Out of necessity this book doesnt promote conventional training methods. The reason for this is very simplemost conventional training methods simply dont work well for most people.

Open your mind, set aside the ingrained traditions that have limited your progress, be prepared for radical if not revolutionary training concepts, apply what you learn, and then youll achieve what you craveterrific gains in muscle and might.

But where are the photographs?

Theres no shortage of photographs in the training world. But there is a shortage of training instruction thats 100% relevant to the training masses. Nearly 500 pages of text are required in this book to provide the necessary in-depth instruction. But photographs are vitally important for teaching exercise technique. Almost 400 of them are included in a companion bookBUILD MUSCLE, LOSE FAT, LOOK GREAT. Over 200 of that books 640 pages are required to teach you all about correct exercise technique. Alternatively, you can find the same technique information in the third edition of THE INSIDERS TELL-ALL HANDBOOK ON WEIGHT-TRAINING TECHNIQUE.

Heres what others are saying about BEYOND BRAWN...

Everyone who yearns to maximize their genetic potential for muscle and might owes it to themselves to read, grasp and apply the training information contained in BEYOND BRAWN. This book is the bible of rational strength training... Page after page is jam-packed with practical real-world training information that you just cannot find anywhere else... This book has my highest endorsementit is without a doubt the very best book on strength training I have ever read.

Kevin R. Fontaine, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

BEYOND BRAWN is an encyclopedia of information, detail upon detail, of all of the subtopics related to weight training... It is information upon information about how to train properly and effectively... I obviously liked it a lot and recommend it highly.

Dr. Ken E. Leistner

Co-founder of Iron Island Gym, New York

BEYOND BRAWN is packed with what I consider real information on how to build your body. This book provides all the information you will ever need to develop slabs of muscle safely and effectively. Its like having your own personal coach and mentor guiding you to bodybuilding success. BEYOND BRAWN is the definitive Encyclopedia on Bodybuildinga superb book that is truly very special.

Bill Piche

Triple-bodyweight deadlifter in drug-free ADFPA competition

BEYOND BRAWN is the most comprehensive, helpful and honest book on natural strength training today. with great care and in extraordinary detail, this book covers every training-related topic you can imagine, and without any hype or commercial messages. It will surely help everyone who reads it and I will strongly recommend it to all of my clients.

Bob Whelan, M.S., M.S., C.S.C.S.

President, Whelan Strength Training

BEYOND BRAWN shows you in intricate detail the most productive and safe ways to train. This is the book we all wish we had years ago. It is an absolute MUST READ.

Richard A. Winett, Ph.D.

Publisher, MASTER TRAINER

Third edition copyright 2012 by Stuart McRobert

eISBN-13 978-9963-9991-5-6

Second edition copyright 2006 by Stuart McRobert

First edition copyright 1998 by Stuart McRobert

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McRobert, Stuart.

Beyond brawn : the insiders encyclopedia on how to build muscle and might / Stuart McRobert. 3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-9963-9163-8-2 (softcover)

1. Weight training. 2. Bodybuilding. I. Title.

Contents

WarningSafety

Every effort was made in this book to stress the importance of proper technique and safety when using bodybuilding and strength-training programs. Regardless of your age, check with your physician to ensure that its appropriate for you to follow such programs. Proceed with caution and at your own risk. The author, CS Publishing Ltd. or distributors of this book cant be responsible for any injury that may result from following the instruction given in this manual.

WarningDisclaimer

The purpose of this book is to provide you with information on bodybuilding, strength training and related topics. Its sold with the understanding that neither the publisher nor author are engaged in providing legal, medical or other professional services.

Every effort has been made to make this book as thorough and accurate as possible. Despite this, all information on the subject matter has not been included, and there may be mistakes in both content and typography. CS Publishing Ltd. and the author shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any entity or person with respect to any injury, loss or damage caused, or alleged to be caused, directly or indirectly, by the material given in this book.

If you dont wish to be bound by the above, you may return your copy to the publisher for a full refund.

Where it has been cumbersome to use both genders of a pronoun, only the male one has been used. With the exception of exercise poundages, muscular girths and dietary quantities that are specifically targeted at males, this book is aimed at both sexes. Both men and women can benefit enormously from the instruction here.

Acknowledgments

Without the publicity arising from being published in newsstand bodybuilding magazines, the interchange with the authors and readers of HARDGAINER magazine, and feedback from readers of my articles, this book couldnt exist.

I specifically want to thank Jan Dellinger, Brooks Kubik, John Leschinski and Efstathios Papadopoulos, DC, for providing feedback and a sounding board during the production of the first edition of this book. A special debt of gratitude is owed to Dave Maurice for his consistent rigorism, thoroughness and patience when critiquing draft copies of individual chapters.

Debts of appreciation are also owed to Carolyn Weaver for the index, and Stephen Wedan for the cover illustration.