McRobert - Brawn III

Copyright 2007 by Stuart McRobert

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First edition copyrighted in 1991

Second edition copyrighted in 2000

Cover illustration by Stephen Wedan copyright 1990

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McRobert, Stuart.

Brawn : bodybuilding for the drug-free and

genetically typical / by Stuart McRobert. 3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

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1. BodybuildingTraining. 2. Weight training. I. Title.

The third edition of BRAWN, published in 2007, saw the digitalization of the book. In addition, extensive revisions were made throughout the book, to bring it up to date.

The first edition of BRAWN, published in 1991, has undergone many changes over the years. Even its cover was changedthe first copies of BRAWN had an illustration of the squat on the front.

Since writing BRAWN, Ive modified my views on some aspects of training. The main contradictions that BRAWN had with THE INSIDERS TELL-ALL HANDBOOK ON WEIGHT-TRAINING TECHNIQUE, and BEYOND BRAWN, have been corrected in the second edition. And many other revisions have been made.

BEYOND BRAWN is not a rewrite of BRAWN. Its a sequel. There is overlap between the two books, but because BEYOND BRAWN has over twice the number of pages, it has far more detail on program design, and many topics not even touched upon in BRAWN are covered in extensive detail in the sequel. The two books are companion texts.

Since first writing BRAWN there are five major areas in which Ive modified my views, as a result of additional personal experience, and from studying the experiences of others.

I wrote BRAWN in 1990 and 1991. Mainstream training instruction is no better now than it was back then. But Im concerned only with drug-free genetically typical (and disadvantaged) traineesi.e., the training masses. As far as the elite goes, its a better world todaymore competitions, more publicity, more money, more drugs, and more fame.

The need for the instruction given in BRAWN is even greater today than it was when the book was first published in 1991.

The same bodybuilding deception, bull, dishonesty and hype that caused me so much grief in my youth are producing exactly the same in millions of other people. Im now wise to whats going on, and can distinguish the drivel from the good, but most trainees cant. So they get misled in the exact same way that I did, and millions of others too.

Right from 1989, when I started CS Publishing, I was on a mission to promote sensible drug-free training, and to let people know of the pivotal role of genetics and drugs in elite bodybuilding and lifting.

The word success is often used incorrectly. To my mind, kidding the masses, making a fortune out of selling training misinformation, and leading people astray, is not success no matter how many millions of items of product are sold, how many millions of dollars of profit are earned, or how many tributes for business excellence are awarded.

Appropriate, practical and safe training instruction for typical trainees is what Im into, and what should be the heart and soul of bodybuildingmainstream and otherwise.