Review: No Nonsense Muscle Building by Vince DelMonte
| Posted in Book reviews, Training | Posted on 20-01-2010
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Hey guys,
today I want to review an ebook that promises to help guys transform from skinny to buff. It’s actually the most popular ebook about this. And it’s called No Nonsense Muscle Building Time to check if it’s worth the hype it gets. :)
Content
Book is quite long. 215 pages! Lots of info!
It starts with Top 14 Mistakes to avoid and it has good points there. I especially like number 2: Dump the Hardgainer term.
This term is a great disguise for skinny guys who never reach their
true genetic potential. Instead of taking responsibility for your actions,
it’s a lot easier to pull out the ‘hard gainer’ card and flash it to everyone.
It sits by your driver’s license and becomes a part of your identity.Vince DelMonte
So true, we tend to get attached to this term and think of ourselves as hardgainers which doesn’t make it easier to gain muscle (you have to believe in yourself when doing it, you have to trust yourself that you CAN actually do it!).
The 2nd Chapter is about Top 12 Bodybuilding Myths. He does good job writing that supplements aren’t a magic pill and wont guarantee results if you don’t workout properly and eat a lot. Another great myth he dispels is that guys want to train “to sculpt, tone shape and define”… But the truth is that toned and defined muscles are a reflection of low fat percentage of body fat you have. So if you are skinny guy (duh..) you don’t worry about being ripped, toned, defined etc because you already have very little fat! So just train for strength and not for definition. You have different goal than pro bodybuilders so don’t copy their split routines they are doing and other workout methods!!!!
3rd chapter is all about Building Muscle.
Load of info! Loads! He writes about No-Nonsense Growth Principles which are:
1. Stress must be specific
2. Stress must be above your threshold
3. Stress must be with heavy weights!
4. Stress must be with high-reps
5. Stress must be progressive overload
6. Stress must be intense
7. You MUST recover from stress
8. Stress must be short and infrequent
9. Stress must achieve maximum results with minimum amount of work
I can’t write about them in detail because that would be giving away paid content for free, but each of them (except of high reps in my opinion) is golden. If you read the book, you will learn about them!
Chapter 4 writes about recovery methods. And recovery is very very important. Unfortunately, skinny guys underestimate it and want to workout 5 times a week instead of 3 wasting precious recovery!
Chapter 5 is about Hormones and how they affect Muscle growth or Fat loss. Chapter 6 is irrelevant for us since it’s about fat loss.
Now the most important thing in gaining muscle is eating and chapter 7 is devoted to it. It’s 40 pages of info. He writes about what to eat, when to eat, why nutrition is so important, explains how much you need to eat and all other basics you need to know about nutrition.
Other chapter is about supplements, how to choose them, explains how different types of supps work and which you can buy, other one is about injuries and it’s prevention.
Last chapter is the workout program itself. It contains tons of info again. Basics explained, tables provided about how many sets, reps and exercises to do. It’s like 60+ pages long. Definitely a comprehensive guide.
Conclusion
If I was new, had money and needed to learn from a good, trustable system, I would buy this one! I seriously think this is the best book written yet about this topic. I encourage everyone who wants to have a simple, easy to understand advice to buy this book. Seriously!! You actually get video lessons too and some free reports! Huge load of info!
If you are interested, visit this page (you can also buy it here):
Cheers,
Adrian
