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Supermen: Building Maximum Muscle for a Lifetime
A Bodybuilding Guide for the Rest of Us
Supermen: Building Maximum Muscle for a Lifetime presents a weight training program and nutrition system for intermediate to advanced weight trainers that maximizes the muscular development of an individual, while creating a complete, balanced and symmetrical physique. This book will save you years of trial-and-error in the gym and provide you with decades of weight training techniques and insights. It's a book for the rest of us-those with average genetics, strong minds and stronger hearts. More significantly, it represents a long-term plan for lifting weights wisely throughout your life while building and maintaining significant muscle mass. This is weight training for life.
In this book you will learn:
• Weight training anatomy
• How often you should train based on specific goals
• How to optimally schedule your workouts
• How to determine the correct training volume for each area of your body
• How to use the 3:1, 2:1, and 1:1 Methods for acheiving constant muscle gains and symmetry, while avoiding injuries
• Hundreds of specific weight training techniques to enhance exercise effectiveness
• How to improve weak body parts
• How to work out if you get injured
• How to track and plan bodybuilding workouts effectively
• Weightlifting nutrition and how to eat a bodybuilder diet correctly for lean muscle gains
• Dozens of intensity methods for breaking through training plateaus
• Hundreds of weightlifting routines--weight training workouts that work
Save Years of Trial and Error in the Gym
Small adjustments can make big differences--this book provides the insight that other weight training books lack, from minor hand position adjustments to optimal exercise ordering and rotation, based on your goals, level of development and recovery ability.
Hundreds of plateau-busting, battle-tested bodybuilding routines and workouts
See if you can make it through Bombastic, Viking Ship, Handle of the Earth, The Final Countdown, and hundreds more. These bodybuilding workouts and weight training exercises are guaranteed to initiate muscle growth.
Supermen: Building Maximum Muscle for a Lifetime presents a weight training program and nutrition system for intermediate to advanced weight trainers that maximizes the muscular development of an individual, while creating a complete, balanced and symmetrical physique. This book will save you years of trial-and-error in the gym and provide you with decades of weight training techniques and insights. It's a book for the rest of us-those with average genetics, strong minds and stronger hearts. More significantly, it represents a long-term plan for lifting weights wisely throughout your life while building and maintaining significant muscle mass. This is weight training for life.
In this book you will learn:
• Weight training anatomy
• How often you should train based on specific goals
• How to optimally schedule your workouts
• How to determine the correct training volume for each area of your body
• How to use the 3:1, 2:1, and 1:1 Methods for acheiving constant muscle gains and symmetry, while avoiding injuries
• Hundreds of specific weight training techniques to enhance exercise effectiveness
• How to improve weak body parts
• How to work out if you get injured
• How to track and plan bodybuilding workouts effectively
• Weightlifting nutrition and how to eat a bodybuilder diet correctly for lean muscle gains
• Dozens of intensity methods for breaking through training plateaus
• Hundreds of weightlifting routines--weight training workouts that work
Save Years of Trial and Error in the Gym
Small adjustments can make big differences--this book provides the insight that other weight training books lack, from minor hand position adjustments to optimal exercise ordering and rotation, based on your goals, level of development and recovery ability.
Hundreds of plateau-busting, battle-tested bodybuilding routines and workouts
See if you can make it through Bombastic, Viking Ship, Handle of the Earth, The Final Countdown, and hundreds more. These bodybuilding workouts and weight training exercises are guaranteed to initiate muscle growth.
274 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2011
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About the author
Craig Cecil
8 books13 followersCraig Cecil has been involved in sports and the science of exercise since his days of high school athletics in baseball, through his collegiate career in NCAA Track & Field, to his devotion to weightlifting and bodybuilding pursuits over the past 20 years. During that time, Craig has trained with professional athletes, as well as multitudes of dedicated, ordinary individuals just wanting to build lean, muscular body weight.
Craig is a member of the National Strength & Conditioning Association and holds an MBA from Loyola University of Maryland.
Craig is a member of the National Strength & Conditioning Association and holds an MBA from Loyola University of Maryland.
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November 6, 2012
To all my dearest boys, guys and men. And all our dearly beloved women of influence: moms, girls and wives, please get this book.
Save yourselves trouble - Craig is incredibly thorough in his description. He explains exactly how to avoid injury, and get results that you might want. Something I wish my husband could have done when he was 16.
Workout injuries are possible - and yes they can be debilitating. I pray my husband finds relief someday - until then I will follow the advice in the book, and gift this book to every person that wants to work out seriously.
The book is exceptional in depth of it's detail. Humor and love for working out is infectious. Only thing I might need to do is put some of the information in this book on giant posters in our workout room. At least until I remember it.
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Save yourselves trouble - Craig is incredibly thorough in his description. He explains exactly how to avoid injury, and get results that you might want. Something I wish my husband could have done when he was 16.
Workout injuries are possible - and yes they can be debilitating. I pray my husband finds relief someday - until then I will follow the advice in the book, and gift this book to every person that wants to work out seriously.
The book is exceptional in depth of it's detail. Humor and love for working out is infectious. Only thing I might need to do is put some of the information in this book on giant posters in our workout room. At least until I remember it.
:)
January 26, 2015
���Supermen��� is without a doubt one of the best body-building books out there. Craig Cecil has jam-packed this book with lots of helpful strategies and tips to maximize your workout at the gym today and for life.
Backed by his twenty years of experience, Cecil shows how to fast-track your progress towards your muscle-gaining goal while avoiding injuries and overdoing it along the way. He has also added detailed pictures, instructions on how to work each individual muscle group, how to be courteous when sharing the gym, and how to track your progress.
If you want serious body building results, this is a must-have book for intermediate users.
Backed by his twenty years of experience, Cecil shows how to fast-track your progress towards your muscle-gaining goal while avoiding injuries and overdoing it along the way. He has also added detailed pictures, instructions on how to work each individual muscle group, how to be courteous when sharing the gym, and how to track your progress.
If you want serious body building results, this is a must-have book for intermediate users.
July 25, 2013
Cecil invites reads to partake in a weight training and nutrition program that will guarantee results as long as they stay head strong and believe. The hardest part is preparing your mind for the transformation of a lifetime, but once that obstacle is seized and destroyed, the aftereffects follow easily. The time has come to forget all of those hints, tips and techniques you've heard numerously at the gym that never aided to the form you've been seeking. This book not only teaches you how to achieve the maximum muscle for now, but for a lifetime as well. Highly detailed and easy to follow illustrations displayed throughout is just an added bonus. Don't delay, your time is now!
September 17, 2013
This was a very thorough book going in to a lot of detail about exercises.
It did say how important the basics of squats, dead lifts and presses were, however, almost all of the exercise programmes were focused on curls and other less important exercises.
There were also lots of programmes for each body part, but it did not bring it all together.
Perhaps this book is better for someone who is already very advanced and just looked for ideas to perfect certain areas, however, that was not apparent from the beginning.
It is a book I may come back to in a few years, but for now I didn't gain anything that practical from it that I can put to use right now.
It did say how important the basics of squats, dead lifts and presses were, however, almost all of the exercise programmes were focused on curls and other less important exercises.
There were also lots of programmes for each body part, but it did not bring it all together.
Perhaps this book is better for someone who is already very advanced and just looked for ideas to perfect certain areas, however, that was not apparent from the beginning.
It is a book I may come back to in a few years, but for now I didn't gain anything that practical from it that I can put to use right now.
March 13, 2013
I'm the author, and I wanted to give you a little more insight into the book.
The methodologies, techniques and tips in this book are based on over two decades of actual implementation with both myself and with hundreds of individuals I've trained. In a nutshell, if you follow them diligently, they work.
While the first half of the book covers all the things that other weight training books seem to omit, the second half provides you with hundreds of battle-tested workouts that are guaranteed to produce results. They are hard and they work. You'll remember them.
The methodologies, techniques and tips in this book are based on over two decades of actual implementation with both myself and with hundreds of individuals I've trained. In a nutshell, if you follow them diligently, they work.
While the first half of the book covers all the things that other weight training books seem to omit, the second half provides you with hundreds of battle-tested workouts that are guaranteed to produce results. They are hard and they work. You'll remember them.
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