Insane Training: Garage Training, Powerlifting, Bodybuilding, and All-Out Bad-Ass Workouts

by Matt Kroczaleski

Matt "Kroc" Kroczaleski is a world champion, record holding powerlifter and an NPC bodybuilder known for his grueling, high intensity workouts. Insane Training is what Kroc is famous for. His new book of the same name is full of programs that will help every gym rat take it to the next level, whether that's flipping a tractor tire 100 yards, deadlifting three times their body weight, improving athletic performance or puking in a bucket ― this book has it all! Not for the faint of heart or average gym-goer, this is for athletes who want to take their training to the max. Are you INSANE enough to try? · Learn how to squat for maximum poundage; · Lift weights anywhere with a little creativity; · Push yourself to the limit with the 1000 rep arm training session; · Smash through your workout plateaus; · Become the ultimate INSANE TRAINING beast!

Genres: Fitness

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2014

Reviews

[Jack · Rating 1 out of 5]

The "author" blatantly copied and pasted exercises to fill out about 70 pages worth of material. If I had to read "so pumped with ...blood" or "with partners is how Arnold performed these in the 70s" one more time, I was going to blow my brains out. He didn't even attempt to disguise the fact that he wasn't writing anything new. Its insulting to readers who may be paying close to $20 bucks to treat them to such obvious laziness. Besides being repetitive, where were these "garage training" workouts as promised on the cover? They're not there because they are just lifting weights, but presumably in a garage not some out-of-the box thinking workouts. Kroczaleski may be an accomplished athlete, but this is not a worthwhile book in almost any regard.

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of Matt Kroc, but as other reviewers have stated this is basically a compilation of articles he's written for other websites. Which isn't by any means bad, but this isn't anything new. I picked up a gem or two throughout the book, but by and large the information in this book didn't explore anything training-wise at great depth or advanced level. This is a solid book for a beginner or newbie lifter, these programs if done correctly could set them up with great gains in the long run.

I'm hoping in the future Matt Kroc will do some writing for an advanced lifter, talking about methodology, cueing, and in depth reasoning behind his programs.

[Philski · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you've read his articles online you've gotten most if not all of this book already. The last 1/3 of the book is basically a 13 week bodybuilding split so if you're not into that the book is pretty short, but he condenses a lot of good material on techniques that fall somewhere between entry level and advanced. For instance he has a chapter on using bands for a mid-level lifter without going off the cliff into a full Westside program.