Built for Show: Four Body-Changing Workouts for Building Muscle, Losing Fat, andLooking Good Enough to Hook Up

by Nate Green

No-nonsense workouts to build a lean, strong, eye-catching physique. 

Every guy is looking for an edge, some way to get single women his age to notice him more than they do now. 

Unfortunately, most guys have absolutely no idea what kind of body automatically flips a girl's attraction switch. Nate Green does.

Built for Show is the first fitness book to address young men on the prowl. It’s not just written for them; it’s written by one of them. Green, who’s just twenty-three years old, is already a veteran fitness professional who’s been quoted in Men’s Health and Maximum Fitness magazines. Green offers four twelve-week workout programs, each with a seasonal theme. The fall and winter workouts add muscle size and strength that’ll show even under layers of clothing. The spring and summer workouts burn fat and chisel the showpiece muscles—creating a lean, cut, beach-ready physique.

But Built for Show is more than just a workout book. It also provides:
· Realistic nutrition advice to feed the muscles and starve the fat without breaking the bank or spending hours in the kitchen
· Tips on dressing right, looking the part, improving your social status, and settling into your new lifestyle
· Quick ways to assess posture, with useful exercises to fix flaws and improve self-presentation, no matter the situation.

The detailed programs include over fifty exercises, illustrated with over one hundred original photos.

Neither a weight-loss guide nor a body-building manual, Built for Show instead reveals to guys exactly what they need to build the body they – and women – want.

Genres: Fitness, Health, Self Help

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Ash Moran · Rating 3 out of 5]

In many ways, this is a rebranded New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle. On the plus side, the workouts here apply the principles of NRoL even more thoroughly. On the down side, there's loads of fluff that should be relegated to men's magazines. I recommend reading the fitness advice from NRoL, then doing the workouts from Built for Show - between the two, they make a good introduction.

[Joe · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book, I appreciated the advice on diet and exercise but I found the advice on relationships very patronising and felt this was out of place in a workout book.

Despite discussing the importance of the big lifts (squats, deadlifts etc...) the routines were still heavily focused on curls and isolation exercises. I found this a little contradictory and confusing. I know that no one agrees on the best programme but conflicting information within the same book is a step top far.

[Deepak Chaudhary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good. I have read a lot of training books and had actually given up on training a bit because of lack of results causing me to gain weight. This book explained a few things to me and re inspired me to get back to the gym. I recommend this book to any young man

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is exactly the type of book I was looking for! I suspect I'm going to have a lot of fun with the workout routines in this book over the next year.

[Van]

Good book on fitness. Picked it up because the other ones I've been reading didn't really have much entertainment value. I found this book to be both humorous and informative.