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Maximize Your Training | 
 enlarge | Author: Matt Brzycki
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 409939
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0844283177
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9780844283173
ASIN: 0844283177
Publication Date: September 1, 1999
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Product Description
Maximizing Your Training is a collective effort of more than thirty leading experts in the strength and fitness field. These respected professionals share their insights on a variety of topics and issues related to training and exercise, including: - The history of strength training
- Program design
- High intensity training (HIT)
- Motivation
- Strength training for specific populations (including women, older adults, and prepubescents)
- Bodybuilding
- Powerlifting
- Flexibility
- Nutrition
- Steroids
Maximize Your Training is for fitness enthusiasts who want to gain the knowledge, understanding, and insight necessary to achieve a competitive edge. This book is an important tool for anyone who takes bodybuilding seriously. Matt Brzycki is the coodinator of health fitness, strength and conditioning at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. He has authored more than 175 articles that have been featured in 33 different publications and has written three books—A Practical Approach to Strength Training, Your Strength and Conditioning, and Cross Training for Fitness—and coauthored Conditioning for Basketball with Shaun Brown, the strength and conditioning coach of the Boston Celtics.
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 A Great Resource October 22, 2006
This book is a great resource for those interested in the science and philosophy behind HIT (High Intensity Training).
I especially enjoyed the individual chapters written by Tom Kelso and Ralph Carpinelli which I thought presented the most cogent explanations of why and how to employ HIT workouts.
At the "used" prices the book is being offered for it's not only well worth the read, it's a steal!
Top notch January 10, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Matt Brzycki has done an incredible job with this book. I definitely put on the "must-haves" for strength training alongside Stuart McRobert's books.
Brzycki has done a great job in assembling top notch experts in the field of strength training. I read the negative review from Cruickshank and have to highly disagree. First, this is not a "Brzycki" book. Whether or not he trained under Matt Brzycki is irrelevant. This book is not a collection of Matt's ideas/approaches. It's compilation from a wide variety of authors, including Dr. Ken Leistner (Powerlifting guru), Jan Dellinger (nobody knows iron history better that I've seen), Ken Mannie and Dr. Ted Lambrinides - and that's just a few of the authors. So the reviewer's experiences with Matt Brzycki - whatever they were - are completely irrelevant to appraising this book.
To be completely honest I didn't like every single chapter. But that's okay. Every chapter has a different author's perspective on different training issues/methods. There are many different ways to do things. But their underlying philosophy of "train, hard, briefly and infrequently" has been proven successful going back a century (do some research on how the old time bodybuilders of the 20s-50s trained before the advent of steroids).
There is stuff in this book you simply CANNOT find in any other book that I've ever seen, like Bill Piche's chapter on Powerlifting HIT. I think it's very useful for any trainee - powerlifter or not - to learn some of those exercises like ball squats and trap bar deadlifts. This guy has certainly been in the trenches too - he's noted as having deadlifted 600lbs at a 198lb bw without the use of steroids.
This book covers the whole gamut of strength training, with one notable exception - detailed descriptions of the most productive strength training exercises. That's the one thing that's missing with this book. However, given the huge size of this book - it's virtually an encylopaedia with over 400 pages - this is understandable. The editor has published another book - "A Practical Approach to Strength Training - that describes in detail many exercises. I'd also recommend Stuart McRobert's book on exercise technique as well.
There isn't any nonsense in this book about miracle supplements or "secret" routines that are pushed every month by the unscrupulous muscle magazines. This book tells you all you need to know about strength training (again, with that one exception of exercise description).
My feeling is that there is just too much junk out there in terms of training advice. The best advice I can give to the trainee is to just read a very small number of books - this being one of them - and never EVER read another muscle magazine. Training really isn't that complicated, despite what some con artists will have you believe.
Good luck with your training!
Excellent Book December 29, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
From reading some of the reviews all I can think of saying is this "Did you read it or is it your Ego speaking?" This us and them mentality is pure stupid. This is a very good book and is backed with a bunch of non biased research (Rare in Strength and Conditioning) Just looking at the credentials of the ones bashing it tells the whole story for anyone that has been paying attention. If you are interested in different ways to apply High Intensity Training to your program, this is for you. If your not interested then why waste your time? AND you shouldn't be rating the book if you haven't read it.
Good Book, One Weak Spot July 11, 2002
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Matt Brzycki has compiled some great information with the exception of a chapter written by Brian Johnston which is nothing more than a philosophical diatribe (and is why I didn't give the book five stars). Mr. Johnston has no educational background or creditials that match those of the other writers in the book--he simply recites, song and verse, the mantra of his mentor, the late Heavy Duty Bodybuilder Mike Mentzer. The remainder of the information provided by some people with solid academic backgrounds is worth the read. Just skip Johnston's chapter.
Informative! March 18, 2002
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'll try and avoid all the dogmatic HIT vs. non-HIT stuff that is seeping into other folks' reviews and just address the stuff in the book. Some of the information is good, some not so good. Some of the articles are interesting, some are a bit technical and drawn out. The bottom line is this: take any strength training book written and sift it through your BS filter. Try the stuff written in it. Keep what works and throw away the rest. But also realize that what works for you may not work for somebody else. Anyway, my point is that there's a lot of good information in this book and it's a worthy addition to any lifter's library.
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