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Originally Posted by NACHO
Cosgroves NROL being aimed primarily at beginners building fitness first, with plenty of safety built in. Strength and size come secondary to the first two goals. NROL is building more functional stregth (endurance) at the expense of maximum muscle growth. Lot of assumptions on my part here but his philosophy seems rooted more in being in shape than body building per say.
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I meant to reply before this thread got out of hand
but I didn't get round to it. Just my .02 cents.
The three NROL phases (fatloss, strengh and hypertrophy) are so different that it's hard to bunch them together and compare them to something else. If you want to compare, compare NROL's strength workouts to Starting Strength. It ain't called Starting Weightloss
But yes, NROL is a very whole program with a lot of unlilateral work and other mobility things brought in. Starting strength (which I don't know very well) seem more of a "Let's see how far you can get with the main lifts, and if something comes up, we'll deal with it when it does". NROL assumes you are a child of our time with all the functional issues that this entails, and takes them into account.
You don't need to do the weightloss programs to lose weight either, you can do it on the strength programs just as well as long as you cals are in order.