The Book of Muscle VS. NROL??

[KennyLee]

As brief as i can make it....

Me- 25 year old male, 178 lbs, 6 ft on the dot, very lean except for some stubborn belly fat.

My goal-Hypertrophy. Strength is nice, and obviously a key component to larger muscles... but my goal is simply "bigger muscles".

My past- Dropped about 60 lbs a year and a half ago, unfortunately, a lot of muscle went with the fat due to EXTREME cardio during strict calorie reduction for an extended period of time. (i didn't know any better.) Been lifting for about a year now.

My current routine- The intermediate program of "The Book of Muscles" Ian King and Lou Schuler. week 4 as of now.

My current diet- about 3,000 cals of the highest quality nutrition i can make time to eat. 25/35/40 fat/protien/carb. healthy fats, slower burning carbs (except after a hard workout), and as many natural sources of protein as possible, shakes to supplement.

Finally getting to the question--
After reading the forums here for a while i just can't disagree with so many intelligent people and i bought NROL. Now i'm torn wether to stick with the 24 week program in "the Book of Muscle" or to go ahead and make the switch to NROL (haven't finished reading the book yet, not sure which program, i assume early level hypertrophy)

SUGGESTIONS from anyone familiar with "The Book of Muscle". Please?

Thanks,
Kenny

[ZeeCanuck]

I haven't read the book of muscle but my advice would be to stick with what you think is working for you right now. If you're not enjoying your workout or seeing any results, then yeah, do something about it. If you're enjoying and seeing results I would say just finish the program and then switch to a program from NROL. The NROL Hypertrophy program is amazing. I'm making some huge gains since I started my program and I hope it works as well for you, everyone is different. Between the Break in program and hypertrophy I have gained 20 pounds of muscle. I know you asked for people who read the book but I thought I would just give my two cents, after all this is the internet

[jruck37]

Since you have already started it, I would stick with BOM. A lot of people here (myself included) did BOM, and then NROL when it came out. After about 6 months doing other things, I am actually back to the NROL workouts right now. Once you're done with BOM, you could make a smooth transition and jump right into NROL from there.

[KennyLee]

Hey,thanks so much folks! I'll admit, as soon as i made this post i realized i should have searched the archives for similar posts first. Upon doing so i found nothing but hate being tossed at people asking the same thing.... because even at THAT point it'd been asked too many times. So i was expecting to be shunned. or maybe even shivved.

Thank you!!

[ZeeCanuck]

I don't like when people get mad, they can't expect people to spend time searching for threads, not everyone has that much time to do so.