I have probably made the most serious and consistent gains from New Rules of Lifting.
I do have to say that a book is only one element. Two people can buy the same book and get widely different results based on their application of the contents.
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Practical Programming is great if you want to learn the science and general principles behind weight training, and it also gives a couple sample programs. Starting strength is supposedly the best for learning the big lifts(squat, dead, clean, press, bench press).
If you want a book that will give you a program to build muscle, then most books are fine. I would recommend NROL because its very well written and fun reading. You could even use of one the many programs on tnation for free. No program will give you some magical program that will allow you to put on 15 lbs of solid muscle while losing any fat. The amount of effort you put in and the quality of your diet will determine most of your gains(This gets repeated over and over, as it's true).
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"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
If you enjoy odd object lifting, you may want to check out the book written by Michael Hawley, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His book weighs over 130lbs and the pages are around 7 feet wide.
Other than that, I'm hard pressed to find another book that builds muscles.
I have probably made the most serious and consistent gains from New Rules of Lifting.
I do have to say that a book is only one element. Two people can buy the same book and get widely different results based on their application of the contents.
Bit of back slapping there john? Only messing.
Of the books i've read New Rules and Muscle Revoution top the pile in this respect
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You may want to look at the Book of Muscle for good basic knowledge.
Mike Mejia has a book called Better Body Blueprint that describes working with injuries as does Bill Hartman's book. I believe both are on amazon and can be accessed through this site.
I just received Starting Strength and Practical Programming a couple weeks ago. I wish out of all the books that I have purchased I would have started with these two. As a beginner its imperative that you learn the "core" lifts correctly and begin building a solid base of strength using them. NROL is also a good book, as is Muscle Revolution. . . Chad's routines are pretty fun.
the only book i have is Book of Muscle that I have learned a lot from.
However, this forum, t-nation, a few knowledgeable friends have been far more helpful.
I am now very much interested in NROL that it has received the nod from so many of you guys here. I am very interested in it now. I did purchase the book from NSCA that has helped me.
In other words, walking (or rather running) 15 mins to and from class with a backpack full of laptop and textbooks is great GPP in the morning. Especially since getting to class requires that I avoid on coming traffic, students and climb to 4th or even the 5th floor. So my textbooks i the best of muscle building, especially my calves and legs.
Take care of that injury and what caused your injury that you can't do deadlifts?
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Back in January I was doing deadlifts with 135 lbs, while in the exit part of the exercise I was approached by a trainer from behind. The trainer though I was being to loud, it was 5:00am and their was nobody in the gym. Anyway, long story short, I lost my concentration, relaxed my core and the rest was history. For about four months I tried to workout the injury myself but it wasn’t getting better. I finally started seeing a PT, and since then have tried doing DL twice, both times I had a lot of pain along with some referred pain. At this point I have just ruled them out of my routine completely, to me the gains from the exercise are nothing compared to the amount of pain and steps backwards they can cause me. I will say that this really sux though, I was able to pull 300lbs before this happened.
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the only book i have is Book of Muscle that I have learned a lot from.
However, this forum, t-nation, a few knowledgeable friends have been far more helpful.
I am now very much interested in NROL that it has received the nod from so many of you guys here. I am very interested in it now. I did purchase the book from NSCA that has helped me.
In other words, walking (or rather running) 15 mins to and from class with a backpack full of laptop and textbooks is great GPP in the morning. Especially since getting to class requires that I avoid on coming traffic, students and climb to 4th or even the 5th floor. So my textbooks i the best of muscle building, especially my calves and legs.
Take care of that injury and what caused your injury that you can't do deadlifts?
yovwmon, have you tried trapbar deadlift? I hurt my back in my younger days and also experienced alot of pain down the backline with a regular straight bar deadlift. I worked for a year since then with the trapbar deadlift and was able to slowly return to normal deadlifting with a respectable amount of weight. I was not exposed to foam rolling at that time but the 2 tennis ball taped together trick works wonders. I'd imagine you could benefit from foam rolling.
I'm not saying the trap-bar might work 100% for sure but it's an option. You could also try reverse hypers. And yes, I understand how badly it sux not being able to return to your previous PR. All the best.
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