Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat

Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat
Author: Ori Hofmekler
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2008-04-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781556436895

The author of The Warrior Diet shares his revolutionary approach to physical transformation, offering practical guidance on how to build and maintain a leaner, stronger, and healthier body Diet and fitness books appear at a dizzying rate—and with a wealth of dubious claims—in a culture facing increasing health problems based on a sedentary lifestyle. Ori Hofmekler’s Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat pulls out of the pack by focusing on the biological principles that dictate muscle gain and fat loss. Written for the widest readership—competitive athletes, bodybuilders, trainers, martial artists, sports nutritionists and coaches, dieters, and anyone concerned about their health—the book builds on the concepts popularized in The Warrior Diet. In simple lay terms, Hofmekler how under-eating and fasting can trigger an anabolic switch that stimulates growth and rejuvenation; how to re-engineer the body at the cellular level to burn fat and build muscles; and how to naturally manipulate the body’s hormones for rapid muscle fusion and faster fat breakdown. He offers smart strategies for: • Taking advantage of hunger to stimulate growth, burn fat, and boost brain power • Turning insulin into a muscle builder instead of a fat gainer • Shattering training and diet plateaus • Improve metabolic function, performance, and your capacity to gain and sustain prime health Challenging most common diet and fitness concepts, Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat provides a revolutionary way of looking at human performance, shedding new light on how the muscle and fat tissues operate and offering practical information on how to achieve optimal physical health.

The M.A.X. Muscle Plan 2.0

The M.A.X. Muscle Plan 2.0
Author: Brad J. Schoenfeld
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-11
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 171820714X

Leading fitness expert Brad Schoenfeld shows how to complete a total-body transformation with six months of targeted, periodized routines. The M.A.X. Muscle Plan 2.0 presents scientifically proven plans to help you increase lean body mass, build muscle, and achieve your best body ever.

The M.A.X. Muscle Plan

The M.A.X. Muscle Plan
Author: Brad Schoenfeld
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1450423876

Widely regarded as one of America's leading strength and fitness professionals, the author has won numerous natural bodybuilding titles and has been published or featured in virtually every major fitness magazine. In this book, he brings his expertise to everything needed for completing a total-body transformation in just six months.

The New Rules of Lifting for Women

The New Rules of Lifting for Women
Author: Lou Schuler
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2008-12-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1440685371

In The New Rules of Lifting for Women, authors Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe and Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength, conditioning and nutrition plan destined to revolutionize the way women work out. All the latest studies prove that strength training, not aerobics, provides the key to losing fat and building a fit, strong body. This book refutes the misconception that women will "bulk up" if they lift heavy weights. Nonsense! It's tough enough for men to pack on muscle, and they have much more of the hormone necessary to build muscle: natural testosterone. Muscles need to be strengthened to achieve a lean, healthy look. Properly conditioned muscles increase metabolism and promote weight loss -- it's that simple. The program demands that women put down the "Barbie" weights, step away from the treadmill and begin a strength and conditioning regime for the natural athlete in every woman. The New Rules of Lifting for Women will change the way women see fitness, nutrition and their own bodies.

Max Contraction Training

Max Contraction Training
Author: John R. Little
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780071423953

The breakthrough new fitness program for readers who want big gains in little time. "The Max Contraction Training" program maximizes muscle fiber stimulation in the shortest amount of time--leading to faster workouts and more impressive gains.

Fit Is the New Skinny

Fit Is the New Skinny
Author: Michael Matthews
Publisher: Oculus Publishers
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012-09-12
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1938895045

If you want a no-BS “crash course” in building lean muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy…eating foods you love…and doing workouts you actually enjoy...then you want to read this book. I have good news for you: Getting into awesome shape isn't nearly as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. You don’t need to starve yourself with super low-calorie diets to lose weight and keep it off. In fact, this is how you ruin your metabolism and ensure that any weight lost will come back with a vengeance. You don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars per month on worthless supplements or fat loss pills. You don’t need to constantly change up your exercise routines to “confuse” your muscles. I’m pretty sure that muscles lack cognitive abilities, so this approach is a good way to just confuse you instead. You don’t need to grind out hours and hours of boring cardio to shed ugly belly fat and love handles and get lean and toned. (How many flabby treadmillers have you come across over the years?) You don't need to obsess over "eating clean" to get ripped, and you don't need to completely abstain from "cheat" foods while getting down to single-digit body fat percentages. Those are just a few of the harmful lies and myths that keep women from ever achieving the toned, lean, strong, and healthy bodies they truly desire. The bottom line is you CAN achieve that “Hollywood babe” body without having your life revolve around it. In this book you’ll learn things like... How “flexible dieting” works and how you can use it to finally free yourself from the dietary prisons many people confine themselves to. A simple solution to “metabolic damage” that easily and painlessly speeds your metabolism back up to where it should be. The “deadly” training mistakes most people make once their “newbie gains” are spent and how to avoid this pitfall. The most effective exercises for building and strengthening every major muscle group in your body. A “paint by numbers” workout program that will force your body to build muscle and get and stronger. What type of cardio you should do to maximize fat lass, how much is enough, and how much is too much. A no-BS guide to supplements that will show you what works, what doesn’t, and what’s just outright fraudulent. And a whole lot more! Imagine...just a few weeks from now…finally seeing progress in the mirror and in the gym… Imagine enjoying the added benefits of high energy levels, no aches and pains, better spirits, and knowing that you're getting healthier every day... The bottom line is getting toned, lean, and strong isn’t nearly as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. This book makes it simple. Scroll up, download this free eBook now, and begin your journey to a fitter, stronger, and healthier you!

Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy

Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy
Author: Brad J. Schoenfeld
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-06-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492585920

Muscle hypertrophy—defined as an increase in muscular size—is one of the primary outcomes of resistance training. Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy is a comprehensive compilation of science-based principles to help professionals develop muscle hypertrophy in athletes and clients. With more than 825 references and applied guidelines throughout, no other resource offers a comparable quantity of content solely focused on muscle hypertrophy. Readers will find up-to-date content so they fully understand the science of muscle hypertrophy and its application to designing training programs. Written by Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, a leading authority on muscle hypertrophy, this text provides strength and conditioning professionals, personal trainers, sport scientists, researchers, and exercise science instructors with a definitive resource for information regarding muscle hypertrophy—the mechanism of its development, how the body structurally and hormonally changes when exposed to stress, ways to most effectively design training programs, and current nutrition guidelines for eliciting hypertrophic changes. The full-color book offers several features to make the content accessible to readers: • Research Findings sidebars highlight the aspects of muscle hypertrophy currently being examined to encourage readers to re-evaluate their knowledge and ensure their training practices are up to date. • Practical Applications sidebars outline how to apply the research conclusions for maximal hypertrophic development. • Comprehensive subject and author indexes optimize the book’s utility as a reference tool. • An image bank containing most of the art, photos, and tables from the text allows instructors and presenters to easily teach the material outlined in the book. Although muscle hypertrophy can be attained through a range of training programs, this text allows readers to understand and apply the specific responses and mechanisms that promote optimal muscle hypertrophy in their athletes and clients. It explores how genetic background, age, sex, and other factors have been shown to mediate the hypertrophic response to exercise, affecting both the rate and the total gain in lean muscle mass. Sample programs in the text show how to design a three- or four-day-per-week undulating periodized program and a modified linear periodized program for maximizing muscular development. Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy is an invaluable resource for strength and conditioning professionals seeking to maximize hypertrophic gains and those searching for the most comprehensive, authoritative, and current research in the field.

Men's Health Maximum Muscle Plan

Men's Health Maximum Muscle Plan
Author: Thomas Incledon
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2005
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781594863066

Men's Health ® Maximum Muscle Plan is the ultimate workout guide for men who want to get bigger, stronger, faster. With customized plans for every body type and fitness level, workout variations to push you to the next level, and muscle-building nutrition and supplement tips, it's a proven program to give you the body you want-ripped abs, bulging biceps, strong legs, and a broader chest and back-in just 12 weeks.

High-Threshold Muscle Building

High-Threshold Muscle Building
Author: Christian Thibaudeau
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781499766073

Top Olympic lifters have it, elite gymnasts excel because of it, sprinters break the speed of light driven by it, high level bodybuilders get huge because of it… THE CAPACITY TO MAXIMALLY STIMULATE THE HIGH-THRESHOLD MOTOR UNITS! This is what separates the best from the rest. The fast-twitch fibers that compose the high-threshold motor-units (HTMU) exceed, by a humongous margin, the hypertrophy potential of low and medium-threshold fibers that too many of us rely on in our everyday training sessions.Yes, to some extent, the capacity to activate and stimulate those powerful fibers is a genetic thing: some peoples are born with a greater number of HTMUs than others; some lucky few also have been blessed with a super efficient nervous system that's very effective at turning on these growth-friendly fibers. However with the proper training techniques, exercise selection and movement execution, you can palliate for an “average” fiber distribution.Tihanyi (1997) has demonstrated that with proper training it is possible for someone with only 30% of fast-twitch fibers to develop himself to the same extent as someone with 70-80% of fast-twitch fibers. This book will show you exactly how to do that!The advice given in this book may look simple, because it's logical and practical, but it's exactly what you need to apply if you want to become a fast-twitch machine!

Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding
Author: Craig Cecil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Bodybuilding
ISBN: 9780984741458

There's more than one way to build muscle... Learn about all of the bodybuilding strategies from the past century. Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow takes you through the evolution of bodybuilding training, from early 20th century circus strongmen to the latest muscle-building techniques of today. Learn how to harness these concepts to build muscle faster than you thought possible. Learn About 14 Different Bodybuilding Training Systems In this book you?ll learn diverse training strategies, including: Volume Training Peripheral Heart Action Training High-Intensity Training Periodization The Bulgarian Method Pre-Exhaustion Training Heavy Duty The Weider System The Hardgainer Method SuperSlow Holistic Training Power Factor Training Positions of Flexion Static Contraction Training Dozens of Training Routines and Workouts Each training system is fully explained and includes sample workouts to get you started. Don't keep training the same way every time you workout!