The New High Intensity Training The Best Muscle Building System Youve Never Tried
The New High Intensity Training The Best Muscle Building System Youve Never Tried
Certain to become the bible of HIT-the training that revolutionized lifting with shorter, far-more-intense workouts-this impassioned guide is the last word on how to achieve explosive growth safely, without steroids!
For many dedicated bodybuilders, the weight-lifting theories of Arthur Jones are gospel. It was Jones, the inventor of Nautilus exercise equipment, who first discovered that short, intense workouts could produce better results than the long, high-volume workouts then in vogue.
Even though research into Jones’s methods has proved them correct, a number of high-profile strength coaches use HIT to train their athletes, and the bodybuilding magazine Ironman does HIT-based features every issue, there still are no major HIT books in stores. This new book-by champion bodybuilder, exercise researcher, and best-selling author Ellington Darden, who is a Jones disciple and friend-shows lifters how to apply the master’s teachings, along with some new HIT concepts to achieve extraordinary results.
At the heart of the book is a complete, illustrated, six-month course for explosive growth. Exercise by exercise, workout by workout, the reader is shown precisely what to do, and perhaps even more important, what not to do. Charging that too many bodybuilders follow a more-is-better approach-too many exercises, too many sets, and too much frequency-and rely on steroids to compensate for depleted recovery ability, Darden shows why HIT, steroid-free and healthy, is the best way to safely build muscle. Finally, the exercise religion Arthur Jones founded, and Darden fine-tuned, has its bible.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Garbage!
Having extensive higher education in the health/fitness field my review is this: Don’t buy this book! It features bodybuilders from the 80′s and before. Little of the information is accurate and useful. Some of the concepts don’t even make sense. Bottom line: save your money for something else!
4 Stars BRINGING LIGHT BACK INTO THE DARKNESS….
I truly doubt that with Mike Mentzer leading the REVOLUTION, that Ellington Darden could see that H.I.T. had been dead or dormant for years, plus let us not forget…. DORIAN YATES and his MR. OLYMPIA REIGN was laid on a foundation of…. H.I.T. theory…. Hmmmmmmmm….
ANYWAY…. A solid book with interesting history and applications on what and how H.I.T. THEORY came to be, and how it can save all of us from the ever increasing GARBAGE that is in print and on the net, in the form of “proven advice from the champs” in FLEX or MUSCLE & FITNESS !!!!
My only peeve, is that of RECOVERY AND VOLUME…. It’s time to step up into the times and research, Ell…. Doing so much frequency and volume is out of step with the better applied logic of HEAVY DUTY or BLOOD & GUTS
1 Star Crap Book – dont buy unless you are completely new to HIT/Arthur jones
Nothing New – loads of crap stories during the arthur era … total waste of time and money… Do yourself a favour ..buy some other book (or read nautilus bulletins available online for free – they have the real information)
3 Stars Decent, but i don’t think you should follow the whole program
I’ve been using this program for about 3 months. In all honesty I am not really following a ‘body builders’ diet. No supplements. I drink my gallon of water a day and eat as much protein as i can, but not really the overage you need for serious muscle building.
This training is incredibly hard to grasp if you really go all out. For one, you would need a spotter on roughly 10 of the 12 exercises you do. Personally, I workout alone and the only thing i can truly go failure on is a Nautilus machine or something similar.
I think this is a good 6-8 week program to do in rotation with some more high rep/intense 6-8 weeks to keep your body guessing and developing. Book’s ok, but i wouldn’t guess you could do this for a year and really keep the results coming.
5 Stars Worth the money
I would recommend this book to anyone who has lost what they once had and want to regain it. I purchased this book a couple months ago and read it from cover to cover. Years ago I used to train for 2 to 3 hours a day and I was in pretty good shape. Then life got in the way (school, job, etc) and working out became a hassel. Over the course of about 6 years of not lifting a single weight, I lost the muscle and definition that I once had. The biggest thing that kept me from getting back in the gym was the fact that I didn’t, and still don’t, have the time to spend 3 hours a day in the gym; then I found this book. A friend and I have been following the ideas/principles set forth in the book for just under 6 weeks now. In that time I have lost 15 pounds and have regained most of the muscle that I lost in the 6 years of doing nothing. The biggest thing that really got me motivated to give the HIT ideas a try was/is the fact that it calls for 3 days a week of training and leaving everything you have (strength) in the gym. We lift 3 days a week for about an hour and fifteen minutes, max, for the two of us to get through the set. If you are wanting to regain the strength, definition and confidence that you once had, while still maintaining a life outside the gym, I highly reccomend this book!!
