Essential Arms: An Intense 6-Week Program

This is a book that is very pragmatic and flexible for most of us with busy schedules. It will introduce you to techniques and bodybuilding facts that build muscle. This is a well-written and concise workout book with a regimen that every man interested in having defined muscular arms can use. I am almost forty and have not worked out in a while and I am very proud of the results! I highly recommend this book without reservation!

The book delivers what it promises: An Intense Six-week program to completely train your Arms from every single angle. But this book is more than just an Abs workout, it is a small, handy and complete reference with useful information that includes: essential physiology, aerobics, flexibility stretches, and essential principles and techniques. What I really liked about this book is that the programs are designed to fully exercise and develop the whole arms, not just the biceps and triceps, like is usually the case with other books. Following the programs you will exercise your biceps, triceps, forearms, and also the brachialis and brachioradialis muscles, to get a complete fully developed look. A very practical and to the point reference on arm training.

This book is really great! The techniques included in this book are very effective & true.

I have read a few body-building books and think this one, along with the other books in the same series (chest, legs, abs, etc), are the best to date. One reason for this is the insistence upon good form. Like a lot of people, I have in the past gotten carried away with adding more weight and not paying attention to form. This is still a temptation but the message on good form presented in this book is finally starting to stick. I especially was impressed by his argument for paying attention to the negative part of the exercise. Another STRONG point of the book is that it provides you with lots of routines. After finishing the books 6 week course, you are supplied with an additional 4 or 5 good routines for future use. As the author states, it is important to change routines often, so that your muscles do not get too used to a given exercise (and you dont get bored). However, I am very lazy about putting together routines and tend to stick to one. Thanks to this book this is no longer a problem, because it does it for me; I now have complete sets of routines that I can follow and am beginning to see important gains as a result. The book also does a good job of covering the basics of good nutrition, rest and, for all of you gym rats who would ignore it, aerobics (ever see those pudgy cro-magnon loking guys in the gym who claim their bloated tummies are muscle)!!!! He doesn't cover supplements though and that is understandable given the controversy and hype surrounding so many of them.

I'm currently at Level 2/2nd week of this program and have seen amazing results. And I guarantee if you follow this program you will too. This book helped me to discover what I had been doing wrong all these years and focused on diet which I must say is so critical in building muscle. It focus's on correct technique versus numerous sets, and helps you determine the correct weight per exercise as well. It goes against what most of us think is the correct way to build great arms, but in reality is the secret we have all been in pursuit of. I highly recommend this book for the novice to amateur bodybuilder. I can't wait to see the results after week 6! Job well done to the writer(s) for this great bodybuilding tool.