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Posted: Mar 25 2009
If you have the original Body Sculpting Bible for Men, this one differs slightly because of its focus on slimming down and getting more defined. If you want to build muscle onto a skinny frame get the original book. If you need to replace some winter fat with muscle and definition, this is the book for you.
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( 4 of 6 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 25 2006
I have tried this workout program for about a week and I got really fed up, the diet is very weak, suggest eating smaller portions 3x a day and with the amount of exercises that one is doing you're spending over an hour-an-a-half at the gym! What worked for me is the "Abs Diet" it first teaches you nutrition and how to eat right and then how to work out properly (but no necessarily the technique or the weight you need to lift, just the type of workouts required)... so I refered to this book for proper technique, thus giving it 3 starts instead of 1.
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( 19 of 19 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 24 2005
This is a good workout, better than the one in the original "Body Sculpting Bible." It's intense, but luckily they avoid burnout by insisting on only three workouts a week. They also emphasize the importance of warming up, as well as stretching before and after lifting weights. However, there are a few factual errors and some redundancies. For example, I noticed they give bad advice on walking technique (they say to walk on the ball of your foot, toe - heel rather than heel - toe as it should be. I think they got running and walking confused). Also, the 12 week workout is broken up into three four week programs. These are excellent programs, but they reproduce each workout on four pages. There's a separate and unnecessary page for each week of the workout. For example, the pages for weeks 2, 3 and 4 are (except for the week number) are exactly the same as the page for week one - and so on. All that was needed was one page that said "workout for weeks 1 - 4" or "workout for weeks 9 - 12"). This adds several unnecessary pages, but perhaps they needed a minimum page count. They also drop hints about aerobic exercise here and there, but give woefully eclectic and incomplete advice on it. I would recommend this book, as the workout was challenging enough even for someone like me who has lifted weights for years.
