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What you want to know: Abs? yes Shredded? Yes Big all around physique? Yes Is it worth your money? Yes Is it worth your time? Yes -What It covers- Diet, exercise, technique, points you toward other good people to listen to, product recommendations (on Muscle for life blog, no, 99% of them are other peoples products that range from cheap to expensive.) And more. -How does all that fit in a book?-PDF with links to videos, products, and muscle for life website, which is Michael Matthew website of free articles of all the information on health you could possibly want to know. -Can I get this for free?- Sure, if you want to piece all the articles in Muscle for life together. It’ll take a ton more time and effort than buying the inexpensive book though. -Is it the “be all end all” fitness program?- No, nothing is. This teaches you what the right track looks like. Eventually you are going to tailor your own program for your own wants and needs, and this book and beyond bigger leaner stronger teaches you how. -Downsides?- -You!- The biggest problem most people will have is a preconception of how exercise should be. Ask yourself: Do I look like how I want to look like from all the years of exercise? Probably not if you’re looking into fitness education. In a year, if you were doing it right, you should look shredded when you want to and in three years you could look like a fitness model if you wanted to. Been exercising longer than five years? Then you should look like the author of BLS. Think about how all those celebrities have those transformations? No, besides drugs. I’m talking about Paul Rudd, Ryan Reynolds, all those Spidermen (Tom Holland is the best one). They’re shredded and lean and look natural. Most people must be missing valuable pieces to the puzzle. Personally I have struggled for two years trying to get abs with little success (first row only wth some obliques). -Everyone else- you talk to about this will not be on board! But does their opinion matter? A good way to tell if their opinion is valid is by seeing if they are the “full package”; ask yourself, do they look like a ripped greek god statue? No? Then ignore them and finish the program to the best of your ability and you will see as the results speak for themselves. -You again!- You’re not perfect you’ll get a few things wrong, unfortunately I did, even if you're trying your best. The best thing to do is every month or so re-study the areas you think you might be fuzzy in, including exercise technique. The closer you get to doing 100% of what the book says the better the results. -Diet!- It’s best to track everything everyday. It’s ok, there is an app for that, so you get used to it quickly. -Upsides?- Knowing what is real and what is just a scam. I was so close to spending around one hundred bucks on some youtube guy’s program and it wouldn’t have taught me what I needed to know after the program. It was only three months of meals and exercises. Shop around and you’ll find everything else is really expensive if you want a year of programing, but not Bigger Leaner Stronger, it teaches you how to make your own program. -Knowing workout magazines are time sinks- with their misleading half truths designed to grab the readers attention long enough for them to come up with something else that’s a waste of time. There is a whole community that is exercising effectively and they are not subscribed to those magazines. They’re reading double blind clinical studies and lifting real weights safely, not doing some weird new exercise of the month. -Making continual progress- in the gym and seeing it in the mirror is a huge motivator. I may stall out for a month now (bye, bye newbie gains) but eventually I jump in weight. No, muscle confusion is a waste of time. See the stats below, if I was bouncing from exercise to exercise, I wouldn’t have gotten where I am now. -My Statistics:-Of which my actual starting weights are lower than listed here but because I did not take the best notes I'm er-ing on the underestimating side. Again, I messed up a lot because of enthusiasm. Also I was untrained on everything. Flat barbell Bench press Start- 105 lbs X 5 1 year- 240 lbs x 4 Incline barbell Bench press Start 75 lbs x 4 1 year- 215 lbs x 4 Dead lift Start 185 lbs 1 year 375 lbs x 5 Barbell Squat: Start 135 lbs 1 year 295 lbs x 5 Barbell Military press Start 85 lbs 1 year 170 lbs x 4 Side lateral raise Start 15 lbs 1 year 50 lbs x 6 Weighted Captain’s chair leg raise Start 25 lbs 1 year 70 lbs x 10 Ab wheel to a breath above the floor Start 5 reps 1 year all day long -Learning to eat right:- I found out I was under eating and over exercising. Once I corrected that I slept better and felt better throughout the day. This should have been taught in health class. I was not avoiding food in the slightest by the way, I had three meals a day plus snacks, still I was not even close to what my body needed. -Not wasting any of my time.- Everything I do has a purpose and is effective. -No more working myself to death.- Because I know that there is only a certain amount that your body can recover from naturally. I had several of the symptoms of over training, and I wrote it off as other stresses in life. -Compliments from strangers.- Until I switched gyms half way through the program I used to get a lot of compliments from the other serious lifters at the gym, the ones with the big upper body and small legs. I know it’s corny but everyone at the gym will notice the difference and when they ask you what you’re doing, don’t tell them. They won’t listen anyway, their ego won’t let them, just say I’m on a new diet or something. P.S. A few months into the program you might strain a muscle or feel too tight. When this happens read the sequel Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger. It covers stretches, massaging muscle knots away (which can impede muscle growth), plateauing on lifts, and how to make your own program. This guy truly wanted to do the right thing with these books. This is what happens when greed isn’t the big motivator behind a fitness product. P.P.S All that being said buy all his Legion products! Pre- workout Pulse recommended flavor Fruit punch Post workout Recharge recommended flavor fruit punch (it’s like candy) Protein whey + they are all delicious but my top 2 are cookies and cream and french vanilla but they are expensive luxury type proteins so if you are looking for affordable but trust worthy Micheal Matthews recommends ON Natural protein. There are other brands and now that you know how to tell the good from the bad supplements you can find them easier.