Bodybuilding Exercises Review
“THE BEST REVEALED: The Underground Bodybuilding Exercises That Put Over 20 Pounds of Muscle on You in Just 90 Days – For Less than the Price of One Training Session.”
| Highly Recommended | The Winner | Also Recommended |
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| The best-known program will put muscle on you quickly but ultimately lost the top spot due to Muscle Gaining Secrets’ superior program design and readability. | You’ll gain the most muscle by following Muscle Gaining Secrets. Don’t be fooled by the program’s unassuming website. With its incredibly effective program design, superior writing and proven track record of adding mass to anyone, the dark horse wins the title of “Best Muscle Gaining Program” in a stunning upset. | A perpetual best-seller, this is a solid guide to gaining muscle by all accounts but in the end is out-classed by Ferruggia and DelMonte’s products and credentials. |
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Building muscle is a proven way to gain respect, increase your self-confidence, and boost your sex appeal. A head-turning body tells everyone that you’re healthy, strong, and desirable.
However, getting that attention-grabbing body isn’t easy. Nor is it inexpensive. Hiring a trainer, paying for a gym membership, and buying supplements can easily cost $1,000 a month, a price too exorbitant for most people to even consider.
Luckily, three muscle gaining programs have become available to show newbies, hardgainers, and even advanced lifters how to add an impressive amount of size to their frames without the use of expensive supplements, trainers, or even a gym membership. But which one best delivered on its promise?
I purchased and reviewed the three best-selling muscle building programs to determine the best of the breed. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised. These programs do work, as the hundreds of testimonials for each best-selling program prove. They all shared the following characteristics:
- Solid Science – They’re all based on solid principles, backed by empirical evidence, and endorsed by respected health and fitness professionals.
- Clarity – Each author clearly explained his particular system of training, nutrition and recovery to elicit the maximum growth response from any individual.
- Real-World Results – The programs worked for their creators, all of whom were skinny ‘hardgainers’ at the beginning of their training careers, and for countless others as well.
- Supplement Independence – Unlike most of the advice in muscle magazines owned by supplement manufacturers, the authors created programs that can succeed without costly pills and powders.
- Affordability – All three programs were well under $100, less than the cost of one personal training session with a competent fitness trainer.
All three programs were quality products, but which one edged out the other two overall? Here’s how I ranked the three programs:
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Jason Ferruggia’s Muscle Gaining Secrets
Pros
- Best Program Design
- Best Bonus Materials
- Best Edited
Cons
- Still Images in Exercise Database Instead of Animations
The best and most clearly written program of the three is Jason Ferruggia’s Muscle Gaining Secrets. His professional and writing credentials are what separate his product from the other two. While all three authors agree on the core training principles necessary to increase muscle—progressive overload, heavy weights, aggressive recovery and nutrition—Ferruggia does the best job of explaining those principles and designing a program that adheres to them.
Muscle Gaining Secrets is also the best edited and formatted ebook, making it a breeze to read and understand. His entertaining personal stories, especially about his younger brother and Uncle Rory, illustrate the training philosophy Ferruggia espouses, driving home his training methodology in an accessible way. Each chapter ends with a ‘Bottom Line’ section outlining the main points of the chapter, making the ebook highly scannable during review.
Even more impressive than the new lifters who made incredible gains using Ferruggia’s program are the collegiate and professional athletes who were also able to produce increases in their overall muscularity by following his advice.
With a decent program, most novices will be able to make admirable gains in size initially, but what sets this program apart is its proven ability to add slabs of muscle even to lifters who have been training for years, a much tougher task.
Of the three authors, Ferruggia is also the most adamant about building muscle without the use of supplements. Since supplements can cost upwards of $100 per month, it’s refreshing to find a fitness professional whose program relies more on hard work than a ‘miracle pill.’
A former hardgainer who has added nearly 100 pounds to his once-skinny frame, Ferruggia’s the head training adviser for Men’s Fitness magazine and has authored hundreds of articles for top training websites and other fitness magazines including Men’s Health, Maximum Fitness, MMA Sports Mag, Today’s Man, and Muscle & Fitness Hers.
With over 15 years as a fitness professional under his belt, Ferruggia has successfully trained over 500 athletes from nearly 20 different sports to rapidly increase their muscle size and strength, speed, and overall performance.
Highly Recommended
Vince DelMonte’s No-Nonsense Muscle Building
Pros
- Unique Program Design
- Attention to Structural Balance
Cons
- Complex and Demanding Design May Keep Participants from Completing Program
- Could Benefit from Additional Editing
My second choice is Vince DelMonte’s No-Nonsense Muscle Building, the most sophisticated and scientifically documented program of the three. It was a difficult decision to rank this ebook behind Ferruggia’s since DelMonte’s program has so many strengths: unique program design, comprehensive approach to the mental side of training, focus on structural balance, and variety.
By employing giant sets and his unique ‘crash’ sets, DelMonte has devised a system that allows lifters to perform high rep sets with heavy weights, virtually impossible under normal circumstances. DelMonte is also the only author who advocates timed rest periods between sets.
What ultimately separated No-Nonsense Muscle Building from the top spot was its complexity and, I hate to say it, brutality. The strict rest periods between ultra-demanding sets that DelMonte advocates in his program are intensely taxing.
While I have no doubt his system works, if the same gains can be made using the simpler and more forgiving untimed rest periods used by the other two authors, then the chances of success, especially for those new to training, can only improve by adopting the untimed method.
No-Nonsense Muscle Building shines brightest, however, in the variety of its program design. More so than the other two ebooks, DelMonte’s program employs a greater number of exercises, sets, and reps, making this program ideal for those who need such variety to stay motivated in the gym.
DelMonte, like Ferruggia, also shines when it comes to credentials. As a collegiate athlete in cross country, DelMonte transformed his skinny runner’s build in record time to win the 2005 Canadian Fitness Model Championships, adding over 40 pounds of muscle in under six months. He earned his Honours Kinesiology Degree from the University of Western Ontario, is a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness Magazine, and is an Advisory Team Member for Maximum Fitness Magazine.
Now a natural fitness model competitor, he is also a personal trainer and previously headed the Personal Training Department of 14 full-time Personal Trainers at Phoenix Fitness Gym in Hamilton, Ontario, where he oversaw the training of members ranging in age from 14- to 75-years-old. This experience allowed him to compile the results of real-world research and synthesize them into his core program and techniques.
Also Recommended
Sean Nalewanyj’s The Truth About Building Muscle
Pros
- Solid Program Design
Cons
- Bonus materials not as impressive as other programs’
Sean Nalewanyj’s The Truth About Building Muscle earns a strong recommendation and could easily top most other muscle building programs head-to-head. Similar to our top pick, Muscle Gaining Secrets, Nalewanyj’s program emphasizes compound lifts, low-volume with high-weight sets, and aggressive recovery and nutrition.
Like DelMonte’s ebook, Nalewanyj’s is a perennial best-seller boasting hundreds of successful trainees from a wide range of ages and weightlifting experience. The author’s writing style and the ebook’s overall format are slightly superior to DelMonte’s, making periodic reviews of the material a breeze.
The program outlines a simple, easy-to-understand approach to gaining muscle and can hold its own toe-to-toe with the other two programs. So what separates this ebook from our top two choices?
In terms of writing, Ferruggia has a definite edge with his style and overall readability. And compared to both Ferruggia and DelMonte, Nalewanyj’s lack of professional credentials becomes a distinguishing factor. Does that mean he knows less?
Not necessarily, but when training challenges lead a reader to ask the author for advice, Ferruggia and DelMonte may have a broader base of knowledge and practical experience to draw from. Perhaps it’s because of his lack of professional credentials that his supporting bonus materials are not nearly as strong as Muscle Gaining Secrets or No-Nonsense Muscle Building.
While the other two provide access to some of the most-respected professionals in the health and fitness industry in their forums or teleseminar series included as free bonus materials in their programs, Nalewanyj’s supporting materials aren’t as strong.
Again, The Truth About Building Muscle is an excellent product and has worked for hundreds of readers, and were I not spoiled by the overall packages the first two programs represented, Nalewanyj’s ebook could have easily topped the list.
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