Beyond Self Resistance Bodybuilding Course

WOW! Talk about information overload. Everything about muscle growth is fully exlained in detail with photos showing the different techniques and program variations. Probably one of the better Resistant Training books on the market and I've read quite a few including all of John Peterson's.In fact, though this book is somewhat complicated it is also very comprehensive for beginners. I'm no novice to weight training but this is an entirely new program that needs time to digest and perfect. I read it from cover to cover in one night and of course wanted to jump right into the hardest workout which is only natural in our short cut society. Who wants to wait for results? Still following the KISS rule is best especially when learning a new body building methodology.How is it different? This program is unlike anything I ever learned in the gym or from personal trainers that yielded zero results. In the past everything from genetics, diet, body anatomy, personal efforts, cardio, over-training, and even hot yoga were blamed for my lack of success. The only answer I got was to eat better and work harder but no one explained the reason for the failure. This book addresses precisely those issues with simple solutions as to why people don't develop muscle growth. There are precise programs that outline the exact exercises to do in which order six days a week. Follow the instructions and viola watch the magic happen.For some this maybe just another workout attempt but I've suffered from back and knee injuries that have forced me to find a smarter way to train. Fortunately, I discovered Marlon Birch's book. You can learn a lot if you keep an open mind about trying a different approach to body building. For me the status quo wasn't working so time to move onto another method of muscle developing that will yield better results in a shorter time period without further injuries. This book has almost all of it sans a diet plan.While I found this book extremely enlightening, I'm also going to purchase his "Mini 15 Week Workout" book to concentrate on the basic Resistant Training techniques before I tackle the advanced programs in this book. There is beginning program in the back but the vast majority of this book is about advancing your programs with more challenging alternative techniques. There might be duplications between the two books but something's are worth repeating. Perhaps for students that have already mastered his training methods, this would be an excellent choice to add to their library. I'm sure I'll also reference it's content as I become more confident in the exercises.Marlon's book is very informative though a helpful eating plan would also be beneficial. I'd suggest a proof-reader or spell check but that is nit picking. For the money, it's a great investment!

i got it out of curiosity. i didnt really follow the program but just skimmed through the book very briefly. He gave good tips. For example during tensing exercises if you use all the force you can, you will get less optimal results. i have used techniques presented here before and I can attest that if someone puts their all into it, they don't work. like mb says, the nervous system can't fire efficiently. this is something i know from practice but if i didn't read this book I wouldn't have understood why. and that's just one tip from skimming, worth five stars. because if you read other sources on similar techniques, they might present a macho attitude or something like that and this point might not be understood.If I actually did the program and didn't give it away I could say more about it but that one point was worth the $15. I might eventually buy it again and actually try out the program.I wish he would write a program on the bodybuilding isometric poses and how to use them as exercise and maximize results from them though. I don't think anyone has ever done that and I don't see why not. It could potentially be a lot more marketable and profitable for him too and raise his status in the bodybuilding community because people that won't try dynamic tension have to bodybuild if they are competitive bodybuilders and very little material is written on it. I know of information on isometric flexes and isometrics in general but I do not know of any information on how a bodybuilder would practice the bodybuilding poses.

This is a short review, A place holder until I fully digest the book.As it stands though, Marlon has done it again as the others say! Good information , good quality and good routines he himself has used!In the book, he starts off with a little about himself, loads the books of inspiring pictures either in action training or posing in competitions! Then he delves into the exercises themselves, carefully explaining what they target and proper methods of contraction which should be practiced no matter what style of training you use! He covers in depth stress methods he' s used or devised and the results he has achieved using them. From Negatives / stretch (easier achieved with self resistance) to partials for strength and muscle sculpting.Covering hormonal surge timing for getting the most from your workout, he then covers in depth instructions for each of the stress methods and routines featuring them. The final chapters are his Award Winning (Obviously) Routine he has used leading up to his competition build.All in all, It' s a good book, more than 5 star worthy with lots of information, routines and techniques. Yes you can find some of the techniques online or in old books but none of it is put together as well as this, none are updated for the times or have all this information in one place between two covers. A bonus is you get to see on every page what you can achieve which should help inspire even the laziest of us to get off our bums!

Marlon Birch is the man! I love his concept, because I still have the original Charles Atlas course. Also it seems that body weight training is regaining more popularity among fitness enthusiast. It is a safe, convenient, and an effective way of building your body. He admits that it will not make you as big as an Olympic lifter, or the over built bodybuilders of today. However, just take a look at Marlon's body that is built solely by these methods of dynamic tension, and full range body weight training, and you will have to admit that this is a wonderful approach to getting fit, and muscular in an effective and safe way. I gave this book to a friend that was a bodybuilder, and power lifter after he was injured in a motorcycle accident. I wanted him to take another approach to getting back into the game.

Excellent book with a fantastic variety of self resistance exercises, some of which I had not seen before.Highly recommended

I got bit busted from heavy weight training and researched other methods. Body weight, self resistance and isometrics. Providing you put in the work you can still build muscle from these methods. Plus I find these methods actually pretty healing and more natural. This is a great book. Unlike the Peterson book it provides routines. The author clearly as a grasp of Sports Science. Some of the technical aspects may overwhelm some, but it's good to have a author with scientific knowledge. A man who clearly as trained for years using this method and as discovered the best ways to spice up self resistance/ bodyweight training. The key with self resistance often being greater volume to really shock the muscles into growth. Very impressive man, very impressive book. Though you won't become the hulk, you can put three inches if solid muscle on the arms, chest and legs and won't be busted up by doing it and mass will be natural to ones skeletal structure.

A complete breakdown of exercises and stress methods used by the author as well as over 40 weeks worth of suggested routines.This book uses a different format and goes into much more detail than the previous volume,the,Beyond Self Resistance 15 Week Bodybuilding Introductory Mini Course and as well as presenting completely different routines it also details additional methods.It includes an introductory routine too.Marlon Birch is the only author i am aware of who is presenting material and methods that go beyond the techniques and routines available for free on the internet as out of copyright material.He has actually taken the Self Resistance tradition and added to it with his own concepts and methodologies and achieved results that speak for themselves.There is nobody else in the field with his depth of knowledge,experience,achievement and honesty.This book is the new gold standard and anybody following its methodologies is following a complete system that produces results in an efficient way.It's a great book.

It's true that it's hard to read the explanation in most of the book. Go straight to the great exercises and give yourself a year or so to read the text, when you are not doing the exercises. Great book otherwise

The book is poorly written but the principles are interesting and worth trying. It would be worth re writing and editing with photographs or illustrations in order and matching the routines.

A wonderful book. A super service and customer care, Thank you.