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Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
- So Is Cardio, and There’s a Better Way to Have the Body You Want
- Narrated by: Phoenix Phillips
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
You’ve been lifting for a few years. When you take your shirt off, do you look like a professional athlete? Do you even look like you work out?
Many so-called fitness experts defend weights and cardio like they are infallible. But where are the results? Why does almost nobody look even marginally athletic?
Fitness may be the most failed human endeavor, and you are about to hear how exercise science has missed some obvious principles that, when enacted, will turn you into the superhuman that you've always wanted to be.
In Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time, Dr. John Jaquish and Henry Alkire explore the science that supports this argument and present a superior strength-training approach that has been known to put 20 pounds of muscle on drug-free, experienced lifters (i.e., not beginners) in six months.
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- James A.
- 07-10-21
Just a 5 hour JML advert
Some good insights and ideas. Not sure anything backed by peer reviewed science but I can see what they are saying logically.
It becomes a little wearing when they mention their product 100 times in a 5 minute period over and over again.
X3 x3 x3 x3 x3 x3 x3 did we mention x3.
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- jonathan
- 28-05-21
Fact driven
It's pretty heavy, and potentially very dull for anyone not interested in data, but they put forward some very interesting suppositions, principles and protocols.
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- Saber
- 27-04-22
Interesting but speculative
This book is making an argument to try and sell you a 400 dollars resistance bands basically
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- mr peter kirkham
- 03-12-21
not really the eye opener I was looking for
resistant band training and chains are great. as part of a well-balanced diet, There's still plenty of room for traditional weight training....
really not my kind of book at all
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- Brian Mc
- 17-10-21
Good -but bit of a sales pitch
The title is a bit deceptive (it caught my attention as I’m a long time weight lifting affectionado) as the writers extol the benefits of weight lifting throughout the book, albeit employing variable resistance (taking weight away from extended range to preserve the joints) - which makes sense. Rubbishing the whole gym and fitness industry, rather those particular members of these places who don’t seem to know how to train with good form, eat and rest properly, is a bit much. Also, not so sure about rubbishing all of the well tested and used (Weider’s) training principles - eg I think muscles adapt very quickly to routine and so workouts require change in my view (muscle confusion principle) - bricklayers aren’t generally muscular as their muscles and skeletal system adapts quickly to the weights (bricks/blocks) and movements involved. In terms of nutrition, I do like the Keto approach they recommend although I suspect the microbiome requires multicoloured veg to be healthy.
WITH THAT SAID it’s is still a damn good read, in fact one of the best books about getting into shape Ive read - I’ve read a lot. I highly recommend this book.
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- Nick
- 05-03-22
Not happy
I didn’t realise it was just a 5 hour advertisement for the X3 gym equipment
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- Ian Thomson
- 18-05-22
If your thinking about a different training regime
informative, interesting, i will listen to more than once and recommend it to others.
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- philip allen
- 18-10-21
Blatant sales pitch
A very misleading title.
This is nothing more than a plug for the authors piece of equipment.
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- Colin
- 06-10-21
How to sell a product badly
Yeah, this book is all about selling the author's own product. As soon as the chapter headed "How we developed the X3" the "book" became all about selling his own invention... if you can class adding elastic bands to a bar attached to the floor an invention!
Weight lifting is a waste of time? Nah, this book was a waste of time.
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- Eve Alexander
- 29-03-22
reading this book is a waste of time
A sales pitch for a piece of fitness equipment. It all sounds plausible with lots of quoting of scientific papers but this is a case of confirmation bias (finding evidence that appears to fit what you want it to say and ignoring contradictory evidence).
It will give you a work out, it's just not 3x better or even simply better than a varied weight programme. Also very annoying that a supposed 'book' is just a very convoluted sales brochure.
disappointing and misleading. The fitness industry continues to be awash with people making money off those looking for the mythical 'quick fix'
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