Three years after the release of Get Buffed! III and eight years after the release of the original Get Buffed! book, you now have Get Buffed! IV - Get Seriously Buffed!
No longer a trilogy - now a quadilogy (I know, no such word!)
Another 300 plus page book jammed with fantastic content and workout programs, which means you are guided to an even higher level of training!
What's in GB IV?
A brief overview
This book is the fourth book in the famous Get Buffed! sequel, placing it further into the history books as the only book series in this area of interest with four sequential, flowing books.
The Get Buffed! range takes you from the original book one through to this fourth book in a journey of getting bigger, stronger and or leaner! The book series is supported by DVDs and other educational/training support material.
Get Buffed! IV: Get Seriously Buffed! - a book for those who choose to make their pursuit of getting bigger, stronger and or leaner the number one priority in their life at this stage.
This level of commitment is not for everyone and certainly not for all stages of one's life - but if you have the opportunity to live part of your life for training as the most important daily focus, it's a magical time. I have experienced this life, and share through this book some of the lessons I learnt, both from my personal experience of living to train, as well as some wisdoms from others who also lived stages of their life with this commitment.
For those who are ready and deserving exposure to information and inspiration at this level this book will be extremely rewarding.
For those for whom the content of this book is beyond where they should be focused at this stage, I encourage you to take a step back. In the Foreword to Get Buffed!III (Get Totally Buffed!) I cautioned against the search for the easy way out to success in strength training, what I called the tragic search for the golden egg at the end of the rainbow.
There's a very simply concept in the iron game (and you know I like simple!) - it refers to eating, sleeping and training.
In the earlier Get Buffed! books I have dedicated extensively time and space to teaching you about recovery and the need to balance recovery and training.
You have read these books, I know, so no need to labor these points. Instead let's focus on the very simple paradigm of:
Eating, sleeping, and training.
It's been referred to as the training triangle.
Let me take this simple message to the nth degree. If you want to get the best results you can from your strength training in any given time period - anything you do in addition to these three key activities, will potentially set you back.
Brutal? Debatable? Work with me. If you are struggling with the brutal simplicity of this concept you are not the 'Lone Ranger'.
Using digestion as an analogy, not everything you are going to read in this book I going to be easily digested. I am going to tell you what I have found to be the best thing to do - not necessarily what the average person has been influenced to believe out of some misguided desire to conform in thinking.
If you are one of those who struggle to consider things outside of what 'everyone' else is thinking/doing - you are possibly wasting your time reading this book.
You would have been the person who during through the 1950 to about 1990 would not have squatted - because it was believed to be 'bad for the knees'. But you would have done exclusively leg extensions. Then you would have flip-flopped like a politician on the wrong end of an opinion poll during the 1990s when 'everyone' was doing squats because they were 'closed-chain kinetic exercise' and they were trendy and 'good', whereas leg extensions were 'open chain kinetic exercises' and 'bad'.
You would have used protein powder pre 1990 because all 'nutritionists' told you they were just expensive, rip-off skim milk powder.
You wound not have used vitamins pre 1990 because 'scientists', 'doctors' and 'nutritionists' told you they were another rip off, and you would get nothing but 'expensive urine'.
You would not have used chiropractic services pre-1980 because your 'doctor' would have told you it was 'dangerous'. Until off course, they were able to teach it in their under-graduate programs.
I think you are getting the hint.
So when I tell you to spend a few hours a week doing things to avoid injuries; that pre-training stretching has more pros than cons; that your supplement program is probably being seriously undermined by your diet; that any more activity than training is less than optimal; that you should record all your training - I hope for your sake you trust me enough to give it an objective go.
Now that we have got all this clear - let's go and Get Buffed!
Here's the book's content list:
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Think for yourself
Chapter 2: Look before you eat
Chapter 3: Macro-nutrients
Chapter 4: Micro-nutrients
Chapter 5: Nutritional Supplements
Chapter 6: Continuing the Legacy
Chapter 7: Beverly International's EZ Dieting System
Chapter 8: Sleep
Chapter 9: Sleep & recovery
Chapter 10: Principles of Training
Chapter 11: Training Variables
Chapter 12: Training Frequency
Chapter 13: Injury Prevention
Chapter 14: Recovery & Injury Prevention Training
Chapter 15: Keep it simple
Chapter 16: Monitoring Your Progress
Chapter 17: The Get Buffed! IV Workout : Get Seriously Buffed!
Conclusion
Recommended Reading
Note a number of contributing authors appear in this book, including:
Beverly International
Dave Draper
Eric Serrano
Rob Wilkins
Many other high achievers throughout the last 50 years have also had reference to their work included in this book, including:
Anthony Robbins
Art Dreschler
Bill Pearl
Bill Starr
Buckminster Fuller
Dalai Lama
David Willoughby
Deepak Chopra
Dietmar Schmidbleicher
E.E. Cummings
Jim Rohn
Jim Stockdale
Laurence Boldt
Lyle MacWilliam
Michael Colgan
Michael Yessis
Mike Stone
Paul Anderson
Percy Cerutty
Reg Park
Tudor Bompa
Weston Price
- just to name a few!
Who is this book aimed at?
Serious strength trainers and physical preparation coaches
This book is unashamedly aimed at those who train like a professional athlete, and whose recovery ability is high and can support this. Its is aimed at those whose life revolves around training.
If you have not progressed through the Get Buffed! I, II and III books - this book is NOT for you. Please take a rain check and come through the ranks!
Others who will benefit from this book are practicing or prospective physical preparation coaches - but again, only after they have absorbed the content in the prior three Get Buffed! book!
Is this content in any other books?
Helping you avoid duplication
No! This is totally new content. Also, it does not repeat any or overlap with earlier books - it is truly sequential and progressive from the prior books, as each of them are. The only 4 book sequel with content that builds on the prior books available in strength training!
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