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Title: The Poliquin Principles: Successful Methods for Strength and Mass Development by Charles Poliquin, Charles Poloquin ISBN: 0-9662752-0-9 Publisher: Dayton Publications & Writers Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.97 (29 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This guy is for real!
Comment: Let's begin with the downside. First of all, the book is not very well written. By that I mean that those who are not familiar with his writings will not understand everything he's talking about such as some exercise selections. Secondly, the price is too high considering the cheap paper he's using. Now for the good part. I've been reading everything I can get my hands on by Poloquin since I first learned about him a little over a year back. Being a certified personal trainer I pretty much thought I had it all tied down. In short, I thought I knew everything I needed to know. I was wrong. Poliquin is a very knowledgable person regarding bodybuilding/strength training. His training ideas are unique and although he's being criticized for using information that are old and "out of date" then who cares as long as they do the job. He's bringing a world of new knowledge into training. I advise everybody who wants to learn more about training to read everything they can by this guy as well as his good friend, Paul Chek.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not for wimps!
Comment: Charles Poliquin is THE strength coach, not just a personal trainer in tights who talks of "toning" and "feeling the burn". Whether your goal is to improve athletic performance or build muscle and lose fat, this is the place to start. Charles does not play around with wimpy exercises. He simply tells you what works, no matter how painful and exhausting it may be. Even though I think this is the best book of its kind, there are some problems. First, the pictures are old and out of date. Second, there is one horrible type-o: In one arm routine, the text says to perform it 3 times per week. Actually, Charles meant "once every 5 days". If that training regimen were performed 3 times per week, you could easily overtrain, which could lead to injuries. Poliquin writes for a web zine called Testosterone.com and states that these problems will be fixed in the updated version of this book. Also, be aware that this info can be very technical and! Poliquin does not always "dumb it down" for the layman trainer. A few more illustrations would have been very helpful. Despite these drawbacks, this is a great book. I have used this information to both train athletes and add muscle to my own physique. Buy this book and get ready for some grueling, but very effective workouts.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pseudoscience
Comment: It is sad that this self-styled "guru" has gained such publicity and credibility, given that his book appears to contain very little in the way of scientifically-based training advice and contains much pseudoscience and outright nonsense, such as swiss ball training. As a sport scientist whose Ph.D. is in the area of motor learning, I would like Poliquin to explain just what additional benefit is derived from performing weight training exercises balancing on a ball. There is absolutely no scientific evidence to support this practice, which, given that balance does not transfer to different activities will only improve your ability to balance on a ball. Not something that many athletes (or anyone else) will find much use! I find it sad that so many people (including elite athletes) are taken in by the likes of Poliquin and Paul Chek, whose description of themselves as "gurus" and "experts" is laughable. If Poliquin is expert at anything (which I doubt), it certainly is not exercise science. The apparent popularity of the book, and similarly pseudoscientific weight training books by the likes of Kraemer, Fleck, Stone and Bompa, proves one thing only: that there's a sucker born every minute, and two to take him.
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Title: Winning the Arms Race by Charles Poliquin, Roberto Reyes ISBN: 097019790X Publisher: CharlesPoliquin.net Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Modern Trends in Strength Training: Volume 1, Sets and Reps (Second Edition) by Charles Poliquin ISBN: 0970197918 Publisher: CharlesPoliquin.net Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Beyond Brawn: The Insider's Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle & Might by Stuart McRobert ISBN: 9963616062 Publisher: CS Publishing Ltd Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way by Mike Mentzer, John R. Little ISBN: 0071383301 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Strength Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier ISBN: 0736041850 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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