Muscle Gain Books

This book has helped thousands of men build their best bodies ever. Will YOU be next?

Building muscle and burning fat isn't as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. This book is the shortcut.

The exact methods of diet and training that make putting on 10 to 15 pounds of quality lean mass a breeze . . . and it only takes a few months.

The bottom line is you CAN get that "Hollywood hunk" body without following boring, bland "bodybuilder" diets or living in the gym. This book shows you how.

Learn all the principles behind the muscle building workouts of the world's most successful personal trainers. 

Distilled from our experience as the world’s leading results producing trainers, Volume 1 of the UP Encyclopaedia of Personal Training gives you everything that you need to know to understand and create your own hypertrophy specific workouts.

Aimed at the beginner right through to the experienced professional personal trainer, we have included every lesson that we have learned for muscle building program design for training ages up to 24 months.

WHO IS IT FOR?

The content, concepts and workouts are aimed at teaching you how to make maximum results in minimum time if you have a training age of 0-24 months.

This does not mean that if you’ve been training for over two years the workouts won’t work for you.  if you look at the images on this page you'll get a little peek inside the book to see what we have to see about the concept of “training age”:

In addition, this isn’t a book just for beginners to the world of weight training.  It is a vital resource that you can refer back to throughout what I hope will be a long and lengthy love affair with the gym. 

We have set out to create a piece of work that I believe should be on the bookshelf of any professional personal trainer.

There are so many lessons to learn that no matter how good you think you are, a refresher and a reminder never go amiss. I’ve been at this for over thirty years myself and as Jonathan Taylor and I have worked on the book I’ve had constant small “aha!” moments that have made me want to jump into a weight rack and put the theory back into practice!

WHAT DO YOU LEARN?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

We have many workout program templates for you to follow, all illustrated with specific exercises both as photos and videos, but that’s not “learning”.

You will learn how to:

Understand any weight training program and how to adapt it to fit your specific needs.

Factor in all the variables needed to ensure that you can make progress in the gym for years at a time, not just weeks.

Create your own bespoke hypertrophy training programs using logic and not just guesswork.

Appreciate the difference between fact and myth when it comes to training to build muscle.

WHAT WILL YOU GET?

Answers to many frequently asked questions, such as how often you need to train, when is the best time to train and how to include cardio without interfering with muscle building. 

Several detailed guides that explain how to approach key aspects of training, such as warming-up, weight selection and tracking your workout performance. 

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12-weeks of customisable workout programmes that you can adapt to focus on individual target areas. 

We have specifically selected exercises and structured the workouts so that they will work in even the busiest of commercial gyms. 

Over 40 illustrated exercise guides with step-by-step instructions and trainer tips.

Access to a library of videos showing how to perform every exercise.

• Used Book in Good Condition

A professional-level guide for anyone who is serious about their physique.

This is the first muscle-building instruction book written by a professional trainer that is tailored to the general reader. Its annotated full-color anatomical illustrations are revolutionary, clearly explaining which muscles are engaged in each exercise, what the exercises are designed to accomplish, and the precise interaction of the adjacent muscles.

Anatomy of Muscle Building is organized by body area to reflect the common progression of a well-planned workout. The author also supplies easy-to-follow workout plans suited to all levels of fitness and experience.

The book explains intensity, sets and repetitions and recommends duration and frequency of exercise routines. It also covers the key fundamentals of weightlifting and the benefits of free weights and machines. It includes:

• How to build muscle without gaining fat
• The importance of cardiovascular exercise
• Principles of diet for weightlifters, including the role of protein
• The pros and cons of dietary supplements
• Helpful sidebars on what to look for and what to avoid
• Exercise variations to accommodate individual differences
• Tips on achieving optimum form to achieve optimum results

A visual index helps readers navigate, and a checklist allows readers to track their exercises and progress. Beginners, serious weightlifters, competing athletes, trainers, coaches, physiotherapists and many others will find Anatomy of Muscle Building fascinating, instructive and practical.

If you want a no-BS “crash course” in building muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy…eating foods you love…and doing workouts you actually enjoy...then you want to read this book.

I have good news for you:

Getting into awesome shape isn't nearly as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. 

• You don't need to spend hundreds of dollars per month on the worthless supplements that steroid freaks shill in advertisements.
• You don't need to constantly change up your exercise routines to "confuse" your muscles. 
• You don't need to toil away in the gym for a couple of hours per day, doing tons of sets, supersets, drop sets, giant sets, etc. (As a matter of fact, this is a great way to stunt gains and get nowhere.)
• You don't need to grind out hours and hours of boring cardio to shed ugly belly fat and love handles and get a shredded six-pack. (How many flabby treadmillers have you come across over the years?)
• You don't need to obsess over "eating clean" to get ripped, and you don't need to completely abstain from "cheat" foods while getting down to single-digit body fat percentages. 

Those are just a few of the harmful lies and myths that keep guys from ever achieving the lean, muscular, strong, and healthy bodies they truly desire. 

And in this book you're going to learn something most guys will never know...

The exact methods of diet and training that make putting on 10 to 15 pounds of quality lean mass a breeze...and it only takes a few months.

In this book you’ll learn things like...

• How “flexible dieting” works and how you can use it to finally free yourself from the dietary prisons many people confine themselves to.
• A simple solution to “metabolic damage” that easily and painlessly speeds your metabolism back up to where it should be.
• The “deadly” training mistakes most people make once their “newbie gains” are spent and how to avoid this pitfall.
• The most effective exercises for building and strengthening every major muscle group in your body.
• A “paint by numbers” workout program that will force your body to get bigger and stronger.
• Why most “six pack” advice is completely wrong and what it really takes to get a lean, defined core.
• What type of cardio you should do to maximize fat lass, how much is enough, and how much is too much.
• A no-BS guide to supplements that will show you what works, what doesn’t, and what’s just outright fraudulent.
• And a whole lot more!

Imagine...just a few weeks from now…finally seeing progress in the mirror and in the gym…

Imagine enjoying the added benefits of high energy levels, no aches and pains, better spirits, and knowing that you're getting healthier every day...

The bottom line is getting big, lean, and strong isn’t nearly as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. This book makes it simple.

Scroll up, download this free eBook now, and begin your journey to a more muscular, stronger, and healthier you!

This book has helped thousands of women build their best bodies ever. Will YOU be next?

Losing fat and building lean muscle isn't as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. This book is the shortcut.

The exact formula of exercise and eating that makes losing 10 to 15 pounds of fat while building lean, sexy muscle a breeze . . . and it only takes 8 to 12 weeks.

The bottom line is you CAN get that "Hollywood babe" body without following boring, bland "bodybuilder" diets or living in the gym. This book shows you how.

• HUMAN KINETICS

With new exercises, additional stretches, and more of Frédéric Delavier’s signature illustrations, you’ll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during strength exercises. This one-of-a-kind best-seller combines the visual detail of top anatomy texts with the best of strength training advice.

Many books explain what muscles are used during exercise, but no other resource brings the anatomy to life like Strength Training Anatomy. Over 600 full-color illustrations reveal the primary muscles worked along with all the relevant surrounding structures, including bones, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissue.

Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the anatomical depictions show both superficial and deep layers and detail how various setup positions affect muscle recruitment and emphasize underlying structures. New pages show common strength training injuries in a fascinating light and offer precautions to help you exercise safely.

Author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier is the former editor in chief of the French publication PowerMag. He is a journalist for Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to Men’s Health Germany and several other strength training publications.