The 4 and 5-star programs below represent the best instruction you can receive if your goal is to put on quality muscle-weight.
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The Bodybuilding Specialty Program Reviews – Supplements, Exercises, Women, Diet, etc.
The 4 and 5-Star
Muscle Building Programs
Beginner - Intermediate
Sean Nalewanyj’s
Body Transformation
Blueprint
$77
Short Review
Full Review
Vince Delmonte’s
No-Nonsense
Muscle Building
$77
Short Review
Full Review
Will Brink’s
Bodybuilding
Revealed
$47
Short Review
Full Review
Jason Ferruggia’s
Muscle Gaining
Secrets 2.0
$40
Short Review
Full Review
Intermediate - Advanced
Ben Pakulski’s
MI40
System
$77
Short Review
Full Review
Nick Nilsson’s
Mad Scientist
Muscle
$30
Short Review
Full Review
Nick Nilsson’s
Muscle
Explosion
$30
Short Review
Full Review
The 1 to 3-Star
Muscle Building Programs
Eric Cressey’s
Show and Go
Training – $80
Review
Rusty Moore’s
Visual Impact
Muscle Building – $47
Review
Vince Delmonte, Lee Hayward
21 Day Fast
Mass Building – $77
Review
Steve Gwillim’s
R.I.P.P.E.D.
Weight Training™ – $67
Review
Jeff Anderson’s
Advanced Mass
Building – $47
Review
Shawn Lebrun’s
7 Things You Must Do To
Gain Weight – $39
Review
Jonathan Perez’s
From Skinny
To Muscular – $39
Review
Shawn LeBrun’s
Simple Steps To Get
Huge And Shredded – $39
Review
Lee Hayward’s
Bio-Genetic Muscle
Weight Gain System – $37
Review
Doberman Dan’s
Hyper-Growth
Muscle
Mass Training – $30
Review
Paul Becker’s
Truly
Huge – $27
Review
John Romaniello &
Matt McGory’s
Super Hero Workout – $ ?
Review
Drs. Christopher R. Mohr &
Greg E. Bradley-Popovich’s
Weapons For Mass
Construction – $ ?
Review
Greg Gillies’s
Skinny Guy’s Guide
To Building Mass Fast – $ ?
Review
Matt Murphy’s
Maximum Muscle
In Minimum Time – $ ?
Review
Gary Matthew’s
Maximum Weight
Gain In Ten Weeks – $ ?
Review
Derek Manuel’s
How To Gain Weight
And Build Muscle
For Hardgainers – $ ?
Review
Wade McNutt’s
Freaky Big
Naturally – $ ?
Review
Alex Bersinski’s
Gain Weight
Naturally – $ ?
Review
The Muscle Building Program Short Reviews
Sean Nalewanyj’s “Body Transformation Blueprint”
Delivering science-based muscle gain and fat loss strategy, Body Transformation Blueprint is a strong program.
Nalewanyj keeps things gimmick-free while zeroing you in on those things you need to do transform your body. He details everything you need to know, from nutrition to training to tracking. The end result is a flexible but doable step-by-step program to big gains.
Bottom Line: It is a lengthy but well-worth-it read. It is extremely thorough. Nalewanyj doesn’t miss a thing and backs it up with a powerful array of bonuses including his personal email address.
Recommended For: Beginner-Intermediate Trainers
Read the Full Review of Body Transformation Blueprint
Vince Delmonte’s “No-Nonsense Muscle Building”
From dieting to lifting to cardio, No-Nonsense Muscle Building delivers an on-target program for the “too skinny.”
Emphasizing a total-body, balanced approach, Vince helps the skinny trade up to the buff body that gets noticed. This is the program that transformed Vince from a skinny long distance runner into a fitness model champion and the one Vince has successfully used to bulk up his personal training clients.
Bottom Line: With detailed daily diets and a training program that is easy as pointing and clicking on the date for a full run-down of the day’s workout, this program is simple and potentially explosive.
Recommended for: Beginner-Intermediate Trainers
Read the Full Review of No-Nonsense Muscle Building
More Info at www.vincedelmontefitness.com
Will Brink’s “Bodybuilding Revealed”
From nutrition to supplements to training, Brink’s Bodybuilding Revealed delivers abundant on-target information. No one knows bodybuilding nutrition as well as Will and he successfully provides you a complete education, detailed but succinct.
He reviews each and every supplement marketed at those trying to bulk up (providing some eye-opening information). The training information is complete with a detailed view of what one needs to do to inspire muscle gain and a bonus mass gain training section from legendary strength coach Charles Polyquin.
Bottom Line: Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, unquestionably the champion bodybuilding resource. The online member’s area is huge with tools and monitored forums that cover every angle of bodybuilding training.
Recommended for: Beginner-Advanced Trainers
Read the Full Review of Bodybuilding Revealed
More Info at www.bodybuildingrevealed.com
Jason Ferruggia’s “Muscle Gaining Secrets”
This program isn’t about getting healthy, it isn’t about getting a little more fit or looking just a bit better.
The primary goal of the training Jason lays out in Muscle Gaining Secrets is developing significantly stronger, bigger bodies. Valuing strength and size gains equally, this is a program that ignores strict bodybuilding or strength training styles, instead creating a hybrid approach unabashedly designed to transform hardgainers into legitimate bad asses.
Bottom Line: Jason expertly takes you into the world of intelligently designed hardcore training and doesn’t let you go until you have all the tools and all the insider know-how you need to build a strong, powerful body.
Recommended for: Beginner-Intermediate Trainers
Read the Full Review of Muscle Gaining Secrets
More Info at www.musclegainingsecrets.com
Ben Pakulski’s “MI40 System”
An advanced program for serious trainers, Ben Pakulski’s MI40 system is a unique time-under-tension training method that focuses on the details of exercise execution to eke out a little more muscle building value from each and every set and rep.
Covering everything from training to dieting to supplementing, Pakulski shows the attention to detail that has helped him become one of the top competing pros and trainers in bodybuilding today.
Bottom Line: A serious trainer whose primary interest is size and symmetry will learn a great deal. The extensive and thorough video section is incredible, bringing the entire system together and giving the trainer all he needs to apply it and build more muscle.
Recommended for: Intermediate-Advanced Trainers
Read the Full Review of the MI40 System
More Info at www.benpakulski.com/mi40
Nick Nilsson’s “Mad Scientist Muscle”
If you’re scared of overtraining, Nick Nilsson has some very simple advice for you: “Don’t be.”
In Mad Scientist Muscle, Nilsson teaches you how to make overtraining your muscle building ally. He teaches you how to train right up to the point of overtraining and then strategically back off in order to maximize your gains. When done right, this type of training can produce some of the best muscle gains you will ever see.
Bottom Line: Nilsson delivers with detailed directions on how to get into the “optimal training zone”, making the complex doable and the gains plentiful.
Recommended for: Intermediate-Advanced Trainers
Read the Full Review of Mad Scientist Muscle
More Info at www.madscientistmuscle.com
Nick Nilsson’s “Muscle Explosion”
Designed to focus on a lagging muscle group and get it growing, this Nilsson creation is a quick blast of intense training. Its prescriptions may seem unusual (low calorie days, high rep days, etc.) but there is always reason to Nilsson’s madness.
Those who can commit to Muscle Explosion for its prescribed 28 days will find themselves quite a bit bigger and with one less problem muscle group after that short month.
Bottom Line: A trainer looking for a change-of-pace program, and who isn’t scared of a big bump in training intensity and going off the “ordinary” reservation, is going to like what he finds here.
Recommended for: Intermediate-Advanced Trainers
Read the Full Review of Muscle Explosion
More Info at www.fitstep.com/muscle-explosion
