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Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted
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From Joe Manganiello (True Blood, Magic Mike), known as well for his amazing physique as his diverse career in acting, comes the cutting edge guide for achieving the perfect body.
In addition to winning both popular and critical praise as the star of True Blood and Magic Mike, Joe Manganiello has become known around the world for his incredible physique. Now, from the man that director Steven Soderbergh called “walking CGI,†comes the cutting edge guide to achieving the perfect body and raising your overall quality of life.
In 2012 he was named one of Men’s Health’s 100 Fittest Men of All Time alongside such names as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, etc. His Men’s Health covers continue to rank among the top selling around the globe and last year he was ranked their #1 Beach Body in the World. In 2011, Men’s Fitness magazine named him one of their 25 Fittes t Guys of the Year and he is one of the few actors to have ever graced the cover of the US’s #1 selling body building magazine, Muscle & Fitness. In Evolution, Manganiello shares his lifetime of experience and research in terms of diet, cardio, and anatomy, to bring you the only fitness book you’ll ever need in order to look and feel your best.
With a build that men envy and women adoreâ€"as well as a leading role on television’s hottest show and a lifetime of athletic achievementâ€"Manganiello is more than qualified to write the end-all guide to sculpting the perfect body. His memorable performance in the 2012 film Magic Mike catapulted him and his fine, firm physique to the top of the list of Hollywood’s most desired male actorsâ€"and scores of fans either want to look like him, or just look at him. Throughout the book are black-and-white photographs and Manganiello’s step-by-step workout routine that combines weights, intense cardio, and a high protein diet. This book reveals exactly how to get the body of one of Hollywood’s hottest starsâ€"promising to turn any Average Joe into a Joe Manganiello!
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| 28 of 29 people found the following review helpful  Excellent motivational and inspirational advice; unrealistic, unspecific, and dangerous exercise regimen, Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted (Kindle Edition) Before I begin my review, I want to briefly describe my exercise background so that it will be more helpful for the people who read my review. I am a young male who has been exercising for the past 9 years of my life. During my journey in the fitness world, I have come across a wide array of exercise and fitness books. My bodybuilding/exercise literature arsenal is immense (I have literally read the majority of exercise books out there), and I have tried almost every program as well. Just to give some people out there an idea, here is the list of some of the books that I have read: Starting Strength, Heavy Duty, Strength Training Anatomy, Extreme Muscle Enhancement, Scrawny to Brawny, Maximum Strength, Body for Life, Built for Show, Gaining Mass, Encyclopedia of Modern Body Building, Knockout Fitness, LL Cool J's Platinum Workout, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow, Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, Body by Science, etc. I have also tried various programs, from infomercia ls (such as P90X) to programs that were prescribed specifically for me by a personal trainer. I am not a doctor or a personal trainer, but I do have my fair share of experience in the gym and knowledge about fitness.Now on to my review. First, the pros: 1) The book has extremely valuable motivational and inspirational advice. Joe Manganiello has a very powerful writing style that can make any reader feel empowered. His insistence that one can overcome mental barriers by overcoming physical barriers is particularly insightful. 2) The workouts in the books themselves are very effective and very intense. Joe advocates workouts in which two muscle groups are trained in alternate sets with no rest in between. This is a really powerful approach to getting in shape, since it combines weight lifting and cardio in a sense, and really dials up the intensity, something Joe really stresses the importance of. Which brings me to my next point... Cons: 1) As previously mentioned, Joe argues that true muscular growth lies in intensity. This is a very good argument that I believe most fitness experts would agree with, but with the schedule advocated by Joe (training 6x per week, and up to 2x per day towards the end of the program), training with intensity is just not possible for the majority of people. First of all, training twice per day 6 times per week seriously taxes one's nervous system. However, a good amount of athletes might be used to this type of training and perhaps their NERVOUS SYSTEM can handle the high frequency/high volume. However, the split used in this book does not allow for adequate muscle recovery. Joe advocated a 3 day cycle repeated twice which would be Chest and Back day 1, legs and triceps day 2, and shoulders and biceps day 3, then repeat the 3 days and rest on Sunday. Because biceps are used during back day, shoulders are used during chest day, and triceps are used during chest and sh oulder day, your triceps end up being worked out 6 times per week and shoulders and biceps are worked 4 times per week! Unless if one has an unbelievable recovery ability, there is no way that one can train out intensely and still be able to keep up with this schedule. To make matters even worse, after Day 3 (shoulders and biceps), most of the movements on Day 4 are close grip bench press and close grip chin-ups + close grip supinated row variations, which heavily recruit both biceps and shoulders. The result? One ends up training their sore muscles again, when they have not had sufficient time to recover. Although Joe does not say it, the workout split that is advocated in this book is very similar to one of the splits that Arnold Schwarzenegger used when training for Mr. Olympia. Arnold would do Chest and Back on day 1 (like Joe), Legs on day 2, and Shoulders, Biceps, and Triceps on day 3 (so Arnold left triceps for day 3 instead of day 2, unlike Joe), and wou ld repeat the cycle again and take Sunday off. One must keep in mind that Arnold, with all the respect and credit that he deserves, was a professional bodybuilder on performance enhancing drugs when he was training on this schedule. Not only that, but it is rumored that he was constantly changing training partners because none of them could keep up with his schedule. That is to say, other professional bodybuilders on performance enhancing drugs could not train intensely and keep up with a schedule that is remarkably similar to the one advocated in this book. If this is not enough to make it clear that the regimen advocated in this book could easily lead one to over-train, take it from Ron Mathews, Joe's trainer who put together the exact program described in the book. When asked about the program in an interview for the New York Post, Mathews said: "I put him on a really crazy workout program. To have your body fat that low is almost impossible to maintain and i sn't necessarily healthy." The author of the website... Read more 40 of 45 people found the following review helpful Fun read for motivation, but disappointing for actual implementation, This review is from: Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted (Hardcover) As a fitness enthusiast I was excited to read Joe's book to get the lowdown on the exact program he used to get his phenomenal results. And while he provides lots of great insight into his background and motivational tidbits, the details he provides of the program itself are lacking in some key areas, to the point that it makes the program incomplete and less than useful for actual implementation. 0 First, the good. Joe does outline the set and rep schemes to be used for each exercise, and the rest periods, and the book provides excellent photos and descriptions of how each exercise is to be performed. Unfortunately, he leaves out a few important pieces of information. First, how much weight should be used in the various exercises and sets? The book only refers to using "light" or "moderate" weight. Obviously each person will differ, but a benchmark such as X% of a person's 1 rep maximum or a percentage of their body weight would suffice to know what would be appropriate. Unfortunately no such instruction is given, so there's really no way to know what the appropriate weights are that should be used for these exercises. Next, should any of the sets be done to failure? If so, which ones? Should there be any forced reps? Should the weight progressively increase from one workout to the next? Should the reps be done slower (longer time under tension=more difficult) or faster? All of these are important things to know. In addition, many of the exercises in the program require specific equipment that can only be found at a gym. So those of us who have workout rooms and equipment at home are left to wonder what to do in place of say a Pec Deck machine, or a Low Row machine. It would have been great if alternative or substitute exercise options were provided for the exercises that require specific machines. Finally, while Joe gives a great overview of the do's and don'ts of diet and nutrition, and some sample meals, again the specifics are lacking. Should we be aiming to eat at a caloric surplus, maintenance, or deficit? Is the goal to first bulk then cut, or do a body recomp? The portions a person eats will totally change depending on these factors, but there is no explanation of this in the book. Even if a person ate the sample meals Joe includes, if they're eating portions that result in a deficit, there will be no muscle growth. Or if they're eating portions that result in too large a surplus, there will be excess fat gain. To not provide more guidance or formula to aim for for each person's particular caloric needs leaves the diet section incomplete. Ultimately, these things could all be fixed with a subsequent book revision, which I hope Joe considers doing. There is a lot of potential here, and it was at least interesting to get a glimpse of the type of workouts he does. But as a real world nu ts and bolts manual, it is too incomplete to execute properly. 56 of 71 people found the following review helpful Needs Some Additional Information To Be Truly Effective...., By Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted (Hardcover) So, the book states that it is for any fitness level from amateur to pro. I may not be a pro but I am certainly not an amateur - I am in excellent shape. I'm consistently around 9-10% BF and I was looking for a change from the routines I presently employ. Here's my issue - can one book really cover all the bases? When you have to define what a set or rep is (yes, this is part of the book), I wonder if you start to lose the more advanced users. Anyway, onto my issue - the routines. There is no mention of rep speed or time under tension(TUT). With all the research suggesting that optimal TUT for hypertrophy being 40 - 90 seconds, I would think this would be mentioned. Also, no discussion on whether the exercises should be done to failure. Are we shooting for a particular percentage of 1 Rep Max? When he suggests we do 20, 15, 12, 10, 5, 8 and then 16 reps, are we changing the weight for each set, shooting for the same weight, changing our rep speed, etc. ...? Although I think the beginner might not question these things, anyone with any experience working out will question these missing items. 0 Although I like the overall book, I do feel as though it is missing some items that should be addressed. I suspect I'll get some push back on my comments but I stand by my position. Joe is in phenomenal shape. He looks great and I'm sure that this routine can work but to be truly effective AND efficient, I think these items should be covered. Maybe the publisher could respond here..... |
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