Living Large
The Skinny Guy's Guide to No-Nonsense Muscle Building
by Vince Del Monte
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Pub Date Oct 18 2016 | Archive Date Nov 01 2016
Description
Let's face it: You're tired.
Tired of filling your body with bogus supplements that only give you the most expensive pee in town.
Tired of busting your ass in the gym six days a week, only to find you're the same size you were last month and the other guys are twice as big.
Tired of all the conflicting and mind-numbingly complex advice floating around in cyberspace.
Before professional fitness model Vince Del Monte became The Skinny Guy Savior, he was known as Skinny Vinny—scrawny and weak. He experienced firsthand the challenges of bulking up as a “hardgainer,” someone who has a difficult time putting on muscle. But with his success in developing an enviably ripped physique—and helping many others do the same with his No-Nonsense Muscle Building program—Del Monte has proved even “hardgainers” can get big.
You too can have the body of your dreams and put on muscle when you stop being misinformed and learn the truth of gaining weight and building lean muscle mass—the right way!
In Living Large, Del Monte shares his foolproof and no-nonsense plan for insane muscle gain. His revolutionary program primes your body and mind to pack on your first 30 pounds of muscle in only 30 weeks, with minimal gym time and virtually no fat. He even includes customized, easy-to-follow meal plans to optimally fuel your specific body type, whether you’re ultra-skinny, “skinny fat,” or starting off a little chubby.
In Living Large, you’ll find:
The number-one secret to achieving constant and never-ending progress
5 “Always True” training and nutrition principles
3 scientifically supported mechanisms of rapid muscle growth
A killer 18-week step-by-step workout program with three phases
4 supplements that actually work
Full-color photo-illustrated exercise guide with Vince’s tips for maximum effectiveness
Don’t waste HUNDREDS of hours and THOUSANDS of dollars with no results. Stop limiting yourself and start living large.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Review Copy! Publication Date: October 18
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781941631829 |
| PRICE | $21.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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Featured Reviews
Joel S, Reviewer
"Own the Weight"
I'm not a skinny guy; I'm an old guy. But since I started going to the gym regularly and trying to tone and build everything up a bit I thought it would be a good idea to look around and read some of the latest about nutrition, routines, and muscle building science. I may not get swole, but I don't want to do damage either. Well, this book was a fine, educational, inspirational and, oddly enough, sort of engaging find.
Lots of these books are just really long promos or infomercials for the author's product line or "special" pay to play video programs. The blurbs for the book sound a little bit like that. But it isn't. In fact, when Vinnie mentions his website or his videos the mention is always in passing and almost apologetic. So, instead of just a come on there is actual info in this book.
Lots of it is aspirational. Sure, there is a complete day by day outline of a thirty week exercise program. There is a complete day by day menu guide to go with it. I'm not going to do that, although it looks like a good basic nutrition plan and a solid and well balanced weight training program. Like I said, I'm an old guy not a fitness model.
That said, I can use encouragement and tips, and this book is loaded with both. There is a lot of get-focused-you-can-do-it stuff, but it's in a friendly neighborhood gym buddy tone that I found very likeable. More to the point, the advice is realistic and practical. There is nothing nutty or over-the-edge here. A lot of it is reminders about basic training and nutrition principles.
Some of those principles, though, are important. The most important section for me was about "owning the weight". Every day I see guys throwing around too much weight, with bad form, that injures them or defeats what they're trying to do. Bad form ruins joints, builds the wrong muscles, and misses what's supposedly being targeted. If you need to swing a weight to get its momentum going to finish a curl, then you don't own the weight - the weight owns you. If that were the only thing someone took from this entire book it would be worth it. That's the kind of stuff that is peppered throughout the book.
As a bonus, even if you aren't going to do the thirty week program the way Vinnie sets it out, it's an excellent idea to look through the program anyway. I picked up a few "tuning" exercises and saw ways to do some exercises slightly differently. That was the other big takeaway from the book for me.
So, straight, conversational, engaging and informative. A happy discovery. (Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
