The short book, not the long one
Five principles. Everything else is noise.
How to lift, eat, recover and programme yourself to build muscle, with no magic tricks and nothing to subscribe to.
The fitness industry makes most of its money on the gap between what actually builds muscle and what sounds like it should.
That gap is where the supplements live, and the six day splits, and the exercise your favourite influencer swears changed everything.
Underneath all of it there are about five things that genuinely decide whether you put muscle on. They haven't changed in decades and they aren't complicated. They're just much less profitable to sell than the alternative.
So this is the short version. Eighty pages, the five principles, and how to apply them to your own training rather than following somebody else's programme badly.
It also covers the bit most books skip: why your previous attempts didn't work. Usually it's not what you were doing in the gym.
Here's some of what you'll learn
- The five principles that actually decide whether you build muscle
- How to programme for yourself instead of borrowing a split
- How to lift so the effort turns into size rather than just fatigue
- What to eat, without a meal plan or a list of banned food
- Why recovery is where most of the progress is lost
- Why your previous attempts failed, and what to change
This is what you're getting
- Simply Build Muscle, second edition, 80 pages
- The bonus home workouts guide
- Both as PDFs, downloaded the moment you pay, yours for good
- Simply Build Muscle, 2nd edition.pdf
- Bonus, Home Workouts.pdf
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Being straight with you. This is a book, not a programme and not a course. If you want week by week workouts laid out for you, 20 Minute Muscle or Lean in 12 is the better buy.
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