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New Rules contains programs for fat-loss, hypertrophy, and strength training, as well as explanations about how muscles grow, how the body uses fat, and how the skeleto-musclular system becomes stronger.

The book's basic organizing principle: your time weight training is best spent doing compound (multi-joint/muscle) exercises that mimic basic real-life motions. There are six such motions: squatting, lunging, pressing, pulling, twisting, and [dead]lifting. These motions involve several muscles working together, which, with practice and training, not only improves skeleto-muscular strength, but also improves proprioception, balance, coordination, cardiovascular and muscular endurance.

Maybe for fitness books one of the best gauges of their value is the results they produce. I've been using the routines from this book for a year now and have gained about twenty pounds, while maintaining very low bodyfat, and increasing my strength in all my lifts. After using the routines in this book for 12 months, my bodyweight to press:bench:squat:deadlift ratio is 1:1.25:1.65:2.15. Which isn't too bad by most standards; not a champion powerlifter, or bodybuilder, but not bad. Really, if you only buy one book on weightlifting - and you're just into it for fitness, not competition, this book is my recommendation. ]]>