| 1. | BUILD MUSCLE, LOSE FAT, LOOK GREAT |
| 2. | HARDGAINER magazine |
| 3. | BRAWN |
| 4. | BEYOND BRAWN |
| 5. | THEMUSCLE AND MIGHT TRAINING TRACKER |
Each of these has unique value to complement what THE INSIDER’S TELL-ALL HANDBOOK ON WEIGHT-TRAINING TECHNIQUE teaches. Once you’ve studied INSIDER’S, you may want to read some of the other publications, for additional instruction and information.
BUILD MUSCLE, LOSE FAT, LOOK GREAT
First published in 2006, this is Stuart’s most complete book. At 640 pages, and with nearly 400 photographs, it has an extraordinary quality and quantity of instruction and information.
It’s the definitive guide for men and women of all ages. And it’s for you if you’re a beginner or even if you have many years of training experience.
About 200 pages are devoted to exercise technique, to provide the most complete descriptions on the market outside of THE INSIDER’S TELL-ALL HANDBOOK ON WEIGHT-TRAINING TECHNIQUE. But that still leaves about 400 pages to cover everything else related to training.
“Stuart’s authoritative book is crammed with responsible, safe, and highly effective instruction. It has my unreserved, professional endorsement.”
– Dr. Gregory Steiner, DC
Dallas Integrated Health Care, Texas, USA
“A brilliant book! Follow The Program developed by Stuart and you’ll reach your potential for strength, muscle mass, fitness, and health.”
– Richard Winett, Ph.D.
A professor at Virginia Tech, publisher of MASTER TRAINER, and award-winning health researcher
“Utterly complete, a book for men and women who want to ‘be in shape,’ or to compete at the highest level. All the required information is here.”
| – | Kathy Leistner, BA, MA, MS, exercise physiologist, past competitor at national and world powerlifting championships, and a former Ms. California |
BUILD MUSCLE, LOSE FAT, LOOK GREAT costs $34.95 (or £22.95 in the UK).
HARDGAINER magazine
From July 1989 until its retirement in early 2004, there were 89 issues of HARDGAINER. It provided more result-producing advice for bodybuilders and strength trainees than was available in any other magazine. It was free of mainstream hokum, but crammed with practical advice, and wisdom.
It spoke to the typical individual. But average potential doesn’t have to mean average achievements. In fact, an impressive physique and a terrific level of strength are well within your reach. They key, though, is in the right approach. That’s what HARDGAINER was about. Fresh information, and the expertise and experiences of a range of contributors can be found in each issue. And there’s plenty of grassroots material, to show you the ins and outs of the practical reality of training.
The content of HARDGAINER doesn’t date. The back issues represent a wealth of experience and advice. HARDGAINER includes such features as:
| • | Inspirational pieces on developing the right training philosophy for you. |
| • | Sample workouts for bodybuilders, powerlifters, and strength trainees. |
| • | Advice for new, intermediate, and advanced trainees. |
| • | Guidance on the psychology of training. |
| • | Exercise equipment; and training in home gyms, and commercial gyms. |
| • | “From the Grassroots” articles, success stories, and readers’ letters. |
| • | Questions and answers on all aspects of training and related topics. |
| • | Guidance and tips on nutrition, and recuperation in general. |
| • | Biographies, and interviews. |
| • | Guidance on the treatment and prevention of injuries. |
And Stuart edited each issue, and contributed to every one, too.
While most of the first 44 issues are in photocopy format, all the others are in original format although some of them will be in that format for a limited period only. All the back issues are available, however. The contents of each issue are listed at www.hardgainer.com.
Each magazine originally cost US $5.50 (or £3.50, in the UK), inclusive of postage and handling. Order six or more copies at a time, directly from Cyprus, and get them for just US $3.00 each (or £1.75, in the UK).
Specially reduced prices for HARDGAINER.
BRAWN
BRAWN is the classic book that started a training revolution, first published in 1991. BRAWN focuses on genetic realities, appropriate role models, and most of the ins and outs of successful drug-free training. It’s especially strong in the philosophical underpinning behind rational training. It also details how the genetically blessed are gifted, and shows why conventional training is so unproductive for typical people.
BRAWN is now in a 230-page, third edition, from 2007.
“BRAWN bowled me over. It’s an exceptional nuts and bolts compilation of productive training practices; so exceptional, in fact, that it’s avant-garde.”
– Jan Dellinger
York Barbell Company
“Are you tired of all the look-alike bodybuilding books? Are you tired of buying little more than a collection of photos of bodybuilding superstars and a pile of routines that will never work for the average person? Here’s something different.
“If you thought Arnold Schwarzenegger put Graz, Austria on the bodybuilding map, how about Stuart McRobert and Nicosia, Cyprus? Imagine, one man, on a Mediterranean island, who has the audacity to directly challenge most contemporary bodybuilding advice. Instead of being yet another me-too bodybuilding book, McRobert’s BRAWN is unique: Its tone is serious, its manner evangelical, but most important, its focus is on things that actually work for the average trainee. ‘Drugs are evil and the scourge of bodybuilding,’ says McRobert, in effect, ‘and forget about Mr. O-type training—it just won’t work for most people. I’ll tell you about some things that do work.’
“BRAWN has most bodybuilding books beaten hands down in the depth department, but its biggest contribution just might be its breadth: BRAWN introduces you to 90-some percent of the factors that will determine your ultimate success in the gym. This is a very useful book, which can help a lot of people make tremendous bodybuilding progress.”
– Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D.
Publisher of MILO
“BRAWN has no hype, no bull, and no commercial messages. It’s the real thing and genuinely needed in this field.”
– Dr. Ken E. Leistner
Co-founder of Iron Island Gym, New York
BRAWN costs $19.95 (or £13.95, in the UK), plus $5.00 (or £3.00) for postage and handling.
BEYOND BRAWN
BEYOND BRAWN is 512 pages of information about every facet of bodybuilding, and weight training in general. Now in a second edition, from 2006.
This book is not just for novices. It can save you years of wasted toil regardless of your level of training experience. It will propel you into the detailed, practical know-how needed to turn you into an expertly informed bodybuilder or strength trainee. You can learn all of this from just a few weeks of serious study. Then apply what you learn and you’ll develop a degree of muscle and might that will make a mockery of what you would have achieved had you stayed with other training methods.
BEYOND BRAWN will take you right “inside” weight training, to study the practical reality of applying knowledge. It’s not a theoretical treatise, or a pack of pseudo-scientific hokum.
“For bodybuilding instruction, BEYOND BRAWN is par excellence, featuring an unprecedented depth of practical, relevant and readily applicable training information. Even more than that, the book is a training partner, companion, friend, and labor of love. A truly exceptional book!”
– Jan Dellinger
York Barbell Company
“BEYOND BRAWN is the most comprehensive, helpful and honest book on natural strength training today. With great care and in extraordinary detail this book covers every training-related topic you can imagine, and without any hype.”
– Bob Whelan, MS, MS, CSCS.
President, Whelan Strength Training
“;BEYOND BRAWN is the bible of rational strength training . . . Page after page is jam-packed with practical, real-world training information that you just cannot find anywhere else . . . This book has my highest endorsement—it’s without a doubt the very best book on strength training I’ve ever read.”
– Kevin R. Fontaine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
BEYOND BRAWN costs $29.95 (or £17.95, in the UK).
THE MUSCLE & MIGHT TRAINING TRACKER
This 136-page workbook contains everything you need to track your progress—day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year.
A training journal is indispensible for keeping you on track for training success. No matter where you are now—180-pound squat or 500, 13-inch arms or 17, 135-pound bench press or 350—the systematic organization and focus upon achieving goals that a training journal enforces, will help you to improve your physique steadily and consistently. While most trainees are aware of the potential value of a training log, few actually keep one; and that’s one of the major reasons why they make minimal or no progress.
There are sample filled-out log pages, and then many detailed blank log pages. The log pages track not only the specifics of your weight training—exercises, set-up details, sets and reps, poundages, and a comments area for each workout—but also nutrition, sleep, and body composition.
As simple as it is to use a training log, don’t underestimate the critical role it can play in helping you to maximize your training productivity.
One training log will track your progress for at least 24 months—that’s a cost of just $1.00 per month. And this log is built for the job it’s designed to do. For example, its robust paper provides the strength to withstand heavy use, and the spiral binding enables the book to open flat for ease of use when entering data. This is no ordinary training diary.
THE MUSCLE & MIGHT TRAINING TRACKER costs $19.95 (or £13.95, in the UK).