strength, bodybuilding books

I am looking for some advanced book in strength and bodybuilding.

I see people recomend the "The Insiders Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle
& Might [Beyond Brawn]". It is 505 pages!! I browsed through it. It looks
more conventional, I am familiar with the stuff he says.

I also came across Pavel Tsatsouline and his 2 books: "Power To The People"
and "Beyond BodyBuilding". Now from what I understood, he teaches more
radical stuff.

Anybody can tell me if these are worth reading? Especially with Pavel, I do
not want to waste 2-3 months and achieve nothing.

Or maybe you can recommend something better?

I just finished "Designing Resistance Training Programs" by Fleck & Kraemer.
Although scientific, I was not satisfied. He gives no value to negative,
forced reps or drop sets, which is what most bodybuilders do, so I was
confused.

Thanks
Bob

"BobPit" <bobz2335.DeleteThis@yahoo.gr> wrote in message
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>I am looking for some advanced book in strength and bodybuilding.
>
> I see people recomend the "The Insiders Encyclopedia on How to Build
> Muscle & Might [Beyond Brawn]". It is 505 pages!! I browsed through
> it. It looks more conventional, I am familiar with the stuff he says.
>
> I also came across Pavel Tsatsouline and his 2 books: "Power To The
> People" and "Beyond BodyBuilding". Now from what I understood, he
> teaches more radical stuff.
>
> Anybody can tell me if these are worth reading? Especially with
> Pavel, I do not want to waste 2-3 months and achieve nothing.
>
> Or maybe you can recommend something better?
>
> I just finished "Designing Resistance Training Programs" by Fleck &
> Kraemer. Although scientific, I was not satisfied. He gives no value
> to negative, forced reps or drop sets, which is what most bodybuilders
> do, so I was confused.

"Power To The People!" contains a couple of very simple programs along
with the basic principles of strength training. As Louie says, Pavel
explains what good lifters do naturally in a way the rest of us can
understand and use. The book is short and you'll read it in a day or
two, but it is not uncommon for experienced lifters who don't know some
of what's in PTP to experience instant gains in their lifts after
applying the techniques Pavel teaches.

"Beyond Bodybuilding" is, OTOH, full of set and rep schemes including
several Russian classics, along with good advice about building up to
some of the harder routines. Also good advice about how, if you're
bodybuilding or otherwise looking for gains in size, you ought to mix up
different programs and not stick with any one approach for too long. If
you're after size and strength, it's a great resource and, unlike many
Pavel books, it's pretty thick, too. If you're after size, period, and
don't care about strength, it's not the book for you.

If you buy either from the publisher, you get an unconditional one-year
money-back guarantee, which you are free to use even if you've had the
books for 11 months and decide at that time you didn't think they were
worth it. I did this with a kettlebell once, a big one that cost more
than $50 to ship each way - I got one with a particularly rough handle,
tried for six months to get used to it and just couldn't. I paid for
return shipping but they paid to ship me the new one and, given that
mine was clearly well used by that point in time and that shipping cost
them another $50, I thought it was pretty generous on their part. I
didn't even ask initially to return it, just for advice about filing
down the handle and repainting, and they told me that I should just send
the thing back if I didn't like it the way I got it.

PTP: http://www.kbnj.com/ptp.htm
Beyond Bodybuilding: http://www.kbnj.com/bb.htm

-S-
http://www.kbnj.com