The Insiders Tell-All Handbook on
Weight-Training Technique by Stuart
McRobert
Definitely In The Top Ten Of Weight Training Books
Achieving your physique, strength or fitness goals hinges on the bedrock
of correct exercise techniques. This guide will teach you how to use perfect
exercise technique. Whether youre a hardcore bodybuilder or a fitness
trainee, male or female, beginner or very advanced this book is for you.
Personal Review: The Insiders Tell-All Handbook on Weight-
Training Technique by Stuart McRobert
There are trainees out there who are bench pressing 90lbs of iron for
twenty reps who praise themselves after doing it, but know in the back of
their mind that their right wrist is starting to get a little sore from their
workout. When moving onto the barbell curl that wrist just hurts too much
to complete a full set. Well "pain is gain" so they drop the set and go back
to the dressing room knowing that it will be two weeks before they recover.
Try giving the same trainee "The Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-

Training Technique" and watch them reduce the bench press from 90lbs to
45lbs for eight reps maximum. "What has gone wrong?" they might ask.
"Why have I suddenly gone from brawn to frailty?" The truth is that nothing
is wrong. They are just learning to do it right this time... and they will gain
more because of it. While motivation bodybuilding books like
"Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding" by Arnold Schwarzenegger, will
certainly show you the vast majority of exercises that are required for a
great high volume training (HVT) program, it does not go to great length to
show you everything that you need to know about doing the exercises
correctly and the pitfalls of doing them incorrectly. Danger workouts
include the Vertical Machine Press, Straight-Arm Pullover, Bent-Over
Barbell Rows, Bent-Over dumbbell Rows, T-bar rows and the One-Arm
Dumbbell Row to name but a few. Although nearly everyone can get away
with doing these exercises in small amounts without injury, they are
considered high risk exercises and long term applications can prove
absolutely disastrous. If the basic low-risk workouts can cause injury when
executed without perfect form do you really want to increase the odds of
getting an injury by doing high-risk exercises with bad form? While "The
Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique" does not
promise an injury free bodybuilding career it will firmly establish conditions
that will prevent injury. If you can workout as much as you like as often as
you like and do not need to nurse an injury then naturally the result is a
gain rather than a loss that could have been avoided. Every exercise you
learn from a book or a magazine should be cross-referenced with "The
Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique" to see what it
has to say. Even bench pressing professionals who have been at this for
years will find that their form is not as good as what this book can
prescribe. On first impressions I was seriously considering the fact that I
had bought into another dud back page bodybuilding book that had hyped
itself beyond its real value. I was concerned to find that it only contained 34
exercises and was full of self-proclaimed praise commercials all over the
front and back cover. I have since come to learn that those adverts are
there for good reason and 34 exercises expanding on perfect form is no
small amount. The fact that it covers the big three - Bench Press, Deadlift
and Squat is enough to substantiate the $20 price tag. It also includes
Back Extension, Cable Row, Calf Raise, Close-Grip Bench Press, Crunch
Abdominal Work, Curl, Decline Bench Press, Dumbbell Row, Finger
Extension, Grip Machine Training, Incline Bench Press, Leg Press, Lever
Bar Work, L-fly, Neck Work, Overhead Lockout, Overhead Press, Parallel
Bar Dip, Partial Deadlift, Pinch-grip Lifting, Prone Row, Pulldown, Pullover,
Pullup/Chin, Pushdown, Rader Chest Pull, Shrug, Side Bend, Squat, Stiff-
legged Deadlift, Thick-bar Hold and the Wrist Roller Training. I had given
up on ever doing a Close-Grip Bench Press. I guessed that some
exercises are just not for some people. It took me several readings of the
Bench Press section to understand that even though I believed I was
executing right angle holds I was not, meaning that my hands where too
close. When I was told to bring them in closer for the Close-Grip Bench
Press I just ended up murdering my wrists and elbows. This book
eventually taught me that my Bench Press was more of a Close-Grip

Bench Press and my Close-Grip Bench Press something that was just
begging for an injury. I can now perform both. Also I am more aware of
back arching where I thought there could not possibly be any. All you need
to do is to look at the pictures in "Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding" to
see that even these professionals had no qualms about using a
photograph where there is evidently bad form being used. You can literally
see the holes after learning from "The Insider's Tell-All Handbook on
Weight-Training Technique". It is also the kind of book that becomes more
useful the more you use it. This is by no means a quick-fix booklet but a
much needed and much sought after bodybuilding manual. I would
certainly read and learn everything in here before I consider any other
book outside of it. While the Schwarzenegger bible is a great motivation
tool this book is really where you want to focus. Forget all the other books
about different training methods until you get perfect form right first and
then you will be in a much better position to judge other training methods,
especially the ones that tend to have an impact on executing perfect form
correctly. For some reason other books and bodybuilders keep making
reference to slow and controlled exercising to avoid injury. They
erroneously call this `perfect form' from time to time. Injury has nothing to
do with the speed or control of the exercise. Injury occurs because of bad
form. But once you perfect form you should go slowly. If there is any
advocate for `one method' in bodybuilding that can improve on gains then
that `one method' is learning perfect form. I will update this review as I do
more research/practice. Until then...
Astalavista baby!
*Updates*
- His other book "Brawn" teaches doing the big three progressively for the
best gains - Squats, Deadlifts and Bench Press, so learn them and do
them.
- Read "Brawn" after you read this.
- read "Beyond Brawn" for advanced training material.
- Watch out for the "Breathing Pullover" exercise. This can cause shoulder
discomfort. Stop doing them if you feel your shoulder pulling.
- Pushdowns are for toning triceps not for building tricep muscle. Use dips
for that.
- Have someone show you the deadlift before you do any.
- Dumbbell incline bench press on p.93 is not the best. Bring elbows up to
shoulder level and dip them slightly. Go slow getting them back into this
position.
- He has a book called "Build Muscle, Lose Fat, Look Great!" that has
updates on form with other good info.
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