carter1990
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Has anyone read this book?
The author ellington darden had the opportunity to work with arthur jones the late great trainer. Arthur jones the founder of nautilus who trained the likes of casey viator and the mentzer brothers.
First off Arthur jones clearly created a following and I believe he has done many great things for fitness and bodybuilding but I can't help but disagree with some of the theories presented in the book.
Now it wasn't directly written by arthur jones himself but ellington darden one of his colleagues.
I'll speak of one idea I disagree with....
There is a section in the book that based off my understanding says relative to the length between your muscles, bones and tendons will determine your ability to put on muscle. Now there may be truth to that but in my opinion there individuals who have what you call a very small physique who go on to create massive transformations. The determining factor was their drive and ability to work hard with the right type of training not the size of their body at the start of their training.
But there are many great premises presented in the book as well, the book speaks of short intense workouts as opposed to longer duration workouts and its very inspirational to hear arthur jones' story. Here is a guy with humble beginnings who went on to train many great bodybuilders as well as being the founder of nautilus. Ellington Darden writes well and I can say the book is a great read but like I said some ideas I just have a hard time grasping. I'm not here to knock either of them for they clearly know a great deal about weight training and fitness but as I read I was a little drawn aback by some of the premises presented taken as blind fact when I feel the ideas could be dis proven.
The author ellington darden had the opportunity to work with arthur jones the late great trainer. Arthur jones the founder of nautilus who trained the likes of casey viator and the mentzer brothers.
First off Arthur jones clearly created a following and I believe he has done many great things for fitness and bodybuilding but I can't help but disagree with some of the theories presented in the book.
Now it wasn't directly written by arthur jones himself but ellington darden one of his colleagues.
I'll speak of one idea I disagree with....
There is a section in the book that based off my understanding says relative to the length between your muscles, bones and tendons will determine your ability to put on muscle. Now there may be truth to that but in my opinion there individuals who have what you call a very small physique who go on to create massive transformations. The determining factor was their drive and ability to work hard with the right type of training not the size of their body at the start of their training.
But there are many great premises presented in the book as well, the book speaks of short intense workouts as opposed to longer duration workouts and its very inspirational to hear arthur jones' story. Here is a guy with humble beginnings who went on to train many great bodybuilders as well as being the founder of nautilus. Ellington Darden writes well and I can say the book is a great read but like I said some ideas I just have a hard time grasping. I'm not here to knock either of them for they clearly know a great deal about weight training and fitness but as I read I was a little drawn aback by some of the premises presented taken as blind fact when I feel the ideas could be dis proven.
