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Metabolic
Surge Rapid Fat Loss
By Nick Nilsson - Review
Review by Rahul
Alvares
A marvelous book on
fat loss, "Metabolic Surge" by Nick Nilsson makes very
interesting reading as well. Not a book for the faint of heart,
"Metabolic Surge" is loaded with the most intense and
effective techniques for fat loss you’ll ever find.
"Metabolic Surge"
is about losing fat quickly. Are you smirking? You don’t
believe fat loss can be accomplished fast. No, I am not talking
of losing ten pounds over the weekend. I am a bodybuilder and
I am not interested in losing muscle and water.
I am talking about
hardcore results in thirty six days. I am talking about training
with techniques so powerful you will be left spellbound as you
watch your fat melt away into nothingness.
When Nick decided to
write a book on fat loss he knew what he was doing. Why the words
"fast" fat loss? If you are a bodybuilder with any experience
in dieting and fat loss you should know that over a period of
time the body adapts to anything. That means your best results
will come mostly in the begining before your body realizes what
you are doing!
I have tried ketonic
diets that gave me great results for about two weeks. Then my
metabolism slowed to a crawl and all my gains came to a screeching
halt. I dropped my calories further only to realize that I had
now slipped into muscle burning and fat storing mode!
My point is that if
you want to keep your gains continuous, you are going to have
to trick your body into letting the fat go, not fight a headlong
battle against it. After all, you are up against thousands of
years of evolution.
Hit, block, dodge,
parry, sidestep, and duck. These are the guerilla techniques Nick
will teach you in "Metabolic Surge" to keep your metabolism
racing and switching in so many different directions, it will
be an obvious victory for your fat loss battle. The key –
and the part I like most about "Metabolic Surge" –
is to keep the body guessing!
Now, if you have tried
low intensity exercises for fat loss then you will know that they
have their limitations too. Nick has included some amazing intensity
training in the cardio section that will most definitely produce
results. Complete down to the last detail, "Metabolic Surge"
includes everything from nutrition, exercises, reps, to lesser
known techniques like "Muscle Rounds," Lactic Acid Training
and even overtraining in a controlled fashion.
The "Muscle Rounds"
was a very interesting concept for me. Taking advantage of the
body in a vulnerable stage, Nick uses "Muscle Rounds"
to actually make quick muscle gains on a fat loss program. That’s
evil Nick! You don’t need a major calorie deficit on this
program. That is because Nick effectively manages to manipulate
body hormones to keep the body in a permanent fat loss mode.
The only drawback to
"Metabolic Surge" is that is a very intensive program.
Though Nick has also included a preparatory section for the novice
trainee I still don’t see no old ladies training on this
program.
[Authors Note:
a scaled-down version of the full Metabolic Surge program has
been added since the review. This version is appropriate for a
beginner to intermediate trainer.]
Also the low-carb
approach makes an important feature in this program. I know from
personal experience that the low-carb diet is a difficult act
to follow. Some people may not even be able to do so for medical
reasons. Nick has included a variation for the people who can’t
follow the low-carb method, but I think this will still limit
the results you might obtain compared to using the original program.
"Metabolic Surge"
is the most excellent compilation of fat loss techniques I’ve
ever come across. All the secrets jealously and unfairly guarded
for decades by the best fat loss experts, namely bodybuilders,
are now available in this one brilliant book. A must have for
the bodybuilder who trains with intensity!
UPDATE: Metabolic Surge 2.0
The New Surge packs a punch over
the Original Surge like The Dark Knight does over Batman Begins!
What I really like about the New
Surge is that it combines one of my favorite books with this truly
amazing fatloss program. The book I’m talking about is Specialization
Training also authored by Nick Nillison.
For those of you who don’t
know already, I am an obsessive compulsive bodybuilder and I can’t
deny that I’m not often caught sucking my thumb glued to
my computer screen as I combine programs to create the best and
most updated one for myself. Only a couple of days ago I had narrowed
down my list to EDT by Charles Staley, Maximum Muscle Explosion
and Specialization Training by Nick Nillison and Westside Barbell
Training by Louis Simmons.
The only trouble is that each one
of these programs requires you to be faithful to it for atleast
a month if not more. The impatient bodybuilder in me kept nagging
at the idea of being able to combine some of these programs. So
I sat for hours and in the end I did manage a few decent combinations.
I was pleased with myself.
But knowing Nick I should have realized
that he was probably thumb sucking his way to some new bodybuilding
programs too (except that in his case whilst doing so he probably
also had a couple of dumbells glued to his earlobes while he dangled
upside down from the cealing chandelier!). So just when I thought
I was holding the ten commandments Nick comes chasing down the
mountain with the updated list!
What I’m really thrilled about
is that the New Surge combines Specialization Training with one
of the most effective fatloss programs. Actually the New Surge
has about six different programs combining Surge with bodyweight
training, level 1 training (a milder version for beginner bodybuilders),
Stink training ( for those exercises you suck at!) and Muscle
Surge (a version of Surge geared more at gaining muscle; one I’m
also very interested in!)
One other advantage of the New Surge
is that it incorporates almost all the intensity techniques you
would ever have to use as a bodybuilder. And if you know Nick
then you know that the New Surge is definitely going to be one
of the most brutal violent programs you’ve ever tried out.
Believe me when I say that after
you’ve been through lactic acid training, cluster training,
high rep partials and triple drop rebounds even a stint at a second
world war refugee camp will seem like a pleasant relaxing vacation
in the Bahamas!
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