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The
Best Exercises You've
Never Heard Of
By Nick Nilsson - Review
Review by Rahul Alvares
Probably Nick Nilsson's
best book yet "Best Exercises" is a most amazing collection
of exercises that you absolutely must get your hands upon. True
to its title, "The Best Exercises You've Never Heard Of,"
the exercises are not variations of exercises you've already tried
in the gym. They are brand new exercises that somehow were missed
when the world of bodybuilding was created. Can you imagine not
having the bench press as a pectoral exercise? Can you imagine
the amount of gains you would miss if you never worked the squat?
Well if you haven't yet gotten your hands on "Best Exercises,"
you are cheating yourself out of immense gains.
When I first heard
of "The Best Exercises" I must admit I was skeptical.
I knew there would be some interesting information in it for sure,
but would I really need it? If they were merely variations then
would the book be worth it? I can now tell you my expectations
of "The Best Exercises" were totally off the mark and
I am glad for it, GLAD you hear!
Take, for example,
the upper and inner chest, which was always a horribly lagging
body part of mine. Like most bodybuilders, I've had few problems
in developing my outer and lower chest but I've never managed
to get good pec seperation and till a few months ago you could
still count the ribs under my nonexistent upper chest.
I had searched for
years for a good exercise with which I could hit my upper and
inner pecs. Oh yes, I tried incline presses and V bar dips! They
were good but not good enough. "The Best Exercises"
gave me two brand new exercises to fit the purpose! With one of
the exercises I am able to get an excellent contraction right
in the region of my upper and inner pecs just below the neck.
The other one stabs me with a sharp dart of delightful pain squarely
in between my upper pec cleavage!
There are such exercises
for every body part: triceps, traps, hamstrings, and wings, you
name it. "The Best Exercises" gives you a brush to reach
those "hard to reach" places when you step in for a
shower. And though there is no radical training principle or bodybuilding
fundamental involved, I cannot but help call Nick's work revolutionary.
How Nick came up with those exercises, I don't know. One must
really need a "Hannibal Lecter" like twisted brain to
do so!
To add to this every
exercise has tips and tricks, on the difficuilties you might encounter,
how to counter them, and make the exercise better. Show's that
Nick worked the exercises in and out before compiling them into
the book. I know the exercises are safe, therefore.
But for a few small
glitches I would have rated "The Best Exercises" as
a classic.
Yes, there are fifty
three exercises in the book all right. But take it from me, you
won't be able to use all of them. Actually, I can't use a number
of them.
Let me explain why
with an example. In my foolish youth years of bodybuilding, I
overtrained my biceps with forced barbell curls to the extent
of irreversibly injuring my left wrist. I have always had to use
only dumbels for curls after that and have not touched a barbell
now in over a year. Nick has included in "The Best Exercises,"
a beautiful exercise for the biceps but unfortunately it has to
be performed with a barbell. So there goes one exercise out the
window for me.
Fifty two more to go.
"The Best Exercises" includes three exercises targeting
the glutes and upper thighs. Now I have already big glutes and
thighs. I have no interest in developing them further. So there
go the next three out the window.
Now I'm down to forty
nine.
As you work through
the book, you might find you can't use some of the exercises for
yourself because of your own personal reasons and limitations.
Though Nick has included
between five and twelve exercises for every body part, there are
two groups of muscles he did not touch. One was the forearms and
the second was the neck. The neck especially is an area often
overlooked by most bodybuilders. Most bodybuilders with tree-trunk-like
necks haven't worked for them. They got them because of good genetics.
What about the pencil necks? I am sure Nick could include an exercise
or two for the neck and the forearms.
Otherwise, "The
Best Exercises" is a book of sheer genius. A must have for
every bodybuilder interested in the sport.
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