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"Massive Growth" is one of the most amazing muscle gain books I have ever read. Before I got a copy of the book, I had seen the advertisement page to it and actually, I wasn’t very impressed. The advertisement page had the usual one liners carved in bold – "Gain rock hard pounds of muscle", "Steroid like gains in six weeks"– and so on. There was however one mention that caught my attention. That was something about an "African Bodybuilding Secret." I was quite curious to know what this "African muscle secret" might hold especially as the author claimed that the African bodybuilders have the best bodies in the world and that they build them without ever touching steroids or supplements. I read through this book like a racy thriller novel! What makes the book so interesting is Rob Maraby’s excellent knowledge of bodybuilding coupled with a most straight–in–your-face style of writing. No beating around the bush, just hard facts and they make perfect sense. "Massive Growth" isn’t just a very good bodybuilding book, it is a very different bodybuilding book. The program essentially consists of training extremely hard and intensely for a set period and then alternating this with a layoff period before overtraining sets in. Much before I got myself a copy of "Massive Growth," I had unconsciously used this style of training regularly with much success. The lay off period called the "Drag effect" is the time when your body could gain over five pound of muscle as it repairs itself and grows stronger. To construct a brutal program that is capable of stimulating massive muscle growth is not very difficult. Pick any program from a muscle magazine for one. The problem with all such high intensity programs and the reason why most of them fail is because not one of them can tell you when to pull back before overtraining sets in. Overtraining is probably the number one cause for most trainees remaining at a stagnant level. "Massive Growth" avoids overtraining completely. The program is designed such that you take training to the edge and cut back just before overtraining can set in. Other aspects of muscle growth such as a "Holistic" training approach for the complete development of all the muscle components (muscle myofibrils, mitochondria, etc.) are all included to ensure maximum muscle development. Central Nervous System training, an issue altogether ignored by 99% of the training programs I have read, is dealt with effectively. Strong and weak range training, different rep ranges, partials, pre-exhausts and all other training techniques have been tackled and incorporated to stimulate all the muscles in a very "Holistic" way for ensuring maximum development. I particularly liked the sections on positive and negative failure. Another big difference between "Massive Growth" and most other books is that it requires massive quantities of food – sometimes as much as twice the normal BMR! This does sound like a lot but from my personal experience, one often requires much more than just five hundred calories above BMR, especially when training for big gains. Maraby has a style of writing that is very motivating. While reading the book, I had a good many adrenaline rushes which made me want to close the book halfway through and rush to the gym right away! The diet plan to compliment the training program is also very good. Food combinations have been included as Maraby firmly believes that proteins and carbohydrates don’t mix very well because they require different mediums for digestion. Maraby has gone into a bit extra detail while explaining the topic of nutrition, but then one cannot exactly accuse anyone of writing too much! This actually betrays how desperate Maraby is to get his point across to his readers, which is a good thing. One of the biggest limitations of the program, however, is the workout timing. Though for most of the time you would be training once a day, there are certain weeks where you would be required to train twice a day with a gap of twelve hours. This isn’t the worst; the final workout program, which lasts a few days, requires that you train six times a day! I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t have access to a gym that often. But even for this, the book is essential reading for every serious bodybuilder and "hardgainer" who is interested in building big muscles as fast as possible.
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