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Bodybuilding
Supplement
Secrets Revealed
By Brian Kernan
Review
by Rahul Alvares
This is the first time
I am trying a supplement's book review, but I actually don't feel
lost at all. I spent the first two years of my bodybuilding career
like most other novice trainees - blowing all my money on supplements!
I spent at least ten thousand rupees in those two years, and in
India that is approximately the salary amount earned in four months.
This may not sound like a lot to some, but consider I was in college
at that time and the only money I got at that time was from old
aunties whom I'd write long letters to, and of course the occasional
snake I caught!
Yes I know this article
isn't about my money making adventures, so I apologize for the
digression and am getting straight back on to the review of Bodybuilding
Supplements Secrets Revealed.(BSSR)
Author Bryan Kernan
starts the book discussing the supplement industry - basically
talking about it being a billion dollar industry and how it advertises
and uses clever marketing strategies to sell its products. He
claims that the supplement industry has only one goal in mind
- to make money.
BSSR is basically a
book on how to use supplements for getting the best results out
of them. A general review is first given of all the supplements
Bryan combines later for different supplement 'stacks'. The supplement
review includes prohormones (such as DHEA), many different herbs
with strange names (Yohimbine, Guggulipid, and Saw Palmetto!)
along with regular nutritional supplements such as BCAA, L-Tyrosine
etc.
Photographs of Whey,
Creatine, Glutamine and other supplement containers in the review
section reminded me of the days I spent so much on supplements.
I would in those days surf the net or sort through bodybuilding
magazines making a study of which supplements would produce the
results I wanted. Though, with the exception of Creatine, I never
made gains with any of them, I always imagined at the time that
the supplement I was taking was going straight to my muscles making
them big and strong! It was a good feeling and the memories I
have from looking at the pictures of these containers now again
is therefore pleasurable.
But here I go rambling
on my own again when I should be talking about BSSR.
The book actually teaches
more about 'how' and in 'what combinations' supplements must be
used, and places less stress on the 'which supplements' part of
it.
Combinations of supplements
are used to effectively to manipulate hormones (testosterone,
growth hormone, and IGF - 1) in the body. And using supplements
to manipulate hormones is actually what this book is about.
Besides the first 'Formula'
- The Three Big Hormonal Stack - which I have discussed above,
there are five others with the following titles:
2 Anti Catabolic workout
Drink
3 Anabolic Bedtime Formula
4 Hyper Fat Loss Compound
5 Pre-workout Anti Catabolic Pill
6 Extreme Testosterone Stack
All this is covered
in the first fifty four pages of the book. The forty remaining
pages include bonus 'Extreme Cuts Fat Loss Secrets', 'Daily Supplement
Journal', etc.
For a drawback I'd
like to mention Kernan's atrocious English! I normally don't bother
when an author makes small grammatical mistakes, spelling mistakes
etc. These are after all science books and I don't expect any
of them to have the quality or correctness of a complex English
novel. Kernan, however, crosses the line. His carelessness affects
even the meaning and sense of some of the sentences in BSSR. I
do hope he will edit the book.
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