Build Muscle Workouts

There are two workout programs that are clearly head and shoulders above all of the other information products on the market: one is Vince Delmonte's No-Nonsense Muscle Building, and the second is Craig Ballantyne's Turbulence Training. I like both for different reasons, so I'll give you the good and bad on Turbulence Training here.

Good Points About Turbulence Training

Probably the most important point is that these workouts work! Just like No-Nonsense Muscle Building, these workouts hinge on your ability to work out at a specific pace at a high level of intensity. When I first saw the workouts (especially the beginner workouts), I thought they were a joke! The beginner workout literally consisted of a workout and 6 total sets of exercises that I completed in about 22 minutes. And it kicked my ass!

The workouts also depend on muscle confusion. That is, the workouts are constantly mixed up to keep your body guessing. When your body begins to adapt to a routine, you're already moving on to the next one. I found that at the end of the third week of each workout, I'd feel a little plateau where I wasn't working as hard. But a week later the workout switched up and kicked my but again.

This Is important because your body adapts to workouts by building muscle! If you do one workout for a year, your body has no need to build more muscle to respond to stress. But if you constantly throw new things at your body, it is forced to adapt -- and it does that by tearing down your muscles and rebuilding them bigger and stronger.

There are tons of great workouts in this book. There are the standard introductory, beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts, but Craig also includes workouts that he's developed since this book hit the market. Fat burning workouts, annual workout updates, fusion workouts, etc. Personally, I progressed like this: beginner, intermediate, advanced, 2006, Fusion fat loss. The fusion fat loss workout is a killer!

The program also contains a cardio interval portion, consisting of 20 minutes of specific work. If you like, you can replace this with a bodyweight fusion workout that will have your lungs screaming after about 10 minutes.

This program includes tons of workouts, and many of the bonuses are actually additional workouts that you can use after you finish the Turbulence Training core workouts. I really like this, as it literally gives you about 9 months of workouts to keep your body continually guessing and adapting (building muscle).

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Bad Points about Turbulence Training

While the workouts are superb, the other content is poorly organized. The first half of the main book contains all of the Turbulence training concepts, diet tips, exercise tips, and so on, but they are all organized in a question and answer format. So you really have to read everything to understand the concept. The information is the same, yes, but I found the lack of organization to be disconcerting.

There are so many workouts, that you have trouble determining where to begin. If you CAREFULLY paid attention during the question and answer part of the book, you read about a suggested plan of attack for the workouts, but it's easy to overlook, as the workouts haven't been introduced by that point. This is confusing. So if you get Turbulence Training, just do the beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts, and after that, choose the workout you like, making sure to move on to a new one every four weeks.

There aren't any videos included. While the book's appendix contains photos of each exercise and explanatory text, they really need more coverage on proper form and tempo. That would have been really helpful for me, as I feel like I've been playing it loose on a couple of these exercises.

Conclusion

If you're ready to work hard, Turbulence Training is packed with workouts that will have you busy and building muscle for months to come. But because of the lack of direction, you should understand high intensity training and have a base level of knowledge in fitness, as this book won't fill in those knowledge gaps.

If you bring your A game to these workouts, you will build mass, plain and simple. In my 12 week test, I shed just under 2% body fat, and put on 3 pounds of body mass. Not as good as I did with No-Nonsense Muscle Building, but it's important to note that I was in much better than average shape when I began this workout.

Anyway, give 'er a shot. Craig has a 60-day no questions asked guarantee, so why not try it out for 6 weeks. That should give you enough time to dig into the workouts, and if it's not working for you, just get your money back!

Good luck!
 

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