Ah, yes John R. Little, former writing partner of Peter Sisco.

I like his Bruce Lee books.

I read the first line on Amazon. Is yours the one that starts out how bodybuilding as it is done today is one of the most mindless and unscientific things in the world?

I'll tell you straight up, what these guys don't know about growing muscle could fill a book. Here, he seems to be taking one important aspect of muscle growth and throwing out everything else.

If you are a complete beginner then I'd think you could get some results from it but otherwise don't waste your time. What I supect, however, is that your would see your apparent strength (max contraction wise) continually increasing and get very little muscle growth. I also doubt much of this strength would translate into more lifting strength.

From what I've read, the first Max Contraction book is entirely centered around isolation exercises. The idea being that you can use a leg extension in the position of max contraction to fully stimulate all the fibers of the quad.

Most so called scientific books like this are based on people taking what they already believe or would like to be true and conducting experiments around it, then using the results that support their belief while ignoring the results or info that refute it.