Follow up review:

If you're interested in powerlifting, get the book.

If you're interested in conjugate training, get the book.

There's a lot of old articles in there that you can get on the web. I will say that. So far I've seen a lot of new things as well, including a lot of templates. So I really cannot blame Louie for writing a lot of new things, then augmenting the book with all his old articles as well. Icing on the cake right there, especially considering that his old stuff infused in the right sections of the new stuff illustrates what you're supposed to be doing.

Some of it gets slightly repetitive, but I view that more as hammering down the main ideas. For instance, after every maximal effort lift for benching, it's a broken record: Always follow with triceps, lats, upper back, and rear and side delts. Obviously, he probably does that because most trainees are OCD. There's a lot of repeats with percentages for dynamic work. Again, if he keeps talking in different sections about the importance of speed work, why wouldn't you rehash the percentages?

He does have a lot of examples from elite level lifters at his gym on what they do. Does that mean it applies to you? Of course not. He's just showing the broadest range of different workouts for the reader. I'll use Shawn Nutter as an example. Louie writes his training cycle for the IPA Nationals. It's a 15 week cycle in which he states as clear as day, "yours can vary". Translation: Here's a bunch of ideas you could take away from his training and apply it to yours. An example is that he starts his Maximal Effort work with sled pulls for increased GPP. If your GPP sucks, guess what? Follow his lead and fix your weakness. Does that mean the lifter will use 180 lbs for six trips of 200 ft as a warmup? Obviously not. Would it be hue of said lifter to use 70 lbs or so? Yep.

Finally, I admit that I broke out my highlighter and combed through the book at least ten times lol. There's a TON of information I took away that I never thought about. Something as simple as choking your bands only 5'9" high on the rack as opposed to the very top for reverse band deadlifts is something noone really thinks about. Or how to gain muscle to move up in weight class by incorperating a few simple things in your workout.

Definately recommend the book. Anyone interested in conjugate training would be seriously missing out if they didn't. I know I've constantly gone back and reread a lot of it time and again while getting ready for the gym. It's really changed a lot of methods I've used in training. Tomorrow, for example, my ME work will be done w/ the reverse hyper machine.. Quite a worthy replacement.

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