Burn fat, build lean, sexy muscles, lose inches, and feel healthier, more energetic, and youthful than you ever have in your life…with a revolutionary new approach to resistance training.
Tired of spending hours on the treadmill? Dealing with the joint paint of high impact exercise? And seeing very few results in terms of fat-burning and weight loss? If so, it’s time to join the revolution. Brought to you by Sal Di Stefano, the founder of the mega popular Mind Pump podcast, The Resistance Training Revolution reveals how resistance training is the best form of exercise to burn fat, boost metabolism, and achieve health benefits you cannot obtain from other forms of exercise.
Di Stefano breaks down fitness misconceptions, shares his decades of industry knowledge, and brings you a comprehensive, accessible guidebook that will give you the body you’ve always wanted—in as little as 60 minutes a week. This book features:
- Over 60 fat-burning, metabolism-boosting workouts you can do at home to sculpt your body and maximize your health and longevity
- Raw fitness truths that will show you what works and what doesn’t. You’ll be shocked at how easy it is to build lean muscle and lose fat once you understand these truths, and once you train your body the right way
- The newly discovered health benefits of resistance training in terms of heart health, bone strength, joint protection, and especially antiaging
- The exact formula for nutrition that makes losing fat, while sculpting your body a breeze and for the long term.
- Dozens of self-assessments to track your progress, and much more
The Resistance Training Revolution also reveals how to optimize your workout time following Mind Pump’s Muscular Adaptation Programming System (MAPS)—a system that ensures that you keep making progress without the frustrating plateaus. Isn’t it time you joined the revolution?
Growing up in California all my friends were skinny tiny self starving girls, and I was always the stocky girl with a lot of muscle. My entire adult life I have always felt like I could never be skinny enough because of all the muscle I naturally had. But now I feel like I am better off having a naturally muscle bound body. I have always disliked forced gym cardio, walking on a treadmill to nowhere boring boring boring. I used to hang out with a bodybuilder/fitness model and I followed her workout routine copying her I felt the best I had ever felt in my life strong and confident .
This book just re-verifies what I knew in my heart and my gut feeling telling me that weights reshaped my body and made me feel better but then I got caught up in thinking I needed cardio and stopped with weights that ruined it because I did not look forward to cardio at all. But I look forward to weights it makes you stand taller prouder more confident you even walk differently with your posture it’s so amazing how it makes you feel. So buy this book you won’t regret it it’s awesome. And ladies it’s a myth that you will get big, that’s ridiculous, unless that’s what you are wanting as a professional career. And that takes you to a whole other world, so if you are not wanting to compete you are just fine lifting.
It is not just a book on workout, but a holistic approach to take care of our health, which include how we think, eat, move and relate.
A must read. Yes, a must read.
WARNING: this book might cutoff your B.S. excuses to not doing something for your health. This book could cause a shock and trauma to Processed Food lovers. Read with caution.
Enjoy!
Second, this is the first concrete fitness program that an unfit 60+ year old can start doing to build muscle. It speaks to the beginner or someone who needs to start over.
Third, it addresses the complicated nature of how to reset your metabolism if you have reduced it to almost nothing.
Finally Sal's goals are in alignment with my goals. Live to 90+, be mobile, live independently, be healthy and happy.
Sal gives you the framework. You will likely find it beneficial to have someone help you implement the many actions you can take to have a better last leg of life.
Good luck with your journey.
Thank you Sal.
This is n ok t a book I normally read, but I really enjoyed it.
Great Job Sal
I use mostly callesthenic training. I have incorporated weights to help me get strong at specific movements related to my job and life. RRR motivated me in this direction and helped me understand how weight training can help me feel and live better.
I would wish the workout section was more complete (in terms of steps) in one page. But still, a great book. No unnecessary BS. :)
Right now I'm actually doing the Total Body Dumbbell program and about to start on week 2. I'm a n00b with resistance training so I do have to read how to do some of the exercises and sometimes would look up on YouTube as well to learn the proper technique. I can tell now I feel a bit stronger and knees don't ache like they used to, the only problem I see with this book is the pages are going to get ruined as I read over some techniques and sweat drips on the page as I'm learning the workouts :P
Especially if you are just a regular person trying so be healthy and have some muscle. If you're a mega meathead probably just skip the book and stick to the needle.
If you are new to fitness this is a book you may find yourself re-visiting in order to hammer home the fundamentals presented. This is especially true in regards to how and why resistance training trumps other forms of exercise and the notion of behavioral/psychological changes to improving eating patterns to permanently keep weight off.
If you consider yourself an advanced fitness fanatic or have listened to the MindPump Podcast for years, you should know that the book simply condenses a lot of MPFs philosophy into one convenient place (not including trigger sessions, which are an amazing concept that are hammered home by MPF and their MAPS programs). The routines/splits may also not be ideal for advanced lifters as well, but of course could be used for clients, friends, family, etc. who are interested in getting started in resistance training.
The reason I believe this book is still excellent for those who are advanced is twofold. The first is that if you are indeed an "advanced fitness fanatic," then you often come across friends, family or randoms who ask for your fitness advice, this book is a great starting point on how to get them started, improve their workouts, or improve their nutrition. An amazing blueprint to address the "lowest common denominator."
Secondly, if you work in the fitness industry and assign "homework" to your clients, this book is a quick read and great place for clients to start. Don't worry, you won't be selling yourself out of a client because they will still want to learn compound/technical lifts from you regardless.
Some background – I have struggled with my weight since childhood. This led to all sorts of desperate attempts at weight loss at first – every pill, shake, workout shortcut, and fad diet that I came across, I tried. Nothing worked in the long-term. Finally, when I was about 18, I jumped head-first into cardio. An hour a day, all out, 6 days a week...and the fat just melted away in months! In my brain, this put cardio at the pinnacle of all things fitness. Only later on, was I able to put it into context: 1) I stopped shoving garbage into my body – sodas, chips, pizza, candy, etc. was all either limited or stopped altogether, 2) I got a job at a furniture store and spent most of my time there loading trucks, moving mattresses and sofas, 3) I was young and saw a multifaceted lifestyle change. Of course my body was going to react quickly – I literally changed everything! However, that “cardio is king” approach was burned into my brain, and stayed there for a LONG time!
Now in my early 40s, I’ve stayed relatively healthy and active since. Only recently have I really taken a step back, taken stock of my approach, changed my goals a bit, and realized that I’ve basically been doing the same thing and staying at the same level for years. My weight (once around 265-270), kept hovering between 200 and 210. When I did lift, the amount would pretty much stay the same. I was still devoting massive amounts of time to cardio - going nuts with it, and keeping my calories at around 1700 - 1800. I just felt like I was treading water. So, I hired a personal trainer. Coincidentally, this is about the same time I discovered the Mind Pump podcast (Di Stefano is one of 3 hosts).
Getting with a trainer who started me on the right path was absolutely the best thing I could have done. He began to explain to me the concepts that Di Stefano lays out in this book. By focusing so much on cardio and eating a calorically restrictive diet, my body was becoming really efficient at going through the cardio motions, but at the cost of my metabolism and muscle mass. Yes, I could run for 45 minutes, jump on a Jacob's Ladder, or hit the elliptical for an hour and burn (what I thought were) massive amounts of calories, but I was really telling my body to slow my metabolism and not put on any muscle (muscle is greedy tissue and burns a lot of calories just to exist, so when you do massive amounts of cardio, your body will often sacrifice it for the calorie expenditure). I was told, and this is backed up in Di Stefano’s book, that the most effective strategy for fat loss is to build muscle through resistance training. I’m currently about 9 weeks into this approach, and the results speak for themselves: I have stepped back from cardio (not eliminated completely), began focusing on resistance training, and actually INCREASED my calories incrementally, now at 600 more per day than when I began! I have lost over 7 pounds of fat and put on 2.5 pounds of muscle! I’m sleeping better, and I feel better overall. This is a lifestyle that I can live for the rest of my life, and I love it.
I apologize if it seems like I've rambled on about myself, but I want to make it clear that I am living proof that the principles, strategies, and techniques found in this book work! It is true that I had started on this path before I opened the book, but what it did was offer clarity, detail, and validation. It took me about 15 years of trial and error, desperation, feeling like I was working my absolute hardest and getting nowhere, to arrive at this point and finally start seeing (and feeling) results. Pick this book up, read it, check out the author's podcast (Mind Pump), apply these lessons (there are tons of useful exercises, tips to help your mindset/attitude, and links for instructional videos), and you will see positive results!
Great book, full of useful information that can be put into practice by anyone. Ever since finding the Mind Pump podcast I’ve been hooked on listening to Sal’s anecdotes and wanting to train in a way that is both beneficial and sustainable. The podcast has changed my life and this book is an extension of that. Thank you Sal (and Adam and Justin and Doug!).