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A book that should have been a blog post.
Wendler gives solid training advice here, but bloats the book with a bunch of accessory work that he himself does not recommend in order to justify publishing this as a physical book. In reality, everything in this can be summarized in a reddit post, as many people have done in the past. I don't regret spending the money to buy this as I want to support the author, but that doesn't make it a good book. Wendler lets his personal views leak in here and there which are infused with the standard conservative meathead ideas, but one can easily skim past these.
This is a solid approach to simple, no-nonsense training. This is epitomized in Wendler's "Boring But Big" accessory work, a sort of John Bogle esque approach to work that gets the job done to maximum effect with minimum fussing. If you're looking for a powerlifting program that just works, and you don't mind doing the same thing every day, this is it. This is the kind of powerlifting program that works great for people who have no issue eating the same chicken, rice, and beans for every meal because they know it works.
5/5 for the content of the 3 chapters that actually matter (5/3/1 Program, Beginning the Program, and Boring But Big). 2/5 for the book as a whole.
Wendler gives solid training advice here, but bloats the book with a bunch of accessory work that he himself does not recommend in order to justify publishing this as a physical book. In reality, everything in this can be summarized in a reddit post, as many people have done in the past. I don't regret spending the money to buy this as I want to support the author, but that doesn't make it a good book. Wendler lets his personal views leak in here and there which are infused with the standard conservative meathead ideas, but one can easily skim past these.
This is a solid approach to simple, no-nonsense training. This is epitomized in Wendler's "Boring But Big" accessory work, a sort of John Bogle esque approach to work that gets the job done to maximum effect with minimum fussing. If you're looking for a powerlifting program that just works, and you don't mind doing the same thing every day, this is it. This is the kind of powerlifting program that works great for people who have no issue eating the same chicken, rice, and beans for every meal because they know it works.
5/5 for the content of the 3 chapters that actually matter (5/3/1 Program, Beginning the Program, and Boring But Big). 2/5 for the book as a whole.