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All You Need To Know About Building Muscle: A Complete Guide to Training, Nutrition and Muscle Growth
Paperback
Series: Foundation
Bodybuilding & Weight TrainingGeneral Fitness
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 29 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why does muscle grow, and how do you know whether your training is actually working?
There is no shortage of advice about building muscle. Much of it turns useful principles into rigid rules: lift heavier every week, train to failure, eat as much as possible or follow a particular training split.
I wrote this book to explain what really matters.
In All You Need to Know About Building Muscle, I take you through how muscles work, what drives growth and how to apply that knowledge in the gym.
I cover exercise selection, effort, repetition ranges, training volume, frequency, progressive overload, protein, nutrition and recovery. There are also practical sections on building your own programme, tracking progress, overcoming plateaus, supplements and maintaining muscle as you get older.
Drawing on decades of bodybuilding, training and coaching, I separate evidence from opinion and explain the science in plain English.
This isn't a book of shortcuts or one size fits all routines.
Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced lifter, I want you to understand the process well enough to question the claims you hear and make informed decisions about your own training.
Part of The Foundation Series by Neil Smithers. Each book can be read independently.
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