Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time

So Is Cardio, and There’s a Better Way to Have the Body You Want

By: Dr. John Jaquish, Henry Alkire

Narrated by: Phoenix Phillips

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

You’ve been lifting for a few years. When you take your shirt off, do you look like a professional athlete? Do you even look like you work out?

Many so-called fitness experts defend weights and cardio like they are infallible. But where are the results? Why does almost nobody look even marginally athletic?

Fitness may be the most failed human endeavor, and you are about to hear how exercise science has missed some obvious principles that, when enacted, will turn you into the superhuman that you've always wanted to be.

In Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time, Dr. John Jaquish and Henry Alkire explore the science that supports this argument and present a superior strength-training approach that has been known to put 20 pounds of muscle on drug-free, experienced lifters (i.e., not beginners) in six months.

©2020 Dr. John Jaquish (P)2020 Dr. John Jaquish

Very informative

If you’re listening to this, it may be because you are interested in the X3 Bar or are already a user. In that case, you’ll get exactly what you’re here for.

If you’re not interested in the X3, you might get a little annoyed about hearing about the X3 development process, so consider yourself warned. There is still enough substance to keep you interested.

The book is well written and well narrated. I was afraid that the book might have a bunch of graphs that won’t translate well to narration, but as far I as can tell, that wasn’t the case.

Breakthrough Data in Fitness that you can actually use!!

Wow, the fitness industry is producing no results (their dirty little secret that no one is talking about), numbers don’t lie! This book will strip the myths from your mind and then, once it’s clean, will show you how to do it right and start finally making fast, predictable, gains. This is the way.

This Book Changed My Life

After training with weights most of my adult life, with poor results and many injuries, I am all in with Dr Jaquish's protocol. It will change your life.

facts

finally some real information for the first time everything makes sense. still hard to get into my head but working on it

Bring the author in to read!

Great story, greasy information, but the reader is to disconnected from the work, and that’s not their fault. Phoenix is clearly a great performer and is probably served best doing announcements but as a reader of this awesome book, he sounds like a salesman, which drives me nuts. I have really enjoyed books being narrated by the author. Please bring that on.

Overall

Feels like reading an infomercial book always trying to sell you x3. Makes you want to read all of the cited studies to see if there’s some actual knowledge in there

Thought Provoking Excellent Book

This is a very deep book. It will challenge what you think you know about strength training. Consider the fact that the highest signup time for gyms in the US is usually January right after everyone has made their New Year’s resolution. The gyms are usually packed fast forward a month later and those same people are nowhere to be found. Why is that? How about the fact that traditional weight training doesn’t work and hasn’t worked for the average person for decades. This book is packed with scientific studies proving traditional weightlifting is wrong. It will upset a lot of people if they’re not open to the idea of changing their workouts around. I mean if it hasn’t worked for you at this point why do you keep doing the same thing over and over? This is an excellent book and I would Highly recommend it.

I loved this book

Dr. Jaquish has done his research. I’ve put this theory into practice and have been seeing great results.

Profound

This was the first health, fitness and nutrition book I was able to finish in the last decade! It's maybe the 20th I've started. I usually get hung up on un-verifiable assertions that seem to be more interested in evangel-lastic tellings of their systems to get me to buy something. I already bought the X3 bar and was using it for 10 weeks at the time of reading this book, but I loved the verifiable research mixed in with sprinkles of relatable narrative!

Good stuff.

I learned a lot. Worth the time. Give it a try. Four more words required.