The New Rules of Lifting Supercharged Deluxe

Book excerpt: This supercharged new edition of the super-effective weightlifting exercise program features all-new workouts to build maximum strength Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove’s The New Rules of Lifting, The New Rules of Lifting for Women, and The New Rules of Lifting for Abs have revolutionized how people lift weights. The New Rules of Lifting Supercharged is a total reboot of the weightlifting workout book that launched the series in 2006, packing even more power on every page. Now, in a first for the series, Schuler and Alwyn offer a deluxe edition ebook, complete with more than 50 video clips of exercises showing examples of perfect form and offering candid, one-on-one advice from the authors. Not sure if you’re deadlifting properly? Bring Supercharged deluxe to the gym with you on your smartphone or e-reader and watch the exercises while you do them! Featuring ten completely new workouts for both women and men, Supercharged emphasizes four major movements that do the most to change the way your body looks, feels, and performs: squat, deadlift, push, and pull. In addition, Cosgrove’s updated total-body workout program improves core strength, mobility, flexibility, balance, endurance, and athleticism . . . all in just three hours a week of exercise. Another big change from the original New Rules of Lifting is a self-customized workout system. Readers can choose their own exercises from a menu for each movement category, allowing beginner and advanced lifters to get tremendous results from the same basic plan. Each workout ends with a “finisher”—five to ten minutes of fun but high-effort drills such as complexes, intervals, and density training, with the choice of the reader’s favorite exercises. The ultimate guide to total-body strengthening, this supercharged edition of The New Rules of Lifting will lift readers to stratospheric results.