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Maximum Weight
Loss in Ten Weeks:
Maximum Weight Loss by Gary Matthews!
Review by Paul Crane @ Ultimatefatburner.com
A former fitness instructor for the Royal Australian
Air Force, Gary Matthews' Maximum Weight Loss program is the result of 20 years of experience in gym, training and
consulting clients. What is particularly gratifying about Gary's program is that it has been adapted to address the biggest
concerns of his clients (I'll discuss this more in a moment), ultimately resulting in a practical, "do-able" program perfect
for those who require results with a minimum number of training sessions.
The core philosophy of Maximum Weight Loss
is that weight / resistance training, not aerobics, is the key to successful, long-term weight loss. Gary's absolutely right,
of course, weight training is the key. Here's why...
Weight training builds lean muscle mass: this leads
to an increased metabolic rate, meaning your body burns more calories at rest. How can this be? Well, lean tissue, or muscle,
requires calories at all times (yes, even when you are resting). The more lean muscle you have, therefore, the greater the
number calories you will burn sustaining those muscles. Better yet, a session of weight or resistance training can boost your
metabolic rate for as much as 48 hours after the exercise session.
Conversely, aerobic activity is an inefficient method
of burning calories, and does not lead to a significantly elevated metabolic rate after the period of exercise. While one
can't dispute the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary benefits of aerobic exercise, it is not nearly as effective an exercise
for weight loss as weight or resistance training. If you spend an hour on a treadmill, for instance, you may burn about 600
calories. When you step off the treadmill, that period of increased caloric requirement and elevated metabolic rate ends.
On the other hand, an 30-60 minute session of weight / resistance training can result in an elevated metabolic rate for up
to two days after the session has been completed.
See the benefits?
Special note: Of course, weight / resistance
training offers benefits as well -- heightened self-esteem, greater flexibility, strengthened ligaments, and tendons -- the
list goes on and on.
OK... but there is one problem with any program that
preaches weight / resistance training as a solution to weight loss...
Perception. Many people see weight training as something
performed by 300 lb. steroid-popping behemoths. They just can't see themselves walking into a gym and "pumping iron". Fortunately,
that's just not the case anymore -- walk into any gym anywhere, and you'll see men and women of all shapes and sizes (including
seniors), incorporating weight / resistance training into their weight loss and fitness programs.
Sure, weight training can be particularly intimidating
to women, beginners, and anyone who can't march into a gym and bench press 300 lbs. But here's where Maximum Weight Loss really
shines...
It's a very accessible program (don't let its relatively
short size fool you), offering a solid introduction (including photo demonstrations) to the basic exercises you need to know
about, without overwhelming you with incomprehensible data.
Best part?
You only train once a week, for 20-30 minutes! (Earlier
I mentioned how Gary modified Maximum Weight Loss to address the concerns of his clients. By implementing a single
short, intense session once a week, Gary's clients were able to overcome the frustration of diminishing gains, as well as
time constraints. While not everyone can get to the gym 3-4 times a week, a single session is well within the realms of practicality
for just about anyone!).
Aesthetically, Maximum Weight Loss is an attractive,
professionally formatted PDF ebook that's easy in the eyes, even on smaller monitors. It's a quick, unintimidating read (as
is the accompanying Maximum Nutrition ebook, which also contains some good info, including a great section on food substitutions).
Bottom line?
A solid introduction to the weight loss benefits of
weight training with "zero intimidation factor". If you're struck in a rut and need a program that will deliver real results
without the treadmill, check out Maximum Weight Loss...
For Gary Matthew's Maximum Weight Loss, click here!
Maximum Weight
Gain in Ten Weeks:
Maximum Weight Gain
by Gary Matthews!
Review by Michael Hamer from
Brisbane, Australia
A few years ago, I was just finishing high
school and I paid my cousin Gary a visit to ask him if he could train me in the gym, I knew for a fact that he’s had
quite a few years experience in personal training and specifically in training clients for bodybuilding. I asked him to train
me in the gym because I wanted to put a bit of size, he said ok and he volunteered to be my personal trainer for a session.
That day, he put me on a 20 minute program that he’d created, and which are currently included in the
Maximum Weight Gain eBook. The basic philosophy was get into the gym and get out as quickly as you can, while doing as much
as possible within a short period of time. For the next few months, I tried these 20 minute HIT workouts.
Like many, I made my first big mistake
in the gym, which was to revert back to the standard workouts that I had been doing previously – the volume
training where you do 3 or 4 sets per body part. At the gym, it would have taken me 45min to 1.5 hours to complete the exercises
which was not what I wanted. After a while, I found that the volume training was causing my body to fall into plateaus all
the time, and I wasn’t gaining much weight at all...
When Gary finished his eBook, I read Maximum
Weight Gain in Ten Weeks, and it turns out that it wasn’t a hard read or difficult to comprehend at all – very
simple. The program doesn’t ask much of you either, which means you don’t have to train everyday like an Olympic
athlete. To my surprise, the program was exactly like the 20-minute program I started on! It took me a while to be convinced
that this program was superior to the volume training most people are on, but I eventually reverted back to the Gary’s
20-minute training program.
"I actually put on more muscle using
Gary’s program within a time period of 4 months then I did a whole year of volume training."
Just after I stopped volume training (the
program which I was on before) I weighed about 200 lbs… I was always a fairly big boned bloke. After about 6
months of Training Gary’s way, I weight in at 222 lbs. Which was quite a reasonable gain!
Anyway, I highly recommend Gary’s eBook.
It's a good read and tells you exactly what to do, without the B.S. I was working out about 3-4 days a week
before, now I’m only working out 2 days a week. I had to put more effort into my workouts, train at a higher level of
intensity but over the long run it works out much better. My lifestyle has improved also -- 2 days a week in the gym is all
you need, instead of 4-5 days a week which most of these magazines suggest you have to do... don’t believe that crap,
it’s really not necessary to train that many times.
Gary's 20-minute program is clearly one of
the best bodybuilding programs I’ve ever tried. I've had a go at all sorts of exercises, isolation exercises, those
workouts where you don’t need a gym – pushups, pull-ups, situps. Stuff like that. All that stuff just doesn’t
work, as you’ll see from scientific principles..
Gary’s eBook is built upon actual
scientific principles. I’ve had a number of chats with Gary before, and we’d go over a lot of theories,
different theories of bodybuilding and weight loss… the theories that Gary put together to build this eBook. But the
theories and principles that count (the ones from the eBook) have always stood, and always will stand…
"This program’s not from hearsay;
one person in the gym telling another person in the gym what to do… its fully proven."
If you want to put on decent solid bodyweight,
and you want to tone up, or you want to shed excess weight to make the most of your muscles visible, then Gary's short interval,
high intensity exercises are the only way to go.
If you want to gain quality mass in a shorter
time period, you should take advantage of Gary's eBook and read the advice carefully. You don’t need to train like an
athlete, I know of a lot of programs that try to get you to train like an athlete, these programs will tell you that you have
to workout everyday, put in so many hours in everyday… which is hard for most people, because they can't spare the hours!
Well thank heavens for the laws of physics,
as they state that long hours in the gym isn't necessary. But don’t sweat, Gary doesn’t have anything like that
in his program, for a complete muscle gain solution, there’s a better way.
For Gary Matthew's Maximum Weight Gain, click here!
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