Build Muscle Lose Fat
Being a Professional Baseball Player with the Boston Redsox is a very demanding job both physically and mentally. I started Reuben's program with a wide variety of questions on how is it possible that working out and building/maintaining muscle would help me upgrade my game, and it more than handled every one of them.
Reuben's program not only helped keep me strong but also worked on another big concern I had which was flexibility. Combining that in with the intense yet structured and focused workouts really helped me not only to maintain (which is difficult enough over a major league season) but make gains in certain areas as well, which was a very pleasant and welcome surprise.
This program has really opened my eyes in terms of what the human body is capable of without the aid of any type of illegal supplementation. I would recommended or endorse anything that has his name attached to it because after he works with you, just like me, you'll be set on a path you never thought you could travel!
Now you might think the way I (very top of page) and think: "Easy for you to say. You were obviously born with all the right genes..." Well you couldn't be more wrong. In fact, genetics had nothing to do with it.
Take the sport I loved when I was a few years younger: football (Aussie Rules, of course). I lived for the game and no matter how hard I tried, my skills improved but my body didn't.
And this was the irony. I really loved the game. I knew what I had to do. But I just didn't have the body to do it. I was 145lbs of nothing. There was more meat on a butcher's pencil. I was the player on the team who made you scratch your head and say, "What on earth is coach thinking?" I was the player the other players loved to see on the other side. I was the player who got tossed off the ball like a rag doll. I was the young man who one day said:
My big moment came with the news I had the chance to trial for my state's football team. But it was also my worst moment. The selection committee didn't pull any punches. I remember once I overheard them in the locker room: "He's way too weak and skinny for this level of competition." One of the assistant coaches felt sorry for me and offered some blunt advice: "Put on 25lbs and come back next year." He might as well have said, "Put yourself on the moon." But I made up my mind to take on the challenge. For the next year, the gym became my life.
I didn't know it then but on that day I started a long journey of trial and error, of success and failure, and for you, the discovery of the learning that can save a lifetime of guesswork. Like they say, a wise man learns from other men's failures. Of course, I started out like every other poor soul does when setting out to put on weight and build muscle: I read dozens of fitness magazines. I scoured the net, searching hundreds of websites, forums and fitness blogs for advice and tips... searching for reliable information - only to come out even more confused and conflicted.
I read every book and watched every video tutorial I could. I picked the brains of the massive guys at the gym - discouraged to find that most of them turned to steroids in order to achieve their gains. The more I tried to understand what to do, the more I became convinced there had to be a better way to communicate the technique of building muscle. And - more importantly - not just communicate it, but get results...
Reuben's program not only helped keep me strong but also worked on another big concern I had which was flexibility. Combining that in with the intense yet structured and focused workouts really helped me not only to maintain (which is difficult enough over a major league season) but make gains in certain areas as well, which was a very pleasant and welcome surprise.
This program has really opened my eyes in terms of what the human body is capable of without the aid of any type of illegal supplementation. I would recommended or endorse anything that has his name attached to it because after he works with you, just like me, you'll be set on a path you never thought you could travel!
Now you might think the way I (very top of page) and think: "Easy for you to say. You were obviously born with all the right genes..." Well you couldn't be more wrong. In fact, genetics had nothing to do with it.
Take the sport I loved when I was a few years younger: football (Aussie Rules, of course). I lived for the game and no matter how hard I tried, my skills improved but my body didn't.
And this was the irony. I really loved the game. I knew what I had to do. But I just didn't have the body to do it. I was 145lbs of nothing. There was more meat on a butcher's pencil. I was the player on the team who made you scratch your head and say, "What on earth is coach thinking?" I was the player the other players loved to see on the other side. I was the player who got tossed off the ball like a rag doll. I was the young man who one day said:
My big moment came with the news I had the chance to trial for my state's football team. But it was also my worst moment. The selection committee didn't pull any punches. I remember once I overheard them in the locker room: "He's way too weak and skinny for this level of competition." One of the assistant coaches felt sorry for me and offered some blunt advice: "Put on 25lbs and come back next year." He might as well have said, "Put yourself on the moon." But I made up my mind to take on the challenge. For the next year, the gym became my life.
I didn't know it then but on that day I started a long journey of trial and error, of success and failure, and for you, the discovery of the learning that can save a lifetime of guesswork. Like they say, a wise man learns from other men's failures. Of course, I started out like every other poor soul does when setting out to put on weight and build muscle: I read dozens of fitness magazines. I scoured the net, searching hundreds of websites, forums and fitness blogs for advice and tips... searching for reliable information - only to come out even more confused and conflicted.
I read every book and watched every video tutorial I could. I picked the brains of the massive guys at the gym - discouraged to find that most of them turned to steroids in order to achieve their gains. The more I tried to understand what to do, the more I became convinced there had to be a better way to communicate the technique of building muscle. And - more importantly - not just communicate it, but get results...
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