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Reddit mentions of Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week
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| Release date | January 2009 |
Starting Strength has great reviews on amazon. I will definitely read it.
The exercise routine that I have been doing for a while now and now am trying to adapt to lean gains is one that I got from the book Body by Science by Doug McGuff which I believe is based on some of the principles of Arthur Jones' (the creator of the nautilus equipment) High Intensity Training
Here is the video of Doug McGuff explaining his program in great detail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdJFbjWHEU
And here is the book
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Research-Program-ebook/dp/B001NLL38S
Body by Science has a good plan that seems to mostly save me from joint injuries. The main idea is to do 90 seconds time under load instead of counting reps, and go as slow as possible. Risk of joint damage is lower than if you count reps because going slow is safer than going fast. If you optimise weight and reps, the faster the rep the more the weight.
The 12 minutes a week mentioned in the title is nowhere close to true if you have to set up weights yourself.
If you want straight up time efficiency do an HIT protocol. One intense set done to failure will give you most of the gains of a 5x5 but with much time saved. Mike Metzger and Dorian Yates used this method. Body By Science goes into the details on why it works and sample routines. An HIT routine will require less time than you have allocated.