Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time: So Is Cardio, and There’s a Better Way to Have the Body You Want

Written by Dr. John Jaquish and Henry Alkire

Narrated by Phoenix Phillips

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 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 see how exercise science has missed some obvious principles that when enacted will turn you into the superhuman you 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 lay out a superior strength training approach that has been seen to put 20 pounds of muscle on drug-free, experienced lifters (i.e., not beginners) in six months.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Oct 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9781544508948

Reviews for Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time

[Martin Moore · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Fortunately for Scribd subscribers this book is included with our membership. Exercise and diet books are notorious for promoting dubious and even dangerous information. The exercise system being promoted here is based on resistance bands, which have been used in rehab for literally decades since they are safer and provide a more consistent load than weights. The system, called the X3, is a bar you grab onto with resistance bands that attach to it and costs over $500. There's also diet advice, and the less said about that the better.

[Misha Istratov · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Ethically and epistemologically, I don’t know if this can be called a book as such. It is in fact a large advertisement for the author’s exercise invention called X3. In this shape, it does the job but had I known that, I might have not picked it up.
The author presents excerpts from many studies and adds the references after each chapter which is commendable (not in audiobook though) but with one large exception. He totally maligns plant based eating (not surprising since he adheres to the carnivore diet) and surprisingly (!) enough, these negative claims are not backed by any references and evidence, even though the author talks about what ”science” says. For me, being relatively well read in the nutrition sphere, this lowers the credability substantially.
I thought it was bad enough with "you need 8 pounds of broccoli to get 100 g protein" but the author then went on to actually compare meat and broccoli in terms of choice in protein sources??(Broccoli is a vegetable with a therefore very low protein count and vegans don’t eat it for protein, but as most people, for the enormous nutritional value it has in terms of vitamins and minerals. For protein, the plant based options are beans, peas, tofu, seitan and many others and those match the protein and amino acid count with meat very well).
For comparison, it would be like saying that a car is much faster than a vacuum cleaner. Yes it is, but the vacuumer is not used as a means of transport, even though it has wheels..
There were a few brighter parts, a chapter on myths within gym training (where debunking happened through stated scientific reports) and some proper info on fasting.
As for the exercise equipment X3, I might even try it, having spent all my life in sports and reading tons of litterature on the topic. However when I read a book, I would like to know if this is a book or a campaign for a product. I usually try to
”sell” my employees and friends on reading because, unlike social media posts, books are meant to last and therefore rarely contain direct advertising. This time, my arguments for that would not hold up.
Question is, if I would buy the equipment and have great results with it, would I change my review? Probably not, because I believe that in this age of influencers, fake news and endorsements in social media (covert or overt), some forum needs to be timeless and unspoilt. Let litterature be sacred ??

[Mazen Bibars · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fantaaaaaastic.. no other word to describe! Thank you dr john!

[Özgür Yengeç · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

If we leave the advertisement chapters aside, there is quite a lot of useful information in the book that can be practiced in training.