Oct 09
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LL Cool J Platinum Workout Reviewed
Tell people you are on theLL Cool J’s Platinum Workout
Serious Workout, Serious results
the cover, and the guy is ripped. Logic has us assume that, whatever he is doing is working, so we should probably do it too. I can tell you from experience that this assumption is dead on.
This book contains a very rigorous, highly effective workout program. This workout was designed by Dave Honig, a personal trainer to man of the stars. The book is broken down onto 4 phases, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. Each phase ratchets up the difficulty, and changes the pace of the workouts to keep your body from adapting to any one exercise. It also includes tips on how to eat correctly work a workout program like this and gives tips on how to maintain focus on your goals.
Spaced throughout the book are excerpts and interviews with LL, Honig, and a few other health research experts. The interviews that are based around health and nutrition are informative, and getting inside the head of someone who went from being pretty heavy to ripped is very interesting, it helps to understand the focus needed to get into that kind of shape. Personally, I’ve never been very interested in the hip/hop, rap scene, and so the interviews with LL where he talks about his career and the rap industry were pretty boring to me. If you find that sort of thing interesting, knock yourself out, if not it’s easily skippable.
I have only 2 gripes about this book, and neither are big ones. The first is that the nutrition side of the book is skimpy. They give only the bare details, mostly focusing on the workout program. The second is that in an early portion of the book, LL states that a good workout should have you in and out of the gym in less than an hour. Late into the workout program this sentiment seems to be forgotten since most workouts will take around 90 minutes.
However, the trade of for long workouts is that if you stick to this program faithfully, you will get in the best shape of your life. I hate to sound like an infomercial, but using the program in this book got me into the absolute best shape of my life! The nice part about this program is that it ramps up slowly; first working to get the person in the right frame of mind to work out, then starting them on machines, for every new free weight exercise given there is a full page of color photos dedicated to showing how to do it.
If you need more help developing good eating habits, I suggest picking up the Abs diet book to augment this program. Since the Abs diet is strong on healthy eating and weak on workout plans, I believe these two books perfectly complement each other, and for the price of a used copy is well worth picking up.