THE MUSCLE & STRENGTH PYRAMID BOOKS

English language physical copies are available on Amazon in the following country stores: USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.

• The Nutrition Pyramid
• The Training Pyramid

Note: If you click and find that it's not available in your country it may be possible to go to one of those local country sites to order. (Apologies for any inconvenience. These are all the stores we were able to make them available in.)

We are not able to give discounts to those that have digital copies, nor vice versa.

These books have been written with physique athletes, strength athletes, and those that coach them, primarily in mind. However, the majority of our readers are just regular people, but serious recreational trainees. If you are a novice looking for a comprehensive approach to muscle gain and or fat loss and have some basic information to start, you’ll be good with these. But if you don’t know how to perform basic exercises, and aren’t totally clear on what macros are or have any idea of how to match them to foods, then this won’t be for you just yet.

Every time we write a new edition of the books, you will receive fresh download links. The 14,000 people that bought the first editions received these second editions 10 days prior to general release on the 25th of December as a Christmas surprise.

Note: this offer only applies to those that buy the digital pair set. Those who buy just the one book will need to purchase any future editions. There is no upgrade offer and this cannot cover any physical editions.

Yes. There are 158 unique references in the training book and 301 unique references in the nutrition book, listed at the end of each of the chapters.

The books are heavily updated and there is around 50% more content. We have a couple of pages dedicated to outlining the changes and new content in detail, but I'll briefly outline what is new.

New Content in the Training Book:

• A “Quick Start” guide to program building,
• How to address weak points,
• The flowchart for when to adjust volume includes other considerations related to recovery, stimulus, and adaptation.
• Volume counting has been simplified, no longer quantified by repetitions per body part, but rather sets per muscle group or movement pattern.
• A flowchart to help you determine when a deload is needed.
• How to gauge progress without testing strength.
• A discussion of blood flow restriction training.
• Setting initial volume by experience level.
• Pairings for rep ranges and proximity to failure with different classes of exercises
• How to modify training while cutting,
• How to incorporate autoregulation,
• Which progression models to pair with different exercises at various stages of your lifting career,
• How to organize a training split.

New Content in the Nutrition Book:

• How to determine whether you should ‘bulk’ or ‘cut’.
• A chapter on making adjustments and measuring progress,
• Ketogenic diets,
• The ins and outs of peak week for physique competitors, and making weight (and changing weight classes) for strength athletes,
• Recovery diet guidelines for physique athletes post-competition,
• A deeper discussion around finding maintenance,
• Energy availability, with signs and symptoms to be wary of,
• Whether tracking caloric intake is necessary initially,
• How to set protein if your body fat is very high,
• A visual chart to help you determine hydration levels,
• Protein digestion as it relates to protein timing,
• Updated supplement recommendations including a new “A, B, C” tiered ranking system,
• Extensive additions on the potential psychological pitfalls of relying too much on external nutrition cues (tracking nutrition and bodyweight) and how to use qualitative approaches guided by satiety, hunger, and habit-based methods to avoid them.

There will not be Kindle editions. The graphs and training program tables do not lend themselves well to the format.

Absolutely. We have six programs for novice, intermediate, and advanced-level bodybuilders and strength-focused athletes. You will see the principles in action and get started quickly.

We don’t have a specific athlete’s example of a full prep (for privacy), but we have example calculations based on real people that we’ve worked with. You’ll see many pictures of these individuals throughout the book’s chapters. We’re very proud of them.

It is unusual, but here’s the deal: the overwhelming majority of people are decent and honest and don’t abuse offers like this. While we’re confident that you’ll enjoy and get an immense amount of value out of these books, we know that they are not cheap and we want you to feel confident in your purchase. So, if you read them and don’t feel that you got your money’s worth, let us know within 30 days and we’ll give you a full refund.

Great question. Consider those videos the cliff notes and highlight-reel version of these books, without the most recent research that has come out since they were originally recorded. So while the books cover the same broad principles as the videos, they go into far greater levels of detail and cover more context and nuance. The books are around 300 pages each.