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The New Rules of Lifting Supercharged is a cutting-edge update to Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove’s groundbreaking fitness series. This illustrated edition presents ten entirely new workouts for both men and women, focused on the foundational movements of squatting, deadlifting, pushing, and pulling. Designed for all levels, it introduces a customizable system allowing readers to tailor workouts to their goals. With an emphasis on full-body strength, mobility, endurance, and athleticism—all in just three hours per week—this dynamic program redefines how to lift for optimal results. Enhanced with finishers and clear instructions, it's a must-have for fitness enthusiasts.


Product Details:

  • Title: The New Rules of Lifting Supercharged

  • Authors: Lou Schuler & Alwyn Cosgrove

  • Publisher: Avery

  • Edition: Illustrated

  • Publication Date: December 31, 2013

  • Language: English

  • Pages: 368

  • ISBN-10: 9781583335369

  • ISBN-13: 978-1583335369

  • ASIN: 1583335366

  • Weight: 2.31 pounds

  • Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches


Advantages:

  • Customizable workouts for all levels

  • Focuses on core lifts that transform the body

  • Includes updated total-body programming

  • Offers time-efficient routines (3 hours/week)

  • Includes high-intensity finishers for extra challenge


Our Recommendation:

We highly recommend The New Rules of Lifting Supercharged for both beginners and seasoned lifters looking for a flexible, evidence-based, and time-efficient program. If you're serious about building strength, improving mobility, and transforming your physique with minimal guesswork, this book provides a proven blueprint.

Conclusion:

The New Rules of Lifting Supercharged is an outstanding evolution of the popular lifting series, offering a versatile and structured approach to total-body training. With clear guidance, expert design, and customizable options, it equips lifters of all levels with the tools to achieve lasting strength and performance gains. Despite a small learning curve, its effectiveness and adaptability make it a standout choice for anyone serious about fitness.

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The New Rules of Lifting Supercharged: Ten All-New Muscle-Building Programs for Men and Women
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PROS
  • Comprehensive strength training plans
  • Customization options for individual goals
  • Effective programming in a short weekly time commitment
  • Well-written and enjoyable to read
  • Excellent value compared to personal training costs
CONS
  • May be overwhelming for absolute beginners
  • Requires access to gym equipment
  • Some exercises or concepts may take time to understand

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  1. Damien D. Basey

    This book is for the lifelong athlete and NOT the meat head bodybuilder
    To give you a sense of my background, I’ve been a sports performance coach for several years where I was blessed to learn cutting edge science in developing human athleticism. I basically trained athletes of all ages how to get stronger, get faster, be more explosive, perform longer, and move more efficiently. The main components of those workouts I customized had injury prevention, functional strength and power, balance and coordination, flexibility, and core development at the heart if each session. Most of the things my clients did were comparable to what you would see behind the scenes of your favorite athlete’s training session and not so much at a 24 hour fitness. Alywn Cosgrove and Lou Schouler have developed a unique system that brings this style of training to the average every day office worker, busy mom, or aspiring athlete.Alywn and Lou explain repeatedly in the book that the traditional meat head (bodybuilder) will be underwhelmed by this book and he is right. Because the push and pull exercises in this book incorporate multi-joint and muscle movements, they require proper stabilization (stabilization is another word for core) and mobilization, so you will not be able to simply push or pull tons of weight as you would with a traditional bodybuilding program. As with all the previous books in the NROL series they include new science and updated research to support the program and have now introduced other effective and proven training tools like the Kettlebell and TRX suspension trainer.The RAMP portion of the book is what our coaches called the active dynamic warm up, which in my opinion is THE MOST important part of any training session that is often overlooked by most fitness enthusiasts. RAMP is a 10-15 minute corrective body maintenance and movement preparation session. The goal is not simply to just warm you up but also to prep your body for proper movement efficiency. The RAMP session basically looks more like a brief 10 minute dynamic yoga session than a goofy 5 minute run on a treadmill. Alwyn also incorporates metabolic training to top of your workouts that will have your body burning calories well into the day after you complete your workout.For those who swear by Crossfit as the new standard of training, I urge that you re-evaluate this stance. Most Crossfit gyms are not created equal when it comes to the coaching quality and philosophy and while there are some similarities with a few of the lifts you will see in this book, the goal isn’t to wipe you out and leave you feeling like you can’t get out of bed the next day like I see in Crossfit. If you can’t make it to your next session because your body is toast, then that isn’t a good workout in my opinion. It’s easy to make somebody puke with a workout. That’s not hard to do and doesn’t mean its quality training Crossfitters! I’ve seen so many people get hurt from poor coaching instruction and negligence in these fly by night fitness fads it makes me cringe when I hear people explain to me what they are doing. This book will show you how to safely progress through a series of exercises as they are labeled from the easiest intensity to the most difficult.If your goal is to look lean, sexy and strong while having the performance ability to play basketball at a high level well into your 30’s, 40’s or 50’s, or play with your kids without looking like an invalid, or even sit and stand without the aches and pains in your knees and joints, I highly recommend this book!

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  2. Brian G.

    Great book, for someone like me
    I purchased this book after having some negative experiences with the Book of Muscle that Lou helped write. After contacting him, he was very receptive and respectful and suggested I upgrade to this book. I definitely came along at the right time, it seems to be a combination of the previous four NRoL books, and I think the people that get the most from it are people new to the series. I read this book through twice before even starting the workouts, the first to get the gist of it, and the second to put sticky tabs all over it. Yes, it takes some time to wrap your head around how the workouts work, but this book covers a lot of excellent information, talks about how to do things safely IMHO (my shoulders were hurting from doing other workouts, and my back was hurting from doing strange ab exercises that required too much curving and rotation, which this book purposely avoids).If it helps, here’s how I approached the book (page numbers are from the hardcover edition). I treat it as a reference, only getting it out when creating a new workout, or to check on an exercise I have questions about. I’m a fairly analytical and slightly OCD person, so if you’re like me, maybe this will help you, just get a pack of post-it flags:1) I bookmarked the section on how to choose the exercises (68)2) I bookmarked the beginning of each set of exercises: Squat (82), Hinge (95), Push (111), Pull (129), Lunge (148), Single-Leg (162), Core (177), I bookmarked the “How to Select Exercises” page to make it more clear), Combination (210), Power (217), Metabolic (224).3) I bookmarked the list of exercises, p. 264, and added page numbers next to each exercise. This is probably the most important page when creating the workouts.4) I bookmarked the section heading for each set of workouts: Basic (269), Hypertrophy (277), S&P (286).5) I created a simple excel spreadsheet for the workouts columns are Exercise Name, Recommended Reps/Sets, and then a column for each set, with each cell split for weight and reps, rows are for each exercise). The werkit.com sheets are kind of helpful, but I end up having to reference the book and create my own spreadsheets anyway, so I don’t use them.6) I go to the next workout I want to do, follow the instructions, reference the exercise list, and plug them into the spreadsheet. If I have questions about any of the exercises, I have the sections bookmarked for reference.7) I typed out the RAMP warmup (which I enjoy a lot more than my previous stretch-then-jog-for-five-minutes warmup), and added a couple of words to remind myself how to do them.Yes, it’s a lot of work, but it works for me. There are definitely times when I just want to do a pre-existing workout someone else created, but there are an equal number of times where I think “This exercise is stupid/too easy/painful/my gym doesn’t have this,” and it’s nice to be able to flip back to that section in the book and just choose a variation or different exercise altogether.The one thing I’ll say makes the book a little TOO confusing is the number of types of variations. Not just the number of variations, that’s awesome, but the number of TYPES of variations: there’s Level 1, then Level 1.5, then Level 1 “Supercharge it!”, then Level 1 “Alternative”, then Level 1 “Option”. It’s a little hard to keep all of these straight. The book usually explains why the variations exist (.5 is harder, Supercharge is harder, Alternatives and Options are for equipment or injury restrictions), but it’s a lot of nomenclature that doesn’t always seem to make sense to me.Still, it’s a great book, I’ve been using it for over a year. I like how they seem to have combined the other 4 NROL books into one.

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  3. Rutherford

    Vorher hatte ich noch keine Version von “New Rules of Lifting” gelesen. Eigentlich bin ich auch tatsächlich nur durch Zufall über dieses Buch gestolpert…und ich muss sagen: Zum Glück.Zunächst ein kleiner Malus: Die angepriesenen Videos funktionieren wahrscheinlich nur auf dem Kindle Fire. Da ich aber ein herkömmliches Tablet zum Lesen verwende, sind die Videos für mich quasi nutzlos. Ich ziehe aber hierfür keinen Stern ab, da es weder die Qualität des Buches beeinflusst und ich davon auch nicht überrascht wurde. Ausserdem gibt es genug Anschauungsmaterial auf Youtube…also nicht schlimm.Zu dem Buch selbst:Das Buch besteht einerseits aus Ideen zur Fitness (die Titel gebenden Regeln – wobei hier nichts wirklich überraschendes zu finden war, wenn man sich mit der Materie generell beschäftigt), einer Sammlung von Übungen und der Vorstellung des Trainingskonzepts.Die Übungen sind sehr umfangreich und in einer Art Baukastensystem gegliedert. Bei jeder Übung gibt es eine Empfehlung für welchen Fitnessstand sie geeignet ist bzw. zu welchen Plänen Sie am besten passt. Die Übungsbeschreibungen sind oberflächlich, so dass man besonders bei den anspruchsvolleren Übungen (z.B. Deadlift oder Squat) noch ein wenig Recherche oder besser einen Trainer konsultieren sollte.Das System selber fordert einen schon. Es ist nicht als starrer Trainingsplan aufgebaut, sondern wie erwähnt als Baukasten. Dies bedeutet das man sich intensiv mit seinem Training beschäftigen muss und sich entsprechend die Übungen aus dem Buch zu einem geeigneten Plan zusammenstellt. Nach eigenen Bedürfnissen, Stärken und Schwächen.Dieser Vorteil ist gleichzeitig für manche wahrscheinlich auch der größte Nachteil. Es ist kein No-Brainer (3 Sets 12 Reps von Übung A, dann Übung B) sondern ich muss mir Gedanken über mein Training machen.Dies ist meiner Meinung nach perfekt. Den jeder hat andere Ziele, andere Stärken und andere Schwächen. Ein vernünftiges Training nach 08/15 – einer für alle passt leider nicht immer.Die Trainingsergebnisse sind auf jeden Fall überzeugend. Die Trainingszeiten liegen je nach Ausführung zwischen 60 – 90 Minuten – also vielleicht auch nichts für diejenigen die den aktuellen Crossfittrend vergöttern. Aber das Training ist fordernd und wenn man selber an seine Grenzen geht sind die Ergebnisse auch entsprechend gut.Eines der besten Fitnessbücher die ich gelesen habe. Wünschenswert wäre eine deutsche Übersetzung um diese Idee mehr Menschen zur Verfügung zu stellen.

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  4. Dr Dave

    Not as good as their original, as it is quite confusing on what excerise to do when. Certainly, some useful tips that I have taken and inserted into their original book. I do have an issue with how kindle handles this book, which is not well!

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  5. panagiotopoulos george

    a must for all lifters..one of the most versatile program ever created to match your individual goals…i cant wait for more books from these authors who seem to combine effectiveness and strategy in terms of programm creation for weightlifters. The combination of different fitness elements, power, stabilization, strength and muscle hypertrophy in a longterm program, but sometimes in the same workout kept things fresh in the gym. Very nice work, keep up the good work guys..

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  6. Big Bad John

    I have the whole series

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  7. Richard

    the video content does not load on Android Kindle or Mac Kindle. anyone got any ideas?

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