Review: Basic, Comprehensive, Muscle Nutrition Book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2013
Perhaps because I have read similar information before and seen so many similar recipes elsewhere, I wasn't overly thrilled with this book.  Tom Venuto's definitive e-book 'Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle' is very comprehensive and nails the science of muscle building, especially the all-important nutrition aspect, totally for the body builder.Still, this is a great place to start.  I read this book in less than an hour, and it has all the essentials for muscle building, fat burning, and calorie counting information you need to get started.Beginning with the premise that muscle food can be nailed but not entirely enjoyed if it is used for fuel and rebuilding, he endears us to a common fact about many bodybuilders:  Keeping food interesting is also important in life, and there are easy ways to have a healthy, muscle diet and still enjoy what we are eating.The author's style is fluid, fact-filled, and dense, filled with the building blocks of body building meals.  Now you can nitpick and say that nutrition is a science and you have to tweak this diet in many ways to really be effective*, but he does offer his full version at the end of this book, and for the price, you couldn't really ask for more.In the end he does a yeoman job of bringing the nutrition scope of bodybuilding in a small, friendly, and accessible amount of print space.*Venuto elaborates how you have to tailor-make a diet and exercise regimine based on age, sex, weight, and somatyping.