This book provides plenty of good advice in a point by point format rather than narrative. Yes, there is a lot of repetition both within and between chapters, but repetition is a nice passive way to help important points sink in even without thinking much about it. I would have given this book 4 stars, except for one big thing that really peeved me. I have read many books on exercise and bodybuilding and still flip through some. This book mentions often that many exercises are not taught in safe and proper forms by trainers and in other books, but instead of spending another 50 pages or so going over what the author sees as safe proper form for at least the major exercises he espouses, e.g. deadlifts and squats and presses and their beneficial variations, he repeatedly refers the reader to two of his other books. That might be acceptable in a book that doesn't claim to be "the insider's encyclopedia on how to build muscle and might," but that is exactly what this book claims on the front cover. Had I known that the exercise forms were not described in this book, I would instead have spent a bit more money to purchase Build Muscle Lose Fat Look Great: Everything You Need to Know to Transform Your Body, which is a larger book and one of the other 2 books he repeatedly refers to for his descriptions of exercise forms. Though I do not have that book, I suspect the other advice in it is similar to the advice given in this book. I actually feel cheated by a book I was really looking forward to reading. They should either include the forms or not claim to be "encyclopedic." Until he includes the exercise forms, I would not buy this particular book.