The Chris Report
Author: Mick Hart
Topic: Bodybuilding
Date of publication: 2003
Price: £30.25!!!
Pages:76
Website:
http://www.bodybuildingandsteroids.com/chrisreport/
Synopsis: One young mans 12 month journey from zero to pro bodybuilder under the guidance of reknowned steroid guru Mick Hart.
Review: Not sure I can write after I paid that sily amount for this book, but bear with me. Firstly be careful when purchasing anythin from Mick Harts site, the prices do NOT include VAT ffs!! and incur a delivery charge also.
I like Micks attitude, he tells it how it is, so I hope he can forgive me for doing the same here.
The Chris report tells the story of Mick Hart's son 'Chris', who decides to take up bodybuilding with a 12 month deadline for a competition. He was relatively untrained at the start but the report details exactly how Mick and chris got him to that competition in which Chris won 2nd place and became a British qualifier.
Two words I used there were innacurrate, one was details and the other was exactly.
The report whilst being a sizeable 70+ pages actually contains a lot of padding, kind of a reflection from Mick on his sons success and justification for him to take steroids, there is also a few sweet introductions to his family and some tear jerking dedications too *sob*
Unfortunately all of this fluff and nicey nicey stuff allowed Mick to omit detail after detail from the programme, which leaves the reader asking, ok how much creatine? what brand of amino's did he use? what dose of dbol was it 5mg or 10mg tabs it just says 7 tabs??
The purpose of these omissions is obvious when you get nearer to the end of the book, Mick offers a PERSONAL no limits telephone consultation to you, at a price of course, a further $47!!!! to answer just these sorts of questions.
Let me assure you, there is nothing exciting here, the routines Mick used were basic full body programmes trained 3 times per week four days off for 6 months then 6 times per week for a further few then contest prep, no details are given about poundages Chris used or any information like, warm up sets?. The cycles were 6 weekly, small and mainly orals of the kinds we all use here although he does not state the tablet sizes?? or manufacturers, and the diet was old school but contained no detail again of what calories Mick was aming for, how many grams protein per pound, or what ratios he was using? Worst of all was the complete ommision of ANY PCT cycle, Mick used a popular anti-e throughout at a low dose but detailed nothing about post cycle?? I would deem this irresponsible but hey he is the guru not me.
Mick claims to give you the reader the information you need to customise it, but with a lack of detail, you will be guessing at best.
I was dissapointed to say the least, I will try the programme and possibly the cycles too one day, although he didnt give the dosages!!!! but I wanted more detail for my money.
Added to my despair was the fact that the company used to download the file is having computer problems, not only may you not be able to download the report but if you do, it may not work as mine didn't. Customer support took two days to answer but did send me an unlicenced copy! Can't help wondering if a disgruntled customer is hacking them.
Buy the book only if you are prepared to pay the extra for a phone consultation, its the only way you can follow what Chris did to the letter, I think any of us could have thought of this routine/cycle/diet but putting it all together and implementing it without faltering is the key to the programmes success.
Verdict; Not sure, intrigued about the phone consult but a lot of money up front and I think some not so honest advertising around the report (basically its a tool to sell Micks consultancy services), in other words it doesn't do what it says on the tin imo save your money if the report is all you wanted. That being said, Mick is a font of much BBing knowledge, he has a glowing BBing CV stretching back 25 years, with a great degree of experience from self experimentation and training others to Olympic standards, even with NO E-Book, a no-limits phone consultation with him could be worth the money, consider the book a bonus?
SD