Ripped 3: The Recipes, The Routines and The Reasons

Ripped 3, the last book in the famous Ripped series, continues the quest for the ultimate body. It contains 22 fully explained meal plans for eating to become lean the sensible, no-hunger way. Included are multiple training routines for achieving maximum muscle, adapted from a training model developed in the former Soviet Union called periodization. Research shows that this system, based on success, is the best way to train and gain year after year. Ripped 3 also explains how to achieve the fat loss benefits of aerobic exercise without stalling muscle building progress. All together in Ripped 3 you have the three-part formula for achieving and maintaining lifelong leanness and a superior body: proper food selection, aerobic exercise, and weight training.

Clarence Bass, a lawyer, is the author of ten highly regarded books on bodybuilding, health, and fitness; in addition to the Ripped series and Lean Advantage series, they include Lean For Life, Challenge Yourself, Great Expectations, and Take Charge. His question and answer column, the Ripped Department, appeared in Muscle & Fitness magazine for 16 years. He now writes monthly for his website. Training since the age of 13, Bass is a former Olympic-style weightlifting champion and winner of the Most Muscular Man award at the Past-40 Mr. USA contest. He and wife Carol have an adult son, Matthew. They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.