Body Beast Workout Review – My Review

Overall Ranking: 40 out of 100 points Price: $49.90 Experience level: Beginner Type Of Training: Weight Lifting / Home Training For what?: Muscle Growth Owners: Website:

Introduction

So I’ve been lately reviewing a lot of BeachBody products and while the and were surprisingly good for their respective areas (although overpriced), unfortunately I cannot put Body Beast in the same line with them.

In this review I’m going to tell you my unbiased opinion of this popular program and is it really effective for building muscle.

I’ve taken a thorough look into different aspects of the program from the exercise selections, repetitions, weight used all the way to nutrition and rest.

I did this website inorder to help people to build muscle and steer away from the fitness industries bad information that is just trying to take your money and not really caring about your personal progress and as this program is tailored for muscle building it is my passion to weigh in the pros and cons and find out how effective the program really is.

Keep reading and find out what I like and don’t like in this program.

Author Of The Program

The author of the program is a guy named . Sagi was born in Israel and moved to USA to pursue his dreams. He is a two-time Mr. Israel and world leading fitness model and bodybuilder.

So the first cringy thing about this whole is the author. Let me just share my opinion that I think he is using quite a good quality Whey proteins and creatine… I know both end of the spectrum of trainers, naturals and folks that use a lot of supplements so I’ve seen the in and outs of the business and got quite good sense of what is possible to achieve with and without heavy supplement usage.

In my opinion, the kind of physique and ridiculous amount of muscle mass Sagi has cannot be obtained by just eating and training right.

So this is the classic scheme what all the supplement industries use. Put a guy or girl with crazy good symmetry and huge amount of muscle while shredded to the bones and let him advertise your product to create that mental link that you can achieve the same with this product.

Although I have to say that I personally don’t give a damn if someone uses supplements or not, but this type of marketing that implies that you can achieve something that is really way out of reach, I do not like one bit.

What Is The Body Beast Program?

The body beast workout program lasts total 90 days. The whole program is designed to be done in the comfort of your own home or gym.

Most of the exercises are done with dumbbells and barbell.

There are 3 different “blocks” within the 90 days each consisting of 1 month. The first one is Build, 2nd one is called Bulk and the 3rd month is Beast.

Here is a picture of what the blocks should do:

Ok so this is supposed to be muscle building program and the last month is for dropping your body fat and getting ripped? What is this about?

First of all, muscle is build within years not a couple of months. Anyone who tells you that you can build a significant amount of mass in 3 months is lying to you. I’m sorry but this is the reality.

The biggest problem about this whole fitness industry is the fact that everyone tries to sell huge gains of muscle in a short time frame of a month or couple. Muscle growth takes long time to happen and if you expect to blow up in a month or two, prepare to get discouraged and disappointed.

Ofcourse you will gain muscle within the first few months but it’s not a lot.

So if you’re looking to build muscle you HAVE TO get out of this fast results mindframe because it will not happen! Embrace the grind and understand that your desired body is somewhere 1-10 years ahead of you!

Does The Program Work?

It’s not good, but it’s not the worst either. The way the exercises and are done could be improved. 99.99% of people who are considering to buy this Body Beast program are complete beginners. And beginners will not have to use all the special techniques that this product offers. Beginners should train with basic methods with linear progression using compound exercises.

That being said as a beginner you will really fast (but still forget the 3 months BS!!) and you will grow it even with sub-par methods. This is because your body is not used to resistance training and it will adapt quite fast at the beginning of your journey.

Although at first the adaptations will be mostly neurology based and you’re getting stronger because your body learns to actually use and “command” your muscles to do the work.

But after a while you’ll start to induce the hypertophy response as well and that is the time frame that everyone refers as “newbie gains” since you will grow muscle quite a rapid rate. The downside of this is that it doesn’t really last longer than 6-12 months.

So let’s look a bit in-depth why I don’t like the programming of this program…

The SECRET: Dynamic Set Training

Ok so, Body Beast claims that it has “cracked the code” or discovered the secret to building muscle. I really got a bit agitated with this kind of claim because let me tell you, THERE IS NO SECRET TO BUILDING MUSCLE!

The basic principles that have been around since the early days of bodybuilding and strength training are still the same! There is nothing magical that has been discovered in the modern times.

You can look the guys before steroids even were available that had great muscular physiques, way better developed than most guys using steroids today!

The “secret” is hard work and persistence over long period of time. There are no magic potions or powders or techniques, only hard work and dedication is what will yield you the results you’re looking for.

And there is nothing new or cutting-edge in these training methods body beast puts you through. The same techniques have been around for years already and are used by advanced lifters who have atleast 4-6 years of serious training under their belt.

So the program has you doing:

• Force Sets
• Circuit Sets
• Single Sets
• Super Sets
• Giant Sets
• Drop Sets
• Tempo Sets

These techniques are geared towards guys who have already built the foundation for muscle through years of grinding with basic compound exercises. These serve absolutely no purpose for beginner lifters. You will make a lot better progress with the basics of weight training as you’re beginner or intermediate lifter.

The foundation of building muscle without steroids lies in basic compound exercises using 70-80% loads from your one rep max. These special techniques have their place but only for advanced lifters!

This is 100% marketing trick to get you to spend your money on these sub-par training techniques that serve no purpose in your training!

Remember that as a beginner lifter you should pay attention to the BASICS!

What Training Split The Program Uses?

If you’ve never heard of “Splits” in weight training it basically means how many workouts you will divide your full body to.

1-day split means that you will train your whole body on one session, 2-day split means you will separate your body for example lower- and upper-body workout for two different days, 3-day would be on monday you’ll do legs, wednesday back and friday chest, triceps, shoulders, etc.

Body Beast workouts are so called 5-day splits since they’ve divided the workouts within one week to Chest, Legs, Arms, Back and Shoulders.

I peronally would recommend 1-day, 2-day or maximum 3-day split for any trainer. And the reason is that more frequency means more protein synthesis which means more muscle growth.

Although this can be argued that which one is the best and it will be a whole new article thats way too much to cover in here so I’ll leave it at that.

Sets & Reps Scheme In The Regimen

Every exercise in Body Beast uses the same “Dynamic Set Training” that is supposed to be somewhat superior to regular single sets.

There is basically 2 different set schemes. The first one is: You start out with 15 reps, put more weight then 12, put more weight then 8, then 8 again, back to 12 with lighter weight and last one 15 reps with lighter weight again. The second on is the same but you only do the 4 first sets of 15, 12, 8 and 8.

In a way this is a good advice but in the program it is not made clear enough that you should go close to failure with the 8 rep sets, infact I didn’t find any clear guidelines how much INTENSITY you should use with the exercises. Basically any successful workout program involves of warm-up sets and then heavy work sets.

Here the work sets are the 2 sets of 8 reps in the middle and you should put all your effort to these two sets. After that you could include a bit more metabolic fatigue with the higher range of 12 and 15 reps to spark a bit more hypertrophy. So with this you get total of 2-4 working sets depending how hard you will go and that is a good amount per one exercise.

But it would be superior in my opinion to do just 3-5 sets of 5-8 repetitions full effort sets. The reason is that you can really concentrate and put in the effort and focus on quality instead of quantity!

With the Body Beast you will do all the 6 sets of a given exercises in a row so you do not get any time to rest in-between the sets.

With this kind of training you will be missing out A LOT of your possible muscle growth since you’re not pushing yourself to the limit and recruiting the maximum potential of your muscle fibers.

Exercise Selection

The exercise selection in Body Beast is ok. Basically on every workout you will do the main lift like deadlift, squat or dumbbell press first and then a variety of assistance exercise after it. Although sometimes there are some prefatigue sets before the main compound which is again are not necessary for beginner lifters by any means!

This is actually quite well structured part of the program and I don’t have anything to add to that.

Equipment – What You’ll Need

As the program is tailored for folks that’ll workout from the comfort of their own home, you will need to add some equipment ontop of the program which will cost you quite a bit more money.

Ofcourse there is a way to get around this since all of the workout regimens are on paper so you can just go to basic gyms and read and perform the workouts instead of watching the DVD and working along with it (which I think is definately NOT the way to go if you’re serious about building muscle and strength).

What you basically need:

• Dumbbells
• Barbell
• EZ Curl Bar
• Weights
• Adjustable Bench

If you’re really tight on a budget, adjustable dumbbells and some kind of flat bench might be enough to workout your whole body with the program.

Nutrition

The diet like all beach body products I’ve reviewed before is build upon figuring your BMR with Harris-Benedict formula and then increasing your calories with daily surplus of about 500. This is good structure for bulking.

But then again a 3 month time frame for building muscle is way too short and the body beast program puts you off from the surplus for the last month in order to shed excess fat. Again I don’t understand this.

This is a muscle building program, not a fat loss program so why in the earth after 2 months you would be starting to “shed excess fat” for only 1 month?

I mean people usually stay on calorie surplus and build muscle for atleast 9 months and everything up to 3-4 years and here you’re doing it for only 2 months. Makes definately no sense to me why they’re doing this kind of stuff in the Body Beast.

The diet itself is really basic and you get ready made meal plans to go with your personal calorie intake amounts. Nothing really special but gives you a clear picture of what and how much you should eat.

Is The Program A Scam?

When looking objectively at the program, I cannot say that it is a scam. But that being said, it’s not even near the best workout program for any lifter that is interested in building muscle and strength.

Eventhough I don’t like the program it certainly doesn’t mean it’s a flatout fraud. Although I certainly get the feel that this program doesn’t really care much about your personal progress and your goals, it’s more or less just after your money.

The Price Of The Program

Currently Body Beast goes with a bit under for the whole program is $39.90 shipping and handling which is about $9.95.

So the total cost of the program is about $49.90 and that is not actually too bad of a price tag.

Although there are A LOT of upsells that Beachbody tries to get you to buy all the way from additional Body Beast workouts to Shakeology and your bill goes really fast on top of $100.

What I Like In The Program

• Decent nutritional advice.
• Entertaining to watch the DVD’s compared to just working out by yourself.
• Price relatively low for workout program.
• Getting into habit of keeping a workout log of performed reps and sets with given weight.

What I Don’t Like In The Program

• Misleading marketing.
• Exercise selection could be better.
• Ineffective & complicated training methods.
• Not enough emphasis on lifting intensity.
• Not enough information on importance of
• Not enough information on rep speed.
• Not enough information on injury prevention.
• Inadequate information on lifting technique.
• scheme not optimal.
• Weird 3 block system for different workout regimens.
• 3 months not even close enough for muscle growth.
• 1 month of the three months is used for dropping bodyfat.
• The “Dynamic Set Training” is made to be THE SECRET discovery that will explode your muscle gains to the next level, while in all reality it’s completely counterproductive.

Conclusion

When it all comes down to it, Body Beast is not the best program you will want to invest if you’re looking to build muscle and you’re serious about changing your body composition.

The program is filled with empty marketing promises and gives you ineffective and misguided training advice how to actually build muscle.

The workout routines are over complicated and distract you from putting in the actual effort that is needed in order to build the most amount of muscle possible.

That being said this program can get you results but it is not the best possible option for you if you’re interested in muscle growth and increse of strength.

But if you’ve already made up your mind and you feel that the Body Beast is the program you want to go for, the best place to purhcase it is on

Do you have any questions or suggestion in mind? I’d love to hear what you think about Body Beast program and if you’ve had success or failures with it. Drop me a comment down below and I’ll get back at you!