Charles Poliquin VS Ian King...

[sseos]

Hello guys
I am a new member to this site.
My name is Odysseas, I am 19 years old (in a few feeks i become 20 ) , I'm 5 7' and I weigh 15 pounds. I come from Cyprus, but now I study Media Technology in Germany.
The past few weeks I visit this site and it has been very helpful to me. I was always doing sports in my life like tae kwon do, swimming, thai boxing, breakdance and the same time resistance training.
But the past 6 months i took bodybuilding much more seriously.
I try to eat 6 meals a day, workout 3 days per week, cardio 1 day per week , and I 'm looking for gaining mass.
Now enough about my self. I'm sure you are getting bored. Let's get to the meat.
I read much in testosterone.net for Charles Poliquin and Ian King and I want to follow a routine by one of these two. I've found an ebook writen by Will Brink called 'Muscle building Nutrition' where Charles POliquin wrote a chapter about his Principles and sample mass programs. On the other side there is Ian King with his Get Buffed book which I also heard that is great.
I am between these two books and basically I have to decide whether I follow Charles Poliquin's or Ian KIng's mass routine.
Is there a way to tell which coach is the best?
I know, they are both great, but I am a bit of a perfectionist and I want to have your opinions.
Whose book should I buy or whose routine should I follow?
I will really appreciate it if you give your thoughts on this.

ciao!


P.S: How can I post pictures of me to tell me your opinion?

 

[Baoh]

1) Your parents gave you an excellent name, phile.

2) Go with Poliquin. I find his book, The Poliquin Principles, to be a good choice, and I consider Poliquin a better authority than King.

Yassou.

 

[casualbb]

Can you, or somebody, give a breakdown of their ideas? (Sorry, don't own the books)

-casualbb

 

[Lee]

i must agree, you ahve an awesome name. welcome to the boards.

 

[Baoh]

Can you, or somebody, give a breakdown of their ideas? (Sorry, don't own the books)

-casualbb

I doubt I could boil it down to a post. Many of their articles are are available at T-mag, though, in the back issues.

I forget how much the books have cost me, but they were purchased at Barnes & Noble.

 

[collegiateLifter]

i like poliquin although i think too many of his ideas are based off of training for olympic athletes--- therefore cut volume down a lot.

 

[satchboogie]

try the bodybuilding truth by nelson montana.

exellent material except for the chapter on clomid which i didnt exactly agree on.

 

[Baoh]

try the bodybuilding truth by nelson montana.

exellent material except for the chapter on clomid which i didnt exactly agree on.

I'd suggest Bryan Haycock's HST over Nelson Montana's anything.

www.hypertrophy-specific.com

I'd pick Poliquin over Nelson as well.

 

[Lord_Suston]

If oyu are into performance I would recommend Poliquin. But if you like size go with King

 

[JJFigure]

My only issue with Poliquin is he tends to have women do "girlie" exercises. Women can train in the same manner as men; we don't need to do stupid exercises like cable kickbacks.