John Romaniello lives in New York and is a personal trainer, coach, author and model. Over the past decade, John has helped thousands of people to achieve their fitness goals using unique and effective methods. He helped actors, musicians, producers and models. He also has been a strength coach for several athletes, high school wrestlers, college and professional soccer players, golfers and volleyball players. As an author, he wrote hundreds of articles featured in numerous online and printed publications, such as SHAPE, T-Nation.com.

John Romaniello created the innovative program called The Super Hero Workout.

What inspired this manual?  You guessed it: super heroes, and the actors that have playedsuper hero roles in recent movies:

Chris Evans as Captain America
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine 

The training manual references these (and other) super heroes.  I must confess something here:  part of the reason I like this program is my comic book nerd roots.

Anyway, let’s get to the program review.  Super Hero Workout consists of four, four week phases:

Phase One: Strength and Power

This four-week phase was inspired by Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain America (Tobey McGuire).  It is designed to build your foundation of strength through compound exercises.  He mixes up some low rep workouts (for strength) with some moderate rep workouts (size).  

Phase Two: Athleticism and Performance

This two-week phase is inspired by characters like Batman, Daredevil, and the Punisher:  heroes who have taken “normal” human performance to the limit with no super-human strength.  This phase is based on density training.  This kind of training is useful because it promotes positive hormonal responses in the body (testosterone, etc).  It is also great for conditioning.  It’s best if you have some FAT GRIPZ* for this phase. 

Phase Three: Growth and Mass

Four weeks inspired by the Incredible Hulk.  These workouts use rep ranges as low as four and as high as twenty with the goal of recruiting multiple fiber types for maximum mass development.  The previous phases prepare you to go through this phase, which is a variation of traditional bodybuilding split training.

Phase Four: Polishing Your Physique

These final three weeks are not really inspired by a single character.   This phase is designed to put the final touches on your physique and finish up the transformation.  It combines fat burning, density training, strength training, etc.

Here’s something else that’s pretty cool:  Roman gives some suggestions for what to do once you’ve finished:  ways to repeat the program but tweak the workouts for specific goals.

So what do I think?

As most of my readers know, I think well-designed workout programs are great investments (unlike most supplements).  Roman’s Super Hero Workout is no exception–I believe intermediate/advanced trainees especially would benefit from using this program.  Just keep two things in mind:

1.  It requires work.  This program looks hard.  Don’t bother buying it if you’re not serious about your training.

2. You’ll need to carefully read over each workout and execute the plan.  You may not be used to some of the training methods in this program–you need to be willing to try new things.   

Just CLICK HERE if you are interested in check out the Super Hero Workout program.