Originally posted by CrimsonTide
I think you misunderstood my reply (and didn't want you to think that I'm not agreeing with you). Maybe I should have said for their level a beginner puts a lot of stress on their system. I was in no way saying a beginner should start off the way so many do by mimicking the pros routines in magazines/books/etc although I'm sure we have all seen someone just starting out trying to do a routine from the latest issue of *insert various mag title here* or something like that. I know that I personally probably wasted a lot of time just starting out by trying to do what I read in mags until someone was nice enough to point me in the right direction. I'm just now taking an interest in the actual science of bodybuilding so bear with me if I'm off-base .
I know what your saying - but I believe more of the stress put on a beginnner is physcological and less physical than the advanced trainee. Unless of course the beginnner is working past their training level - than they are putting on a lot of stress on an undeveloped system. But yeah...

BTW - Hatlfields program in the book you mention was his answer for the natural athlete. But I do think his routine would require a good base to begin with as well as very sound nutritional support... and on top of that, use of anabolic steroids makes routine even more productive... deffinitly a good routine for the advanced bodybuilder while "on."