I don't think anywhere in there did he suggest this was a professional's regime. This is how he went from weakling (struggling to lift his son's wheelchair) to putting on 35 lb of muscle. For, I'm thinking, LOTS of HN readers (myself included) that would be a radical change in life experience. The most interesting tips are the time savers, and the programmer's viewpoint, not the specifics of lifting technique, which you can find lots of places.