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Lean for Life: Stay Motivated and Lean Forever

Clarence Bass

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good for Serious Workout enthusiasts, not for the average joe 2 out of 5 stars.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful.

If you have the time and desire to become a 'bodybuilder' or fitness junkie, this book is for you. Excellent psychological and physical information. However, if you are in the remaining 99.99% of average Joes or Joannas and simply want to lose weight and stay healthy, AVOID this book. Mr Bass's discipline is impressive but his technique is not practicable.

Here's the key to fitness and good health for 98% of all normal busy Americans..... A. 90% of the battle: Eating Habits-Eat meats, veggies (no starch) and avoid sugar at all cost. Fats (not trans fats) are OKAY! B. 9% of the battle: Exercise-Simple walking for 30 minutes each day combined with 1 or 2 days of light weight (5-10lbs) dumbell exercises. C. 1% of the Battle: Genetics-My wife can eat 10lbs of chocolate a day and lose weight, however the majority of us cannot. Therefore genetics should not be too much of a concern for us normal folks.

I have tried all the diets, fads, etc. I ended up dropping my body fat down to 6%, reducing waist from 39 to 29, losing 60lbs...All while consuming 4000 calories & 1000 grams of fat per day by simply walking 30-40 minutes each day AND by avoiding all sugars & starches. Kind of a version of Low Glycemic/Low Carb. Not as radical as Atkins, not as liberal as South Beach.

My method is simple routine fitness. Create a simple routine in eating and exercise and you will stick with it forever. Make it complicated, difficult, burdensome, exhausting...YOU WILL QUIT. ALL (yes all) of my low fat hard work out friends go through annual vicious cycles. The older they get the bigger they get. There are a few Jack LaLane's & Clarence Bass's who have the drive, but for us normal folks, we need simplicty. I hope this helps.

Dynamics Of Strength Training

Gary Moran, George McGlynn

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Editorial Review:

Provides a comprehensive resource using an individualized approach to strength training, including conditioning and cardiorespiratory fitness. Emphasizes the physiological basis of muscle strength and endurance. Illustrates the most efficient and effective training techniques. The third edition has been updated to integrate guidelines from the American Heart Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, the Surgeon General's Report, and the American Academy of Pediatrics to provide readers with the most current information available.

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder

Samuel W. Fussell

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Total reviews: 77 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Well written but somewhat dishonest book 2 out of 5 stars.
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This story takes Sam Fussell from a weightlifting novice in New York City all the way to his debut in a bodybuilding competition in California. We follow the writer from the bottom all the way to complete mastery of a field.

Unfortunately, the story is not at all inspiring nor does it seem particularly honest. Sam Fussell, an Oxford graduate, who grew up as the son of two English professors, claims to join a gym out of fear of New York City and then grows towards an obsession with bodybuilding.

It seems obvious that a young graduate who has the pedigree Mr. Fussell does is looking for a project as an author and chooses bodybuilding as his vehicle to write the book. The lifters he describes as his "friends" from the gyms in New York and California are generally described by Mr. Fussell is anything but flattering terms. The author gives them ridiculous nicknames and writes of them as if they were complete imbeciles. If these people truly were his friends why can't he use their real names?

Mr. Fussell's decision to move to California and take steroids in pursuit of winning a bodybuilding competition comes across to me as more of a journalistic attempt to provide an "everyman" look at bodybuilding rather than motivated by his love of the sport. His decision to quit lifting weights for good immediately after the bodybuilding contest is the ultimate proof that his interest in the sport is not genuine.

As a novice weightlifter and a fan of the writings of Paul Fussell I thought I had come upon the perfect book for me. Unfortunately, it was fairly disapointing.

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At age 26, scrawny, Oxford-educated Samuel Fussell entered a YMCA gym in New York to escape the terrors of big city life.Four years and 80 lbs. of firm, bulging muscle later, he was competing for bodybuilding titles in the "Iron Mecca" of Southern California-so weak from intense training and starvation he could barely walk. MUSCLE is the harrowing, often hilarious chronicle of Fussell's divine obsession, his search for identity in a bizarre, eccentric world of "health fascists," "gym bunnies" and "muscleheads"-and his devout, single-minded acceptance of illness, pain, nausea, and steroid-induced rage in his quest for the holy grail of physical perfection.

Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Softball

Rob Price

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• Year-round softball-specific weight-training programs
• Descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 exercises
• Used by top softball players worldwide
• Perfect for softball players of all ages and skill levels
• Includes links to free record-keeping charts

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Softball is the most comprehensive and up-to-date softball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round softball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results .

No other softball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training . This book will have players increasing arm strength, bat speed, and overall quickness and power on the diamond, leading to an increase in batting average, on-base percentage, steals, and overall performance. You will build the strength and power needed to hit the ball out of the park and you will build the stamina and endurance needed to go strong until the final pitch.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

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Rob Price

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Cycling is the most comprehensive and up-to-date cycling-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round cycling-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other cycling book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have cyclists of all skill levels achieving quicker times with less of a chance of injury and more energy for going up hills and riding on tougher tracks. By following the programs in this book, you will increase your lower body strength, endurance, and overall speed dramatically.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

The Core Connection: Go from Fat to Flat by Using Your Abs for a Total Body Workout

Chris Robinson

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Pilates has proven to be one of the safest and most effective methods of exercise for more than 80 years - when taught and applied properly. Core coach Chris Robinson is a purist - he teaches the Pilates method exactly as it was prescribed by founder Joseph Pilates. But Chris adds a new dimension to Pilates, by using the same principles and combining them with traditional exercise (weights and cardio machines) for a total body workout. Each movement during the training session is initialized by the core muscle group - including the abdominal region, inner thighs and gluteous maximus - in order to protect and lengthen the spine. Core training strengthens your muscles, improves balance and flexibility, and tones your overall physique.

Serious Strength Training

Tudor O. Bompa, Mauro Di Pasquale, Lorenzo Cornacchia

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Introductory guides might have been useful when you started, but now you’re ready for more. Serious Strength Training will help you boost your workouts and results to the next level! Armed with solid scientific principles and proven training and nutrition programs, you will gain more muscle strength, mass, and definition than ever before.

Tudor Bompa, the world’s foremost expert on optimal schedules for training, and Mauro Di Pasquale, a leading nutritional authority specializing in strength training, combine their knowledge for you to use. Follow their general programs or tailor one to your special needs through effective manipulation of the six training phases—anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, mixed, maximum strength, muscle definition, and transition–and proper application of the individual metabolic profile.

Serious Strength Training is essential reading for those who want to lift in the big leagues. From the 66 maximum muscle-stimulating exercises to the detailed dietary plans, make it your guide to the greatest training you’ve ever done.

Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

#1 BBS Manual: "Training to Failure" - D.I.Y Hercules for Everybody 5 out of 5 stars.
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*Note* There is a revised edition of this book.

The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding is the largest tome of bodybuilding information found in any publication, finishing up at around 800 pages with approximately 1000 pictures and weighing in at a whopping 5.8lbs, making it the only book that gives you a workout while reading it. Arnold divides his massive manuscript into a number of sections, starting with the history of bodybuilding, competitions, the gym experience and training techniques (the core exercises) before rounding up with various poses and additional information on bodybuilding supplements and diets. Arnold advocates trying to find pictures of a bodybuilder who fits your size and figure and then aiming to replicate their results. Arnold himself used Reg Park as a model for his first teenage foray in the gym while in subsequent years built each body part up using different bodybuilding models to achieve his own unique juggernaut definition. This is but a tiny fraction of the kind of good quality recommendations that the Encyclopedia comes up with. Bodybuilders (bbs) everywhere refer to the `encyclopedia' for its awesome display of photographs of superhuman bbs throughout the ages. There is no lack of snaps that detail the human anatomy. You will likely run through the book many times to find that muscle group or separation that you missed the first time. It is startling how much anatomy you need to get around before you can understand what impact each exercise has on the developing muscle. This is a fully fledged subject that will have your attention for years to come and there is no better place than to start here. Combining this book with the movie "Pumping Iron" on DVD will give you a much better idea of where the information is coming from and you will see most of the faces in this book actually exercising and involved in many of the competition photographs that are on display here. Arnold's description of the muscle groups and how to work them is coupled with illustrations and photographs to show the kind of development you should be aiming to achieve. Creating striations on muscle groups like deltoids and pectorals are topics that will cause you to go back to page one to re-examine everything you have read and seen. Anatomical research coupled with exercising methodology and application with dieting will transform your physique over the course of even a few months. As a lifelong hobby you will be bulking up before your first year is out. A few years will have you at competition level. The whole point is get into the gym to work off that fat to reveal your true shape, a shape that can be defined and built upon with muscle. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other world-class bodybuilders, advocate more than one set per exercise called High-Volume Training, HVT, the traditional method of using multiple sets to train to failure by training each set to failure, resting, and then repeating the set to failure, as many times as it takes before you just can not do anymore sets for that body part. You will build muscle no matter what kind of genetics you have if you stick with HVT. Hypertrophy is the scientific term for the enlargement of muscle tissue caused by a specific amount of intensity needed for the hypertrophy to occur. No intensity, no hypertrophy, no gain. HVT achieves hypertrophy every time because each muscle group is trained to failure. This is the key to building muscle. You must get that straining feeling where you just can't do another repetition. If you find yourself doing lots of repetitions (more than 10) then you need to add more weight. Arnold includes various Power-Training techniques to help shock the body into being able to lift heavier weights. They work. He also includes increasing intensity techniques by utilizing `forced reps', `negative reps', `isolation training', `supersets' and `stripping methods' among a host of others to learn about. There is much more here then any review can hope to explain (and look at the length of mine!). That is why it is 800 pages or so. Apart from the five stars which it deserves the book does have some major drawbacks. The first big drawback is that all the photographs involve drug use. There are only a few photographs of bodybuilders who have not used steroids and the reason is obvious. It is the little dirty secret that hides behind all the bigger muscle on display. You simply will not get as big as these legends without doing drugs. However you will certainly be able to achieve the same definition and still have very big muscles without drugs. The bodybuilders who did not do drugs are at the start of the book in the history of bodybuilding. Look at the photographs of everybody until you reach Reg Park. After that it is all drug users. Achieving the same sizes without drugs is near impossible apart from the exceptionally genetically gifted person. There is also a lesson to learn from this drug experimentation. Don't do it if you put any value on the most important muscle of all... your heart. All of the guys in this book are much older now and you can see them in the bonus material of the "Pumping Iron" DVD. Sadly they don't look good (sadly some are in wheelchairs) and even Arnold has had a bypass. Just go with food type supplements like 100% Whey Protein and Creatine and stay away from all forms of steroids. The other major drawback is that the 70s bodybuilding era did not give much regard to what is called perfect form. Perfect form is all about doing the exercises the right way to avoid injury. A lot... and I mean a lot... of the exercises in the Encyclopedia are considered very dangerous, mainly because of back arching. These include nearly all of the `Rows'-type exercises (Bent-Over Barbell Rows, Bent-Over Dumbbell Rows, T-bar Rows and the One-Arm Dumbbell Row) which are abandoned today. A `Straight-Leg Deadlift' is something you must do right or you can injure yourself. The `Goodmorning' is considered iffy. Using a Smith-machine for the `Vertical Machine Press' is bad because it has a set path. Triceps `Extensions' are a problem. Take care with `Dipping' and avoid `Sissy Squats'. Arnold's book does not do perfect form so well and in most cases just comes up with plainly dangerous material. This is not to say that you can not do the exercises now and again. Most you can, but in the long term you will only get an injury. Avoiding injury = gain. It is as simple as that. So learn perfect form. How to do this? If you want to learn perfecting form then read "The Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique" by Stuart McRobert. This book clearly explains how to perform Back Extension, Cable Row, Calf Raise, Close-Grip Bench Press, Crunch Abdominal Work, Curl, Decline Bench Press, Dumbbell Row, Finger Extension, Grip Machine Training, Incline Bench Press, Leg Press, Lever Bar Work, L-fly, Neck Work, Overhead Lockout, Overhead Press, Parallel Bar Dip, Partial Deadlift, Pinch-grip Lifting, Prone Row, Pulldown, Pullover, Pullup/Chin, Pushdown, Rader Chest Pull, Shrug, Side Bend, Squat, Stiff-legged Deadlift, Thick-bar Hold and the Wrist Roller Training. Get it along with this book and you will not be disappointed with what you can learn between the two. Getting that perfect form right is something that you can learn from the latter book and start doing better in a year than the bb who has been in the gym for ten years. It is that important. Slow and controlled exercising does not avoid injury. Injury has nothing to do with the speed or control of the exercise. Injury occurs because of bad form. So get the form right, learn what Arnold teaches you about developing muscle groups and stay away from drugs to live until you are 90 with a darn near perfect body. It can be done!

Editorial Review:

The ultimate book on bodybuilding by one of the most popular bodybuilders of all time and the bestselling author of three previous bodybuilding books; covers diet, training, and a history of the sport. Over 850 photographs.

Explosive Lifting for Sports: Enhanced Edition

Harvey Newton

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The movements in competitive weightlifting—the snatch, clean, jerk, and other variations—can make you a more powerful athlete, no matter what sport you’re in. The enhanced edition of Explosive Lifting for Sports shows how to incorporate these exercises into your own sports training program.

This special book and DVD-ROM package demonstrates the safest, most effective learning progressions for the snatch, clean, jerk, pulling assistance exercises, squat, and other lifts. Perform each lift safely with step-by-step instructions and develop the strength, power, and speed you need for your specific sport. Included are specific power-development programs for 10 different power sports: football, baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, hockey, track and field, wrestling, racket sports, and competitive weightlifting.

The all-new DVD-ROM, enhanced by the award-winning Dartfish software, provides detailed video analysis of the included lifts. When installed on your PC, the software allows you to review, study, and print key movements of each exercise. The on-screen instruction and a frame-by-frame breakdown demonstrate the execution of each lift to create an overall package that establishes a new benchmark for weightlifting instruction.

Most coaches and athletes today agree that resistance training creates stronger, faster players who are more resistant to injury. Improve your performance on the field or on the court and develop whole-body power with this enhanced edition of Explosive Lifting for Sports.

Men's Body Sculpting

Nick Evans

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

This is a great book 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a simple and effective guide for making gains in and out of the gym.

The book is comprised of describing 3 different workout styles for 3 different intended goals. The book gives you everything you need to structure a workout and a diet to accomplish your goals.

There are chapters on diets, exercise programs, supplements, steroids (purely informational), and misc. things about working out and making extra gains.

For someone starting to get serious working out, this is a good book for you. If you are extremely advanced, this might not be enough. If you are totally beginner, you should probably start with a personal trainer or much more detailed book.

The book itself is short enough to navigate through if you need to find info fast. The words on the page are big and going through each chapter is not a challenge. The book is balanced in the exercises it offers.

I continue to use it for reference frequently even after about 4 years.

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Achieve breakthroughs in size for the lean, muscular look you’ve always wanted! Bodybuilding expert and MuscleMag International columnist Dr. Nick Evans presents a proven prescription for physical perfection. Start now and see dramatic improvements in mass and definition in only six weeks.

The process features three proven programs:

· The mass generator program to quickly pack on muscle.
· The body fat blitz program to burn calories and melt away fat stores.
· The hybrid hard body program that combines muscle growth with fat loss.

Each program contains specific exercises as well as step-by-step nutrition and supplement advice to ensure progress. Get great results, and get them now, with Men’s Body Sculpting.