The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding : The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised
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From elite bodybuilding competitors to gymnasts, from golfers to fitness gurus, anyone who works out with weights must own this book — a book that only Arnold Schwarzenegger could write, a book that has earned its reputation as “the bible of bodybuilding.” Inside, Arnold covers the very latest advances in both weight training and bodybuilding competition, with new sections on diet and nutrition, sports psychology, the treatment and prevention of injuries, and methods of training, each illustrated with detailed photos of some of bodybuilding’s newest stars. Plus, all the features that have made this book a classic are here: Arnold’s tried-and-true tips for sculpting, strengthening, and defining each and every muscle to create the ultimate buff physique The most effective methods of strength training to stilt your needs, whether you’re an amateur athlete or a pro bodybuilder preparing for a competition Comprehensive information on health, nutritio… More >>
The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding : The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised
Ordered this book for our nephew for Christmas present on the 22nd November 2007, today is christmas and did NOT receive it yet. I’m very disappointed and disguted with the service I got.
Rating: 1 / 5
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s books and movies on Bodybuilding have uniquely revolutionized the sport of strength training. They reached to almost every village, town, and city around the Globe, heralding the birth of a new sport that frees all people from the tutelage of a coach, a state, or an organization. Young people discovered the potential of developing strength with simple and available means, such as barbells and dumbbells.
On the other hand, promoting the new unscientific sport has undermined the spread of well-structured and scientifically sound sports, such as Weightlifting. “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding” lacks both encyclopedic features and modernity. The book still promotes muscular hypertrophy and masculine outlook with total disregard to skeletal deformities that result from exercising muscles, in split sessions, in isolation, and in limited range of motion. Such approach to Bodybuilding has created a Frankenstein sport of grotesquely developed musculature and chronically deformed skeleton. Bodybuilders adhere to Arnold’s doctrine of regional training of muscles regardless of the harm done to the ligaments, cartilages, and bones as a result of poorly distributed load volume.
Almost all Bodybuilders develop muscular distribution that defies gravitational laws. That is, huge upper body, thin waist, and disproportionately weak legs and pelvis. After few years of training, Bodybuilders are struck with damaged knees, unstable spinal axis, and overtaxed lungs and heart. The author made a serious poor judgment when he claims that Bodybuilding does not cause frequent injuries compared to aerobics and other sports. Bodybuilders are crippled with loss of range of motion of major joints, poor neuromuscular balance, and terrible loss of natural joint function.
Preying on the public desire for sexual physical outlook, Arnold Schwarzenegger has profited by demonstrating awesome muscular guys without realizing the serious consequences of spreading ignorance. People have to be advised that sport should lead to healthy mobility, longevity, and disease-free living. The author condones high repetition for developing muscular vascularity without accounting for the imbalance of load distribution on major muscular masses that promotes mobility rather than stiffening ligaments, wearing cartilages, and freezing joints. Also, the author contends that Bodybuilding is a sport of form while weightlifting is a sport of power. That is a fallacy since “form” refers to the performance in grace, not just in outlook.
Rating: 2 / 5
Schwarzenegger was the best and most dominant bodybuilder inhistime. I am not trying to take anything away from hisaccomplishments. However, one thing he is not to the masses is an BBinstructor. His training routines and philosophies are flawed and attimes embarassing. It will take an exceptional, genetically giftedperson … to acheive such a significant build following this book,and there certainly exists a much better means of doing so.
The onlymerit I find for the book is the comprehensive list of exercises (mostwhich are unnecessary, but I believe you should be at least aware of)and a brief history of who’s who in the BB world (if you are into thatsort of thing)…. This will at least point you in the rightdirection. “You wouldn’t ask a race horse on how hetrains.” Arthur Jones
Rating: 1 / 5
The day i bought this book i read it for about ten minutes and then went and got a refund from the shop where i bought it from. I realised that it was just for people on steroids so what good was that to me. Being such a legend and icon to so many people around the world arnie didn’t even have the sence to consider us naturals, how can he say to train six times a week and a muscle part more than once a week when we all know that it is the wrong way to go. I reccomend a book by Zef Eizenberg called “Natural Training That Works” he is very high up in the company “Maximuscle” who are the leading suppliment company over here in England.
Rating: 1 / 5
I followed arnold’s training principles and for the last year have been experiencing chronic insomnia. My blood pressure is through the roof (used to be low), and my body is breaking down due to the increased cortisol levels in my blood. Basically, this book is great for learning the different exercises, but what he recommends for training has seriously screwed me up. I suffer from overtraining syndrome which takes months of NOTHING to get over – it’s basically an extended hormonal imbalance that screws up everything. I was lifting 2 days on, one off for approx 100 minutes with HIGH INTENSITY (1 min rest as advised between sets). The only way arnold was able to perform with his program is by having a greater testosterone/cortisol level; he achieved this with injections of steroids. MORE IS BETTER routine is being proven with scientific studies to be a VERY BAD STRATEGY. Arnold did 3x as much as anyone, took steroids, and still was never as massive as today’s bodybuilders who are all natural. I think that says something. I love arnold, I have posters of him hanging in my apartment. I can’t help to be upset, however, that with his advice, I’m going to have to take a long time off of weights. By the way, I’m only 20 years old, my nutrtion is flawless and consistent. My training (and interrelated sleep) were the only variables. So, in 3-5 weeks I’m going to give it another go – hopefully my endocrine system will recover and I will overcome the hormonal imbalance. EVERYONE PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
Rating: 2 / 5