Body Building

The bestselling fitness and self-improvement book for breaking through mental resistance and barriers, building unshakeable discipline, and keeping your goals alive when things get tough.

If you were to draw up a shortlist of the most muscular men in history, martial artist Bruce Lee would likely feature near its top. Indeed, such was Lee’s muscularity, that his physique was described by bodybuilding magnate Joe Weider as “the most defined body I’ve ever seen!” And the accolades don’t stop there. The Bruce Lee physique would go on to influence other bodybuilders, such as Lee Haney, Lou Ferrigno, and six-times Mr. Olympia, Dorian Yates. So what was the Bruce Lee bodybuilding secret? Ninja Strength Secrets Ninja Strength Secrets reveals the answer, unmasking one of ...

Here is the second book in the Built To The Hilt Series that you’ve been waiting for... Built To The Hilt—The Strength and Power Edition. If you want more strength, power, and better conditioning, then this is the book for you. Written by world-renowned speed, strength, and conditioning coach and bestselling author Josh Bryant, Built To The Hilt—The Strength and Power Edition, gives you Josh’s best tips, advice, and strategies to help you get the strength, power, and conditioning you want.

The Bodybuilder's Indispensable Handbook Many young men who start bodybuilding are very tempted to use anabolic steroids, mainly because everybody with an exceptionally good body would appear to be taking them. However, the long-term damage to health with regard to steroid abuse is well documented, which creates a huge demand for natural alternatives and strategies. This is where the ideas set out in this book come to the fore. Any good diet should take on board the principals of earlier diets and refine them. Few things of any merit are created overnight. As somebody who has been weight ...

In Train Like Kai Greene, we delve deep into the relentless world of bodybuilding through the eyes of the iconic Kai Greene. This book is not just about lifting weights; it's a journey into the relentless pursuit of excellence, both in the gym and in life. Discover the relentless principles and strategies that have propelled Kai Greene to bodybuilding stardom. From the mind-muscle connection to overcoming obstacles, Kai's wisdom transcends the gym and offers a relentless blueprint for achieving greatness in any endeavor. Uncover the relentless secrets behind Kai's diet, training routines, ...

What’s the best treatment for an injury? Prevention before it even occurs. That’s what this dynamic book is about. Decades of experience funneled down to accessible, straightforward, injury-prevention gold. Catanzaro skillfully packs this resource with tips and tricks, while keeping the reading light and entertaining. Wherever you are in your lifting career, you’ll find something here that you can go out and implement today. While it’s geared toward the mature lifter, this content is invaluable to the beginner as well. A small tweak here and there in the way you train can make a ...

A smart, energizing program to help you shed fat, build muscle, and achieve your ideal body in just 30 days! A huge success as a self-published e-book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is the bible of fat loss that will help anyone to get his or her dream body. Tom Venuto has created a program using the secrets of the world's leanest people, although it's not about getting ripped; it is about maximizing your fat loss through nutrient timing and strategic exercise.

Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies, and fatness is not a death sentence. Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. The authors also help make sense of how poverty and oppression - such as racism, homophobia, and classism - affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism.

The Minimalist Bodybuilder is a comprehensive guide to minimalist bodybuilding, emphasizing how to achieve significant physical gains through efficient and focused training with minimal equipment. It covers various aspects of minimalist fitness, including: Understanding Minimalist Bodybuilding: The book starts by introducing the minimalist philosophy in the context of fitness and bodybuilding, outlining its benefits and how it leads to greater focus and results. Workout Routines: It includes sample workout plans that focus on bodyweight and dumbbell exercises, catering to different fitness ...

Romance blossoms between a man and woman as he provides her with an unconventional path to success and support in pursuit of her dream of becoming a champion bodybuilder. Discriminated against in female competitions because she's too muscular, he tells her…compete as a man. Love & Muscles explores a lot of the realities of a love affair. If we're seeing a "normal" person is it anyone else's issue but ours? How do we relate to the differences of the people we love? Do we have a right to define what we perceive as their differences as differences? Should we hold ourselves back from being ...

For decades, Mike Mentzer’s High-Intensity Training (HIT) has been treated as gospel by bodybuilders chasing maximum gains with minimum work. But what if everything you’ve been told about one-set-to-failure training is not just incomplete—but scientifically bankrupt? In The Mike Mentzer Myth: Why High-Intensity Training Fails and Volume Prevails, a no-nonsense deconstruction dismantles HIT’s foundational claims with brutal clarity. Drawing on peer-reviewed research, real-world training data, and the principles used by elite athletes, this book exposes the physiological, logical, and...

Many of us have forgotten how to move correctly. We live with muscular imbalances, constant pain and low energy. Adam Sinicki is on a mission to change this. He is best known for his YouTube channel The Bioneer, where he provides expertise on functional training, brain training, productivity, flow states and more. Currently popular functional training is exercise as rehabilitation. It aims to restore normal, healthy strength and mobility using compound and multifaceted movements.

What if we told you: "YOU COULD OWN A WORLD CLASS BODY—whatever your present condition—by doing only two exercises, for twenty minutes a day?" And we are talking about a world class body—a body so lean, ripped and powerful looking, you won't believe your own reflection when you catch yourself in the mirror. And what if we told you, "YOU CAN DO IT without a single supplement, without having to waste your time at a gym and with only a 150 bucks of simple equipment?" And what if we told you, "With only two exercises for twenty minutes a day, you'll not only be stronger than you've ever ...

This book celebrates the joy and fulfillment that can be found in maintaining an active lifestyle as you age. It offers valuable insights and practical advice on how to stay fit and healthy after reaching the age of sixty. Dr. Torres, himself a 60-something marathon runner, emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise and its positive impact on physical and mental well-being. This book guides the creation of a sustainable fitness routine tailored to older adults' needs. The book stands out for its sincerity and genuine nature. Dr. Torres wholeheartedly aims to help others make the most of ...

In a sport where size and definition command admiration too often the internal cost goes unseen until it is too late. Dying for Perfection exposes the true toll of modern bodybuilding’s most extreme protocols. Drawing on verified autopsy reports, clinical research, and firsthand case studies—from Rich Piana to Andreas Münzer—this book reveals the predictable mechanisms by which hearts overgrow, livers fail, kidneys collapse, and electrolytes betray. You will learn to: • Recognize the warning signs of cardiac hypertrophy before collapse • Understand how supraphysiologic hormones ...

For most of the 20th century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next 30 years. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including 25 Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon.

Ross Edgley has spent decades perfecting the principles and practice of extreme fitness to achieve the impossible. Following a career-threatening injury in 2018, Ross was forced to reassess his training and take the next steps in a lifelong journey of redefining what the human body is capable of. In Blueprint, Ross shares the cutting-edge training program that empowered him to rebuild his body from surgery and a doctor’s gloomy prognosis in just 365 days to complete a world record swim.

"...Maintaining a healthy fitness routine requires that you eliminate any reason to not exercise. Start small and only devote 15 minutes a day to exercising if that is all that you think you have time for. Once you start this, you can build from it and completely extinguish the "no time" excuse. If your excuse is that you are too out of shape, then start slowly by walking or even just doing basic stretches. When you exercise, try exercising with other people. The group dynamic has been shown to grant greater endurance and more energy to the individuals in the group. In effect, you will find...

Discover the untold strategy, science, and psychology behind Chris Bumstead’s legendary rise to six Classic Physique Olympia titles. Train Like Chris Bumstead is more than a biography—it’s a behind-the-scenes blueprint of how discipline, aesthetic mastery, and intelligent bodybuilding reshaped an entire division. From his early days training in a basement under the eye of Iain Valliere to redefining the judging standard at the Olympia, Chris’s journey is a masterclass in structured training, strategic nutrition, and elite-level mental conditioning. This book delivers a granular look...

This is THE book for any bodybuilder, athlete, fitness enthusiest or even just the average gym goer who wants real life applicable diet information without the fluff. What you will learn: -How to determine total caloric intake based on your specific goal -Optimal Macronutrient breakdown -Macronutrient Functions -Micronutrients -How to adjust Macronutrients for fat loss or muscle gains -Food Choices -Supplements -How to put together the optimal diet for YOU What This book does NOT contain: -Fad diets -non-sustainable nutrition protocols -useless fluff After reading through our guide you will...