Body Building

From a skinny 150-pound kid to a 205-pound bodybuilder. Anyone who works out with weights or follows the bodybuilding lifestyle should own this book. Follow the journey with Paul as he first encounters his first barbell and steroid cycle. His ultimate goal is to look like a physical superhuman and to become a professional bodybuilder.

Before fitness influencers, Instagram abs, and overpriced shaker cups, there was Gold’s Gym—raw, rusted, unapologetic. This book drags you into the sweat-soaked, gear-fueled world of Venice Beach in the 1970s, when bodybuilding was still a fringe obsession and the men chasing mass were part cult, part circus, and fully committed. This brutally honest account strips away the modern gloss to reveal the truth beneath the pump: the splits, the cycles, the unspoken rules, the hunger, the pain, and the fragile egos stuffed into bodies too big for regular life. This was the era of Arnold, ...

On the last night of the 2021 CrossFit Games, ten thousand fans watched in horror as Brooke Wells’ elbow dislocated under the weight of a 190-pound barbell. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: How Wells pulled off a highly improbable comeback that transformed her mentally and physically into one of the fittest women in the world. In Resilient, Wells provides a refreshingly honest, authentic account of how she overcame fear, self-doubt, and a slew of unexpected obstacles to return to the CrossFit Games less than a year after undergoing total elbow reconstruction.

Find out the reasons why you are not gaining muscle!Discover the exact mind-set needed to build massive muscle (without it, you will face certain defeat!). How to train for real muscle mass and that you can keep! Why it's critical to find the right training partner and how to do it. Bodybuilding diet secrets to getting huge. The nine best ways to get the anabolic advantage. And much, much more!

No fluff. No hype. Just muscle, sweat, and hard truths. Bodybuilding For Beginners is a blunt, fact-driven guide for anyone who’s tired of second-guessing their workouts or blindly following garbage advice from Instagram gurus. If you’ve ever stepped into a gym and thought, “Am I doing any of this right?”—this book is your answer. Inside, you’ll learn how to lift properly, eat smartly, avoid injury, and actually make progress without spending every waking hour flexing in the mirror. Forget the noise. This is the blueprint for getting bigger and stronger, without turning into a ...

Push Pull is the no-nonsense bodybuilding blueprint for lifters who want real results—without gimmicks, fluff, or guesswork. Built around the time-tested push-pull split, this method delivers a brutally effective framework for hypertrophy, strength, and long-term progression. Whether you're cutting fat, adding size, or training around injury, the system adapts—because it's built on movement patterns, not trends. Inside, you'll learn how to structure push and pull training for maximal efficiency, why frequency and volume must be balanced—not blindly maxed—and how to avoid the common ...

Unlock the most advanced training strategies in modern bodybuilding and performance science. Blood & Iron is the definitive guide to cluster sets and blood flow restriction (BFR) training—two powerful, research-backed methods that push muscle growth, strength gains, and recovery efficiency far beyond conventional programs. Whether you're an elite athlete, dedicated lifter, or rehabilitation professional, this book delivers the protocols, rationale, and real-world applications you need to train smarter and grow harder. Learn how cluster sets allow for higher loads, faster bar speed, and ...

Ronnie Coleman didn’t just win—he redefined what it meant to dominate. Yeah Buddy: The Ronnie Coleman Story delivers the unfiltered, unapologetic biography of the eight-time Mr. Olympia who turned pain into performance, muscle into mythology, and left his spine—and the sport—forever changed. From humble beginnings in Bastrop, Louisiana, to legendary training sessions at Metroflex Gym, this book chronicles the full journey of the world’s strongest bodybuilder. It covers every rep, every rival, and every injury in detail—from his days as a police officer eating out of a cooler in ...

REDISCOVER YOUR STRENGHT, ENERGY, AND CONFIDENCE, THE NATURAL WAY As men get older, it’s normal for testosterone levels to gradually decline, often by 1–2% each year. By the time you hit your 60s, you could be working with 30% less testosterone than you had in your prime. The result? Slower metabolism, lower energy, reduced libido, brain fog, and more. The Supercharge Method is your practical, step-by-step guide to naturally boosting testosterone levels and reclaiming the vitality you remember, all in just 30 days. No expensive therapies. No risky procedures. Just straightforward, ...

Popular Steroid Stacks is not a motivational book. It’s a no-BS, brutally honest breakdown of the most common steroid cycles and enhancement protocols used in modern bodybuilding. If you’re tired of vague forums, bad YouTube advice, and chemically enhanced influencers pretending they’re natural, this book spells it out in plain English. No fluff, no dodging, no sugar-coating. Just the raw truth about what people are actually injecting, swallowing, and suffering through to look the way they do. Inside, you’ll get detailed profiles of real-world steroid stacks—from beginner Test-...

"The Bro Split: Bodybuilder's Guide to Single Muscle Group Training" is an authoritative resource meticulously crafted for those passionate about bodybuilding, aiming to maximize their muscular growth, strength, and definition through the disciplined application of the Bro Split training method. This guide delves into the nuances of dedicating entire workout sessions to individual muscle groups, offering readers an in-depth exploration of how to customize their routines for optimal results. The book opens with a rich historical narrative, tracing the Bro Split's evolution from its inception...

Bodybuilder's Guide to Anabolic Steroids is a definitive resource for understanding the multifaceted world of anabolic steroids. With rigorous attention to detail, the book delves into the scientific underpinnings and real-world applications of steroid use and management. From the biological mechanisms of steroids and their varied effects on the human body to the intricacies of cycle planning and post-cycle recovery, this guide leaves no stone unturned. The chapters provide a systematic breakdown of essential topics including legal ramifications, societal implications, and the global ...

The author of this book, Richard Schuller, has a career spanning 60 years of weight lifting, 25 of them as a national/international competitive powerlifter. He's loaded this book with information critical to lifters who want to maximize their strength and power. Becoming an advanced or elite lifter requires perfect technique, all steps of which are covered in this book. He includes subjects often overlooked by the inexperienced lifter: planning for workouts, how to keep useful records, overtraining, recovering between sessions, and maintaining a winning mental approach. Advanced lifters ...

No more slave to the gym but free and tonic with only 4 hours a month Twenty years ago, when I was twenty-one, I enrolled in the gym with all the good intentions. I didn't want to waste time or money on the subscription. So I began to buy all the magazines in the sector at the time. In those days, the internet was not as widespread as it is now. On the glossy pages of those magazines the thought reigned supreme: "more is better". I had greedily read everything there was to read and had memorized the training routines, diet regimens and even the personal habits of all the best champions but ...

Train Like Arnold in the Golden Era is not a feel-good fitness guide. It’s a raw, unsentimental immersion into the world of 1970s bodybuilding—told through the eyes of a lifer who trained, suffered, and survived under the same roof as the legends. From the concrete floors of Gold’s Gym to the backstage hell of pump-up rituals, this book strips away the myths and exposes the method behind Arnold Schwarzenegger’s dominance. There’s no fluff. No modern marketing. Just iron, obsession, and the violent discipline it takes to chase perfection in a sport built on self-destruction. ...

Whether you're a seasoned bodybuilder seeking to break through plateaus or a dedicated novice hungry for accelerated results, "Advanced Bodybuilding Techniques" provides the roadmap to transform your body and redefine your limits.

This is not another recycled bodybuilding manual full of guesswork, high-volume fluff, and gym folklore. MIKE MENTZER: THE COMPLETE HEAVY DUTY TRAINING SYSTEM is the definitive presentation of Mentzer’s revolutionary philosophy, delivered without compromise, myth, or unnecessary decoration. Based directly on Mentzer’s own teachings, lectures, and recorded transcripts, this book organizes his full training methodology into thirty no-nonsense chapters. Every page reflects his brutal honesty, logic-based programming, and deep contempt for the fitness industry’s addiction to overtraining,...

Tired of skipping workouts, losing momentum, and waiting for motivation that never comes? Do It Anyway is the brutally honest guide for anyone who knows what they should do—but never feels like doing it. This isn’t a book about hype, hacks, or feel-good mantras. It’s about action. Real, gritty, no-excuse action. Inside, you’ll dismantle the myth of motivation, expose the mental traps that sabotage consistency, and learn how to build a training habit that sticks—even when you're tired, cranky, or overwhelmed. Each chapter delivers a direct hit to the patterns that keep people stuck...

Iron Divide: Natural Bodybuilding vs. Enhanced Performance is a raw, unsentimental dissection of the bodybuilding world’s most enduring schism: those who chase size with chemistry, and those who claim to build naturally. Through 30 no-nonsense chapters, the book exposes the myths, half-truths, and blatant lies that define both camps—natural and enhanced—and the delusional middle ground between them. From testosterone and Trenbolone to SARMs and insulin, every major performance-enhancing compound is unpacked in clinical, factual terms. The book doesn’t glorify the gains or sanitize ...

Discover the uncompromising life and legacy of Mike Mentzer—bodybuilding’s most cerebral iconoclast. Mike Mentzer: The Man Behind Heavy Duty is a definitive exploration of the man who transformed high-intensity training into a philosophy, not just a method. From his strict upbringing in Pennsylvania to the mental crucible of the U.S. Air Force, and from the infamous 1980 Mr. Olympia controversy to his final years as a philosopher-coach, this book captures the full depth of a man who reshaped bodybuilding by demanding logic where others offered lore. Mentzer’s story is not just one of ...