List of 10 books for Bodybuilding. Bodybuilding is a sport where you display a level of aesthetics and muscle size that is visible (very little fat) and to out-pose your competitors to give that illusion of size and proportion.
Author : Robert Kennedy
A guide for today's bodybuilders features hundreds of detailed photographs while instructing readers on how to work in accordance with their natural body types, build mass, and establish appropriate nutritional and exercise balances.
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Author : Arnold Schwarzenegger
A book specifically written for anyone who enjoys working with weights or who simply likes keeping fit and healthy, ‘The New Encyclopaedia Of Modern Body Building’ has earned its reputation of being the ‘holy grail’ of bodybuilding.
The book is a comprehensive study of the entire world of bodybuilding, which starts from a knowledge about the latest advances in bodybuilding competitions and weight training and covers everything from sports psychology, the required nutrition and diet and the various methods of training to the various injuries that can be incurred, their prevention techniques and treatments. What’s more alluring about this book is that all these sections have been properly illustrated with detailed photographs of some of the newest stars of bodybuilding.
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Author : Erin Stern
If you want to burn fat, build lean muscle, and get strong, you need to train like a bodybuilder!
Natural bodybuilder and two-time Ms. Figure Olympia Erin Stern knows what it takes to build a body the right way. Now you can use the same natural bodybuilding techniques Erin uses to build lean, strong muscle and create a strong, ripped physique. In Train Like a Bodybuilder, Erin takes you through her techniques and teaches you everything you need to know, including how to plan workouts, how to bulk up, how to cut fat, how to use nutrition to maximize the benefits of your hard work, and how to take advantage of the essential mind-muscle connection to get the results you're seeking.
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Author : Frederic Delavier
Over 1 million copies sold! With new exercises, additional stretches, and more of Frederic Delavier's signature illustrations, you'll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during strength exercises. This one-of-a-kind best-seller combines the visual detail of top anatomy texts with the best of strength training advice. Many books explain what muscles are used during exercise, but no other resource brings the anatomy to life like Strength Training Anatomy. Over 600 full-color illustrations reveal the primary muscles worked along with all the relevant surrounding structures, including bones, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissue. Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the anatomical depictions show both superficial and deep layers and detail how various setup positions affect muscle recruitment and emphasize underlying structures. New pages show common strength training injuries in a fascinating light and offer precautions to help you exercise safely. Author and illustrator Frederic Delavier is the former editor in chief of the French publication PowerMag. He is a journalist for Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to Men's Health Germany and several other strength training publications.
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Author : Erin Stern
Build muscle, burn fat, and chisel your physique with 100 delicious recipes and customized bodybuilding meal plans.
How do professional bodybuilders get that unmistakable look? It's as much about what happens in the kitchen as it is about what happens in the gym. Professional bodybuilders fuel their bodies with specific nutrients delivered at precise intervals to achieve their sculpted physiques, and now you can, too. The Bodybuilder's Kitchen provides expert guidance on what to eat and when to eat it, and helps you understand how your body uses what you eat to burn fat and build lean, strong muscle. With five weekly meal plans, 100 delicious recipes, and expert insight from champion bodybuilder Erin Stern, you'll get everything you need to fuel your workouts and achieve the bodybuilder physique.
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Author : Jim Stoppani
Finally, a research-based book that covers all facets of optimizing the development of muscle and strength. Jim Stoppani's Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, Second Edition, is a comprehensive training guide and reference that provides * definitions of key terms and concepts; * evaluations of equipment options, including TRX, BOSU, and kettlebells; * explanations of the role and importance of each muscle group; * latest nutrition information for losing fat and increasing muscle mass; *
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Author : Michael Matthews
MICHAEL MATTHEWS' #1 BESTSELLING NATURAL BODYBUILDING BOOK WITH OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD. If you want to build muscle, lose fat, and look great as quickly as possible without steroids, good genetics, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on supplements ... regardless of your age ... then you want to read this book.
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Author : Kendall Lou Schmidt
For over a decade, bodybuilding expert and personal fitness trainer Kendall Lou Schmidt has helped hundreds of clients, including many world-class athletes and elite physique contenders, achieve spectacular results through easy and effective recipes and customizable meal plans, available now in this book. Her exclusive trade secrets for getting stronger and leaner are some of the best in the biz, and are available now in The Ultimate Bodybuilding Cookbook.
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Author : Franco Columbu
Dr. Franco Columbu, internationally known bodybuilding champion, has written a book that provides a commonsense approach to training with weights - whether for competition or just to get into shape. Columbu is a two-time Mr. Olympia winner who first wrote this book in 1977, when it sold 500,000 copies. Creators Publishing has brought it back with the paperback, ebook and audiobook. In the audiobook, recorded with Rick Newcombe, cofounder of Creators Publishing, Franco answers many questions to update his training advice and tells stories about what life was like during the Golden Age of bodybuilding. The audiobook contains priceless stories about the young Franco and his best friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger, when they first arrived in America from Europe. The book is loaded with useful information for getting in shape, and it is very inspiring for training!
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Author : Chris Aceto
Trying to lose weight but just too confused as where to start? Everything You Need to Know About Fat Loss will show you the way. You will learn and understand the effects total calories, types of calories and exercise exert on body fat loss and body fat inhibition. The author covers 8 important topics in 11 chapters. The topics include:
