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Featuring the most up-to-date information and 800 pages of color images, "Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding" presents a user-friendly book that offers valuable information on nutrition, supplements, exercising, and posing.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If there's a better value book than this for any sport or hobby, I'd like to see it: a hardback book almost 800 pages long, full colour photos, covers almost everything from beginner, through intermediate, to advanced bodybuilder including bodybuilding competitions, all for (currently) around £22. Outstanding!
This is the "21st Century Edition" of the 1998 book from Robert Kennedy Publishing. If you already own the earlier version you'll find a good proportion of the text is almost identical, but the photo content is all new and the layout/graphic design is bang up to date. However, unlike the 1998 edition this is squarely aimed at guys only, which is a pity, I've had to buy a separate weight-training book for my wife as this new version really did not appeal to her.
Kennedy includes his own M.A.S.S. training system, though I seriously doubt his claim about "...putting on a solid 15 to 20 pounds of muscle over a period of three months.". Other eyebrow-raising phrases crop up: "you'll soon be benching 315 pounds" but this hyperbolae needs to be balanced against the regular warnings regarding overtraining and the insistence to focus on good-form rather than your total poundage lifted.
Kennedy goes where other bodybuilding authors usually fear to tread by including a lucid and objective section covering the various drugs used/abused in bodybuilding, though he makes very clear the risks involved. That said, many of the images used throughout the book feature bodybuilders whose physiques are clearly `chemically enhanced'. I guess he's just being a realist and working on the principle of caveat emptor.
The overall message of the book is refreshingly level-headed and particularly helpful to beginners and early-intermediates: eat cleanly, train sensibly and avoid needless injury.
This is the "21st Century Edition" of the 1998 book from Robert Kennedy Publishing. If you already own the earlier version you'll find a good proportion of the text is almost identical, but the photo content is all new and the layout/graphic design is bang up to date. However, unlike the 1998 edition this is squarely aimed at guys only, which is a pity, I've had to buy a separate weight-training book for my wife as this new version really did not appeal to her.
Kennedy includes his own M.A.S.S. training system, though I seriously doubt his claim about "...putting on a solid 15 to 20 pounds of muscle over a period of three months.". Other eyebrow-raising phrases crop up: "you'll soon be benching 315 pounds" but this hyperbolae needs to be balanced against the regular warnings regarding overtraining and the insistence to focus on good-form rather than your total poundage lifted.
Kennedy goes where other bodybuilding authors usually fear to tread by including a lucid and objective section covering the various drugs used/abused in bodybuilding, though he makes very clear the risks involved. That said, many of the images used throughout the book feature bodybuilders whose physiques are clearly `chemically enhanced'. I guess he's just being a realist and working on the principle of caveat emptor.
The overall message of the book is refreshingly level-headed and particularly helpful to beginners and early-intermediates: eat cleanly, train sensibly and avoid needless injury.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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A good book which is very detailed, having lots of information on all aspects of training.
The only problem I found is that the exercises are not indexed, so you have to thumb though all the pages to find what you are looking for and the exercises are not detailed with diagrams, which I find helps a huge amount.
In all a well priced book, but you may need another book that provides a better explanation and examples of how to do them correctly.
The only problem I found is that the exercises are not indexed, so you have to thumb though all the pages to find what you are looking for and the exercises are not detailed with diagrams, which I find helps a huge amount.
In all a well priced book, but you may need another book that provides a better explanation and examples of how to do them correctly.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I recommend the book to everyone who is a beginner and pro. There is everything inside what you would like to know about bodybuilding, diet, slang, exercises, how your body works, steroids etc. There are a lot of very good quality full colour pictures, poster at the end to hang on the wall, simply it is a very good quality, well edited book.
Above all, for me, the best thing is that the author is not an arrogant like many others who think that their way is the best way and that they know it all. The author shows you how the sport progressed from the early years until present. The old way of bodybuilding and the new one. Shows you many approaches to work out and leaves you to decide which one is the best for you.
Above all, for me, the best thing is that the author is not an arrogant like many others who think that their way is the best way and that they know it all. The author shows you how the sport progressed from the early years until present. The old way of bodybuilding and the new one. Shows you many approaches to work out and leaves you to decide which one is the best for you.
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