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Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding: The Complete A-Z Book on Muscle Building
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| List Price: | £21.99 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #27953 in Books
- Published on: 2008-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 800 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Customer Reviews
If you buy only one bodybuilding book this year, get this one
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.
