Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.75
EAN: 9780671531638
ISBN: 0671531638
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1984-10-12
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster

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The complete program for building and maintaining a well-conditioned, excellently proportioned body -- for a lifetime of fitness and health.

In Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men, legendary athlete Arnold Schwarzenegger shows you how to achieve the best physical condition of your life. For every man, at every age, Arnold outlines a step-by-step program of excercise, skillfully combining weight training and aerobic conditioning. The result -- total cardiovascular and muscular fitness.

Arnold's program of exercise features stretching, warm-up and warm-down routines, and three series of exercises, each more ambitious than the last, all calculated to help you progress at your own speed. In addition, Arnold contributes important advice about equipment, nutrition and diet, and getting started on your program of exercise.

Special sections of Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men cover training for teenagers, exercises designed to keep you in shape on the road or when you can't get to the gym, and the regimen Arnold followed to win his seven Mr. Olympia titles.

Illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Arnold and other top bodybuilders, Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men will help every man look great and feel terrific.

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Summary: Yo..it works
Comment: Yes, the excercises are basic. Yes, the knowledge revealed is basic.

But the EFFICIENCY of both the knowledge and excercises is amazing. You will do these excercises and see results IF you do them as specified and very quickly. But the problem I ran into was the difficulty. I made progress very rapidly using his system (no joke..it really WORKS even for us skinny guys) and had to drop the ones that put too much pressure on my back but they do indeed work and work well. I even saw results with only doing these twice a week!

But I do recommend learning more about diet if you are serious about bodybuilding. Diet/rest/proper quality and quantity of excercise are the keys.

As a nerd after doing Arnolds system I gained a whole new respect for bodybuilders. The sheer willpower needed to go into the gym and torture yourself like this day after day is awe-inspiring lol.

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Summary: More emphasis on overall fitness
Comment: You get a balance of bodybuilding, cardiovascular fitness and flexibility from these programs, - geared a little more to overall physical fitness than it is to building maximum mass and competitive bodybuilding. It was motivating for me and did a good job in promoting bodybuilding as a part of good physical health and in reducing stress, tension and depression.

The programs have you going through continuous circuits for the whole body, not resting between exercises, and only resting briefly at the end of each circuit, once your conditioning is up to it. This benefits cardiovascular conditioning by keeping the heart rate up, and it saves time.

The importance of warming up before exercising and stretching is covered, and the importance of a well balanced diet for best health. It tells you to consult your doctor before beginning any new strenuous physical activity such as this.

At the end of the book there are photos of Arnold in top shape doing each exercise of his competitive program broken down by the days of the week, and morning and evening (double split routine), and some shots of his posing. The details of his competition program are better explained in Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, and best explained in the Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding.

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Summary: Great for the price
Comment: I had looked at his other book thru a friend and the amount of information was way to much. I was looking for something a bit more moderate and productive. This book was very helpful. The exercises in here work for both levels with a limited amount of equipment. Local gym memberships were expensive around (85) a month and I had some free weights and a bar. This was the solution he even has a guide for buying equipment stating that you can get everything you need for around $300.

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Summary: Timeless Advice That Works Well Today!
Comment: I got this book almost 15 years ago and it really worked for me. I used it to start my own workout regime and I got results within weeks. I still do many of the stretching exercises that I'd learned from this book today at the gym although I don't have as much time as before to do all the weight training exercises. I find both the stretching and the abdominal exercises here to be first class - easy to do and extremely effective - and should time permit and I get more time say at least 3 hours to spare at the gym, I'll try to restart in full the routines outlined in this book. This is highly recommended for anyone who has always wanted to get fit through weight training but didn't know how to start.

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Summary: it works
Comment: I have been working out for over 10 years and never did any sort of workout like this,but it works. I had a surgey and found myself in the weakest shape of my life, so i bought the book read it thaught it was stupid, but gave it a try anyway and now have been doing it for 3 months and can do the circuit with no problem 3 times in 45-50 mininutes with heavey weights.
give it 4 weeks it works

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