Mar 2 2009

Increasing Muscular Strength through Weight Training

The workout principles I will give you in this article will be mostly for maintenance and possibly some slight improvements in strength depending on how much endurance training you do. Notice how I said principles, I am not going to give direct workout plans here no matter how much people love to have everything laid [...]

Feb 18 2009

Arnold, The Education of a Bodybuilder

From The Back Cover: Five-time Mr. Universe, Seven-time Mr. Olympia, and Mr. World, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the name in bodybuilding. Here is the classic bestselling autobiography which explains how the “Austrian Oak” came to the sport of bodybuilding and aspired to be the star he has become. “I still remember that first visit ;to the [...]

Feb 4 2009

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder

From The Back Cover: At age 26, scrawny, Oxford-educated Samuel Fussell entered a YMCA gym in New York to escape the terrors of big city life. Four years and 80 lbs. of firm, bulging muscle later, he was competing for bodybuilding titles in the “iron Mecca” of Southern California–so weak from intense training and starvation [...]