"The Men'sHealth Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever created, it's a body-shapingpower tool for both beginners and longtime lifters alike. And with this updated and revised edition, it's even bigger and better than ever, providing 80 all-new pages of exercises and workouts. From start to finish, this muscle manual bulges with thousands of...

Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends.

Introduces the life of Eugen Sandow, including his sickly childhood in Prussia, his defeat of strongmen Sampson and Cyclops, and his founding of the Great Competition in 1901.

"You've been lifting for a few years. When you take your shirt off, do you look like a professional athlete? Do you even look like you work out? Many fitness "experts" defend weights and cardio like they are infallible, but where are the results? Why does almost nobody look even marginally athletic? Fitness may be the most failed human endeavor, and you are about to see how exercise science has missed some obvious principles that when enacted will...

"The void at the heart of an economically insecure fmaily is laid bare when an analytical son agrees to help his oblivious father compete in a bodybuilding competition. Instantly relatable, impeccably realized, and grimly hilarious, My Father's Diet is eual parts Kierkegaard, This Side of Paradise, and Pumping Iron: an autopsy of antiquated notions of manhood, and the perfect, bite-sized novel for a world always keen to mistake narcissism for introspection."...

Choose from 9 6-week programs designed to increase strength, power, agility, muscle mass and total body conditioning. Each program can be customized to fit your schedule, your life and your goals. Work out at home or in the gym with over 140 of the most effective strength building and body shaping exercises.

"How to get the body that every woman wants... and every man desires. Body sculpting is hot and The Body Sculpting Bible for Women, Third Edition, delivers the heat. This book teaches women how to achieve that perfect look - just the right muscle tone, curves in the right places, great legs, lean & sculpted arms and tight buns. The Body Sculpting Bible for Women, Third Edition, has all the body-part specific fat-burning exercises that made the originals...

Presents a training guide to improving muscle strength and overall appearance, providing instructions for 125 exercises geared toward varying levels of fitness, and requiring only the resistance of one's own bodyweight.