The Body Builders


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A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week: “An exhilarating look at the cutting edge of bioengineering. . . . a mind-bending read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) For millennia, humans have tried—and often failed—to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: The greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize mankind. In The Body Builders, Adam Piore takes us on a fascinating journey into the field of bioengineering—which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, and augment human beings—and paints a vivid portrait of the people at its center. Chronicling the ways new technology has retooled our physical expectations and mental processes, Piore visits people who have regrown parts of their fingers and legs in the wake of terrible traumas; tries on a muscle suit that allows him to lift ninety pounds with his fingertips; dips into the race to create “Viagra for the brain”; and shadows the doctors trying to give mute patients the ability to communicate telepathically. As science continues to lay bare the mysteries of human performance, it is helping us to see—and exist—above our expectations. The Body Builders goes beyond the headlines and the hype to reveal the inner workings and the outer reaches of our bodies and minds, and explore how new developments are changing, and will forever change, what is possible for humankind. Weaving powerful storytelling with groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us triumph over the limitations and constraints we’ve long accepted as an inevitable part of being human. “Piore writes gracefully, and with deep insight, about complex scientific endeavors that could ease human suffering but are fraught with myriad ethical perils.” —Publishers Weekly




Love Your Body


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What if every young girl loved her body? Love Your Body encourages you to admire and celebrate your body for all the amazing things it can do (like laugh, cry, hug, and feel) and to help you see that you are so much more than your body. Bodies come in all different forms and abilities. All these bodies are different and all these bodies are good bodies. There is no size, ability, or color that is perfect. What makes you different makes you, you--and you are amazing! Love Your Body introduces the language of self-love and self-care to help build resilience, while representing and celebrating diverse bodies, encouraging you to appreciate your uniqueness. This book was written for every girl, regardless of how you view your body. All girls deserve to be equipped with the tools to navigate an image-obsessed world. Freedom is loving your body with all its "imperfections" and being the perfectly imperfect you!




Muscle Works


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Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today This book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Broderick D. V. Chow shows how these modes of display contribute to the construction and deconstruction of definitions of masculinity. Attending to its theatrical origins, Chow argues for a more nuanced understanding of fitness culture, one informed by the legacies of self-described Strongest Man in the World Eugen Sandow and the history of fakery in strongman performance; the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt and the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee; and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies.




Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness


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One of the world's most recognized vegan bodybuilders presents a comprehensive guide to building a fit body on a plant-based diet. Author Robert Cheeke inspires people to develop magnificent bodies. His experience with diet, training, contest preparation and other facets of this sport make Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness a fantastic resource for beginners and experienced athletes alike. Readers are provided with insight into the mental and physical aspects involved in becoming a successful bodybuilder. An overview of nutrients and how they function in the body, along with mass-building menus for training, show how to thrive as an athlete and bodybuilder on a vegan diet. Recommendations are given on how to create a successful training regimen that will yield the best results. Throughout the text the author's voice resonates with passion, dedication, and determination. From invaluable advice on how to find sponsorship and make bodybuilding a career to learning how to use bodybuilding for activism and outreach, readers find multi-leveled support for their lifestyle. A resource section is included for products, services and equipment that are completely vegan. Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness leaves a lasting impact by providing tools for motivation and commitment for any area of life.




Muscle


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A new kind of fitness book: a celebration of muscle; an exploration of muscle; and a regime for building muscle."Muscle", devised and produced by the editorial team of Men's Health magazine, explains and illustrates how your muscles operate:- shows you how your muscles are built systemically and how hormonal factors contribute to muscle growth;- tells you the truth about muscle-building possibilities;- presents total muscle-building programmes;- and demonstrates workouts that work wonders.This stunning book is packed from cover to cover with beautiful, hard-body photographs that blur the boundaries between art and reference.




Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook


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Based on the New York Times bestseller The Body Is Not an Apology, this is an action guide to help readers practice the art of radical self-love both for themselves and to transform our society. Readers of The Body Is Not an Apology have been clamoring for guidance on how to do the work of radical self-love. After crowdsourcing her community, Sonya Renee Taylor found her readers wanted more concrete ideas on how to apply this work in their everyday lives. Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook is the action guide that gives them tools and structured frameworks they can begin using immediately to deepen their radical self-love journey—such as Taylor's four pillars of practice, which help readers dismantle body shame and give them access to a lifestyle rooted in love. Taylor guides readers to move beyond theory and into doing and being radical self-love change agents in the world. “In this book, you will be asked to draw, color, doodle, talk to friends, take risks, and perhaps step outside of what feels like your natural gifts and talents,” Taylor writes. “I encourage you to release the need to be ‘good' at what you are doing and instead strive to be authentic. Perfection is the enemy of radical self-love because it is an impossible illusion. When the voice of perfectionism chimes in, take a deep breath, remember that the work is about the process, not about the product, and give yourself permission to be fabulously unapologetically imperfect.”




The Body Engineer


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THE #1 NO BS NATURAL BODYBUILDING BOOK WITH WORKOUT VIDEOS INCLUDED If you want to build muscle, lose fat, and look great as quickly as possible without the use of steroids, good genetics, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on supplements...then this book is for YOU. Here's the deal: Do you ever find yourself confused, not believing, or just unmotivated? It's okay, it's not your fault. The market for fitness information is over-saturated with BS information. The truth is, building muscle and burning fat isn't nearly as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. You don't need to spend hundreds of dollars per month on the worthless workout supplements that steroid-fueled bodybuilders "swear by." You don't need to constantly change up your weightlifting exercises to build muscle mass. Muscle building is much simpler than that. You don't need to spend a couple of hours every day doing tons of weight training sets, supersets, drop sets, etc. You don't need to grind out hours of boring cardio to shed ugly belly fat and get a six-pack. You probably don't have to do ANY cardio, actually. Those are just a few of the harmful myths that keep guys like you from ever achieving the ripped, muscular, strong, and healthy body you deserve. And in this book you're going to learn something most people will never know that stop them from getting to the next level... The key to muscle building nutrition and training methods that make putting on 10 to 15 lbs. of chiseled mass with a breeze...and it only takes a few months. 90 days in fact. You know the old saying of knowledge is power? It's true. This book reveals... The biggest muscle building mistakes that keep doers small, weak, and frustrated. How to lose fat and build muscle while eating the worlds most nutrient dense foods that get you feeling like a new YOU. An all-in-one bodybuilding routine that will give you a big, full chest...a wide, tapered back...bulging arms...and thick, powerful legs...in just 3 to 6 hours of exercise per week...doing weight training workouts that you actually wake up and look forward to. A no-BS guide to bodybuilding supplements that will save you from wasting THOUSANDS of dollars each year on bunk science and marketing hype. (This book will pay for itself tenfold. How to master your mind and to develop the self-discipline and motivation you need to engineer the body of your dreams. If you like bodybuilding motivation, this guide is for you! What to eat before and after your workouts to build muscle fast. Your Pre & Post workout meal make bodybuilding diet plans maximally effective. Imagine...in just 90 days from now...having a head turning physique and being constantly asked how the heck you're doing it... Imagine enjoying the added benefits of high energy levels, no aches and pains, more libido, clear thinking, and knowing that you're working towards a better YOU everyday... The bottom line is you CAN achieve that "Hollywood" body without having your whole life revolve around it. It's easy! There are just some things you need to know.. SPECIAL BONUS FOR READERS! With this fitness book you'll also get workout videos that guide you though every single workout, a detailed grocery list with the most nutrient dense foods that you can buy, workout plans, workout result sheets, supplement and nutrition guides to maximize a better YOU in the shortest amount of time! Scroll up, click the "Buy" button now, and begin your journey to feeling better, looking better, getting back in shape, and a much better YOU!




The Hero's Body: A Memoir


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A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his “unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,” Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers.




Bigger Leaner Stronger


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Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body By Michael Matthews