Ironman's Ultimate Guide to Building Muscle Mass


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This how-to guide from the pages of "Ironman" magazine includes the best mass building routines of the greatest bodybuilders so readers can get the maximum, proven results.




Fifty Ways to Build Muscle Fast


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Are you almost getting what you want out of your workouts, but you're not sure how to reach the next "level"? Whether you are a competitive bodybuilder or you work out just to shape up, professional health writer and bodybuilder Dave Tuttle can help you reach that next level with 50 Ways to Build Muscle Fast. With 50 Ways to Build Muscle Fast you will learn the latest proven strategies and secrets to building a superior physique. This book will provide you with helpful answers to the most common questions about bodybuilding. The recommendations you will find in this unique book build upon one another, creating mental and physical synergies that will allow you to achieve the greatest improvements in your physique. And when all of your energies are focused in the same direction, you will find that you can enjoy more strength, more lean muscle, and more effective workouts than you ever dreamed possible.




Ironman's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia


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Continuously published since 1936, Ironman is the dean of bodybuilding magazines. Ironman has been showcasing every major bodybuilder, training technique, and scientific advance, along with other aspects of the iron game, longer than any other bodybuilding magazine. With articles by and photos of the greatest names in bodybuilding, the Ironman archives represent the best of bodybuilding in the 20th century. Here, in one definitive, information-packed volume, you have the best that Ironman has to offer. The articles and photos reprinted in Ironman's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia are of enormous and enduring value to beginners and experts alike. A tour de force of bodybuilding information with stunning photos of unrivaled quality, this massive volume covers every aspect of bodybuilding with authority and depth. Included is complete information on: Bodybuilding fundamentals Bodybuilding physiology Shoulder training Chest training Back training Arm training Abdominal training Leg training Training with a system Training with the champions Tricks and secrets to boost growth Training for mass Training for power Mental aspects of training Natural bodybuilding Bodybuilding nutrition Bodybuilding injuries Drugs in bodybuilding With Ironman's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia, you will learn Arnold Schwarzenegger's insights on developing shoulder and back muscles, Mike Mentzer's complete triceps workout, and Lee Haney's tips for the best back training. You will understand how to develop granite abs with Steve Holman and huge chest muscles with Ron Harris. You will also benefit from Bill Starr's Power Rack Training and John Little's Static Contraction Training. This authoritative resource contains the step-by-step methods used by bodybuilders who went on to become Mr. America, Mr. Universe, or Mr. Olympia. Here, the champions reveal their techniques and secrets in their own words. Editor Peter Sisco is the author or coauthor of numerous fitness and bodybuilding books, including Power Factor Training, Power Factor Specialization: Chest & Arms, Power Factor Specialization: Shoulders & Back, Power Factor Specialization: Abs & Legs, Static Contraction Training, and The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout.




Weight Training for Triathlon


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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date triathlon-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by top triathletes world-wide. The book features year-round triathlon-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other triathlon book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was designed specifically for triathletes to increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. This guide will have you shaving off time in all three events by using the most advanced and efficient exercises available. It will have you recording new personal records and reaching all of your goals. By following the year-round programs in the book, you will be able to finish meets with the same energy you exerted when you began. Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilise its programs.




7 Weeks to 10 Pounds of Muscle


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Offers daily training plans for a workout regimen that promises ten pounds of muscle gain in seven weeks, in a work that features step-by-step lifting instructions and a meal plan for maximum muscle growth.




Living Large


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SKINNY GUYS! If you've ever wanted to quickly build 30 pounds of rock-solid, shredded muscle without dangerous bodybuilding drugs, expensive supplements, and long hours in the gym—if you've ever wanted to Live Large—start reading immediately. Let's face it: You're tired. Tired of filling your body with bogus supplements that only give you the most expensive pee in town. Tired of busting your ass in the gym six days a week, only to find you're the same size you were last month and the other guys are twice as big. Tired of all the conflicting and mind-numbingly complex advice floating around in cyberspace. Before professional fitness model Vince Del Monte became The Skinny Guy Savior, he was known as Skinny Vinny—scrawny and weak. As a "hardgainer," he experienced firsthand the challenges of bulking up and had a difficult time putting on muscle. But with his success in developing an enviably ripped physique—and helping many others do the same with his No-Nonsense Muscle Building and Maximize Your Muscle programs—Del Monte has proved even "hardgainers" can build an awe-inspiring body. You too can have the body of your dreams when you stop listening to false advice and learn the truth about gaining weight and building lean muscle mass—the smarter way! In Living Large, Del Monte shares his foolproof, no-nonsense plan for insane muscle gain. His revolutionary program primes your body and mind to pack on your first 30 pounds of muscle in only 30 weeks, with minimal gym time. He even includes customized, easy-to-follow meal plans to optimally fuel your specific body type, whether you're ultra-skinny or starting off a little chubby. In Living Large, you'll find: - 5 essential training principles to gain your first 30 pounds of pure muscle - 5 muscle-building enemies you must avoid - Mass and shred meal plans at every calorie level - 14 simple, no-nonsense nutrition principles - The ultimate exercise execution demonstration guide - 4 supplements that actually work Don't waste hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars with no results. Stop limiting yourself and start Living Large.




No Meat Athlete


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"Combining the winning elements of proven training approaches, motivational stories, and innovative recipes, No Meat Athlete is a unique guidebook, healthy-living cookbook, and nutrition primer for the beginner, every day, and serious athlete who wants to live a meatless lifestyle. Author and popular blogger, Matt Frazier, will show you that there are many benefits to embracing a meat-free athletic lifestyle, including: Weight loss, which often leads to increased speed; Easier digestion and faster recovery after workouts; Improved energy levels to help with not just athletic performance but your day-to-day life; Reduced impact on the planet. Whatever your motivation for choosing a meat-free lifestyle, this book will take you through everything you need to know to apply your lifestyle to your training. Matt Frazier provides practical advice and tips on how to transition to a plant-based diet while getting all the nutrition you need; uses the power of habit to make those changes last; and offers up menu plans for high performance, endurance, and recovery. Once you've mastered the basics, Matt delivers a training manual of his own design for runners of all abilities and ambitions. The manual provides training plans for common race distances and shows runners how to create healthy habits, improve performance, and avoid injuries. No Meat Athlete will take you from the start to finish line, giving you encouraging tips, tricks, and advice along the way"--




Racing Weight


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Racing Weight is a proven weight-management program designed specifically for endurance athletes. Revealing new research and drawing from the best practices of elite athletes, coach and nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald lays out six easy steps to help cyclists, triathletes, and runners lose weight without harming their training. This comprehensive and science-based program shows athletes the best ways to lose weight and avoid the common lifestyle and training hang-ups that keep new PRs out of reach. The updated Racing Weight program helps athletes: Improve diet quality Manage appetite Balance energy sources Easily monitor weight and performance Time nutrition throughout the day Train to getand staylean Racing Weight offers practical tools to make weight management easy. Fitzgerald’s no-nonsense Diet Quality Score improves diet without counting calories. Racing Weight superfoods are diet foods high in the nutrients athletes need for training. Supplemental strength training workouts can accelerate changes in body composition. Daily food diaries from 18 pro athletes reveal how the elites maintain an athletic diet while managing appetite. Athletes know that every extra pound wastes energy and hurts performance. With Racing Weight, cyclists, triathletes, and runners have a simple program and practical tools to hit their target numbers on both the race course and the scale.




Critical Mass


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Weight Training for Cycling


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The typical cycling-training program consists of lots of miles with a few more miles sprinkled on top. While riding a bike is a necessity for being fast on a bike, there is a lot of potential to improve performance with a well-designed strength-training program. With a detailed program that includes mobility work, nutrition guidelines, recovery protocols, and detailed exercise instructions, this book will give you all the tools you need to take your cycling to the next level. No other cycling book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was written specifically for cyclists to increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina and will have you maximizing your performance in all areas. Written by cycling expert Chris Burnham, "Weight Training for Cycling" features a program guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. • Improve cycling performance • Improve flexibility and comfort on the bike • Increase Testosterone, Growth Hormone, and other anabolic hormones • Prevent Overuse Injuries • Prevent age-related diseases like Osteopenia and Sarcopenia