Robert Wolff, Ph.D., lectures throughout the world on fitness, motivation, and high level success principles. He has worked with fitness legends such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lee Haney, Lou Ferrigno, and Franco Columbu. He has also been published in Shape, Men's Fitness, and Flex magazines.
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136 of 142 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is terrible,
By Bob P. (Newport Coast, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bodybuilding 101 : Everything You Need to Know to Get the Body You Want (Paperback)
I honestly have no idea how this book is getting the glowing 5-star comments of other reviews.I'm interested in getting started in bodybuilding at home -- I have a set of free weights and was looking for recommended excercises, how to do them, etc. Based on the glowing recommendations of this book, I got it. It's just terrible. It gives a little bit of weight lifting advice: a list of recommended exercises, with NO DESCRIPTION of what they are. For example, it says to to do a "donkey calf raise" but doesn't describe it. It does have advice like (literally) "don't spit in the drinking fountain at the gym." I didn't need that particular bit. It's very repetitive in the little bit of advice it does give -- it says to eat lots of skinless chicken breasts in about 5 different places. I don't know who would find this book useful. Maybe if you're really into lifting, and want a psych book to help along, you could find it useful. In any case, it is absolutely useless for beginners.
37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Content subscribes to the title,
By Kirk Haselden (Issaquah, Wa, US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bodybuilding 101 : Everything You Need to Know to Get the Body You Want (Paperback)
This should be the first book you buy if you are just starting into bodybuilding. It lives up to the title giving broad but shallow coverage of the subject. I read half of the book the day I bought it and finished the rest the next day. I will probably refer to it often. It's easy to read and assimilate the information it presents and I like the writer's style and the overall organization of the book. The information is served up in small, discrete chunks. The value of the book is that it provides a good foundation upon which you can build a solid understanding of the sport. So, why only 4 stars? While I truly believe that this is a good solid foundational text and that you should buy it, I do NOT believe it is "life altering", and I wanted to offer some balance to some of the other gushing reviews. If you buy the book, do it because it sticks to the subject matter, is informative and motivating, and fulfills the promise of its title not because it will change your life. It won't. It's the sport and your own commitment that does that. This book just provides some fuel for the drive. Also, I agree with one of the other reviewers that this book is repetitive, although not always in a bad way. I would have liked more illustrations on how to do specific lifts, more anatomical charts, more nutrition information and recommended workouts based on body-types, schedule limitations and personal goals etc.. These are all the kinds of information I would expect in a beginner book but were lacking. If you are an absolute beginner and you need to start from a good foundation, buy this book. The book does exactly what the title says it does no more and not much less, which in the sometimes overhyped industry of bodybuilding is something of a welcome anomoly. Finally, if you wish to further your search, I recommend Arnold's book, The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. It covers everything and more than this book covers and in more detail. But, it is harder to read and organized, yes, like an encyclopedia. Buy Bodybuilding 101 for the frame and then buy Arnold's book to add mass to your bodybuilding knowledge base=) JKH
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
5 stars? You gotta be kidding me..,
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This review is from: Bodybuilding 101 : Everything You Need to Know to Get the Body You Want (Paperback)
How is it that Wolff's books get such great reviews? I'm not going to rehash the negative points. Search the reviews for the scant few that gave less than 4 or 5 stars. I think there is some kind of "circle of friends" going around giving 5-star reviews and then going back saying that they found each other's reviews to be helpful. The books certainly are not helpful. Reviewer SBJ400, while having some good reviews on other products, has basically cut and pasted reviews from one Wolff book to another and given them all 5 stars. If you want to get started-out in weight training I'd suggest anything from the "Men's Health" line of products or anything that Lou Schuler has been associated with (even though he is no longer with Men's Health). As far as I'm concerned, "The Book of Muscle" has been pretty much the seminal treatise on weight training for the past couple of years. I've read probably 50 other books on the subject, and none of them has any information that one doesn't have in it.
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