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Bodybuilding 101 : Everything You Need to Know to Get the Body You Want [Paperback]

Robert Wolff (Author)
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April 11, 1999
From the pages of Muscle & Fitness magazine comes Bodybuilding 101, a complete motivational how-to guide based on Robert Wolff's immensely popular column in the world-renowned fitness magazine. Covering everything from nutrition basics, common training mistakes, and powerful mental strategies to specialized training for your body type and the 22 best machine exercises, Bodybuilding 101 appeals to men and women of all ages, from beginner to advanced fitness enthusiast--anyone who desires a stronger, firmer, and shapelier body but does not have the know-how to achieve it. In order to help explain exercises step-by-step, Bodybuilding 101 contains more than 200 photos by the best physique and exercise photographers in the industry. Robert Wolff is a true fitness and motivation authority who has helped thousands reach their absolute best. Let him show you the way to achieve incredible, lifetime-lasting results in the quickest way possible. Robert Wolff, Ph.D., lectures throughout the world on fitness, motivation, and high-level success principles. He has worked with such fitness legends as Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Lee Haney, Steve Reeves, Lou Ferrigno, Rachel McLish, and Cory Everson and has been published in Shape, Men's Fitness, and Flex. "Of all the writers who have written for my magazines, one of the best who's changed the lives of people through bodybuilding and motivation is Robert Wolff. He has the uncanny ability for discovering the subtleties that turn a good exercise into a great one and for cutting through the hype to explain it to the average man and woman in easy and motivating ways that they'll understand and remember." --Joe Weider "No other physical activity can change your body faster than bodybuilding, and no other writer and book can give you the real priceless jewels of training wisdom learned from years of gym workouts and working alongside the greatest names in the sport like Robert Wolff and Bodybuilding 101. This book will be a guide that you'll refer to time and time again because Robert Wolff's inspirational message is timeless." --Cory Everson, six-time Ms. Olympia and bestselling author "Robert Wolff is in a class of his own. Few writers can capture the muscle and soul of bodybuilding like him. You're holding a book written by the man who can give you a priceless world of knowledge and save you much wasted time and frustration." --Lee Haney, eight-time Mr. Olympia and world champion bodybuilder "What a breath of fresh air it is to have someone who really knows his stuff come along and write a book with information that works incredibly well. Robert Wolff is such a writer, and Bodybuilding 101 is a book that can get you in great shape much quicker than you ever thought possible." --Rachel McLish, two-time Ms. Olympia and bestselling author "Robert Wolff shares the same passion for the sport of natural bodybuilding that I have, and he has intuitive understanding of and in-the-gym knowledge about all aspects of training. It's with pleasure that I highly recommend his book. His message and book will change your physique and your life!" --Steve Reeves, former Mr. American and Mr. Universe


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About the Author

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.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (April 11, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0809227843
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809227846
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Meet the Author

About Robert Wolff

Robert Wolff's publishing career began more than 20 years ago, when fitness and publishing legend, Joe Weider (founder and publisher of Shape, Muscle & Fitness, Men's Fitness magazines) asked him to write for his magazines.

During his tenure with Joe Weider, Joe sent Robert all over the world to interview the biggest names in fitness, science and entertainment including two-time Nobel winner, the late Dr. Linus Pauling, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Evander Holyfield, Arnold Schwarzenegger and hundreds of others.

At the age of 34, Robert was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in recognition of his accomplishments in motivating people all over the world to change their lives through health and fitness.

Robert's magazine columns have enjoyed a global reach of more than 7 Million readers a month, in 60 countries and in 15 foreign language translations. His writings have appeared all over the world including hundreds of internationally published articles in newspapers and magazines including Cosmopolitan, Shape, and others.

He has interviewed Academy, Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe and Nobel award winners and written more than 30 books and has a worldwide following of readers in more than 65 countries.



 

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136 of 142 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars This book is terrible, January 21, 2000
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Bob P. (Newport Coast, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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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.

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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Content subscribes to the title, December 30, 1999
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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
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars? You gotta be kidding me.., March 13, 2005
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Todd Stephens (Lakeland, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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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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bodybuilding success, bodybuilding goals, many bodybuilders, front delts, advanced bodybuilder, hard gainer, most bodybuilders, partial reps, rear delts, finishing movement, cable curl, hack squat, mass tip, barbell curl, barbell press, bigger chest, seated calf raise, beginner program, dumbbell row, bench dip, cable row, peak contraction, overhand grip, minimal rest, dumbbell curl
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