Authors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins
ISBN-13: 9780671531638, ISBN-10: 0671531638
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: October 1984
Edition: Reprint
Arnold Schwarzenegger has won more bodybuilding titles than anyone else in the world, including seven Mr. Olympia titles. He is the author of Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder and Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women, both national best sellers.
The complete program for building and maintaining a well-conditioned, excellently proportioned body -- for a lifetime of fitness and health.
In Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men, legendary athlete Arnold Schwarzenegger shows you how to achieve the best physical condition of your life. For every man, at every age, Arnold outlines a step-by-step program of excercise, skillfully combining weight training and aerobic conditioning. The result -- total cardiovascular and muscular fitness.
Arnold's program of exercise features stretching, warm-up and warm-down routines, and three series of exercises, each more ambitious than the last, all calculated to help you progress at your own speed. In addition, Arnold contributes important advice about equipment, nutrition and diet, and getting started on your program of exercise.
Special sections of Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men cover training for teenagers, exercises designed to keep you in shape on the road or when you can't get to the gym, and the regimen Arnold followed to win his seven Mr. Olympia titles.
Illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Arnold and other top bodybuilders, Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men will help every man look great and feel terrific.
Introduction | 9 | |
I | Fitness and Bodybuilding | 11 |
What Is Fitness? | 11 | |
Getting Started | 24 | |
Equipment | 30 | |
II | The Program | 35 |
Getting Ready | 36 | |
Stretching Program | 38 | |
Warm-ups | 48 | |
Warm-downs | 58 | |
The Exercise Series: How the Program Works | 68 | |
III | Series I | 69 |
IV | Series II | 108 |
V | Series III | 124 |
Taking the Next Step | 124 | |
Adapting Series III Exercises for Specialized Training | 128 | |
VI | Improvisational Training | 161 |
VII | Teenage Training | 174 |
VIII | Competition Bodybuilding | 192 |
IX | Diet and Nutrition | 227 |
X | Weight Training for All Ages | 233 |