The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding : The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised Paperback – Unabridged, November 5, 1999

This is my 2nd copy of this book. I lost the first one a while back when I moved. Thought it was a useful book and decided it was worth a 2nd purchase!

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My grandson bought this one, he says UT had good info for bumping up his workout routines

Arnolds' encyclopedia, his first one from 1985 was my first really good bodybuilding/weight training book I bought this year and it changed my life for the good by teaching me some weightlifting basics I had been overlooking through the years of basic weight lifting a few times a week casually, and motivated me to do more serious lifting, and liked it enough that I decided to buy this new updated version, and it is a good addition to my weight training/bodybuilding library. A weight lifter or someone looking for personal fitness needs the good information in this book, but I advise purchasing several major weight lifting encyclopedias for your personal library, even if you have to buy some used and cheaply priced, my recommendations are defitinely get the Bill Pearl "Keys to the Inner Universe" and "Getting Stronger", Weider "Ultimate Bodybuilding", and one other bodybuilding encyclopedia I bought for reference is the Robert Kennedy "Bodybuilding, the complete A-Z book on musclebuilding", and a couple of other minor smaller books for variety of information given, though for Arnold, I am limiting my purchases to the encyclopedia for right now. My favorite sections are the double split systems mentioned, not that alot of my other books don't have those listed as well, and the good pictures from the good old days of bodybuilding and its sheer size really. Funny, the old book had bold lettering stating it was an encyclopedia, with Arnold's name in smaller print, now the newer version has his name in rather large bold print, and in smaller print the encyclopedia words, wow, what a difference almost a quarter century made, you will find in the new updated version more pics of Arnold in his various movie roles.And of course, there is no reason lifters need any dangerous banned substances like anabolics to cheat their way up the success ladder, most of these encyclopedias warn and talk of the dangers associated with this sport and activity associated with "juicers" and "getting juiced", and Arnolds encyclopedia has an ample section pertaining to the dangers of, etc.AND, I want to make it clear this book was updated with alot of newer information circa 1999, the latest medical knowledge, latest nutrition advice, along with changing out pictures of bodybuilders as examples that were current for the late 90's(though the color photo section of the 1985 book was changed to black and white photos this time), and I really do not believe there have been any real extra breakthroughs since 1999 in the last eleven years, so I believe this book is pretty much "current" in my opinion, and I can't imagine getting into serious weight training without having this book with others as reference. It's also fifty more pages than the older version.

I can't say that there isn't a better work available out there.I CAN say that in years past I've purchased a couple of books such as "The Weider System of Bodybuilding" and "Bodybuilding: The Weider Approach." And this "New Encyclopedia" is so much better than these it isn't even close.This book is marketed as one that is equally necessary for both the novice and amateur bodybuilder as well as the champion Mr. Olympia. I kind of find that a silly approach and since I'm NOT a "Mr. Olympia" and very definitely won't be becoming one any time soon, how great it is for champion bodybuilders is unimportant to me.I'm reviewing this book according to my own need: an encyclopedia of weight training exercises; the muscles that each exercise works; photographs to demonstrate each exercise; and suggested workouts to help a bodybuilder put the exercises into his or her own workout. And to that end, the book simply is excellent.For the record, I didn't see a single picture of a female bodybuilder (apart from when they happened to be standing next to the men). So "designed for women bodybuilders" hardly fits. But I submit that a woman could look over the exercises and put together a training routine just about as well as a man.Many (but not most) of the 800 pages are devoted to aspects of bodybuilding that I simply don't care about, such as posing and being photographed in such a way to make your muscles look their best. I'll let other people discuss how good those sections are and just stick to what I bought the book for. All I wanted was an encyclopedia of bodybuilding exercises.The pictures are all black and white, but there are a LOT of them. It's a great work for the photographs alone.The thing that I will say is that, having looked at the exercises and the description on how to do them and the muscles that are involved (for instance, what workout would you do to maximize the impact of your INNER chest?), I believe that this book will get regular use in my library. And if there's a better book out there to this end, I'll buy it too and still be glad I got this one.

Got this for my man and he loves it

A very good machine.

Friend seems to enjoy the book.