Did anyone read Flex Wheeler's book Flex ability

[alexxx]

Dont buy it. I read it in one day back in 2003.

He says he was molested as a child, tried to kill himself, used roids from high school on, became a bouncer, lived off of some women in Venice so he could train full time, became a top pro, talks about the car accident after an orgy, had health problems, he then turned to God, then he lies about being natural at the 2002 Olympia.

No names are really dropped by the way.

Sounds like a class act.

[jaejonna]

Dont buy it. I read it in one day back in 2003.

He says he was molested as a child, tried to kill himself, used roids from high school on, became a bouncer, lived off of some women in Venice so he could train full time, became a top pro, talks about the car accident after an orgy, had health problems, he then turned to God, then he lies about being natural at the 2002 Olympia.

No names are really dropped by the way.

What a prick ....

Flex Wheeler --"To Kevin Levrone, I dont knock on doors, I kick them down!"

[LuciusFox]

Yup. That's the book right there.

  Anyone know how many pages it is?

[NubianMuscle]

  Anyone know how many pages it is?

199 pages

[sarcasm]

does he tell the story about the "tiger paw" in it?

[Sean-DeMarco]

I am debating whether or not to buy it used off of amazon.com.  Most of the reviews have been negative.

And since I know Flex has the tendency to lie/embellish I don't know if I want to waste 10 bucks.

...I've both bought and read the book. Pretty eye opening. And to the haters, don't form an opinion until you've read it.~

[efirkey]

I read it and don't really remember it.  I do recommend it though with so few good bodybuilding books out there to choose from.  Pumping Iron was probably my favorite bb book.

[rocket]

...I've both bought and read the book. Pretty eye opening. And to the haters, don't form an opinion until you've read it.~

Like I said earlier.  The haters recognise that whether they hate the book or not, they are sending money to flex and that is against their nature.

[JeanPaul]

Good book

[mrsirjojo]

Read Bob Paris' Gorilla Suit: My Adventures in Bodybuilding and Muscle: Confessions of a Bodybuilder by Samuel Fussell. Both were excellent and actually written by the authors themselves.

Paris' is told partially in flashback as he contemplates coming out of retirement in 95. He talks about what it was like behind the scenes, about drugs, Munzer, Weider, and about growing up gay in a small town. I'm not big on Brokeback-type stories, but his was very well done.

Fussell was a tall skinny Yale-bound geek who was bitten by the bodybuilding bug, made it his entire life for a couple years, and got out.

Also, if you like biographies actually written by the athletes and not ghostwritten like Wheeler's book (or any Flex article supposedly written by a bodybuilder), check out Mick Foley's two books.

[Undisputed]

I borrowed it from someone, but I would probably pay 10 bucks considering that some muscle mags are approaching 7 bucks...There is a ton of self pity involved with the book, I never felt sorry for him once.  I lost some respect with the whole 'afraid to win the Olympia attitude'.  Not much gossip or talk of drugs if that's what people are expecting.

[NotMrAverage]

itīs worth it for laughs cause its ghostwritten by someone else for like 80 percent, and the pics in it are great and of good quality. thats worth it alone. cmon 10 bucks man.

[LuciusFox]

Read Bob Paris' Gorilla Suit: My Adventures in Bodybuilding and Muscle: Confessions of a Bodybuilder by Samuel Fussell. Both were excellent and actually written by the authors themselves.

Paris' is told partially in flashback as he contemplates coming out of retirement in 95. He talks about what it was like behind the scenes, about drugs, Munzer, Weider, and about growing up gay in a small town. I'm not big on Brokeback-type stories, but his was very well done.

Fussell was a tall skinny Yale-bound geek who was bitten by the bodybuilding bug, made it his entire life for a couple years, and got out.

Also, if you like biographies actually written by the athletes and not ghostwritten like Wheeler's book (or any Flex article supposedly written by a bodybuilder), check out Mick Foley's two books.

   
     What makes you think they aren't ghostwritten?

[DR. NO]

Flex should have had something in his book about a secret order of homosexual priests who hold a spell over Joe Wedier and Governor Schwarzenneger.  Their goal is to grow a bodybuilder into an international celebrity, then have him work his way into American politics, elected office and then into the White House -- at which time he then takes over the world -- with the secret ......
 oh, well. you get it .....

the book was boring.  he didnt tell all. 

[willie mosconi]

yeah, the book is poorly written. It is hard to believe anything that is written in it.

[Earl1972]

whatever happened to getbigger "flexfan" I'm sure he read the book

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[honest]

cant believe they deleted my post 

[willie mosconi]

whatever happened to getbigger "flexfan" I'm sure he read the book

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I'm posting under this "handle" now. I got tired of the "flexfan" handle.

[LuciusFox]

yeah, the book is poorly written. It is hard to believe anything that is written in it.

  Proof that it wasn't ghostwritten