The top three books on lifting

[The Powerlifter]

1. Starting Strength

2. Super Squats

3. The Strongest Shall Survive

Obtain these three books and spend 6 months on each one. In a year and a half you will be a muscle machine.

[The Scott]

I have Super Squats, Dinosaur Training and just today picked up Mentzer's last tome, High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way.

Should be as the others listed,  a good, sound, inspirational read. 

[Coach is Back!]

Science and Practice of Strength Training, V. Zatsiorsky

A System of Multi-Year Training in Weightlifting, by A.S. Medvedyev

Supertraining by Yuri Verkhoshansky (Author), Mel Siff (Author)

[Schnauzer]

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, Samuel Fussell

[T-REX007]

Arnold - ''Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding"

 

[thulsaDOOM210]

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, Samuel Fussell

Great read!

I listed it in a thread a month or so ago. It's crazy how easy it is to identify with all the characters sam encounters and befriends along the way.

[240 is Back]

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[Van_Bilderass]

 

[Melkor]

One of the most fascinating people I've ever read about. Don't know whether to think he was a genius or a lunatic. Probably a bit of both.

Overall best book on strength training is Starting Strength. Whether you like Rippetoe or not, you won't find a book which lays down the foundations and basics of strength training for a novice athlete. If you are starting strength training and don't have access to your own personal strength coach, this is the next best thing.

[Simple Simon]

[Tito24]

"sucking cock through holes in the wall" by james wartner

[the trainer]

did any of you guys try the super squats program and drink the gallon of milk. I like the 20 rep squats superset with pullovers i am going to add that to legs on monday.

[The Scott]

did any of you guys try the super squats program and drink the gallon of milk. I like the 20 rep squats superset with pullovers i am going to add that to legs on monday.

Yup.  In my case it was up to three gallons of milk a day.  Sometimes I drank half and half, kefir or whipping cream.   Best way ever to put on mass and strength.  I got what I would consider to be very strong on the squat with  this routine first pioneered by the great J.C. Hise.  Good luck with it!

[Wez]

Does anybody remember Brawn?

[Wez]

I have always appreciated your literary references

The Sea of Fertility is my favorite read ( all four books)

[The Scott]

Does anybody remember Brawn?

Yup. By Stuart...Can't recall the last name, sorry.

[dyslexic]

Kinesiology of Exercise ~ Yessis


High Intensity Training, the Mike Mentzer way ~ with John Little (not because you have to follow it, but because it makes you think, and it makes you think and question logically


Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding ~ you know who. It has to be in there. It's a classic, like it or not.

[Schmoff]

[240 is Back]

SUPER SLOW

[oldtimer1]

Just to remember all the varieties of bodybuilding movements I would use "Keys to the Universe" by Bill Pearl.  It's a massive book of just about any bodybuilding exercise you can think of out side of machines.

[wes]

Just to remember all the varieties of bodybuilding movements I would use "Keys to the Universe" by Bill Pearl.  It's a massive book of just about any bodybuilding exercise you can think of out side of machines.

Very good book.^^^^

I also like "Confessions Of An Unlikely Bodybuilder" just as a good read,along with "Keys To Progress" by McCallum.......just because!

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[Mr Anabolic]

Super Squats is a great book.  Very few have enough guts to do 20 rep sets of squats until you see your life pass before your eyes.  In all my 30 years of training, high rep squatting is THE best leg/body mass building exercise I've ever used.

[Wez]

Yup. By Stuart...Can't recall the last name, sorry.

McRobert

[Mawse]

Super Squats is a great book.  Very few have enough guts to do 20 rep sets of squats until you see your life pass before your eyes.  In all my 30 years of training, high rep squatting is THE best leg/body mass building exercise I've ever used.

er, yeah, no.

Following the books advice and rest-pausing your true 10 RM for 20 reps three times a week is the most retarded , dangerous thing you can do in the gym - except maybe 20 rep deadlifts.

following it with ham sandwiches and gallons of milk is even worse.

Idiotic nonsense about 'gutsy old school training' to hide the fact that the 'golden age' BBers were swallowing dbol by the handfull