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This is the book if you are just getting started with a weight training program or if you have been flailing away at your own program and would like to educate yourself. For the beginning or intermediate (and a lot of advanced) weight trainers, you're not going to do any better than this.
Bill Pearl is a bodybuilder from the 50's and 60's, a former gym owner of 30 years, physical trainer for the early NASA space program astronauts, and now a nutrition store owner. He experimented with steroids and had stopped using them by 1961. He won the professional Mr. Universe title in 1971, at the age of 41, without the use of steroids and as a vegetarian. He is recognized as one of the all-time greats of the "iron game".
In Getting Stronger, Bill covers, with the exception of the latest supplements, everything you need to know to start a program or get one back on track (and you really don't need the latest supplements if you fall into those categories). Here are some sample sections:
These just scratch the surface. There are weight training programs for sports from baseball to wrestling, written by experts in those sports. Diagrams for about three hundred different exercises. Program recommendations. If the answer to your training question is not in this book, you probably aren't asking the right question.
The style of the book straight forward with the common sense that over 30 years of successful experience brings to any subject. The reader is never talked down to or intimidated in the book. From the outset, as Bill recalls his earliest workouts in the Introduction, one feels comfortable that finally, this is someone to listen to and be confident in.
Highest possible recommendation for Getting Stronger. You just can't go wrong with it.
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