Best Bodybuilding Book/guide?

[Clean]

I posted this on the anabolic forum as well, but wanted to get some feedback here.

I was looking at Arnold's New Modern Bodybuilding Encyclopedia, but have read here that it is a little extreme. What other books like this one have you guys bought and found helped you out? What about Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding (I think that is the name)?

Thanks

Clean

 

[Clean]

anyone?

 

[TENPACK]

to be honest, i really don't like the weider principles. A great book to get would be
BEYOND BRAWN by Stuart McRobert. It gives an in-depth look at the rationality behind abbreviated training, and why conventional routines fail for a vast majority of the bodybuilding community.

 

[Tom Treutlein]

I think you're wasting money, buying a book. Use the internet as your guide. These forums and the articles located on the HST website are all very informative. I would recommend some of the articles on John Berardi's site, seeing as I just read them this morning. However, I don't like too many of his ideas, and I think he sells a lot of bullshit too. Some stuff is okay, the rest he tries to get you to buy into.

 

[majutsu]

I used to recommend Arnold's book. It still has great history of bb, all the exercises clearly shown for all body parts, nice pro pictures, and good contest prep/posing info. Just skip the crazy routines Still a great value.

Stuart's book is pretty good. But much like Mike Mentzer's, it's alot of words for a one or two sentence idea. I say buy Arnold's book for the above, and save the rest of your money like Tom said.

 

[super_rice]

get ah-nold's book for the pics of the old timers (when the mr olympias actually had some aesthetics, IMO). but like majutsu said, avoid the routines.

some very interesting pictures in there such as arnold when he was 16, 18, 20-ish, and arnold in his prime. also a crazy picture of franco columbu deadlifting something like 700 pounds (not really sure what it was)

 

[majutsu]

yeah!!! the franco pics: him deadlifting, doing chins etc are worth the price alone lol

 

[TENPACK]

your right majutsu about Stuart's book being longer than it needed to be, but in saying that the points he's trying to make get driven home. At least in my case.