Rating: 
Summary: Very Resourceful
Review: I always rely on this book, scanning over and over certain mass-gaining strategies, like the featured article, "Compound Aftershock", which is an awesome biceps/triceps program that potentially explodes your arms. This book is awesome because it includes 3 to 5 pages of weightlifting stories from classic natural bodybuilders like Bill Pearl, Larry Scott, Mike Mentzer, Arnold, Tom Platz, and others too. For instance, Tom Platz explains how he made his legs huge and musculur. Also, how Larry made his football-sized biceps grow so huge with his routine. One bodybuilder will tell you that a good triceps exercise for gaining triceps mass is the decline barbell extentions, which is very effective for me when I superset it with dumbell kickbacks. I've never seen this type of growth before. I've only read half of the book so far and yet I'm gaining mass. If you have trouble gaining mass, scan over the "Training With A System" section. It makes you see your mistakes with the possibility of overtraining, using too much weight, inefficient diet, or too much strees. This article shows you how to prevent it. Ironman's section on the mental aspects of training is especially motivating and convincing--making you eager to workout and get huge. The Nutrition aspect of this book is weak though. One article is about vegetarianism, which I have no clue why they introduced such an inappropriate diet for a bodybuilder. However, they still give a few pages of bodybuilding type diets that you can gain mass upon. This book will never bore you because I find that I am always reading new ways to build mass from reading this book and that has helped me eliminate worthless workout routines. Anybody who bodybuilds naturally should get this book, as this book unleashes very clever and strategic workout routines. Buy it now and you will become more motivated that ever!
Rating:
Summary: Very Resourceful
Review: I always rely on this book, scanning over and over certain mass-gaining strategies, like the featured article, "Compound Aftershock", which is an awesome biceps/triceps program that potentially explodes your arms. This book is awesome because it includes 3 to 5 pages of weightlifting stories from classic natural bodybuilders like Bill Pearl, Larry Scott, Mike Mentzer, Arnold, Tom Platz, and others too. For instance, Tom Platz explains how he made his legs huge and musculur. Also, how Larry made his football-sized biceps grow so huge with his routine. One bodybuilder will tell you that a good triceps exercise for gaining triceps mass is the decline barbell extentions, which is very effective for me when I superset it with dumbell kickbacks. I've never seen this type of growth before. I've only read half of the book so far and yet I'm gaining mass. If you have trouble gaining mass, scan over the "Training With A System" section. It makes you see your mistakes with the possibility of overtraining, using too much weight, inefficient diet, or too much strees. This article shows you how to prevent it. Ironman's section on the mental aspects of training is especially motivating and convincing--making you eager to workout and get huge. The Nutrition aspect of this book is weak though. One article is about vegetarianism, which I have no clue why they introduced such an inappropriate diet for a bodybuilder. However, they still give a few pages of bodybuilding type diets that you can gain mass upon. This book will never bore you because I find that I am always reading new ways to build mass from reading this book and that has helped me eliminate worthless workout routines. Anybody who bodybuilds naturally should get this book, as this book unleashes very clever and strategic workout routines. Buy it now and you will become more motivated that ever!
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Summary: Ironman's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia
Review: I have found this book to very informative in many ways. It contains every exercise needed to develop a strong and lean body. The book also has useful information on diet and supplements. I believe this book to be a necessary tool in my quest for physical wellness.
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Summary: Ironman's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia
Review: I have found this book to very informative in many ways. It contains every exercise needed to develop a strong and lean body. The book also has useful information on diet and supplements. I believe this book to be a necessary tool in my quest for physical wellness.
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Summary: Great information
Review: Ironman's "Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia" is years overdue. I could have achieved my bodybuilding goals much faster and saved years of trial-and-error if this book had been available when I was in the competitive stage of my career. The book takes the guess-work out of training and is loaded with photos of the greatest bodybuilders performing the exercises. There is nothing about the book that I can find fault with. As always another tremendous job by Pete Sisco and Ironman.
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Summary: Too Long in Coming
Review: Ironman's "Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia" is years overdue. I could have achieved my bodybuilding goals much faster and saved years of trial-and-error if this book had been available when I was in the competitive stage of my career. The book takes the guess-work out of training and is loaded with photos of the greatest bodybuilders performing the exercises. There is nothing about the book that I can find fault with. As always another tremendous job by Pete Sisco and Ironman.
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Summary: Definitely Worthwhile
Review: Ironman's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia is exactly what I needed to really jumpstart my workouts. Most books on the topic of weight-trainging are written by a single person and, therefore, only express one person's experiences. However, everyone is different; what builds muscle for one person may leave another no larger than 6 months before. This book gives multiple opinions by some of the country's most renowned body builders. Sometimes their opinions conflict, sometimes they coincide. Regardless, the reader is given a very thorough overview of the different possible routines to follow. In addition, this book provide the most eye-opening section on the negative effects of drug-use in body-building that I have ever seen; it really makes you think.
Rating:
Summary: Definitely Worthwhile
Review: Ironman's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia is exactly what I needed to really jumpstart my workouts. Most books on the topic of weight-trainging are written by a single person and, therefore, only express one person's experiences. However, everyone is different; what builds muscle for one person may leave another no larger than 6 months before. This book gives multiple opinions by some of the country's most renowned body builders. Sometimes their opinions conflict, sometimes they coincide. Regardless, the reader is given a very thorough overview of the different possible routines to follow. In addition, this book provide the most eye-opening section on the negative effects of drug-use in body-building that I have ever seen; it really makes you think.
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Summary: Terrific Paperback Compendium For Workout Enthusiast!
Review: Other than regular access to a good gym with all the right equipment and all the necessary nutrition, nothing is so important to the aspiring bodybuilder than information, and everyone from the neophyte to more experienced muscle bombers will find everything they need to grow into the body they dream of in this wonderful bodybuilder's encyclopedia. Culled from a variety of sources from deep within the culture of the west coast bodybuilding havens of Venice Beach and Santa Monica, this compendium of relevant information and sage advice has been produced by veteran bodybuilding coach Peter Sisco, who used extensive interviews with bodybuilding stars and the mounds of information produced by research technicians associated with Ironman magazine, who also produced a wide variety of helpful publications such as this one. You will find everything you need here, from the best way to flare your quadriceps to the best way to widen your shoulders by bombing the lateral heads of the deltoids. Given all this, the book is both highly informative and quite inspirational, showcasing a number of recent bodybuilding luminaries, using both photographs and drawings to illustrate correct exercise performance, useful training techniques, and the latest in scientific breakthroughs that are on the very cutting edge of what contemporary bodybuilders are using to constantly attempt to get even bigger, stronger, and more striated and cut. Using the treasure-trove of Ironman's photographic archives, Sisco has produced one of the best single volume works covering the waterfront of bodybuilding yet. It compares well to the standard Weider's "Ultimate Bodybuilding", Schwarzenegger's version of the book, and even Bill Pearl's superb "Keys To The Inner Universe". This is a book that works well for the bodybuilding enthusiast wanting or needing a handy reference volume he can throw in his gym bag and read between sets at the local iron dungeon. Enjoy!
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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: This book is a compilation of articles from Ironman Magazine. They've been carefully chosen by the editor, Pete Sisco. The articles on training are the best ones that the magazine has to offer. As with all bodybuilding books, you'll want to pick-and-choose which routines and advice you want to adopt. I thought the book was a 4-Star book rather than a 5-Star book for the following reasons: 1) The section on Nutrition was weak. It didn't really address cutting edge nutrition questions, but focused--unusually, I thought--on variations (e.g., vegetarianism), and 2) it's a 2-color book. This is probably a nit, but the magazine is 4-color, and 4-color photos reproduced as 2-color lose something (especially if they haven't been "color corrected"). But these aren't really slams on the book as a whole...4-Stars is pretty good. The one thing I wanted to say above all else, is that Pete Sisco has done the bodybuilding world a huge service by including the anonymous interview with a "Top Pro" bodybuilder and his use of steroids and other drugs. What an eye-opener. [Good job, Pete.] This chapter will let you see why steroids and other drugs are such a disaster for the long-term health of bodybuilding athletes. I hope younger bodybuilders will read that chapter especially, and make the commitment to train as "naturals". It's a really good book, and you'd do well to have it in your bodybuilding library.
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