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 enlarge | Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 17298
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0671797484
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.75
EAN: 9780671797485
ASIN: 0671797484
Publication Date: January 1, 1993
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 Why I gave this book to my son... September 26, 2005
47 out of 49 found this review helpful
When I finished my first year of college, I had dropped to 135 pounds (at 6 feet and 2 inches...more than 100 pounds lighter than Arnold and the same height). I was over motivated in my studies of chemistry in a premedicine curriculum and finished that first year exhausted with mononucleosis but with a 4.0 average.
But, I decided I would take a different strategy my second year of college. I bought this book (the summer of 1979) and studied it carefully. Here's what happened...
I spent the summer resting and then started school at 145 pounds. I determined to follow the book to the letter (even the going to bed and getting up at the same time...which doesn't make for the best social life for a college sophomore). I also watched my thoughts carefully and practiced some of the techniques that Arnold suggests as well as experimented with a few of my own.
When I finished that school year, I weighed 198 pounds and still sported a 29 inch wasit. People who saw me the summer after my second year of college who hadn't seen me since the previous summer, sometimes didn't recognize me.
I gained 53 to 63 pounds of muscle in one year (depending on when you start counting) and did it eating the diet described in this book. I even started with 6 weeks on the non-weights/calesthenic routine before lifting the weights. Then I spent the rest of the year doing the "beginner" routine. Oh, I didn't touch any anabolic steriods but supplemented with brewer's yeast, descicted liver, vitamin C, and Bee Pollen.
I took to heart the advice about record keeping and about eating at the same time with strict adherence to the diet recommended.
Now, at the age of 45, I still train almost daily, and still use some of the techniques I learned from this book (and teach them to my patients). Still have the 6-pack (though my sons joke with me when I blur out to a "4-pack" and start telling me to get in shape).
Here are some of the points that have been especially helpful...
1. Always leave yourself a little hungry when it comes to exercise (stop before you would like so you want to come back the next day). But, when in the gym train very intensely.
2. Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate (it helps intensity and forces growth).
3. Don't let anywone get in the way of your most improtant dreams.
4. Eat and go to bed at the same time daily as much as possible (the body thrives on regularity).
5. Keep records. The records motivate you.
6. Use strict form.
My oldest son's hormones just kicked in (turned 13) and so I bought him this book (still have my old copy, but it's a trophy now that's torn and stained with sweat from 20 years ago and it's not for loan). I think men should celebrate their strength and their intelligence at whatever level nature has allowed them. In this book, Arnold teaches the development of brain and brawn.
Having followed Arnold (like many others) since he was more of a cult hero, it came as no surprise that he would gain a position of power and responsibility. In this book, he teaches the focus that made him a success in and out of the gym. This book helped me gain and maintain the health that I have now at age 45 (so that I might inspire my patients) and helped me go through medical school and grow stronger and healtier along the way.
Thank you Arnold...here's to you!!
Charles Runels, MD
Author of "Anytime...for as Long as You Want: Strength, Genius, Libido, & Erection by Integrative Sex Transmutation."
If you want "Inspiration", that is the book!!!! August 12, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm working out for several years and i discovered that if you want to be always motivated then you must learn with the best of the best that is Arnold,Frank Zane, Franco Columbu,Dave Draper and all those guys from the past who didnt have all those sofisticated machines and suplements that we have these days.This book is to all kind of people, mainly those who love to work out. Firstly because it shows that if you WANT something like Arnold wanted, then you have to fight and never give up.Sometimes you will feel that Arnold is talking to you because people's life sometimes are very similar and all the hints he gives in this book are helpfull for everyone.Actually this book is like a personal trainer with the BEST of them
 New paperback - 2 stars, old paperback - 5 stars August 12, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have make an order of Education of Bodybuilder because my old one /purchased few years ago in London/ did not make it. I have received it and have been very disapointed with the poor quality of photos /which in my old paperback was more than ok/, so I returned it back to the Amazon and I am seriously thinking to buy the older version of E. of BB from Amazon UK.
I do not recomend the new edition of this book, go for the older one.
Arnold: The Education Of Success March 22, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone wanting an insight into what's required for great success. Although the books focus is bodybuilding, the principles of discipline and extreme unshakeable determination towards goal achievement encompass every sports and business goal. The book reveals in practical terms the secret to using focus and visualisation for success. Arnold describes how he would picture his biceps as peaked mountains when he trained them...and continually emphasises how certain he was of achieving his goals (champion bodybuilder, movie star), and would not let anyone or anything get in his way. The book has great value to readers of such success classics as Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich"...by giving the nitty gritty workings of a mind focussed on success...a beautiful example of "What the mind can conceive, and believe...it will achieve"
Look what Arnold did without Steriods! February 22, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I disagree with the reviewer who said that Arnold came to America because America had better supplements and better DRUGS! Back in 1976, speaking to about 150 people in a seminar, Arnold indicated that he won his first two Mr. Universe titles, developed 21 inch arms, 55 inch chest, could bench press 500 lbs and press behind the neck 300 lbs all WITHOUT STERIODS! Arnold's hero Reg Park was a three-time Mr. Universe and achieved similiar goals also without STERIODS!
To me the statement that Arnold came here just for steriods is just as ludicrous as that junk that Arnold's heart valve problem is due to steriod use. It's not--it's genetic!
Arnold came to America seeking opportunity and to say he found it would be the understatement of the century!
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