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 enlarge | Author: Dick Tyler
Creator: Dave Draper
Publisher: On Target
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $15.46
You Save: $9.49 (38%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 103298
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1931046298
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.7509794
EAN: 9781931046299
ASIN: 1931046298
Publication Date: April 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wanna be Inspired? June 3, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This wonderful book gives a backstage pass to the life and times of some of bodybuilding's greats! Just to name a few, we have Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dave Draper, Franco Columbo, and Mike Katz. Pages of beautiful photography accompany this explicitly written novel, one of my all time favorites. Dick has the unique ability to take you back in time, show you the real men of muscle, and give a bird's eye view of what their lives were really like on a daily basis. Lighthearted humor and truthfulism is expressed throughout. This book is enlightening, inspiring, and motivational. This is the genuine article, a definite keeper. Special thanks to my great friend Karen DeCoster for giving me this, the best birthday present ever.
Old School at it's Best! April 17, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Dave Draper & Dick Tyler hit it on the head with this blast from the past of old school training. Awesome book on the golden era of Bodybuilding.
dick is my step mom's dad June 12, 2004
3 out of 23 found this review helpful
i am very happy for him and wish him all the luck in the world with sales of this book.
A Vivid Account of a Forgotten Era May 2, 2004
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Dick Tyler has written a charming and quietly brilliant piece about an era few remember. I remember Muscle Beach and my heroes back in the early 60s. This is the FIRST opus I have read that allowed me to re-live those terrific memories... when men with muscles built them with honest hard work and they impressed us, not with intimidation, but with a sense of pride in their appearance and a genuine love of the sport. Dave Draper's intro is marvelous and it's great to read anything he writes.. he KNOWS his subject. I recommend this book highly to anyone who wants to remember, or wants to research this magical time and place. Magnificent!!
Outstanding! April 8, 2004
This is without a doubt the best read on where the present multi-billion dollar bodybuilding culture sprouted from. The purity and innocence of the crew that chugged away, and improvised methods that became bodybuilding gospel is well evidenced in this eyewitnessed discription. I couldn't put it down and you could practically smell the sweat and hear the clanging of the weights! The only thing I can say is, "BUY THIS BOOK!"
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