Is this book a meme? I want to start lifting but don't really know where to start

Is this book a meme? I want to start lifting but don't really know where to start

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I want to start lifting but don't really know where to start
    The gym

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >:(

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unironically one of the best books you could possibly read if you want to be a bodybuilder. It has everything there. If you want to get into strength instead then the books Base Strength and Peak Strength by Alexander Bromley will help you with a strength program. Those 3 books will teach you virtually everything for what it takes to get good results in bodybuilding and strength respectively. Must reads for anyone who likes lifting weights.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I like it a lot. Some stuff is a little outdated but if you contrast it with new information, its great. Also a lot of great pics for motivation

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If for nothing else, it's good for "discovering" exercises or variations there in when programming. All that's old is new again.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    those books are for roidtrannies, arnold started taking them at 16 years old

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Does he go into steroid use?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, there's a whole chapter dedicated to it in the original publishing.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if people ask you if you train (or do whatever else impressive, for that matter), you have two options how you reply to not embarrass yourself: either you massively understate what you're doing, or you massively overstate what you're doing. Either it has to be the easiest thing in the world for you and you just jog once or twice a week, implying you look good because of your superior genetics, or it has to be the most hardcore training regime in the world and you only can manage that because you are so hardcore.
    Arnold knew this and chose the second options, building on the disciplined german archetype. he didn't train like that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Arnold is Austrian.

      The stereotype is still kind of true though.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Austrians and Bavarians are descendants from the same germanic tribe. they are effectively the same stock of people. one belongs to the curret german state, one not, doesn't matter. also historically austria was generally considered a german nation.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Except Bavarians are on average dumber than Austrians by about 40 IQ points.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >modern day "Bavarians"

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fraud and a liar. You will be better off never listening to his advice and definitely never idolizing him.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fraud and a liar.

      I assume you have convincing evidence of this?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just ordered a hardcover copy of this book because of this thread.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I bought the first edition hardcover off ebay years ago, the seller never told me Arnold had signed it to someone dated 1984. Imagine, he was yet to be an action star, T1 would've just came out.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's really good. Unironically listen to this book of IST and you will go very far

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      instead of IST*

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Look in to Mike Mentzer.
    https://wiki.chadnet.org/files/high-intensity-training-the-mike-mentzer-way.pdf

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Arnold was a workhorse & his advice is central to that. I'm the complete opposite & I do better from low volume training so Mentzer was more useful for me

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        To be honest, after watching the hour long video about HIT training, I think that Mentzer was right about everything except one set per exercise. Exercise must be intense, brief, and infrequent.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >low volume
        It's surprising to see such low volume. It seems counter-intuitive, but with high intensity factored in, it seems to work.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Another fun read from that era is “The Complete Keys to Progress”. Has good advice and of course loads of boomer meme advice, both are fun. Available on libgen btw.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    2/3rds of the book is on bodybuilding history
    2/3rds of the book is an exercise catalogue
    1/4th of the book is on broscience
    The rest covers shitty 'roid routines

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      math not adding up there, chief

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It’s based.
    If you want more old bodybuilding books with old timer knowledge Bill Pearl’s book is the best

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I also found Vincent Gironda's The Wild Physique fantastically inspiring and egg based. Available on libgen also.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's absolutely terrible and no one who says it's good actually followed its advice for any real length of time
    >15+ sets a bodypart 3x a week as a beginner
    >20+ sets a bodypart 3x a week as an advanced trainer
    >different exercises changing the shape of muscles
    >jacking up the volume ridiculously high to spot reduce fat and "carve in" cuts to different muscles
    >glosses over the fact that he was taking handfuls of dbol as a preworkout as a 15 year old
    >super basic nutrition info
    Zero top bodybuilders of the last 30 years trained the way he recommends in this book. The only useful function it might serve is as a database of different exercises but Keys to the Inner Universe by Bill Pearl is much more comprehensive

    Bodybuilding Revealed by Will Brink, Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle by Tom Venuto, and Scoobysworkshop are much, much better resources for a beginner

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >learning to lift from a book
    NGMI

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I bet you thought all your teachers in school, or professors in college were smart for knowing all of the things they covered in class and having it all broken down into bite size lessons. Hate to break it to you but most of them were basically just paraphrasing the textbook you never bothered to open.

      Books send you straight to the source. Or you could basically get the knowledge in the book 20th hand, after it has been passed on through the game of telephone via the waves of youtubers, grifters, bros, and shitposters.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Lmfao brutal mogging on that manlet

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I want to start lifting but don't really know where to start
    go to the gym and follow the instructions on the machines. it's turbo easy

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's a massive tome. I own it from back when it was first meme'd on reddit and amazon best seller lists. But I never bothered reading it cover to cover.
    >I want to start lifting
    That's not the book to start with. I recommend a beginner lifting program, like starting strength by mark rippetoe.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Canditos linear program

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This book always helps me get started from being lazy to casually working out.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, it's good. It's probably the only thing you'll need as a reference to get to your goals, unless you go seriously into bodybuilding, which I doubt you will you fat frick.

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