Bodybuilding The Weider Approach

Joe Weider has trained virtually every leading bodybuilder in America during the past 30 years, including Steve Reeves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Frank Zane, Larry Scott, and Dr. Franco Columbo. Today, virtually every top star in the field uses the Weider System of bodybuilding. In Bodybuilding: The Weider Approach, Joe Weider makes his latest, most up-to-date principles available to you for the first time. Bodybuilding: The Weider Approach contains everything you need to know from the basics to the fine points. Centered around exercise pools for beginning, intermediate, advanced, and competitive levels, fully illustrated with champion bodybuilders, this book goes beyond other instructional books by divulging all the Weider Principles, which are practiced religiously by the top competitors of today. It answers questions from the most elementary, such as where to train, what to wear, how to breathe properly, what to eat, and how to warm up, to the most advanced, such as how to use quality training, how to cope with stretch marks, how to tailor a training program, and many more. The last chapter ties all the principles together by describing the training program of a champion bodybuilder for both off-season and precontest cycles, and by also listing his off-season and precontest nutritional program. In short, this book will give you all you need to know to begin and progress, making maximum gains, all the way to the top in the sport of bodybuilding. Joe Weider, known worldwide as the "Trainer of Champions," began his lifetime involvement with bodybuilding in 1936. Three years later, while still in his teens, he founded the magazine which today is known as Muscle & Fitness. The Weider System of Training is in standard use internationally. As of 1980, 112 national bodybuilding federations are affiliated with the International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB), which Joe Weider and his brother founded in 1947. "Joe Weider is bodybuilding. He is the greatest coach and promoter the world of bodybuilding has ever seen. No man--regardless of his age or initial physical condition--could fail to benefit for the advice that Joe so clearly presents in this all-inclusive bodybuilding manual." -- Chris Dickerson Mr. Universe Winner of 11 pro bodybuilding titles "I learned more about bodybuilding in a one-hour conversation with Joe Weider than I would in a lifetime of trial and error training . . . Bodybuilding: The Weider Approach is very simply the best bodybuilding book I have ever read." -- Dennis Tinerino Mr. America Mr. World Mr. Universe