He also offers certain tips that could improve your technique (e.g. It is nice to see photos of Arnold demonstrating the exercises. Eventually you will be working with supersets and trisets when you are an advanced bodybuilder. As you make progress, you move from program to program and Arnold introduces you to more different exercises in each program.
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The foundation program places strong emphasis on free weight movements such as push ups, pull ups, chair dips etc. The second half of the book consists of programs written out for beginners all the way to advanced bodybuilders. He didn’t believe in the “be the best version of yourself” philosophy, he wanted to be THE absolute best. He was willing to do anything, no matter what it took, to be the champion. He would not settle for second best anything other than first place is failure.
Perhaps the most interesting thing is how Arnold describes his thoughts when it comes to training and competition – he has a champion’s mindset. In the first half of the book, Arnold reveals several interesting things such as how he first started off as a weak 150 pounder, and how he trained with 5×5 as a youngster and had lifts such as 700 lbs on the deadlift and 500 lbs on the squat. Every body part looked like it has been chiseled in like sculptures. Arnold looked like a Greek God with his perfect physique – the perfect shoulder-to-waist ratio, the perfect arm and chest size for his weight and height, his ripped and striated quads and hamstrings and also a pair of well developed calves.
When I flicked through the pages at the age of 13, I was mesmerized by the balance of art and physicality that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s physique displayed. Overall: 9/10Ī look into Arnold's bodybuilding career I still have the first edition!īehind The Workout’s Summary: This is the bodybuilding book that started it all for me. Even if you are not, I recommend getting this book so that you can find out what bodybuilding is really about the lifestyle, the mentality, the commitment etc, and who is to better tell it than the champ himself? My only complaint is that it is a little too short. He also dishes out his thoughts on things like super slow, overtraining, deep tissue therapy etc.īehind The Workout’s Recommendation: A must-have book if you are a Jay Cutler fan. He talks about his preferences for carb loading, how he prepares his body if he is doing multiple shows within one year and many more. It’s great to see what Jay’s diet is like and how he manipulates his diet as he prepares for a contest. There are also chapters dedicated to nutrition and supplements. The second half of the book consists of programs laid out by Jay there are beginner programs, intermediate programs, advanced programs etc. Although it is written by Jay’s friend, you can really hear Jay’s voice which makes it sound even more honest and convincing. The first half of the book describes Jay’s early life – how he built his foundational physique from helping his father’s concrete business, how he met the love of his life Kerry, how he joined the gym at 18 for the first time, how he reacted when he placed poorly on bodybuilding contests. There are around 200 pages to this book, and once I started reading I didn’t stop until I finished it.
Ask any bodybuilding fans and they will tell you that Jay Cutler is the best ambassador and representative of the sport of bodybuilding. He is also the only champion to ever lose a Mr Olympia title, come back and reclaim the title. He is a 3-time Arnold Classic champion and a 4-time Mr Olympia champion. Bodybuilding book written by Mr Olympia Jay Cutlerīehind The Workout’s Summary: Jay Cutler is one of the best bodybuilders of all time.