Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding

All these years later... I have now used this book to put 5 kids in college for football. The diet stuff is a bit antiquated, but you'll still find something. The work outs could be the same as the ancient Roman or Greeks. The changing of weights and reps to get your own peak gains... hundreds of total workouts from the body builders we all remember. Had a copy at 14, I have it again at 55.

Why didn’t I know about this before? Lots of great info and the exercise chapters have sample workouts at the end from the pros. This book has much better information than all the Bro science floating around social media.I will say you don’t need to start buying the supplements listed in the book. Get a B complex vitamin and vitamin C or a multivitamin. Aside from that, eat real food and adjust recommendations from this book to eat foods that don’t upset your stomach. For example, oatmeal might be recommended in books like this but it kills my gut, so I swap those carbs for something else.

I've been bodybuilding and/or a "gym rat" since about 1968-69. Still lift, though use a bit less over the edge type poundages in lifts.I had this book when it originally came out in the 80's. It was a valuable reference then and it still is now!Point blank, I was not a big fan of Joe Weider, but he was valuable in ground breaking when it came to the sport of bodybuilding. And this book is, in my humble opinion, one of the better reference books ever done on bodybuilding. He and Bill Reynolds produced a good reference book here.The two pics I provide are to display the thickness of the book (close to 500 pages) and to give you an idea of how it's laid out with information and pictures/photos showing actual exercises being performed.If you are just starting out bodybuilding... get this book! It'll help save you some trial and error approaches and time wasting.Been bodybuilding for years? Check this book out, you may find a few "old school" movements that'll hit your tri's, bi's, pecs and such, in ways you never thought of.This is a 5 star book... easily. Even after all these years!

I used this book from time to time when I was bodybuilding. This buy, however, was for my son. Joe Weider is old style, but it's good to read the old style stuff. His lifting cycles and diets are a good starter for any novice bodybuilder. Their also good to get back to basics for the experienced bodybuilder. My son loves it and is learning from it already, as I did.

As someone who has actually been tossing around the iron for longer than I personally like to admit (try 1960 on for size), I have always found this particular book to be a wonderful reference book for the practicing bodybuilder, one he or she can employ to solve persistent problems, answer a technical question, or browse in search of alternative exercises working a particular muscle group from a specific angle. For example, the fact that each exercise emphasizes not only how to correctly perform the exercise, but also stresses which aspects of the muscles are most stressed, hence which are likely to most benefit from regular use of the exercise in a complex routine.There are many aspects of the book which could use to be revised to improve it, such as its reference to newer machines and new technology in general is a bit lacking, and it also is a bit dated in that it trades heavily on Weider's long association with famous bodybuilders of the classic period of the 1960s and 1970s. For old horses like me, that is neat, but it may not play well to some of the younger enthusiasts. Yet the fundamental facts found in the book are still quite credible, and the fact that it is a paperback issue you can actually drag along to the gym with you is to its credit. I recommend it for the reasons I mentioned, although I would also suggest you purchase a copy of Arnold's own version of a how-to manual, as well as Bill Pearl's superb "Keys To The Kingdom". The more recent Iron Man version is also an excellent resource, especially for the intermediate bodybuilder ready to spread his wings and intensify his workout. Enjoy!

Book was in great shape came just fine. Lots of good old school knowledge in here and a really great read. Modern science has confirmed a lot of what is written but also using this book we can see where we have grown. Love to see the old school training blocks and math.

This giant 508 (81/2 by 11) page book (Joe Weider’s Ultimate Bodybuilding by Joe Weider with Bill Reynolds) is a must have book for anyone who is into serious bodybuilding. The late Joe Weider and his many books, magazines and training courses have been part of the weight training and body building scene since the 1930s. His enormous contribution to the weight training and body building scene is recognized worldwide. This is a comprehensive text covering so much material that this review cannot do it justice.This huge text is organized into seven parts. Part one gives valuable advice to novice bodybuilders. Part two provides advice to intermediate bodybuilders. Part three covers advice to advanced bodybuilders. Part four focuses on body part training. Part five deals with the competitive cycle. Bodybuilding nutrition is covered in part six. The final part gives information on “the psychology of bodybuilding.”There are weight training routines for every body part. There are hundreds of different exercises shown with photographs of the champion bodybuilders doing them. This is a book every serious bodybuilder will want to have in their personal library as the ultimate reference source of Joe Weider’s training principles. A fantastic book.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: The Samurai Soul: An old warrior’s poetic tribute).