Fitness Training

Regardless of your age or sex, you can build muscle and functional strength while optimizing your health without having to waste your time or money for the gym membership, expensive trainers, and magic supplements.

Before fitness influencers, Instagram abs, and overpriced shaker cups, there was Gold’s Gym—raw, rusted, unapologetic. This book drags you into the sweat-soaked, gear-fueled world of Venice Beach in the 1970s, when bodybuilding was still a fringe obsession and the men chasing mass were part cult, part circus, and fully committed. This brutally honest account strips away the modern gloss to reveal the truth beneath the pump: the splits, the cycles, the unspoken rules, the hunger, the pain, and the fragile egos stuffed into bodies too big for regular life. This was the era of Arnold, ...

Fight Club Fit: Mastering Strength, Endurance, and Mental Grit Fight Club Style is a call to arms for those restless souls seeking more than just another cookie-cutter fitness routine. This book is a raw, unflinching guide for transforming not only your body but your entire approach to life. Here, you won't find the comforting, sterile environment of your local gym. Instead, you're plunged into a world where fitness is not just a pursuit but a battleground, testing your limits both physically and mentally. Dive into a diet that's as rebellious as it is nourishing. This isn't about ...

Jay Cutler: Evolution of a Champion is a compelling narrative that delves into the life and career of one of bodybuilding's most iconic figures. This book offers a detailed exploration of Jay Cutler's journey, from his early days in Massachusetts to his rise as a four-time Mr. Olympia champion, and onto his inspiring adaptation to fitness post-50. In this insightful read, readers are taken through the rigors of Cutler's intense training routines during his prime, highlighting the discipline and dedication required to reach the pinnacle of bodybuilding. The book contrasts these with his ...

Merging Zen principles with physical fitness offers a transformative approach to holistic well-being. This unique fusion emphasizes the journey of mind, body, and spirit, teaching us to harness life's dualities and fully embrace the present. More than just a workout methodology, it's a life philosophy that seamlessly blends dynamism with tranquility, guiding individuals to find balance, purpose, and deep fulfillment in their fitness journey. Dive into a transformative experience that transcends traditional fitness boundaries.

"Resistance Training: Unlocking Your Full Physical Potential" is your comprehensive guide to achieving peak fitness and unleashing the true potential of your body through resistance training. In this book, you'll embark on a transformative journey, discovering the science, techniques, and principles behind resistance training. Begin by understanding the fundamentals, benefits, and equipment needed for effective resistance training. Learn how to set personalized goals, assess your fitness level, and design a tailored workout plan to achieve your objectives. Dive into an array of resistance ...

Competition anxiety and overthinking putting a wrench in your athlete’s chase after victory? Learn ways to help them overcome mental hurdles and embrace true potential. Struggling to find a training plan that doesn’t leave a young competitor impatient? Certain they could make it into the record books if they could just discover their edge? Wishing for a peek inside the minds of greats like LeBron James, Simone Biles, and Lionel Messi? After working with over 5,000 athletes, coach and author Andrew J Simpson has identified exactly what makes a champion tick. And now he’s here to help ...

Train Like Mike Mentzer is a no-nonsense, results-driven guide to achieving peak physical performance through the legendary Mentzer Method. This book unveils the training philosophy and techniques that propelled Mike Mentzer to bodybuilding greatness and offers a blueprint for individuals seeking to transform their bodies, regardless of their fitness goals. Readers will dive into the world of High-Intensity Training (HIT), understanding its scientific principles, and how it differs from traditional training methods. From building mental fortitude to setting realistic goals and overcoming ...

Concerned about aging and the inevitable decline it brings in your health, lifestyle, aspirations and goals? Are you concerned that longevity doesn't look very fun if you're locked into a chair or bed hooked to machines and pumped up on medicines? Health Span addresses that concern with finding alternative means of adapting to aging and becoming fit, healthy, vigorous and ready to enjoy the prime of your life. This book looks at the important gains you can make with endurance and strength training for mobility, stability and durability using scientific principles. Through VO2 Max training ...

How would it feel to have the body you've always wanted, a huge boost in energy, and the mindset to keep it forever? Have you ever felt frustrated about not getting the results you want? Do you feel you are eating the right foods and doing the correct workouts but your body still isn't changing as quickly as you want? Are you grinding through your workday with low energy levels, praying for the next day off so you can sleep in?

FST-7 Fascia Stretch Training System is an in-depth guide to the revolutionary Fascia Stretch Training 7 (FST-7) system, developed by renowned bodybuilding coach Hany Rambod. Designed for bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts, this book offers a detailed exploration of the FST-7 methodology, emphasizing its unique approach to muscle growth, strength, and physique enhancement. Key Features: Fundamental Principles: The book begins by laying out the core concepts of FST-7, including the importance of fascia stretching, the ‘7’ set rule, and the balance of volume and intensity in workouts. ...

Discover why Fit for Life's easy-to-follow weight-loss plan has made this enduring classic one of the best-selling diet books of all time! It's the program that shatters all the myths: Fit for Life, the international best seller that explains how to change both your figure and your life. Nutritional specialists Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explain how you can eat more kinds of food than you ever ate before without counting calories...and still lose weight!

You sweat, burn, and fast until you’re exhausted...only to fall into a tailspin of stress, overindulgence, and blame. If you’re like most women, you’ve been through this vicious cycle more times than you can count. But what if fitness wasn’t about fixing flaws and shrinking sizes? What if your workout could be uncomplicated, energizing, and even fun? Fitness coach Nia Shanks has helped countless clients reinvent their mindset around exercise, nutrition, and body image. Based on her wildly popular blog, Lift Like a Girl is so much more than a workout program. It’s an empowering ...

Introducing "The Ultimate Guide to Strength and Conditioning"! A comprehensive, power-packed eBook designed to elevate your fitness game to a whole new level. If you've ever wanted to transform your strength, stamina, and overall physique, this is the perfect resource for you! Dive into an all-encompassing 40-chapter journey that covers the A to Z of strength and conditioning, providing step-by-step methods, techniques, and secrets to unleash your true physical potential. Begin by assessing your fitness level and setting performance goals. Explore how to design a balanced workout plan while...

Lou Ferrigno didn’t just build muscle—he built a legacy out of silence, discipline, and sheer force of will. Train Like Lou Ferrigno is the unflinching, brutally direct biography of one of the most iconic bodybuilders and cultural figures of the last fifty years. From a childhood marked by profound hearing loss and bullying, to the green-skinned superstardom of The Incredible Hulk, to training routines that redefined dedication, Ferrigno’s story is one of relentless forward motion. This book strips away the gloss and dives deep into the raw details of Ferrigno’s rise—from cement-...

Pull-Ups for Life! The tips and tricks for strength motivation when hanging out at the bar. Up your pull game with different strategies to employ and skills to add to your arsenal. For the love of all things pull-up related, here is that gym-spiration to tackle the training to come. Whether you are a beginner discovering your own path with the bar or have been at the game for years and are looking to advance some new ideas into your bodyweight martial arts groove. A wide variety of good times in the pull-up world is coming to you. In Pull-Ups for Life, you’ll venture: To the various pull-...

Human optimization thought leader Aubrey Marcus's personal and professional mission rests on a single question: How can we get the most out of our body and mind on a daily basis? Marcus answers that question in Own the Day, Own Your Life, an empowering audio handbook that guides listeners to optimize every moment of the day, from waking in the morning, through work and play, until bedtime each night. With small, actionable changes implemented throughout the course of one day, we can feel better, perform more efficiently, and live happier.

Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times and number one LA Times best seller Living With a Seal, now with two bonus sections. Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler will try almost anything. His life is about being bold and risky. So when Jesse felt himself drifting on autopilot, he hired a rather unconventional trainer to live with him for a month-an accomplished Navy SEAL widely considered to be "the toughest man on the planet"!

Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t just train bodies—he transformed them with his hands. Alpha Feedback uncovers the untold science and psychology behind his tactile coaching method: the pokes, slaps, prods, and grips that built champions and forged the blueprint for modern physical instruction. From the cold gyms of Austria to the boardrooms of California, this book tracks the evolution of Arnold’s touch—from bro-science instinct to what we now recognize as somatic feedback mastery. Through biomechanics, behavioral psychology, and gym-floor anthropology, discover how a touch became a ...

Chaos isn’t the enemy—it’s the training partner elite athletes never skip. Embrace the Chaos is the definitive guide to Unstable Load Training (ULT), a revolutionary method that enhances joint integrity, core control, and movement resilience by introducing calculated instability into strength work. Written for serious lifters, coaches, therapists, and performance-driven athletes, this book explains how controlled chaos transforms the nervous system—not just muscles—for real-world power and durability. Grounded in cutting-edge neuromuscular research and battle-tested in high-...