- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Human Kinetics; 1 edition (Oct 28 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 088011696X
- ISBN-13: 978-0880116961
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 780 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,134,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
Built Hard is designed to make it easier for the beginner to enter and understand the real nature of the sport and to help the advanced bodybuilder make the gains necessary to win in competition. As if the reader had an expert training partner, the exercise routines tell the reader about proper form, how it will feel when an exercise is performed correctly, and what mistakes are likely.
A complete program for learning the sport and building a hard body, Built Hard features
- important initial steps for beginners,
- comprehensive exercise routines for every part of the body,
- detailed lifting descriptions with more than 200 photographs
- separate programs for beginner, intermediate, and advanced bodybuilders, and
- special inside tricks that promote faster progress.
Author Charlie Mann's engaging writing style and practical, detailed descriptions of exercises for every muscle group help readers learn the correct muscle action and feel for their workouts. Whether their goals are personal or competitive, Built Hard is the one book all aspiring bodybuilders need.
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Built Hard is loaded with the technique, training, and competition information bodybuilders crave, along with beginning, intermediate, and advanced programs to satisfy every need. Includes Foreword by Ken Norton, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Approx. 251 illus.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Edited Lousy,
By Marshall Recht (Conroe, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Built Hard (Paperback)
My advice to the publisher of "Built Hard" is to read a book with a title like "Edited Right". In at three instances, the descriptive text clearly doesn't match the exercise depicted. This is no minor shortcoming because even when there is no obvious descrepancy between text and photos, it leaves a virtual novice like myself wondering if the exercise is properly presented. The exercise presentations are medicore at best, even when there is no obvious discrepancy between text and photos. There are plenty of exercises depicted though, but a few are described only in a text and others with a only single photo. Though useful, the photos are on the dark side. One welcome bright spot is this: the book explains how exercises that are essentially similar differ in their effect on the same muscle or muscle group. Still this does not redeem this sloppy and disappointing book. There are much better choices.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Step by step,
By Ben Amos (Dedham, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Built Hard (Paperback)
This book is very good for beginner's I thought. I have just expressed an interest in weight lifting and training. I was very confused as what type of schedule to do and how to do it. I got this book, and I'm starting their requested routines. There are plans as to how to do it and what muscle group it works. The only negative aspect is that I don't have all the equipment it shows, so many excercises can not be achieved, unless at a gym.
2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Built Hard (Paperback)
This book does show the proper form of exercises, but it lacks the emphasis on some of the exercises. The workout routines for beginners are way too advanced and will lead many people down the wrong path.
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