Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach

by Frederick C. Hatfield

Book Overview

This is the first book to gather scientific findings about progressive resistance training and to translate them into relevant and understandable training advice. Author of Powerlifting: A Scientific... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809254581
• ISBN13: 9780809254583
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A great addition for your collection!

I love collecting these old 80's bodybuilding books. So far ,this one is a winner. Lots of great black & white photos. Great training tips,and variations. I always learn something different in these 80's book's that I haven't seen or knew about.

The bodybuilding gold standard

After all these years, and a million other books on the subject published in its wake, Fred Hatfield's seminal tome remains one of the best sources of information for anyone interested in serious weight training. The junk science, fad workouts and dubious nutrition suggestions which are commonplace in most other bodybuilding books (lets face it, most muscleheads aren't geniuses) are delightfully absent here, and virtually all the information is stuff you can rely on. If the language is too "difficult" for you, find somebody literate to read it to you! But by all means, get it.

A great starting place

Being an engineer, I like numbers and Dr. Harfield's book lays out a beginner's course by the numbers; what to do, how much, and how to recognize when you're overtrained. It was great for me.

THE Book of Bodybuilding Intelligence!

I have purchased many books on bodybuilding and some are better than others when it comes to the training. However, I have found none that compared to this intelligently written book that discussed the importance of strength training in one's OVERALL health, nor has any book given such a clear example of WHY bodybuilding can be such an important path to a person's MENTAL, health and outlook. This book has been a goldmine of motivation for me....and has given me the REASONS why bodybuilding can be such a wonderful sport to be involved in.....far beyond the aesthetics.