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Author: Jørgen de Mey
Publisher: Rodale
Published: 2005-06-04
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781579549107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA legendary celebrity trainer introduces his three-stage workout program that combines nutrition and physical training to increase their strength and endurance, promote weight loss, enhance cardiovascular fitness, and develop a more muscular body in just three weeks. 30,000 first printing.
Author: Jørgen de Mey
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781405087780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow you too can follow the exercise and nutrition plans that get the stars in shape Welcome to the action hero training system! In The Action Hero Body Hollywood's top trainer reveals how he gets the stars in shape for physically demanding roles. Here are the exercise and nutrition plans that have worked so well for so many celebrity clients including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Billy Crudup, Jeremy Irons, Angelina Jolie, Bridget Moynahan and Faye Dunaway. Jorgen de Mey explains the thinking behind every aspect of his programme; details the six weeks he spent working with Ben Affleck to get him in shape for Armageddon and Pearl Harbor; shows you how he evaluates the stars' physical status and how you can evaluate yours; and gives you the full 'Action Hero' Nutrition Plan, Workout and Lifeplan. If you follow his programme, Jorgen promises, ' you will become the best you can be'
Author: Dolph Lundgren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-09
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 162914925X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you ready to take your exercise and fitness routine to the next level? Then take a lesson from internationally-renowned action hero Dolph Lundgren, as he shares the personal fitness secrets gained from a lifetime of hard-fought experiences on-camera and off. Dolph has created a personal philosophy of fitness based on martial arts, yoga, strength training, biochemical research, professional sports, and over 40 starring roles in classic action films. It’s a logical, fun, and surprisingly easy path to total fitness—whether you’re at the office, with friends, playing sports, or in class. This is the ultimate lifestyle to improve your health and build your physique! Dolph Lundgren: Be Fit Forever—his autobiographical training guide—features weekly training programs, daily menu planners, guides to equipment and gear, fantastic photos from behind the scenes of Hollywood action movies, and more. DOLPH’S SPECIAL TIPS: 1. Briefing: The reasons you need to get fit 2. Mission: Personal training and health philosophy 3. Weaponry: How to best combine strength exercises, cardiovascular, and flexibility training 4. Special Ops: Stick to your goals even while away traveling 5. Fuel and supplies: The best foods and supplements to build your body 6. Fit forever: Stay in shape for the rest of your life! With detailed exercise plans and over 100 step-by-step photos, Dolph Lundgren: Be Fit Forever is the kickass guide to building a body that will look great and make you feel even better—forever.
Author: Tim Frady
Publisher:
Published: 2013-06-30
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781490464237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAction Hero Abs is a sure fire way to lose weight, build muscle, and develop great abs. Its mission and primary focus is to build on the health and fitness foundation of the individual, and achieving the goal of six pack abs and ripped body. Within its pages you'll find nutritional information, photo illustrated ab exercises, and the best ways to exercise to lose fat and build muscle in the shortest time possible. This is not a starvation diet book, in fact, it encourages eating for muscle gain, but there are no gimmicky diets within. It contains plain and simple truths about what kinds of foods create the six pack abs look, and what kinds of foods to avoid. You will also learn the natural way to maintain and increase testosterone through food and exercise.It is common knowledge that ab exercises alone will not create a ripped ab look, and Action Hero Abs addresses the entire body's needs, with regard to diet and exercise, to accomplish not only a look of great abs, but an overall healthy muscular definition. It informs the reader and empowers them to develop their own exercise and diet plans based on their current fitness level. It's seriously spot-on with solid nutrition and workout facts, with a bit of action hero and superhero based humor thrown in for good measure.
Author: William Giraldi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1631492071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his “unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,” Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers.
Author: Dave Randolph
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1612430635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ultimate book to get anyone superhero ripped, these seven, actor-tailored, high-intensity programs present can't fail exercise schedules and nutritional regimens to get action-hero strong in as little as six weeks.
Author: James Kendrick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 1119100496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre. As the first major anthology on the action film in more than a decade, the volume offers insights into the genre’s historical development, explores its production techniques and visual poetics, and provides reflections on the numerous social, cultural, and political issues it has and continues to embody. A Companion to the Action Film offers original research and critical analysis that examines the iconic characteristics of the genre, its visual aesthetics, and its narrative traits; considers the impact of major directors and stars on the genre’s evolution; puts the action film in dialogue with various technologies and other forms of media such as graphic novels and television; and maps out new avenues of critical study for the future. This important resource: Offers a definitive guide to the action film Contains insightful contributions from a wide range of international film experts and scholars Reviews the evolution of the genre from the silent era to today’s age of digital blockbusters Offers nuanced commentary and analysis of socio-cultural issues such as race, nationality, and gender in action films Written for scholars, teachers and students in film studies, film theory, film history, genre studies, and popular culture, A Companion to the Action Film is an essential guide to one of international cinema’s most important, popular, and influential genres.
Author: Rikke Schubart
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-08-23
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0786482842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema, however, was--and still is--viewed with ambivalence. While women were cast in new and exciting roles, they did not always arrive with their femininity intact, often functioning both as a sexualized spectacle and as a new female hero rather than female character. This volume contains an in-depth critical analysis and study of the female hero in popular film from 1970 to 2006. It examines five female archetypes: the dominatrix, the Amazon, the daughter, the mother and the rape-avenger. The entrance of the female hero into films written by, produced by and made for men is viewed through the lens of feminism and post-feminism arguments. Analyzed works include films with actors Michelle Yeoh and Meiko Kaji, the Alien films, the Lara Croft franchise, Charlie's Angels, and television productions such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Alias.
Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 113487300X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.
Author: Kent L. Brintnall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0226074714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImages of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon’s paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines—including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art history, and film theory—Ecce Homo explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain. Acknowledging that representations of men confronting violence and pain can reinforce ideas of manly tenacity, Kent L. Brintnall also argues that they reveal the vulnerability of men’s bodies and open them up to eroticization. Locating the roots of our cultural fascination with male pain in the crucifixion, he analyzes the way narratives of Christ’s death and resurrection both support and subvert cultural fantasies of masculine power and privilege. Through stimulating readings of works by Georges Bataille, Kaja Silverman, and more, Brintnall delineates the redemptive power of representations of male suffering and violence.
