The Three Muscleteers

The Three Muscleteers

Author: Ed Connors

Publisher: Creators Publishing

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1949673731

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The Three Muscleteers is the story of Gold’s Gym and what’s now known around the world as the fitness industry. Not long ago, athletes of most popular sports — football, basketball, baseball — never lifted weights. Coaches and trainers, even doctors, were against it, especially for women. The film Pumping Iron, which made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star, was shot at Gold’s Gym. That, along with the explosion of bodybuilding competitions that followed throughout the ‘80s was a “big bang” moment. Thanks to the trifecta of Joe Weider’s fitness magazines, Arnold’s stardom, and Gold’s Gym, the fitness industry was transformed. As one of the three owners of Gold’s Gym during its golden years, Ed Connors will inspire with his success stories of hundreds of visitors to his home in Venice, CA (only blocks from Gold’s Gym). Visitors he believed were destined for greatness, like action film star and WWE champion John Cena, who helped make Gold’s Gym "the Mecca" and the largest gym chain in the world. Ed believes life is half fate and half what you do with it. The Three Muscleteers amplifies the importance of taking risks, creating the perfect team, and never giving up — inspiring bodybuilders, wrestlers, athletes, actors, architects, CEOs, and anyone willing to take a chance to flex their own muscles.


If I Had Two Wings: Stories

If I Had Two Wings: Stories

Author: Randall Kenan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1324005475

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Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.


The Magic of Lifting Weights

The Magic of Lifting Weights

Author: Rick Newcombe

Publisher: Creators Publishing

Published: 2022-01-08

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1949673413

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Lifting light weights with good form has helped Rick Newcombe look and feel youthful his whole life, especially in his golden years. Told in a lively style in the first person—and illustrated with nearly two hundred photos—Newcombe takes us on his journey, starting with wanting to be a bodybuilder as a thirteen-year-old and resulting in his love affair with lifting weights as an adult. He is passionate about this fantastic hobby because it helps build muscle and maintain fitness. His weightlifting story is one of inspiration, success, failure, frustration, and ultimate success, all while he was building a multimillion-dollar media company, traveling the world, and maintaining a close family life. He calls it magical because he went after one goal—muscles—and received a dozen unexpected and rewarding benefits, such as increased bone density, fat loss, better balance, and increased energy. The author says that working out has helped him to feel youthful with each passing decade, and it is the foundation for energy as a senior citizen. The key is to make exercising fun.


Muscle

Muscle

Author: Jon Hotten

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-06-08

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1446466159

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Bodybuilding is the wildest, wierdest sport in the world, but it's more than just a sport. It's a whole way of life for the supermen who scale its Olympian heights. Muscle is a journey through a land of giants, men for whom life is given meaning by the pursuit of the perfect pec and who worship at the shrine of Schwartzenegger. Jon Hotten has a 40-inch chest and 12-inch arms. Undaunted, he fights his unpromising genetics to hitch up with the bodybuilding circus, hanging out with the stars and legends, the casualties, gym rats and iron junkies. As his forbidding subjects open up, he discovers a story of unregulated excess, chemical mayhem and hard-won glory, a story for anyone who's ever looked in the mirror and wanted more...


Brothers of Iron

Brothers of Iron

Author: Joe Weider

Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC

Published: 2006-09-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1596701242

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In the depths of the Great Depression a scrawny, dirt-poor Jewish kid with a seventh-grade education picked up a barbell and got hooked on weight training. Building his muscles gave him confidence and hope for a better life. He pledged to make the great, transforming power of strength training available to everyone and to give bodybuilding all the glory it deserved.The kid, Joe Weider, enlisted his younger brother Ben in his quest, and together the Weider brothers accomplished things much bigger than Joe's boyhood dreams. The little muscle magazine Joe started, working at his family's dining room table, grew into a publishing empire. From a backyard barbell business, Joe and Ben built equipment and food supplement companies each as big as Weider Publishing. And they transformed bodybuilding into a hugely successful sport, organized under one of the largest and best-run athletic federations in the world.The Weider brothers are heroes to bodybuilders and fans all over the world. They're heroes because they're revolutionaries. The Weiders changed the way people think about exercise, health, and what makes a body beautiful. They changed the world and Brothers of Iron tells their fascinating story.


Driven

Driven

Author: Tony Pearson

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578517049

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Hidden until now, a story about real life hardship. Beginning in 1959 in the American Deep South, chronicling severe child abuse at the hands of a family member and the impoverished life circumstances in which he was raised. Journaling the extreme struggles he endured to reveal the human spirit of survival, propelling him to achieve his dream of becoming America's champion. An inspirational record of one man's determination to rise above and triumph over despair and defeat to earn global recognition.


The Gold's Gym Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding

The Gold's Gym Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding

Author: Ed Connors

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780809230068

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A guide to bodybuilding, discussing equipment, clothing, nutrition, diet, types of training, and other basics of the sport; providing photographs and instructions on how to use weight machines to build muscle in different parts of the body; and including information on aerobics, stretching, and competition.