Books You Should Read

How to Get Big

Priming the Anabolic Environment: A Practical, Scientific
Guide to the Art and Science of Building Muscles by William D. Brink
Published by Musclemag Intl
Publication date: December 1997
Brawn by Stuart McRoberts
C.S. Publishing Ltd
Beyond Brawn by Stuart McRoberts
C.S. Publishing Ltd
Hardcore Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach by Fred Hatfield & Tom Platz
Published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing
The Ketogenic Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner by Lyle McDonald
Underground Body Opus: Militant Weight Loss & Recomposition by Dan Duchaine

Bodybuilding Biographies

West Coast Bodybuilding Scene, The Golden Era by Dick Tyler
Publication Date: April 2004, On Target Publications
Beyond The Universe: The Bill Pearl Story by Bill Pearl, Kim Shott
Publication Date: August 2003, Agni Press
Muscle: An Autobiography: The History, Business, and Soul of Modern-Day Bodybuilding by Ben Weider
Publication Date: December 2002
Remembering Muscle Beach: Where Hard Bodies Began
Photographs and Memories by Harold Zinkin, Bonnie Hearn
Publication Date: August 1999
Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell by John D Fair
Publication Date: May 1999
Muscle Beach by Marla Matzer Rose
Publication Date: March 2001
Brother Iron, Sister Steel, A Bodybuilder’s Book by Dave Draper
Publication Date: 2001
Bill Pearls Keys to the Inner Universe: Worlds Best Built Man by Bill Pearl
Publication Date: 1992
Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding (Sport and Society) by David L. Chapman
Publication date: April 1994
Gorilla Suit: My Adventures in Bodybuilding by Bob Paris
Publication date: September 1997
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Sam Fussell
Publication date: August 1992
Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography by Wendy Leigh
Published by Congdon & Weed
Publication date: 1990;

Bodybuilding Culture

Chemical Pink by Katie Arnoldi
Publication Date: March 2001
Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction
(Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) by Alan M. Klein
Published by State Univ of New York Pr
Publication date: September 1993
The Perfectible Body: The Western Ideal of Male Physical Development by Kenneth R. Dutton
Published by Continuum Pub Group
Publication date: April 1995
Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Body Building by Leslie Heywood
Published by Rutgers Univ Press
Publication date: February 1998
The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession by Harrison G. Pope Jr. M.D., Katharine A. Phillips M.D., Roberto Olivardia Ph.D.
Published by Free Press
Publication date: April 2000

History of Physique Photography

Exposed: A Celebration of the Male Nude from 90 of the World’s Greatest Photographers by Philip Braham
Mountain Men: The Male Photography of Don Whitman by Don Whitman, David Chapman (Introduction)
Hollywood Nudes by Fred Kovert (Photographer), David Chapman (Introduction)
Adonis: The Male Physique Pin-Up 1870-1940 by David Chapman (Editor)

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