It is said that there are two kinds of men. There are men who want big arms and there are men who are liars. Nobody wants to be called a bodybuilder but we all want to be bigger. Here are some resources on how to do it or how other people have done it.
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Scrawny to Brawny, by John Berardi and Michael Mejia, is a self-help manual for under-eating hardgainers and explains exactly how to get big and strong
Arnold, by Wendy Leigh, is an unauthorised biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger and it probes deeply into his fascinating psychology and will to succeed
Muscle: a writer’s journey through a sport with no boundaries, by Jon Hotten, is an account of bodybuilding in its various forms, along with a discussion of the dangers that come with contest shape and competing
Muscle: confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder, by Sam Fussell, is the ultimate bodybuilding memoir, the full story of one man’s journey from skinny weakling to stage-stomping mass monster covered in fake tan
Serious Strength Training, by Tudor Bompa and Mauro DiPasquale, might look like a scientific approach to strength training based on periodisation but there is a lot in there about hypertrophy too
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