The Official Gold's Gym Guide to Getting Started in Bodybuilding
Health & Wellness Bodybuilding Strength Training Fitness & Exercise Sports Instruction Anatomy Personal Training
The Official Gold’s Gym Guide to Getting Started in Bodybuilding distills the legendary gym’s 60-year legacy into a 163-page, fully illustrated roadmap that turns first-time lifters into confident gym regulars. Written by veteran trainer Ed Housewright and published in 2005, this upbeat paperback walks readers through Gold’s time-tested protocol: goal-setting, anatomy basics, equipment familiarization, progressive overload, and the mental habits that keep plateaus away. Large color photos of real Gold’s athletes demonstrate every exercise—squats, presses, rows, curls—so beginners can compare their form on the spot and avoid the injuries that sink most New-Year memberships.
What makes this copy collectible is its clean, tight interior: no previous owner’s notes, no dog-eared corners, no highlighted lines muddying the crisp illustrations. Light foxing appears only on the closed outer edge, leaving the readable pages bright and marking-free. It’s the perfect “gym-bag edition”: lightweight enough to toss in a duffel for quick reference between sets, yet durable enough to survive years of workouts and page-flipping.
For anyone who wants the authentic Gold’s Gym methodology without the cost of a Venice Beach plane ticket, this guide is the next-best thing. Fitness seekers, personal trainers, and used-book hunters all search for this title because it delivers the exact programming that built some of bodybuilding’s most iconic physiques—now accessible in a single, affordable volume.
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