Real Bodybuilding Muscle Truth from 25 Years in
November 12, 2009 by Jim Made
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Real Bodybuilding rips apart the lies, myths, and misinformation to give you the truth about the art and sport of bodybuilding. Author Ron Harris uses his own expertise and experience as a champion bodybuilder and top magazine writer to break down the most effective training and nutrition strategies to build your perfect physique. You’ll also learn the excellent and terrible sides of steroids and what the mainstream media never told you about them, how to get the most for your supplement dollar without getting ripped off, and go behind the scenes to learn the secrets the magazines don’t tell you about pro bodybuilding and its stars. Find out if you have what it takes to live the hardcore bodybuilding lifestyle, and how to make the most of your genetics whether you want to stand on a contest stage or just look fantastic at the beach. How to train, how and what to eat, and the right mental approach – it’s all in here. No other bodybuilding book has ever been this real and to the point! more info
“Truth” in Bodybuilding?
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
“Real Bodybuilding” is a well written book by an author who has the experience to know what he is talking about. Mr. Harris does not pull any punches when it gets right down to the TRUTH and nitty gritty of competitive bodybuilding in its current state, i.e, the abuse of performance enhancing drugs, a complete disregard for physical, emotional and mental health and an ego-maniacal world filled with lies and deception promulgated by nearly everyone involved in the “sport”.
Basically the bottom line: A person can not be a competitive bodybuilder without the use of performance enhancing drugs – and not just a few, but rather a walking pharmacopia requiring a budget of many tens of thousands of dollars per year.
Personally I have no interest in competitive bodybuilding but I am intrigued by the lengths these misguided people will go to in order to win. This interest was especially peaked and confirmed when I read about the convicted murderer bodybuilding couple Craig Titus and his wife. I find it fascinating the depths these people will sink to in order to live “The Lifestyle”. That pretty much sums up the world of competitive bodybuilding for me.
Mr. Harris confirmed my own beliefs that this form of entertainment is a perverted, extreme and self-destructive world that I really would want no part of, no matter how much (fleeting) glory or money involved: Beach muscles, “the pump”, posing trunks (yechh!), tanning, lotion, oils, ingesting worthless supplements and other garbage on a daily basis, sticking needles in your veins and directly into muscles, suppositories, acne, bitch tits, “cycling”, shrinking balls/enlarged clitoris, shaving, implants, fixed contests, gay perversion back stage…sounds wonderful doesn’t it?
This book is a excellent read for the curious about what it takes to be a competitive bodybuilder and I applaud Mr. Harris for attempting to reveal some “Truth” about a subject that is rife with deception.
Would have been 4 stars if it was edited better
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This book has a boatload of knowledge and personal experiance in it that make it a well worth while read. Nobody should doubt Ron Harris’s background in terms of training or competing. But, the chapters were not very well edited, specifically the training chapter. It felt like two seperate chapters were written and then molded togther into one which seemed to make redundancy. Perhaps, if Harris is picked up by a major publisher this will not be a problem for the future.