Author Description

When sweat gushes down your face, your muscles ache past endurance and sheer grit alone forces you to heave that bar skyward one more time, you've got what it takes to get that heart-racing, grueling, awesome hardcore pump! When you think you've pushed your body to its absolute limits and your muscles sizzle in agony, that's just the beginning of HARDCORE BODYBUILDING. If you're a man - or a woman - preparing for the excitement of competing in your first - or your twenty-first - contest, and you want "rippling" muscles or simply a trimmer, better-contoured figure, the beauty of weight training is that you can custom design and build - reshape - your whole body any way you like. Robert Kennedy, bodybuilding expert and publisher of, will show you how to reach your full potential...efficiently, without injury, in progressive training for intermediate and advanced bodybuilders. Aided by hundreds of photographs of famous bodybuilders in action in their favorite exercises and poses, the author provides complete guidance in tailoring a program to your own goals and special instruction for women and for beginners on: How to use the 3 key elements of exercise, diet and rest, and the fine-tuning secrets of the pros... How to crash through your present sticking points, without injury... How to build those hard-to-reach muscles and tighten and define all body area, proportionately... How to "rip up" and pose dynamically to win contests. ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE OF!