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…essential reading for anyone interested in bodybuilding’s origins, significant developments, major players, controversies, critical historical moments and, perhaps most importantly, its impact on popular culture.
…a masterful work…a mammoth text - certainly no lightweight read - which stands in a class of its own.
-David Robson
Bodybuilding.com
...not just for bodybuilders...a detailed, behind-the-curtains look into an oddly fascinating sport, filled with corruption, drama, snake-oil peddlers, steroids, sexuality and so much more. No other book has approached the history of bodybuilding on this level, and with this depth. Completely neutral in its presentation, thorough and engaging...should be read by anyone with an interest in 20th century history and pop culture.
Steve Shaw
Content Manager
muscleandstrength.com
Bodybuilding: Tracing the Evolution of the Ultimate Physique is a detailed, comprehensive history of one of mankind's most unique and unusual creations: bodybuilding. It describes and examines the events, circumstances and personalities responsible for transforming muscle competition and culture from the days of Vaudeville strongman acts and beachside acrobatic teams into its modern form. Most importantly, the book documents the evolution, throughout the years, of bodybuilding's top physiques.
Yet Bodybuilding does more than simply discuss and analyze the transformation of muscle-icons. It chronicles the following items: the evolution of bodybuilding training methods and posing styles; the heated battles between prominent muscle-contest promoters; the rise to domination and stardom of Arnold Schwarzenegger; the history of racism and favoritism in contest judging; bodybuilding’s public-image problems; muscle-magazines’ use of subliminal sexuality; the invention, proliferation, use and effects of synthetic hormones; the sport-versus-pageant debate; the struggle to obtain Olympic recognition; bodybuilding murders and other crimes; and much more. With more than 150,000 words, 160 photographs and 700 individual index entries, Bodybuilding: Tracing the Evolution of the Ultimate Physique is a complete and far-reaching historical analysis - the only book of its kind in existence.
- Sales Rank: #1013576 in Books
- Published on: 2011-05-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.00" h x .55" w x 8.00" l, 1.07 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
About the Author
Gordon LaVelle is an author of books and articles about bodybuilding and other fitness-related topics. His other books include Training for Mass; Training for Mass, Second Edition; and How to Be Thin: An Instruction Manual for Getting Rid of Fat and Keeping it Off Forever. He has a BA in Philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. As a competitive bodybuilder, he achieved first runner-up finishes twice at the NPC California State Bodybuilding Championships.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Wow!
By KariM
Great job Mr. Lavelle. This book delves deeply into the entire history of our sport. As it says in the book, our sport was formed as an expression physical culture. Initially a battle of form vs. function, it eventually emerged as art in human form. The author also explains the transformation from the classic Greek physique, to the drug culture freaks of today. I had no idea just how accidental this change was. The author does an incredible job at analyzing these interesting events that shaped bodybuilding as it is today.
I have never seen another book that shows the complete evolution of bodybuilding. Thank you for creating such a great book! Kudos!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Bodybuilding as serious history
By Kindle Customer
I think what surprised me most about this book is the depth to which it delves into its topics. The author devotes a fairly large section of the book to events and things that preceded the beginning of actual bodybuilding. I think the idea was that he wanted to put everything that came after its invention in perspective, and if so, his goal was accomplished. This is a pretty big book, but once I made it to the end, I very much got the sense that bodybuilding ended up as something very different from what it was meant to be, and totally the opposite from all the things that made people want to do it in the first place. I also never realized what a strange combination of events made it into what it's like today. All these thing alone made it into an interesting read.
This book definitely provides the best overall explanation I've ever seen for how bodybuilding became what it is. This is something I've never really seen satisfactorily explained by a single source. The book presents a good (and necessary) parallel history of steroids and other drugs and specifically describes how how they impacted bodybuilding. This I think sheds better light on the way bodybuilding developed and turned out than anything else.
The book also does a good job of talking about the people that were behind all the changes that took place over the years in bodybuilding. One thing I've known for a while is that a lot of people very much dislike Joe Weider, although I wasn't sure exactly why. Although this book doesn't go deeply into his life story, it definitely reveals enough about him for me to now understand the Weider-hate. I also now have a better opinion of Bob Hoffman (the former head of the AAU and York Barbell), despite the overt racism he displayed.
Another review of this book mentions that the author is a "real bodybuilder," but in reading the book this never becomes apparent, and in fact, I think this is immaterial. I say this because of the way the information is presented. Normally I would expect a book on bodybuilding, written by a bodybuilder, to be either a fluff piece or a bitter diatribe. (Thankfully, the book also isn't about Arnold being elected as governor, as the other review strangely implied. I think there's already a lot of books on that topic. But I digress...) This is neither. To me it seems almost like textbook, with bodybuilding as the subject. The author approaches the subject from a sophisticated perspective, and for some bodybuilding fans this might not fly, but for those want a good understanding of what the book calls "one of mankind's most unusual inventions," I've got to say, this book is a must-read. This is bodybuilding, presented as a serious historical topic. Definitely recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Truth in Bodybuilding
By Paul S. Power
If you are at all interested in the over 100 year history of bodybuilding and How Arnold came to his first fame. He would NEVER had become Govenor of Calirornia without his life as a bodybuilder. Also since Gordon Lavelle is a serious bodybuilder with no attachments to any of the for profit organisations like Joe Weiders IFBB. He writes with a very honest search for the truth in bodybuilding. While uncovering many of the "Sports" dirty little secrets IE: the Truth about the scandel with Arnold winning his last Mr OLYMPIA contest in Sydney, Australia in 1980
That story alone is worth the price of the book. This is also a very entertaining book written by a man who cares about his subject. To say that it is OUTSTANDING! Is simply the truth. Nice work Mister Lavelle.
In my extensive collection of bodybuilding books this IS the very best and it is honest.
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