Looking for a solid weightlifting exercise reference book

September 10, 2007 5:02 PM

Looking for a Muscle and Fitness exercise reference notebook-type of book, which is proving way more difficult to find than I'd imagined.

I did a couple of sessions with my sister's personal trainer when I went out to visit her, and he highly recommended this book he showed me. He said it should be on the Muscle & Fitness web site, but I have found neither hide nor hair of it anywhere there or anywhere else on the internet. All of our correspondences have several-week delays, but I'd like to find the book (or a substitute) well before then.

THE FACTS (as well as things I think might be facts):
-Definitely made by Muscle & Fitness
-Very thorough reference of weight exercises-- free weights and machine-- but possibly some other stuff as well
-Coilbound with thicker-than-normal, kind of glossy pages, maybe in the 150-300 page range
-My own searches are proving futile

Anybody else ever see, own, or know where I could get a copy of this book? If not, any alternatives?

posted by dubadubowbow to sports, hobbies, & recreation (4 comments total)

The ones my friends use and recommend is Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Modern Body Building. Yeah, it's Arnold, but here, he really knows what he's talking about. It's actually quite good (I also own a copy).

Perhaps Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength is the one you're looking for? It's authored by a Muscle & Fitness editor.
posted by fishfucker at 5:26 PM on September 10, 2007

I believe this is what you are looking for - very good notebook to have with you in the gym.

Here is a link to some of their other offerings as well.
posted by jaythebull at 5:35 PM on September 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

wow, I blew that one .. Sorry, didn't quite get that you were specifically looking for a logbook.
posted by fishfucker at 6:17 PM on September 10, 2007

No worries, fisher, I didn't know it was a logbook either, but that's all the better, I guess! Thanks for the other books as well.
posted by dubadubowbow at 8:54 PM on September 10, 2007