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Bodybuilding : the complete contest preparation handbook
\"The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the bodybuilding contest preparation process from the start of contest preparation, through show-day, and into the transition to the offseason\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Insane training : garage training, powerlifting, bodybuilding, and all-out bad-ass workouts
\"Matt is a world champion, record holding powerlifter and an NPC bodybuilder famous for his grueling, high intensity workouts. Insane Training is what Matt is famous for. His book of the same name is full of programs that will help every gym rat take it to the next level, whether that's flipping a tractor tire 100 yards, deadlifting three times their body weight, improving athletic performance or puking in a bucket--this book has it all! Not for the faint of heart or average gym-goer, this is for athletes who want to take their training to the max. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Imperfect Perfection and Wheelchair Bodybuilding
This article explores the impact of the binary configuration of disabled bodies as opposite and unequal to able bodies, and whether or not contemporary bodybuilding provides a space where this dualism can be overcome. Drawing on life history interviews with Dan, a professional wheelchair bodybuilder, we consider how his hyper-muscular upper body may position him as a supercrip and thereby reinforce bodily and gender norms. Simultaneously, Dan’s powerful, disabled body and a competitive context that applies standard judgement criteria across all bodies potentially subverts this normative configuration. We reflect on the contradictions engendered by Dan’s corporeality by drawing on notions of the bodybuilder as body-garde involved in a process of enfreakment that disrupts and transcends contemporary bodily ideals. Here, variable self-reflexive bodybuilding projects can accommodate contingent conceptualisations of perfection, including disability, with implications for disabled bodies and identities more broadly.
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