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The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
Power. Speed. Agility. Pride.
These are just a few of the reasons why bodybuilding has become the fastest
growing sport in America. From gymnasts to football players, from golfers
to boxers, athletes everywhere now are working out with weights to maximize
their performance and their lives. And you can, too, thanks to one man
and one book: Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding.
Across the country and around the world it’s recognized as the definitive
source on the subject — the
“bible of bodybuilding.”
Hot Point Fitness: The Revolutionary New Program for Fast and Total Body Transformation
Steve Zim, Mark Laska (Contributor)
Hot Point Fitness author Steve Zim is a personal trainer/gym owner who has “a
small army” of personal trainers that uses his method. Zim personally
trains mostly celebrities and professional athletes, especially Olympic
figure skaters and professional baseball players. His clients aim for
optimal physical appearance as well as physical performance. Their sports
depend on strength, agility, flexibility, and speed. According to Zim,
you can achieve your own best personal fitness level by using the Hot
Point Fitness program. The goal: to transform your body into the best
shape ever.
No Holds Barred: Evolution
Clyde Gentry III
The truth can finally be told as No Holds Barred: Evolution takes us
through the tumultuous beginning of mixed martial arts (MMA) in America.
Over 83 original interviews, comprising over 250 hours, were conducted
to reveal the raw, behind-the-scenes nature of the world’s most misunderstood
sport. From the early days of the Ultimate Fighting Championship to the
political backlash that nearly destroyed the MMA movement, this compelling
story will open your eyes to the true martial artists of our time. The
sport’s biggest stars including Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, Mark Coleman,
Maurice Smith, and Tank Abbott talk candidly about their experience in
the sport. For the first time, the original creators behind the UFC speak
out about the spectacle that became a sport. Every major MMA event between
November 1993 and December 1997 is covered, including shows from the
Ultimate Fighting Championship, Extreme Fighting, International Fighting
Championships, Martial Arts Reality Superfighting, and many more! This
book also contains complete fight results from 40 shows (including submissions)
from 1993 to 1997, and includes over 125 photos from personal collections
and fight photographers around the globe. The MMA Directory lists over
150 websites for schools, fighters and fight promotions from America
and abroad. No Holds Barred: Evolution is what every fight fan has been
waiting for, and it seeks to set the record straight about the sport
that changed the face of martial arts forever. ($29.95, 6″ x 9″ paperback,
95,000 words, approx. 300 pages), $5.00 shipping.
To place an order, please e-mail prince@optimumfitness.com.
Awesome Hour: Upper Body Home Workout (Video)
with John Basedow
Fitness Made Simple (FMS) highlights the personal training and nutrition program
of John Basedow who has burst onto the fitness scene appearing in many
national and regional exercise and bodybuilding-related publications.
His video preaches basic result-producing, muscle-building, and fat-burning
program which he discusses in detail on this tape.
Amazon.com viewers give Awesome Hour: Upper Body Home Workout 5 stars!
Well for Optimum Health : The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating
Andrew Weil
Hopefully, years from now, Eating Well for Optimum Health will be looked upon
as the book that saved the health of millions of Americans and transformed
the way we eat — not as the book we overlooked at our own peril. It clarifies
the mishmash of conflicting news, research, hype, and hearsay regarding
diet, nutrition, and supplementation, and further establishes the judicious
Dr. Weil, the director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the
University of Arizona, as a savior of public well-being. If you’ve ever
wondered what "partially hydrogenated soybean oil" really is,
been perplexed by contrary news reports about recommended dosages for
supplements, or questioned the safety of using aluminum pots for cooking,
Dr. Weil will make it all clear.
Amazon.com readers give Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating 4 stars!
Body for Life : 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Fitness Forever
Bill Phillips, Michael D’Orso (Contributor)
Bodybuilding - A Realistic Approach: Now You Can Have a Great Body!
Frank A. Melfa
Beyond Brawn: The Insider’s Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle & Might
Stuart McRobert
Other Books Recommended By Prince Harrision
The Johns Hopkins Family Health Book
Michael J. Klag (Editor)
Getting Hits : The Definitive Guide to Promoting Your Web Site
Don Sellers
MoneyHunt: 27 New Rules for Creating and Growing a Breakaway Business
Miles Spencer and Cliff Ennico
In the PBS TV show Money Hunt, would-be entrepreneurs present their business plans to a panel of experts on business launches. Those with good plans get start-up capital. Those without them get nothing, other than maybe a painful lesson or two. Now, the hosts of Money Hunt want you to know the 27 rules of starting a successful new business, rules they’ve gleaned both from doing the show and from their personal experience — Spencer is an investment banker and venture capitalist, and Ennico is a corporate lawyer and entrepreneur. Between the two of them, they’ve spent 30 years working with businesses from the ground floor up.
Jamming
John Kao
Here’s a new business book that will have you positively humming: Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity by John Kao. The author, a Harvard Business School professor and jazz pianist, plainly and persuasively compares creativity in the workplace with creativity in the world of jazz. He does this by effectively showing, through examples, how business people can feed off each other’s ideas to create entirely new concepts — much like jazz musicians engaged in free-form musical jams combine with their partners to achieve a completely original result. Ultimately, Kao finds, the two fields rely in similar ways on freedom within a defined structure to achieve success. (This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.)
Honey: I Want to Start My Own Business
If there’s one thing harder than starting a business, it’s starting a business and maintaining a stable family life. Azriela Jaffe has traveled that difficult route, and by combining her own experiences with those of 130 other couples, she has assembled the definitive guide to achieving success on both fronts. The resultant work, Honey, I Want to Start My Own Business: A Planning Guide for Couples, mixes illuminating real-life examples with practical advice for achieving entrepreneurial fulfillment and personal peace. (This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.)
An Eye for Winners
Lillian Vernon
An Eye for Winners: How I Built America’s Greatest Direct-Mail Business is a "dual biography," interweaving the account of her corporation’s unprecedented growth with Lillian’s own personal story; both are filled with ups and downs, triumphs and trials.
The Second Curve: How to Command New Technologies, New Consumers and New Markets
Ian Morrison
The business world is undergoing a profound revolution as the new millennium inches closer, and one of the best assessments of its implications and possibilities comes from Institute for the Future president Ian Morrison in his The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change. This thoughtful work advances one simple yet striking concept: business leaders must stop focusing on the short-term and start planning for the long run. Making the most of current profits is the first curve in business, Morrison writes; shifts in technology and the marketplace signify the second. Understanding how these critical changes develop and knowing what they mean, he contends, will help business leaders make the necessary leap from one to the other. (This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.)
Tae-Bo Workout: Advanced and Tae-Bo Live! Sneak Preview
When Billy Blanks called this workout Advanced, he wasn’t fooling around.
This 57-minute workout will have your heart racing, your pulse pounding,
and your sweat glands working overtime. The familiar moves from Tae-Bo
Instructional and Basic are here, but Blanks has put a little razzmatazz
on them, adding slightly more complicated combinations that should
be fairly easy to master if you’ve completed the first two tapes.
$29.95
You save $5.00! (14%)
Tae-Bo
Workout: Instructional and Basic
$34.95
You save $5.00! (13%)
Billed as the
"future of fitness"
and hawked by numerous celebrities, Billy Blanks’s Tae-Bo actually deserves
much of the hype it’s receiving. A mixture of boxing punches and martial
arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy. One of the best elements of this
two-tape set is that the first tape (which is 40 minutes long), Tae-Bo:
Instructional, lays out the movements you need to successfully complete
a workout.
Optimum Sports Nutrition : Your Competitive Edge
This comprehensive guide speaks directly to athletes, body builders, and other
serious sport and fitness conscious consumers. Dr. Colgan presents scientific
information in an easy-to-read, comprehendable format that covers supplements — what’s
effective and what’s not — peak-performance nutrition, steroids, special
diets, and more. Illustrations.
The Complete Book of Food Counts
Corinne T. Netzer
Amazon
Customers give this book 4 1/2 stars (out of 5). 720 pages of information
The Nutribase Nutrition Facts Desk Reference
Dr. Art Ulene, Ed Prestwood, Arthur Ulene
If you’re serious about eating healthfully and losing weight, you need more
than a list of calories: you need a reliable source of comprehensive
dietary information. That’s where Nutrition Facts comes in. Within its
pages are more than 40,000 entries that list everything from abalone
to zucchini — raw foods, fast foods, and brand names included. For each
item Art Ulene presents calories, protein, carbohydrates, sodium, fiber,
fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, percent of calories from fat, plus vitamins
and minerals. He takes the guesswork out of healthful eating, and provides
the wherewithal for you to follow through on your laudable intents.
An Amazon.com Reference Editor’s Recommended Book
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey
The bestselling guide to personal fulfillment and professional success — more
than seven million paperback copies in print. Guided by Covey’s remarkable
step-by-step program, readers will find more meaning and satisfaction
in relationships, be better able to achieve personal and professional
goals — and can look forward to lasting happiness and success. “A
wonderful book that could change your life.” – Tom Peters, author
of In Search of Excellence.
Amazon Customers give this book 4 1/2 stars (out of 5).
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel P. Goleman
An
Amazon.com Personal Growth Editor’s Recommended Book
There was a time when IQ was considered the leading determinant of success.
In this fascinating book, based on brain and behavioral research, Daniel
Goleman argues that our IQ-idolizing view of intelligence is far too
narrow. Instead, Goleman makes the case for "emotional intelligence" being
the strongest indicator of human success.
A Whack on the Side of the Head : How You Can Be More Creative
Roger Von Oech
The Best-Selling Creativity Classic Enhanced and Revised for the 21st Century!
For years one book has been used more than any other to stimulate creativity
and new ideas: WHACK! Now Roger von Oech’s classic work on creativity
is back — and better than ever — with more bright ideas and expanding
exercises to bring its famous innovation boosters to a new generation.
Amazon Customers give this book 4 1/2 stars (out of 5).
Lori George
Optimum Fitnesss client Lori George is now sponsored
by Primaforce / Scivation.
Visit Lori's Web site at lorigeorge.com
1999 NPC Heart of Texas Bodybuilding and Fitness/Figure Championships
In DVD/Digital Quality
format!
This video is from one of the high-quality shows promoted by Optimum Fitness and features IFBB Pro and Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman and IFBB Pro Betty Pariso.