Encyclopaedia on Bodybuilding + Peace Lily Leaves

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I have just read this encyclopaedia about bodybuilding by Óscar Morán Esquerdo, with illustrations by Isabel Arechabala. I think it is a good thing to educate yourself about the activity you are involved in. If you want to prepare for playing basketball through bodybuilding, it is worth reading about how to perform exercises on the different machines in the gym and which muscles the body has. In my view, this encyclopaedia is very dense. It is not very easy to read. But if you read one or two chapters every day, you will finish it in several months. However, it is better if you already have some knowledge of bodybuilding.

Bodybuilding encyclopaedia + Peace Lily leaves

In my case, because I knew very little about muscles, at first it seemed to me that I would never be able to understand, remember and distinguish all those muscles. But in the end, I more or less managed it.

The author of the book places particular emphasis on the precautions you have to take with some exercises, such as the deadlift.

Of course, the bench press is interesting, as is the incline bench press for the upper chest. I do these exercises with dumbbells and a barbell. I also do cable triceps pushdowns, wrist roller exercises, barbell squats, back extensions, barbell military presses and other exercises. All muscles are important, both the internal and the external ones.

The book has a mini-dictionary in the last appendix. For example, a dumbbell is called “mancuerna” in Spanish. A curious word.

You can see a sample of the encyclopaedia in Spanish below:

Enciclopedia de ejercicios de musculación — Spanish-language sample