Whether you’re new to the bodybuilding game, or a veteran of the iron game for years, you can never learn too much about the many aspects of the sport. Each year, there are huge strides made in the field of supplementation. New products arrive on the scene with plenty of hype, and older market offerings disappear without much fanfare as the market speaks and people simply stop buying them. Things don’t change much when it comes to training, but even those who have been in the gym for decades still learn things every day. Newer trainers, however, can learn a great deal to help them find greater and continued results after those initial beginners’ gains wear off.
But where should you look to gain this new information? Is there some magic book you can memorize, and suddenly you’ll become the top bodybuilding information aficionado in your area? Of course not. Becoming a master of the iron sport can take years of study from a variety of sources. Let’s look at some of the best resources for learning more about bodybuilding.
Bodybuilding websites
Bodybuilding.com, Getanabolics.com, and many other online collections of useful bodybuilding information can help give you the edge in training, nutritional, supplementation, and steroid knowledge. Articles are often organized very well, and you can usually search article databases for whichever article best suits your interests.
Bodybuilding message boards
Forums are a great place to find not only information on training and nutrition, but for motivation as well. Learn from professional bodybuilders and fitness elites, while at the same time having a laugh with others of your age group and interest set.
Books
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Modern Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding is perhaps the most popular bodybuilding book in history. Robert Kennedy and Bill Pearl offer other points of view, delivering a great deal of bodybuilding information in a very direct and understandable format. These books are especially useful for filling in any gaps you have when it comes to training and nutrition. You might have an 80% grasp on a subject – but a few minutes on a chapter can bring you to 100% understanding of a concept.
Magazines
It is hard to keep “discovering” new training and nutritional methods each month, but these magazine editors seem to keep finding a way. Above all, use muscle magazines for motivation and inspiration as you continue to trudge to the gym, day after day.
The Gym
You can learn more about good and bad lifting technique from watching others around you in the gym than you can pick up from any book. Don’t stare, as that can be very rude. But many bodybuilders will take it as a real compliment when a new lifter approaches them and asks for training advice. Just remember to learn your information from a variety of sources, and not just a single individual.
Youtube
This online video depository has only been around for less than a decade, but it has permeated many avenues of our lives with quick delivery of videos based upon nearly every type of subject imaginable. Proper (and improper!) lifting technique can be viewed very easily for nearly every exercise. Just be aware of the fact that many Youtube posters are selling something!
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