📚 Bodybuilding

Books with bodybuilding on their catalogue record, first published between 1969 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bodybuilding in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,170 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Arnold's bodybuilding for men	Arnold Schwarzenegger	1981	7
	Muscle	Samuel Wilson Fussell	1991	7
	Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy	Bret Contreras	2013	7
	Le Cours de physique de Feynman	Richard Phillips Feynman	1969	6
	Beginning bodybuilding	John R. Little	2007	6
	Convict conditioning	Paul Wade	2010	5
	Winning bodybuilding	Franco Columbu	1977	4
	The wisdom of Mike Mentzer	John R. Little	2005	4
	Convict conditioning 2	Paul Wade	2010	4
	Overcoming Gravity	Steven Low	2011	4
	You Are Your Own Gym	Mark Lauren	2011	4
	Bigger Leaner Stronger	Michael Matthews	2012	4
	The Nautilus bodybuilding book	Ellington Darden	1982	3
	Encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding	Arnold Schwarzenegger	1985	3
	Hard bodies	Gladys Portugues	1986	3
	Joe Weider's ultimate bodybuilding	Joe Weider	1989	3
	Big	Ellington Darden	1990	3
	Bodybuilding basics	Kennedy, Robert	1991	3
	Serious strength training	Tudor O. Bompa	1998	3
	The men's health home workout bible	Lou Schuler	2002	3
	Bodybuilding Anatomy	Nick Evans	2006	3
	Men's Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide	Myatt Murphy	2007	3
	Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy	Brad Schoenfeld	2016	3
	Periodization of Strength Training for Sports	Tudor O. Bompa	2021	3
	Blueprint	Ross Edgley	2021	3
	Getting strong, looking strong	Boyer Coe	1979	2
	Complete book of weight training	Mike Mentzer	1982	2
	Franco Columbu's Complete book of bodybuilding	Franco Columbu	1982	2
	Hardcore bodybuilding	Kennedy, Robert	1982	2
	Ripped 2	Clarence Bass	1982	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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