Bill Pearl's Masterpiece

Five times Mr. Universe BodyBuilding Champion Bill Pearl has a masterpiece on his lifelong passion of bodybuilding. He is now 80 years and still going strong. Mr. PettyOfficerJ this is for you. Merry Christmas.

Keys to the Inner Universe by Bill Pearl
638 pages
$39.95 on Amazon.com
IBSN-13 978-0962991004

 

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I love Bill Pearl, too. Very Classy guy. This book is also amazing. Read it when I was 14 years old. Timeless.

 

Ms. Kunoici, I too have Arnold's "The Education of a Bodybuilder". On page 24, para 2, Arnold said the following on when others started to notice the change in himself when he started bodybuilding, "This strange new attitude toward me had an incredible effect on my ego. It supplied me with something I have been craving". This I can say I feel as he did in the beginning stage of bodybuilding. I hope you too will experience this feeling or is beginning the journey with that boost.

 

Aww, thanks Blacktiger!

Great book excerpt! A few things from his 'BB motivational bible' stand out to me to this day....Him riding his bike for miles, exhausted, only to train like a beast, and then ride back...to him barley flinching when told his father had died, as he was in the middle of a workout. (ps: my memory may fail me on the absolute details since I was a teen reading it in Australia at the time) I vividly remember hungrily lapping it up as BB was my obsession (not that I was one, but dreaming of developing 1/10th of Rachel McLish or Cory Everson's figure when I grew up, lol).

Anyway, I love that you have read it, too!

 

Thank you Ms. Kunoichi, This book is indeed a very inspiration book. There is so much that Arnie passed on that truly motivates you. That passage on him riding his bike for eight miles to the gym from his village to the gym, worked out hard and then return home on his bike after he was warned by his partners at the gym that he will be sore was the first great impression made on him of his first workout. He said he could barely lift his arms to comb his hair. He said the following: "I started riding home and fell off my bike. I was so weak I couldn't make my hands hold on. I had no feeling in my legs: they were noodles. I was numb, my whole body buzzing. I pushed the bike for a while, leaning on it. Half a mile farther, I tried to ride it again, fell off again, and then pushed it the rest of the way home". You can find that in the first chapter on page 15, para 3. Take care.