Bob Hoffman had an ordinary beginning physically, he proved his interest in and knowledge of athletics in winning well over 500 athletic trophies, he has proved his knowledge of body building by reaching the top of the physical training world, he's the world's leading physical director, the author of a dozen popular books, editor of Strength and Health magazine, the world's leading physical training magazine. When you follow one of his courses you can be sure that you follow the best instruction which can be had. Bob is your instructor, your counsellor. With your effort, using York barbells and following his instruction, he guarantees your success. - Bob Hoffman The text remains exactly as written. This is a must have booklet for your physical culture library. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com

"Part of the success of my work, I believe, has been the result of my willingness to make of myself a human guinea pig, in order to prove on my own body the practicability and truth of the training system and methods of living I advocate. On several occasions in the past I have trained intensively for a period, to prove one of my theories. My special twenty weeks' training which took place in my thirty-fifth year, culminating in the winning of the professional heavyweight lifting championship of America, with an improvement in strength and physique which represented a world's record for physical gains, was convincing proof to many. Throughout my entire amateur and professional career I have always practised what I preached and have obtained splendid results with the methods I offer to others. Most men who are interested in physical betterment only wish to feel well and to look well. Many thousands of this class have obtained their physical desires with the training system I offer. They and the men who desired and have obtained a symmetrical physique or great strength, have told others. They in turn have told still others until I have become, by a very great margin, the world's leading physical director." -Bob Hoffman This is a 6" by 9" original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Bob Hoffman's 1938 classic. The text remains exactly as written. This book has many pages with old photographs and illustrations. This is a must have book for your physical culture library. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com

The York Abdominal Course is the classic exercise course originally written by Bob Hoffman, the founder of the York Barbell Company. In contains vintage photos of Bob Hoffman, as well as Golden Age iron game weightlifters and bodybuilders, such as John Grimek and Eugene Sandow. There are 2 complete abdominal courses laid out in detail, including the original illustrations from the rare wall chart that came with the original printing (now included as an exclusive final page). This time-honored manual includes 24 exercises, both bodyweight type and advanced exercises with weights. Includes the namaskur, commonly called the "Hindu Push-up" today. This edition has been adapted by Roger LaPointe, President of Atomic Athletic and the former Olympic Weightlifting Advisor of the York Barbell Company.

When I finally decided that weight loss was a priority in my life I changed my mindset so powerfully that I took action and lost 73 pounds in five months.This book is about developing the right mindset for weight loss. In the past I tried losing weight and like many of you I lost some, and then put it right back on plus some extra pounds. Then I would try something else with the same result. I tried the advice of doctors, nutritionists and friends; I failed again and again. Why? I didn't have the right mindset. Not until I developed the right mindset was I able to change my eating and exercise habits and keep the weight off, all 73 pounds; almost three twenty five pound bags of sugar.After I lost all that weight, people began asking me how I did it. I told them it was a combination of things; I changed my eating and exercise habits and had the right mindset. Many people didn't understand what I meant by 'the right mindset.' The dictionary defines mindset as the mental attitude, inclination, or habit that you use when approaching a situation, especially one that may be perceived as being difficult or challenging.But how do you develop the right mindset?As friends and family continued to ask me about what I had done, I came up with nine specific steps that I used to create the right mindset for weight loss. As you read this book you will learn the steps for developing a successful mindset and how to use them. I affectionately call this revolutionary system, The 5-Minute Mindset for Weight Loss.Each step is overviewed and examples provided of how to implement each step. As you learn the steps and engage in this process, you'll be firmly on the path to a healthier and happier lifestyle. The 5-Minute Mindset for Weight Loss is about developing the right mindset needed to change eating and exercise habits permanently. Once in place, it takes about five minutes a day to maintain. Remembering and using these powerful principles, strengthens your resolve and shortens the time it takes to form new habits and change your life in meaningful and significant ways. It is one of the easiest and most reliable systems for weight loss even if you hate dieting and exercise.I hope you'll apply what you learn from The 5-Minute Mindset for Weight Loss and enjoy your success as you achieve your weight loss goals.

"I remember another day I was standing among a crowd of people on the streets of York as a circus parade was passing. Several men called out from the circus wagons, 'Hey, guy, you with the muscles, or you with the big arms What are you, a wrestler? Come out to the circus and see us. We want to talk to you.' Out of a crowd of some thousands of people they saw the Grimek arms, and it didn't take such sharp eyes to see them either, for they are most conspicuous. Hundreds of similar experiences have proven that people -the body builders and the uninitiated alike - like, crave for and admire big arms. In my opinion the arms are not nearly as important as other muscle groups of the body - not more than one-tenth as strong as the legs or the back; but people always have and always will prefer big arms. Might as well try to transform night into day as change the opinion that the strength of a man is denoted by the size and development of the arms. Everyone wants big arms. And this book is my Answer to that desire. It is the most complete arm development book ever offered to the strength and development-seeking public. It contains more good, tried and proven, result- producing exercises, and a great many others which are completely new or little known, than have ever been included in a single volume." - Bob Hoffman

"Few men grow to manhood without at some time during their early life passing through a period when their greatest desire is to be a strong man. They may know some man who is especially strong and wish to be like him. They may have visited the circus or the theatre and seen a powerful man who is their ideal. For at least a period they are filled with a desire to emulate the deeds of their temporary hero. There is no subject quite as fascinating to most young men as the subject of strength and development. The principal source of their conversation may be the deeds of their favorite athletic hero: a baseball player such as Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio; a football player like Biggie Goldberg, the great Pittsburgh halfback, or Ernie Nevers, the Pacific Coast fullback star of a few years ago; it may be George O'Brien of the movies, or one of the series of movie Tar- zans-Buster Crabbe, Johnny Weismuller, or Glen Morris. But the strength of the man is what they really admire, for it was strength and development more than any other physical or mental characteristic which made these men stars of the playing field or the movies. If you wish to prove my assertion that strength is more admired or talked about than any other subject among young fellows, start a discussion among your friends about strong men. Just tell your friends that a relative of yours, or some other friend or acquaintance, is certainly the strongest fellow in town, and then listen to the outbursts of rhetoric ..." -Bob Hoffman This is a 6" by 9" original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Bob Hoffman's 1940 classic. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com

"If all you want is to keep fit in the easiest possible way you can do this with the simplified course contained in this group of courses in a few minutes a day, three or four times a week, lifting only moderate poundages. Most of the other types of barbell men enumerated, will obtain all they desire in a physical way from the Four Famous York Courses which have developed more champions of strength and development, more lifting champions, more physique champions, than all other courses combined. Those who desire athletic improvement will succeed best by following the exercises of the Four York Courses, with particular emphasis on the weight lifting courses. Although this course can be used by any man who is not a complete beginner at weight training, it is primarily designed for the man who desires the limit in muscle, in strength and de- velopment. For the man who wants big, strong muscles in the right places so that he will have perfect proportions, the man who may wish to enter physique contests and win great honors and then go on to teaching others by running a gymnasium of his own." - Bob Hoffman This is an original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Bob Hoffman's 1951 classic. The text remains exactly as written. This book has many pages with old photographs and illustrations. This is a must have book for your physical culture library. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com

"I am a weight lifter. I like weight lifting and weight lifters. Training with and the lifting of weights, which to me was at first a pleasurable form of exercise, an outlet for the competitive instinct all real men possess, a means of keeping fit in the shortest possible time, has become my life's work. Once it was said, "All that I am and all that I hope to be, I owe to my mother." I revere my mother more with each passing year, as my appreciation grows for the physical normalcy with which she endowed me. I have reached a point in my life where my age is nearly 41, but I feel younger than I did at twenty. I have such pep and energy, such boundless endurance, that life is really a pleasure. No wonder I feel that I owe what I am today to weight lifting. I echo the appreciation of many thousands of men and women who have built their bodies from physical in- feriority to perfection, or near perfection, through weight training, who say, "The physical superiority I enjoy to the fullest measure today I owe to weight training." -Bob Hoffman This is an original version, restored and re-formatted edition of Hoffman's 1939 classic. Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com

"Being a gallery of pictures and biographies of old time strong men." - Bob Hoffman Visit our website and see our many books at PhysicalCultureBooks.com

"The man with a big chest almost without exception is superhealthy, usually healthy in proportion to the size of his chest. There are exceptions to all rules, but the man with the biggest chest should be, and most often is, healthiest because of the size of his chest; while the man with just big arms or broad shoulders is not necessarily healthy on account of them, but usually is healthy because the exercises which made possible his development have built a big chest and unusual internal strength too. As we will consider farther on in the chapters on anatomy, the upper chest contains a large part, a highly important part, of the vital organs-the heart and the lungs, in particular; and in the lower part of the chest, the stomach, liver, kidneys and spleen, as well as many important glands. When a man possesses a large, roomy chest box, there is plenty of space for these organs to develop, to increase in size, with a simultaneous increase in internal .strength and vigor." - Bob Hoffman