The Zane Way to a Beautiful Body - Through Weight Training for Men and Women

By Frank and Christine Zane, and dedicated, in their words, to each other. Two hundred and fifty seven pages built in three parts so that a couple can train from the same book.

Part I, A Healthy Body, is the shared ground: the similarities and differences in men's and women's training, the ideal woman's physique and the ideal man's, then how to exercise successfully. Breathing, movements, why the body thrives on routine, the idea that you create your body, mental preparation, relaxation, progress charts and the physical checkup.

Part II is Bodybuilding for Men, running three programmes in sequence: bodybuilding without weights, bodybuilding with weights, and the basic split routine.

Part III is Bodybuilding for Women, opening on a beautiful body and why to exercise at all.

The acknowledgments are a snapshot of the era, thanking Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Butler and Charles Gaines of Pumping Iron, and Joe Weider.