A legendary celebrity trainer introduces his three-stage workout program that combines nutrition and physical training to increase their strength and endurance, promote weight loss, enhance cardiovascular fitness, and develop a more muscular body in just three weeks. 30,000 first printing.

Now you too can follow the exercise and nutrition plans that get the stars in shape Welcome to the action hero training system! In The Action Hero Body Hollywood's top trainer reveals how he gets the stars in shape for physically demanding roles. Here are the exercise and nutrition plans that have worked so well for so many celebrity clients including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Billy Crudup, Jeremy Irons, Angelina Jolie, Bridget Moynahan and Faye Dunaway. Jorgen de Mey explains the thinking behind every aspect of his programme; details the six weeks he spent working with Ben Affleck to get him in shape for Armageddon and Pearl Harbor; shows you how he evaluates the stars' physical status and how you can evaluate yours; and gives you the full 'Action Hero' Nutrition Plan, Workout and Lifeplan. If you follow his programme, Jorgen promises, ' you will become the best you can be'

Are you ready to take your exercise and fitness routine to the next level? Then take a lesson from internationally-renowned action hero Dolph Lundgren, as he shares the personal fitness secrets gained from a lifetime of hard-fought experiences on-camera and off. Dolph has created a personal philosophy of fitness based on martial arts, yoga, strength training, biochemical research, professional sports, and over 40 starring roles in classic action films. It’s a logical, fun, and surprisingly easy path to total fitness—whether you’re at the office, with friends, playing sports, or in class. This is the ultimate lifestyle to improve your health and build your physique! Dolph Lundgren: Be Fit Forever—his autobiographical training guide—features weekly training programs, daily menu planners, guides to equipment and gear, fantastic photos from behind the scenes of Hollywood action movies, and more. DOLPH’S SPECIAL TIPS: 1. Briefing: The reasons you need to get fit 2. Mission: Personal training and health philosophy 3. Weaponry: How to best combine strength exercises, cardiovascular, and flexibility training 4. Special Ops: Stick to your goals even while away traveling 5. Fuel and supplies: The best foods and supplements to build your body 6. Fit forever: Stay in shape for the rest of your life! With detailed exercise plans and over 100 step-by-step photos, Dolph Lundgren: Be Fit Forever is the kickass guide to building a body that will look great and make you feel even better—forever.

The ultimate book to get anyone superhero ripped, these seven, actor-tailored, high-intensity programs present can't fail exercise schedules and nutritional regimens to get action-hero strong in as little as six weeks.

A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his “unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,” Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers.

An inspiring memoir and self-help guide to greatness by the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov calls “fearlessness and intelligence combined . . . potent and beautiful.” Called “the Evel Knievel of Dance,” Elizabeth Streb has been pushing boundaries and testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast can she go? With clarity and humor—and with her internationally-renowned dance troupe STREB—she continues to investigate what movement truly is and has come to these conclusions: It’s off the ground! It creates impact! And it hurts trying to stop! Here, Streb combines memoir and analysis to convey how she became an extreme action dancer and choreographer, developing a form of movement that’s more NASCAR than modern dance, more boxing than ballet, and more than most people can handle “in this dizzying, inspirational self-help” books (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Action Hero Abs is a sure fire way to lose weight, build muscle, and develop great abs. Its mission and primary focus is to build on the health and fitness foundation of the individual, and achieving the goal of six pack abs and ripped body. Within its pages you'll find nutritional information, photo illustrated ab exercises, and the best ways to exercise to lose fat and build muscle in the shortest time possible. This is not a starvation diet book, in fact, it encourages eating for muscle gain, but there are no gimmicky diets within. It contains plain and simple truths about what kinds of foods create the six pack abs look, and what kinds of foods to avoid. You will also learn the natural way to maintain and increase testosterone through food and exercise.It is common knowledge that ab exercises alone will not create a ripped ab look, and Action Hero Abs addresses the entire body's needs, with regard to diet and exercise, to accomplish not only a look of great abs, but an overall healthy muscular definition. It informs the reader and empowers them to develop their own exercise and diet plans based on their current fitness level. It's seriously spot-on with solid nutrition and workout facts, with a bit of action hero and superhero based humor thrown in for good measure.