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A fantastic guide to Power Walking by a former Mr. Universe, the late great Steve Reeves.
As an old fan of Steve Reeves when he was a legend in bodybuilding, I bought this book when it first came out in 1982 and it has been in my vast collection since that time.It covers Mr. Reeves method of vigorous walking, which he terms "power walking."This classic text covers how he developed his walking method, why walking may be better than running, stretching movements, evaluating your progress, winning the losing game, mobile meditation, super fitness, questions and answers about power walking, and making health your top priority.In conclusion, this is a book for anyone who wants a simple but effective total fitness walking program. Rating: 5 Stars.Joseph J. Truncale (Author:Monadnock Defensive Tactics System, Use of the Monadnock Straight Baton, PR-24 Police Baton Advanced Techniques, Martial Art Myths, Season of the Warrior: a poetic tribute to warriors, Never Trust a Politician).

LOWIMPACT HIGH RESULTS
I got his book when it first came out in 82-83 as a high school athletelooking for ways to crosstrain and get ready for marine Bootcamp. I did this for three months prior to Marine Boot Camp, a 3 month, strength and endurance proposition as any Marine can tell you. I graduated honor man in my Platoon and have been in the military for 22 years at this time. I reccommend this program to any age, especially if you are coming off a knee surgery or other overuse injuries. Or if you are new to fitness, it was definitley ahead of it's time. I have since Lost my copy, plan to order another one and reccommend this program to others, it's cheap and you get what you put into it, like any excercise program.All you need are some good shoes and 10 dollar dumbells you can buy at wallyworld. RIP Steve, you were a great inspiration to me....

want to lose a lot of weight and get ripped?
A bit dated in terms of the pictures and very basic info, Steve does a great job of motivating the reader to get and stay fit by power walking. If the internet in its commercial form had been available when this book was written, Steve would have started a power walking revolution!

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An Excellent Book on Natural Training
I have a number of books and courses on bodybuilding and fitness. Steve Reeves' "Building the Classic Physique the Natural Way" is one of the best I have ever read. It not only deals with how he trained for competitions, but also to stay in shape. There are chapters on power walking, and nutrition. One of the most valuable chapters for me is the one on training for people over 50. Most everything out there is directed towards people in their 20's.This book is a valuable resource that I will be referring to often.

A great read but very poor training advice.
First of all, I *do* enthusiastically recommend this book because it is a fun and interesting read and it also contains dozens of amazing pictures of Steve Reeves (who surely had one of the greatest physiques of all time) and other famous physique champions from a time that some call the golden era of body-building. It also contains some information that is fascinating and certainly worth reading including Reeves's take on Power Walking, his excellent nutritional advice, his "rules to live by" which while not necessarily practical, are nonetheless very interesting and much more.

Why only 3 stars from me then? The training advice. The training advice Reeves gives is, in a word, ludicrous. Reeves recommends three full body workouts a week on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday type split with each workout lasting from two and a half to three hours, taking every set to failure on every exercise in a routine that includes heavy compound movements such as squats, bench presses, military presses and dozens of other exercises. Each body part is hit with up to 12 sets during the workout as well. I'm sorry but I can guarantee that anyone who is not genetically gifted from a body-building perspective and seriously tries to follow such a routine will end up chronically overtrained within a couple of weeks. You cannot squat to failure for 12 sets, multiple times per week for very long before either injury or overtraining and/ or sickness stops you dead in your tracks.

Reeves also offers advice about ideal proportions for what he calls "The Classic Physique" which are basically just his proportions from when he was in top form. This advice is just stupid since we are all built differently and some of these goals will just be unreachable for a lot of people. Take the notion of getting identical measurements for the circumference of your calves, biceps and neck. For a lot of people this just won't be possible because of the way their body is structured.

It is evident that Reeves was genetically blessed; in the book he mentions that he had to stop training his calves because they were getting too big. He also says that when he was in Europe making films he only really had to work out for a month a year to maintain his amazing physique. He also talks about going from relatively poor condition to Mr America winners status in a month of training. I'm sorry but a guy like that would have succeeded on almost any program he chose to follow. The fact that he looked the way he did is NOT a reflection of his incredible training knowledge but of his genetic superiority.

For normal people looking to make maximum muscle gains within the genetic limitations nature gave them, I recommend the books of Mike Mentzer, Stuart McRobert or the website of Drew Baye for accurate training information. There has also been a new book just released by Doug McGuff MD and John Little entitled "Body by Science" which I can highly recommend for those looking to understand the facts of exercise science. You can read my review on that book by searching for it right here on Amazon.

Reeves's book is a great read and certainly recommended for the entertainment value but the training advice, whilst interesting, is just nonsense.

Building the classic physique the natural way
I would highly recommend this book for anyone,wanting to build their body the natural way! Written by Steve " Hercules " Reeves himself,the information is invaluable! Reeves built his body,and kept it in excellent condition with 3 workouts a week,total body! It has everything one would need to just stay in shape,or train for any sport,including bodybuilding..True,you won't be Ron Coleman or Jay Cutler,Mr Olympia winners,but you could be a Frank Zane,a three time Olympia winner and still look like a human being. I feel this is the best bodybuilding the natural waybook,ever done and again I highly recommend it!

Great Book and it isn't out of print!
This is a book you have to own.I looked on this site and the only copies are used.Everyone thinks it is out of print, but it is NOT out of print.Google the Steve Reeves International Society.You can buy the book brand new from here.I bought this book and the second book of Steve Reeves.You can get each for $25.

Training Book for any age group
I read all type of training and fitness books and this one is a classic.It is timeless, if you're 21 or 58 (which I am) you can use the information and the routines to get where you want to go providing you do the work. When you view the pictures of Steve you will say I would like to look like that. Broad shoulders, big chest, very tampered waist, good legs, symmetry , his physique truly is a classic that any man would like to have. Routines, working out around injuries, nutrition, power walking ,
and many frequently asked questions all of us have. After you buy and read the book put it up for sale on Amazon and recoup your investment .
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Introducing a spine-tingling new series inspired by the unique geography of the Canadian imaginative landscape. From "The Man Who Cried Wolf.", Robert Bloch's classic werewolf thriller, to Garfield Reeves-Steven's gripping story of supernatural terror in the Toronto suburbs, to Galad Elflandsson's chilling look at horror on a snowbound highway, we invite you to bundle up with seventeen cold-as-the-crypt tales of the mysterious and the fantastic. Dark fantasy told by: Nancy Baker, Robert Bloch, Carolyn Clink, Charles de Lint, Galad Elflandsson, Terence M Green, Tanya Huff, Garfield Reeves-Steves, Robert Sampson, Peter Sellers, Lucy Taylor, Steve Rasnic Tem, Edo van Belkom, Karen Wehrstein and Andrew Weiner. ... Read more

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An understanding of logic is essential to computer science. This book provides a highly accessible account of the logical basis required for reasoning about computer programs and applying logic in fields like artificial intelligence. The text contains extended examples, algorithms, and programs written in Standard ML and Prolog. No prior knowledge of either language is required. The book contains a clear account of classical first-order logic, one of the basic tools for program verification, as well as an introductory survey of modal and temporal logics and possible world semantics. An introduction to intuitionistic logic as a basis for an important style of program specification is also featured in the book. ... Read more

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"LeClaire's book WORLDS TO CONQUER helps you to know the real Steve Reeves...It is educational, entertaining and easy reading."
- Jack LaLanne, 1999

"WORLDS TO CONQUER must sit on the library shelf of anyone purporting knowledge of bodybuilding during the reign of Steve Reeves."
- Joe Roark, Editor for FLEX Magazine, 1999

"...This is not a how-to book on training; it is more of an exploration of Steve Reeves life. Upon finishing this book you will have a feel for the very private person that Reeves always was..."
- MUSCLE & FITNESS Magazine, Apr. 2001

"...This book (WORLDS TO CONQUER) is historically important, both as a social document and as a fortuitous tribute to one of the greatest physical culturists the world has ever known."
- HEALTH & STRENGTH Magazine, Oct. 2000

"...There is plenty to learn in this new biography (WORLDS TO CONQUER), even for the most die-hard Reeves fans...For Steve Reeves fans and bodybuilding history buffs, this book is a great learning tool."
- IRONMAN Magazine, July 2000

"...Author Chris LeClaire's wonderful impressions of Reeves' life have been arranged in a must-read authorized biography entitled STEVE REEVES: WORLDS TO CONQUER...The author's text is the product of meticulous research that reveals all facets of Reeves' life, augemented by colorful interviews, providing a who's who of the iron game..."
- FLEX Magazine, Apr. 2000



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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Ralf Rudolf Moeller (born January 12, 1959) is a German and American actor and former competitive bodybuilder. Moeller was born in Recklinghausen, Germany. He began bodybuilding at age 17 and was the German Champion by 1984. He competed in the 1988 Mr. Olympia alongside Lee Haney, Shawn Ray and other notable champions. He is one of the tallest bodybuilding champions to date standing at 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in). Möller began a film career in 1989 with the film Cyborg. In 1992, he appeared in Universal Soldier with Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude van Damme. His two biggest mainstream film roles to date are Ridley Scott's Gladiator, appearing alongside his friend Russell Crowe, and in 2002's The Scorpion King. Besides these two movies, he has played the leading character in The Viking Sagas, and also played Conan the Barbarian in the TV-series Conan. The show aired in 1997-1998, and the premise was that Conan, accompanied by his three sidekicks, was chosen by the god Crom to fight and vanquish the evil Hissah Zul and to become king. In 2008, Moeller was honored as Grand Marshal of the German-American Steuben Parade in New York City. This is the largest German-American event in the country, and tens of thousands of fans celebrated Moeller as one of only a few German actors with success in Hollywood. He has also collaborated with the German trance/techno-band E Nomine on a number of their albums. ... Read more

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Chapters: Steve Reeves, Peter Gutmann, John C. Butcher, Barry Vercoe, Craig Nevill-Manning, Richard O'keefe, Andrew Bradfield. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: University of Essex Queen Mary College, University of LondonProf. Steve Reeves is a computer scientist based at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is the Associate Dean and the Programme Co-ordinator of Software Engineering. He has undertaken research work on the Z notation, formal methods for GUI design and a general theory of refinement. Steve Reeves' academic work is in the area of formal methods to aid software engineering. In particular, he has undertaken research into the design and use of logics for specification. With Prof. Martin Henson, he has studied the formal semantics of the Z notation in detail, which was used in the international ISO standard for the Z notation. Reeves has delivered talks internationally, including as the opening talk in the BCS-FACS seminar series at the British Computer Society in London in 2005. Reeves has published a number of academic papers, including: ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25790512 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stephen L. Reeves (January 21, 1926 ? May 1, 2000[1]) was an American bodybuilder and actor.Born in Glasgow, Montana[2], Steve Reeves moved to California at the age of 10 with his mother Goldie[1], after his father Lester Dell Reeves died in a farming accident. Reeves developed an interest in bodybuilding while in high school and trained at Ed Yarick's gym in Oakland. By the time he was 17 he had developed a Herculean build, long before the rise in general interest in bodybuilding. After graduating from high school, he entered the Army during the latter part of World War II, and served in the Pacific. ... Read more

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This fiction thriller is based on the real life experiences of a commercial pilot and gives you an exciting insider view of what it takes to fly a jet while managing crew, passengers—and a terrorist!

Captain Mike Rendell started out his workday like all the workdays before – just another normal day of flying.After spending a raucous night partying with his crew, he and his first officer were looking forward to a nice relaxing flight to the West Coast.

“Flaps 1, climb power”, Mike repeated as he responded to the command of Gary Ellis, his new-hire First Officer.Mike positioned the flap lever from the “5" spot to the “1" spot and retarded the thrust levers to approximately eighty-eight percent of full power.This was the standard “after take-off” configuration and gave the aircraft its’ best rate of climb in relation to burning the least amount of fuel.Pacifica Airlines Flight 762 had just departed from Chicago’s Midway Airport.On board the Boeing 737 were 137 passengers, three flight attendants, and two pilots.

However, it didn’t take long for events to unfold that would thrust Captain Rendell and his crew into one of the most terror-filled days of their commercial airline careers.The lives of his flight attendants and his passengers hung in the balance as Mike battled the elements, a deranged passenger, and aircraft malfunctions as he attempted to bring his fully loaded jumbo jet in for a safe landing….

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Captain Steve A. Reeves started flying airplanes from a dirt strip located adjacent to a cotton field in northeast Arkansas.He took great pride in his ability to chase rabbits down the plowed rows of the fields – and live to tell about it.However, it didn’t take long for him to realize that chasing rabbits didn’t pay very well.He packed his bags and headed to the University of Kentucky.

Upon graduating from college, he accepted a commission in the United States Navy.After one tour of duty, he thought that he’d had enough of flying and returned to the civilian world to pursue a career in construction management. One day while standing in the middle of a job site, Steve looked up in the sky to watch a commercial airliner fly over.The attraction was too powerful – he knew that he had to return to the sky.

Twenty-one years later, Steve has logged over 12,500 hours in civilian, military, and commercial aircraft.He is a captain for a major airline and resides in Texas with his wife, Stacy, and their two daughters, Keegan and Kayleigh.

Airborne thrills and nail-biting suspense - that's what you'll find in Squawk 7500 Terrorist Hijacks Pacifica Flight 762.
--Austin S. Camacho, Contributing editor International Thriller Writers

Good action, credible dialogue, nice detail. I can't imagine a book like this being written by anyone with less than this author's experience. We want to be entertained, but readers also are people who fly and have real and unreal fears about it. We need to know the truth even if it is fictionalized.


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Formal Methods Pacific '97 is an umbrella conference, incorporating the 6th Australasian Refinement Workshop and the 3rd New Zealand Formal Program Development Colloquium. The conference provided a forum for discussion of current research on mathematicallybased techniques for design and development of computer systems, especially formal and/or rigorous methods for developing executable programs from abstract specifications, tool support for formal software development, and practical experience with formal methods. Topics also include software specification and verification, hardware specification and verification, and specification and development of real-time and concurrent systems. The refereed papers included in these proceedings present significant contributions to current research in formal software development within Australasia, along with several contributions from other parts of the world. The conference also included informal presentations describing work in progress; abstracts only for these are included. ... Read more