Gorilla Suit: My Adventures in Bodybuilding

"I built my American dream one rep at a time," says Bob Paris in Gorilla Suit, an unguarded memoir of his rise to the top of the world of professional bodybuilding. This is the first-ever, honest, behind-the-scenes look into the world of professional bodybuilding and what the actual life of a bodybuilder is like. Paris show us bodies to the limit, and beyond, and discusses the price bodybuilders pay for this perfection, which includes the use of dangerous growth drugs. Paris also looks at the driving forces behind the business of bodybuilding, including the extraordinary story of the Weider brothers. This is a story about chasing a dream, being willing to do anything to get that dream, and then growing frustrated with the world that dream is lived in. It is the discovery that after years of climbing a mountain and finally reaching the top, perhaps on reconsideration it was the wrong mountain to begin with.

Gorilla Suit: My Adventures In Bodybuilding

Paris, Bob

Biographies & Memoirs

St. Martin's: Griffin

A complete guide to health and fitness for the mature man offers ingenious new workouts, diet guidelines, nutritional supplements, individualized performance plans, motivational exercises, self-improvement tips, and advice on body, hair, and skin care for exercises, and other unique elements designed to help men of any age look and feel their best. Original.

Prime

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Perigee Trade

A former Mr. America seen on national television reflects on issues affecting homosexuals and answers letters sent to him by gay men, in a book for gay men intended to inspire self-esteem and responsible sexual behavior. 40,000 first printing.

Generation Queer: A Gay Man's Quest for Hope, Love, and Justice

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

SPEAKING UP QUEER AND COMING OUT STRONG No one knows better the rewards of standing up and speaking out as a gay man than Bob Paris. A former Mr. Universe, he is a dynamic activist, famed motivational speaker, and the author of several successful books, including the acclaimed Gorilla Suit. Now Bob Paris takes a revelatory look at what it means to be young, gay, and out in the age of liberation. In this groundbreaking book he insightfully probes the pressures of coming to grips with being gay in a society that has traditionally condemned homosexuality. He explores the incredible, historic opportunity for social healing and growth in today's world -- and, drawing on his own spiritual journey, offers keen advice on nurturing healthy relationships and self-esteem. Finally, through questions and answers culled from his mailbag as an activist and lecturer, he helps gay people of all ages and from all walks of life cope with their feelings and the world at large. Compassionate, uplifting, illuminating, GENERATION QUEER will inspire gay men and women to overcome prejudice with dignity and take their place in the warmth of a universe that welcomes us all.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Grand Central Publishing

Jackson-Paris, Bob

st.martins press

Arts & Photography

RITTS, Herb

Photography & Video

Twin Palms Pub

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