Basic Training: A Fundamental Guide to Fitness for Men

by Jon Giswold, David Morgan (Photographer)

Complete with photographs throughout, this comprehensive guide to fitness and health provides men with the fundamentals of living a healthy lifestyle, exercising properly, and designing a personalized workout program. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Genres: Fitness, Health

214 pages, Hardcover

First published November 23, 1999

Reviews

[Buck]

This book is so gay. Like, literally gay. It's basically soft-core porn coyly disguised as a weight-training manual. Half the photos are gratuitous beefcake shots with zero instructional value. A tiny section on 'buttocks' serves as an excuse for a full-page close-up of some naked guy's fuzzy ass. Diet -- obviously an essential component of fitness -- gets a measly two pages of nutritional boilerplate.

To be fair, I didn't exactly read this - just flipped through it a couple of times. But as far as I can see, it's only good for a laugh - or a wank, depending on your proclivities.

[Ben]

Lots of homo-erotica spices up this how-to guide for pathetic slobby-muscled guys like me.

[Hom Sack]

Due to the many gratuitous non-instructive photos that the book can do without, it gives the initial impression of a coffee table book. Consequently, it takes away from how informative it is.