📚 Weight Lifting

Books with weight lifting on their catalogue record, first published between 1908 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject weight lifting in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 589 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Guide des mouvements de musculation	Frédéric Delavier	2001	20
	The manual of weight-training	George Kirkley	1967	10
	The Gold's Gym book of strength training for athletes	Ken Sprague	1979	9
	Body learning	Michael J. Gelb	1981	9
	Weight training	Philip J. Rasch	1966	8
	Pumping iron	Charles Gaines	1974	8
	Arnold's bodyshaping for women	Arnold Schwarzenegger	1979	7
	Arnold's bodybuilding for men	Arnold Schwarzenegger	1981	7
	Amazing Human Feats of Strength	Debbie Vilardi	2018	7
	Weight lifting and weight training	George Kirkley	1963	6
	Beginning weight training	Edward Franz	1965	5
	Strength training	Philip E. Allsen	1986	5
	Weight training for life	James L. Hesson	1995	5
	Kathy Smith's Lift Weights to Lose Weight	Kathy Smith	2001	5
	The new rules of lifting for women	Lou Schuler	2007	5
	Weight lifting and progressive resistance exercise	Jim Murray	1954	4
	Coming on strong	Franco Columbu	1968	4
	Winning bodybuilding	Franco Columbu	1977	4
	The text-book of weight-lifting	Arthur Saxon	1908	3
	Weight lifting	Bob Hoffman	1939	3
	Body Building For Everyone	Lou Ravelle	1965	3
	Working out with weights	Steve Jarrell	1977	3
	Getting stronger	Bill Pearl	1986	3
	Sports illustrated strength training	John Garhammer	1986	3
	The composite guide to strongman competition	Mike Bonner	2000	3
	The Development of Physical Power	Arthur Saxon	2007	3
	Starting strength	Mark Rippetoe	2011	3
	Hardstyle Abs	Pavel Tsatsouline	2012	3
	Scientific principles and methods of strength fitness	John Patrick O'Shea	1969	2
	Muscle building for beginners	Michael Fallon	1970	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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