📚 Weight Training

Books with weight training on their catalogue record, first published between 1961 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject weight training in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 979 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
	Weight training for dummies	Liz Neporent	1997	22
	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
	Weight training	Philip J. Rasch	1966	8
	The complete idiot's guide to weight training	Deidre Johnson-Cane	2000	8
	Weight lifting and weight training	George Kirkley	1963	6
	Weight training	Thomas R. Baechle	1992	6
	Basic weight training for men & women	Thomas D. Fahey	1994	6
	Explosive Lifting for Sports	Harvey Newton	2002	6
	The Nautilus book	Ellington Darden	1980	5
	Strength training	Philip E. Allsen	1986	5
	Weight training for life	James L. Hesson	1995	5
	Convict conditioning	Paul Wade	2010	5
	Fundamental weight training	David Sandler	2010	5
	A practical approach to strength training	Matt Brzycki	1989	4
	Beyond Brawn	Stuart McRobert	1998	4
	Convict conditioning 2	Paul Wade	2010	4
	Overcoming Gravity	Steven Low	2011	4
	You Are Your Own Gym	Mark Lauren	2011	4
	Bigger Leaner Stronger	Michael Matthews	2012	4
	Complete Guide to Bodyweight Training	Kesh Patel	2014	4
	Progressive weight training	Jack R. Leighton	1961	3
	Getting stronger	Bill Pearl	1986	3
	The fat-burning workout	Joyce L. Vedral	1991	3
	Quantum strength & power training	Pat O'Shea	1995	3
	Dynamics of strength training and conditioning	Gary T. Moran	1997	3
	The new encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding	Arnold Schwarzenegger	1998	3
	Serious strength training	Tudor O. Bompa	1998	3
	Periodization	Tudor O. Bompa	1999	3

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

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