The Bullworker Bible: The Ultimate Guide to The Bullworker

Great book on the Bullworker in all its incarnations. I had a old 70s Bullworker and an X5. I wasn't too excited about either of them compared to the High Intensity Training focusing on Squats, Deadlfts, Weighted Dips and Chins.In 2005 I came across a great advertisement for the Bully Extreme. It came with all these extra courses and books on a DVD. The ad copy really fired me up. I received the Bully Extreme along with the DVD and a wall chart that had the top corner cut off. evidently it went by a different name in India.I was so psyched about everything I read and started training almost everyday. The Bully Extreme used the plastic coated cables rather than the bands on the X5. I got good results in a few weeks. My strength had gone up on the power meter and I kept my size but became more cut.I was on a strength forum dedicated to body weight training, isometrics, Dynamic Tension renamed "Dynamic Visual Resistance". These same exercises were in a martial arts book called "Battleaxe" by John McSweeny. He called them "Tiger Moves" and they worked well as did any dynamic tension movement.This forum was called Bronze Bow. A regular member named Anderson created a post about the Bully Extreme. He was probably in his 70s and was always very clear that he did not want to look like a bodybuilder. He used his Bully Extreme as a "conversation piece" that he propped against the wall to impress women.I decided to post a review on the Bully Extreme. I mentioned that I never really used my older Bullworkers but the Bully Extreme was in a whole different league. I'm hindsight, My review was written in a state of euphoria because of my renewed enthusiasm brought on by Billy Extreme.I didn't realize my review would be read and reposted in similar forums. Frank Sherrill, the promoters of Bully Extreme got tons of orders. The problem was he ordered these from India and only had a few in stock.Result: Customers had to wait months and months to receive their Bully Extreme. Many believed they were ripped off and blamed me and accused me of being in cahoots with Frank Sherill.Frank Sherrill put my photo and review in his advertising as well as a picture of the owner of Bronze Bow Publishing, John Peterson. John Peterson also wrote a good review calling the Bully Extreme a superior piece of equipment (paraphrased from memory). John was upset that his likeness and review were published without his permission. He changed his opinion of the Bully Extreme as unnecessary for isometrics and that he wouldn't buy one.Frank Sherrill or one of his partners posted a pic of the receipt for 2 Bully Extremes purchased by John Peterson.I was living near Phoenix, Arizona and met John Hughes who I believe may have still been working with Gert F Kolbel, the inventor of the Bullworker. Gert F Kolbel had invented new exercise devices that he was promoting heavily.There was the "Exxerwatch" now sold as Isokinator Pro, the "Muscle Gun" which was a huge bar with harpoon rubber cables and a "cockpit" which were little knobs that you turned to the number of you exercise result. They weren't very accurate as they spun freely. There was another product called "Body Machine” which was sold on Amazon (Isokinator is also sold on Amazon).John Hughes asked me to tell people on the strength forums that the Body Machine was reduced by 50%. All of the Amazon stock sold and more had to be ordered by Amazon.Although I made many plans to meet John Hughes in person, something always came up and then I had to move back to Florida. I spoke to John Hughes by phone and he was very knowledgeable, honest and a visionary.The new Bullworker and Steel Bow are much higher quality than any other Bully Device by whatever name used. Everything on it was first class production including the case which no other device could compare to.The Bullworker Bible gives the history of isometric research as well as the history of the Bullworker. I don't know if he mentioned the Tensolator which I believe was a name for one of the first Bullworkers. The author also describes the Bully Extreme and the ISO 7X, the evolution of the Bullworker and the Motherships: "The Bullworker Classic" and "The Steel Bow". These are the only ones I still use and recommend. When you buy one you're curiosity will piqued to buy the other. The author uses the comparison of Barbells and Dumbells.My only complaint is that I originally rented the kindle version which is now unavailable. I have the book but really like the convenience of Kindle.

Detailed history of bullworker and how it is used.

This give me all the information I need on the Bullworker it breaks down each Bullworker construction and history.

Great information about the Bullworker. Highly recommended!

This is a combined review for The Bullworker Bible and The 90 Day Course books. they were okay but not my cup of tea. Here is why.The idea of the 90 Day Course seems solid but the workout kinda drove me nuts. Not the exercises themselves but the repeating of the exercises each week.Example - If you were to do exercises A B C D E F the first week and the next week you were to do different exercises except you still had to do C, that exercise was repeated again by Title, description and photograph(s) just as if they cut and paste from the first week. This happened multiple times throughout the book.I hate to say it but it seems as though it was done this way just to add pages. IMHO, it seems that a better format would have been to describe all the exercises, including photos, that would be done during the 90 days and then do lists as to which ones were to be done each week. And the pics could have been larger and better quality.As for the Bullworker Bible. There was good info and history in there. But they were describing the various terms in great detail and it seemed to get repeated multiple times. Also, they did list with description and the same photos all of the exercises listed/shown in the 90 Day Course book. The fact that both books were $20 seemed a bit off considering the size difference (pages).Again IMHO, I think the Authors would have been better served to combine both books, cut down on the repetitiveness and add better quality and larger photos.I sent both of them back. Going to see what else is out there.

If you want to use the equipment correctly and maximize your results buy this book. In working out; especially in isometric's, speed, form, and control is everything. Once you understand the principle's, take it to muscle failure and you've got it.

why did I buy this? Its almost a waste of paper, not to mention money. Read the other reviews, which i DIDN'T do.

Practice, portable cost effective after 50 years!