Teach Yourself Visually Weight Training
Teach Yourself Visually Weight Training
Weight training has become a popular way to get in shape and maintain good health. People of all ages are now interested in weight training and recognize the benefits of weight training to achieve and keep a healthy body. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Weight Training will be an information-packed guide to getting started with a weight training routine and then customizing the routine to constantly meet the readers’ needs. The book will cover all the basics of weight training, but will also include more advanced techniques and exercises. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Weight Training will also provide supplemental information about nutrition, setting up a home gym and more. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Weight Training will contain full-color photographs of exercises for every major muscle group, along with clear, step-by-step instructions for performing the exercises. Useful tips will provide additional information and advice to help enhance the readers’ weight training experience. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Weight Training will be packed with information useful to people who are just beginning to make weight training a part of their health regime. For people who have been weight training for some time, the book will provide a refresher course on proper form and will present new exercises readers can add to their routines.
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Weight Training should include sections on:
- Why you should lift weights.
- Considerations for joining a gym or working out at home.
- Appropriate clothing and equipment for weight training.
- Step-by-step instructions with full-color photographs for performing exercises for the back, chest, shoulders, arms, abdominals and legs.
- Designing a basic workout.
- Warm-up and stretching exercises and considerations.
- Information on aerobic and cardiovascular training.
- How to achieve proper form and minimize the risk of injury when weight training.
- Easy-to-follow instructions for advanced training techniques, such as supersets and breakdowns.
- Information on supplements and nutrition.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars The best weight training book ever!
This book is great for anyone who is just starting a workout routine or who wants to learn how to get the most out of their workout. The book is broken down into sections for each part of the body and it shows in full color the name of the exercise, exactly how to do it, and what *not* to do. It also shows the primary and secondary muscle groups that each exercise target. It covers free weights, machines, exercise balls, stretching and has sections for diet and setting up a workout routine.
A must have for anyone serious about weight training.
5 Stars Does what it says on the cover
This is an excellent book that packs a lot of information into a simple, readable format. Some things are just better illustrated than described.
This book is a great introduction to weight training. It shows you rather than telling you. The exercises are clearly described and illustrated. The correct technique is described, Helpfully pitfalls and bad practice (usually poor posture and poor positioning) are also shown as a warning.
This book will help anyone doing weight training to do it well, effectively and avoid injury
5 Stars Simple and effective!
Great book with many recommendation for exercises, diet and equipment. Every exercise is illustrated well and the models are not bodybuilders that help to establish realistic goals.
5 Stars very nice
Nicely illustrated and useful book for beginning and experienced lifters. Good photos of correct and incorrect postures as well as tips for success.
Definitely a good one to have around as a reference
2 Stars Workout endlessly and get nowhere
The graphic design of this book is impeccable. Also, the book’s binding and readability are fairly decent.
The major flaw of the book is its shallow approach to weight training. The girl pictured on the book cover and inside is anorexic are represents poor image to fit females, despite her beautiful hair. Working out with 3-pound dumbbells is counter-productive. She should have been instructed on gaining muscle mass with adequate protein intake in her diet and proper general fitness training prior to indulging in isolated exercising of individual muscles. Also, the picture of the man perfroming barbell leg-lunges depicts a flawed technique where the lower back is rounded, which led to the limited backward exntension of the rear leg.
Exercising each region of the body by weights requires endless training with minimal outcome. It is a frustrating and futile way of teaching people how to workout with weight. The book is divided into many chapters addressing regional exercises with total disregard on the modern emphasis on sports-like training as a practical and efficient way of altering physique and building healthy and robust musculature and lung and heart fitness.
The book falls into this category of media published by wealthy individuals whose experience and knowledge with proper fitness planning is questionable at best. Beginners of weight training could make greater progress with simple exercises such as running, push-up, and chin-ups. These three compound exercises, besides emphasizing the major muscle groups of the thighs and shoulders and exquisitely workout the low-back, they also enhance the cardiovascular function, which improves general health and fitness.
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