Strength Training Anatomy
Posted by admin | Posted in Anatomy | Posted on 03-08-2010
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Product Description
Get an inside view of the muscles in action during every exercise you perform. This ultimate strength reference contains full-color, detailed, anatomical drawings of exercises that target every major muscle group, along with full descriptions of how to perform them. The illustrations graphically depict both the muscles and the bones, with variations showing how the exercises can be modified to isolate specific muscles. It’s like having an X ray of each exercise!
The former editor-in-chief of the French magazine PowerMag, author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier is currently a journalist for the French magazine Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to several other muscle publications, including Men’s Health Germany.
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This book just details the muscles that get engaged when performing an exercise. It doesn’t really talk about how many times we should workout in a week, what to eat, how to combine exercise etc…all that is in the book is just the exercises and a small explanation on the muscles that is engaged while performing the workout.
I would not recommend this to people trying to develop their body and needing a guide.
Rating: 2 / 5
i would like to by this book.
my teacher got him here, a year before.
yesterday i saw him,and i”d like to buy him too.
Rating: 4 / 5
The information on the muscles is incredibly useful, and the drawings really are very well done. And yet� the male models are so grotesquely unlike human beings that the entire document serves as an indictment of body building. The pictures demonstrate that the real focus of this book is not strength training, but body building – two pursuits that use related exercises, but have different goals. The male models didn’t have to look like people who have no life outside the gym. They didn’t have to look like the products of anabolic steroid abuse. We know that because the images of women are of people who are very strong, but still attractive within the limits of ordinary appearance. Using male models who are body builders, rather than just guys who lift seriously does nothing to make the exercises clearer – it just serves as a bad example to folks who are susceptible to the self-serving advertising of unhealthy freaks. This book would have been an awful lot better for study and demonstration if it had not carried along with the useful information an enormous load of misinformation about human bodies that contributes to unrealistic ideas about appearance, possibility, and health.
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Rating: 3 / 5
Good book, great illustrations of muscles worked. My mid 40’s sister doesn’t think the illustrations are proper when they drew the women lifters. Skimpy outfits and curves but hey, it’s a book about building your body and the underlying structures.
Rating: 3 / 5
I love this book because of it’s pictures. It demonstrates which primary and secondary muscles are being workied during various exercises, which is pretty neat. Other than that, it isn’t very useful. It doesn’t provide good routines or workouts that best develop those very areas it demonstrates. Thus, it’s not a good workout book, just a nice reference. It’s nice to have, but not necessary. Buy it if you like pictures, but don’t waste the money if you can only afford one book.
Rating: 2 / 5