Strength Training Anatomy-3rd Edition
Posted by admin | Posted in Fitness EBooks | Posted on 31-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780736092265
- Condition: New
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Product Description
Over 1 million copies sold! With new exercises, additional stretches, and more of Frédéric Delavier’s signature illustrations, you’ll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during strength exercises. This one-of-a-kind best-seller combines the visual detail of top anatomy texts with the best of strength training advice.
Many books explain what muscles are used during exercise, but no other resource brings the anatomy to life like Strength Training Anatomy. Over 600 full-color illustrations reveal the primary muscles worked along with all the relevant surrounding structures, including bones, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissue.
Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the anatomical depictions show both superficial and deep layers and detail how various setup positions affect muscle recruitment and emphasize underlying structures. New pages show common strength training injuries in a fascinating light and offer precautions to help you exercise safely.
Author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier is the former editor in chief of the French publication PowerMag. He is a journalist for Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to Men’s Health Germany and several other strength training publications.
Strength Training Anatomy-3rd Edition
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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