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The Men's Health Home Workout Bible
Get bigger biceps, broad shoulders, a bigger bench press, powerful legs, cut abs . . .
without ever leaving your home!
The body you want, in the space you have.
The strength you want, with the equipment you have.
The muscles you want, in the time you have.
You don't need to join a gym to get in shape. In fact, for a lot of guys, the gym is an impediment to getting in shape. The crowds, the inconvenience, the intimidation, the time, the commute-- by the time you add it all up, you could end up investing 2 hours to get 45 minutes of exercise.
No matter how little space you have, no matter how little equipment you have, no matter how little time you have, you can get the results you want without stepping inside a gym.
The Men's Health Home Workout Bible by Lou Schuler and Michael Mejia, M.S., C.S.C.S. gives you...
* Four full-body muscle plans:
The Body Weight Plan
The Dumbbell Plan
The Barbell Plan
The Multistation-Machine Plan
* Custom training plans for strength, fat loss, aerobic fitness, and sports performance
* Buying advice for weights, benches, machines, cardio equipment, and exercise videos
* Complete guidelines for turning your home into a state-of-the-art fitness center
With beginner, intermediate, and advanced full-body workouts for each type of equipment, The Men's Health Home Workout Bible gives you more than 400 exercises altogether, photographed and fully described. From pushups to power cleans, from crunches to jump squats, we show you how to get more muscle and strength at home, whether you're a complete beginner or a competitive athlete.
The Men's Health Home Workout Bible is a personal trainer, on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
without ever leaving your home!
The body you want, in the space you have.
The strength you want, with the equipment you have.
The muscles you want, in the time you have.
You don't need to join a gym to get in shape. In fact, for a lot of guys, the gym is an impediment to getting in shape. The crowds, the inconvenience, the intimidation, the time, the commute-- by the time you add it all up, you could end up investing 2 hours to get 45 minutes of exercise.
No matter how little space you have, no matter how little equipment you have, no matter how little time you have, you can get the results you want without stepping inside a gym.
The Men's Health Home Workout Bible by Lou Schuler and Michael Mejia, M.S., C.S.C.S. gives you...
* Four full-body muscle plans:
The Body Weight Plan
The Dumbbell Plan
The Barbell Plan
The Multistation-Machine Plan
* Custom training plans for strength, fat loss, aerobic fitness, and sports performance
* Buying advice for weights, benches, machines, cardio equipment, and exercise videos
* Complete guidelines for turning your home into a state-of-the-art fitness center
With beginner, intermediate, and advanced full-body workouts for each type of equipment, The Men's Health Home Workout Bible gives you more than 400 exercises altogether, photographed and fully described. From pushups to power cleans, from crunches to jump squats, we show you how to get more muscle and strength at home, whether you're a complete beginner or a competitive athlete.
The Men's Health Home Workout Bible is a personal trainer, on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
448 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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February 4, 2010
These are the only resistance training exercises I know. They work very well. Almost immediate results. Turned my flat chest into steel-plated breasts.
September 30, 2020
The equipment purchasing tips and workout plans are very valuable, and are things I’ll continue to reference. The exercise pictures and descriptions are also well done, although there just aren’t enough of them. In the end, I’m unconvinced that, for my situation, working out at home is more efficient or effective than going to a well equipped gym.
September 19, 2017
Great exercises but nothing you won't find now in internet
February 26, 2020
Thus this book really helps for people who is going gym for the first time
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 11, 2016
I skimmed for general advice on exercising, not for guidance on specific exercises. Seems like it'd be a good reference for specific exercises; it has many photos and instructions.
Notes
Give muscles a day to recover after a workout. On days after workouts, work other muscles, or relax.
Intermediate and advanced exercises need to exercise at least 40 minutes 3 to 4 days per week.
Aerobic (cardio) exercise (running, cycling, swimming, etc.) is unnecessary. Anaerobic exercise (weights, sports) is fine alternative. But internal interval training, a form of aerobic, is good. This is short bursts of intense work followed by low intensity movement. Examples: running, cycling, wrote something, growing, swimming, stair climbing.
Muscle- and strength-building workouts work well in segments of 3 weeks of 3 days per week training.
If training for strength, use weights close to your maximums, which means fewer reps (e.g., 5 sets of 5 reps, 8 sets of 3, 10 sets of 1). If packing on muscle, use lighter weights and do 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps.
When you no longer see improvements from one workout to next (usually after 3 to 6 weeks; see your logs), change your routine.
Don't exercise sore muscles; it causes more damage.
If you do weights and cardio in the same work out, do weights first.
Intensity is more important than volume (frequency). Work each muscle group – major or minor – just once a week. Determine recovery time by comparing the log entries from one workout to next.
Notes
Give muscles a day to recover after a workout. On days after workouts, work other muscles, or relax.
Intermediate and advanced exercises need to exercise at least 40 minutes 3 to 4 days per week.
Aerobic (cardio) exercise (running, cycling, swimming, etc.) is unnecessary. Anaerobic exercise (weights, sports) is fine alternative. But internal interval training, a form of aerobic, is good. This is short bursts of intense work followed by low intensity movement. Examples: running, cycling, wrote something, growing, swimming, stair climbing.
Muscle- and strength-building workouts work well in segments of 3 weeks of 3 days per week training.
If training for strength, use weights close to your maximums, which means fewer reps (e.g., 5 sets of 5 reps, 8 sets of 3, 10 sets of 1). If packing on muscle, use lighter weights and do 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps.
When you no longer see improvements from one workout to next (usually after 3 to 6 weeks; see your logs), change your routine.
Don't exercise sore muscles; it causes more damage.
If you do weights and cardio in the same work out, do weights first.
Intensity is more important than volume (frequency). Work each muscle group – major or minor – just once a week. Determine recovery time by comparing the log entries from one workout to next.
May 26, 2009
This book has saved me literally hundreds of dollars. I save $29/mo by not working out in my home gym instead of not working out at a gym I have a membership to. This book has a lot of dumbbell exercises and other things I don't do.
November 25, 2008
Men's Health Home Workout Bible: by Lou Schuler (2002)
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