Teach Yourself VISUALLY Weight Training

by Ruth Maran

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:

Genres: Fitness, Nonfiction

315 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jenny Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth buying. The photos are great as well as the instruction.

[Melody · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book, with a few reservations. The photos were exceptional, very clear and detailed. The explanations were lovely, and I had no quarrel with the exercises for the most part. I'm not a big believer in isolating eensy muscles like hip ab/adductors, but I know lots of people prefer to work one muscle at a time. The routines struck me as not particularly challenging, and certainly nothing that would encourage a lot of growth (to the credit of the authors, they did explain how to modify said routines). My biggest complaint about the book is that the female models had no visible muscle development at all. Maybe a little ab striation. And in the pictures, the women are shown using 2 or 5 pound weights. I disapprove. Most emphatically.