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Strength Training: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to a Stronger, Sculpted Body
Work out, enhance your muscle mass, and get amazing results. This comprehensive guide targets every muscle group for a sculpted, leaner, and healthier body.
Strength Training features more than 140 exercises using both equipment and free weights. Whether you wish to hit the gym or train at home, it will quickly help you achieve your goals – a sculpted physique, stronger bones, better balance and posture, and more energy for everyday living and sport.
The exercises target every part of the body and include stretches and dynamic lifts. Step by step, Strength Training tells you how to do each one safely, with detailed anatomical artworks that show precisely which muscles you are targeting. It also shows how to plan your training with "smarter" goals, and gives you beginner, intermediate and advanced programs.
With information on optimizing your diet and answers to common questions, this indispensable volume puts you on the fast track for a lean and healthy body.
Strength Training features more than 140 exercises using both equipment and free weights. Whether you wish to hit the gym or train at home, it will quickly help you achieve your goals – a sculpted physique, stronger bones, better balance and posture, and more energy for everyday living and sport.
The exercises target every part of the body and include stretches and dynamic lifts. Step by step, Strength Training tells you how to do each one safely, with detailed anatomical artworks that show precisely which muscles you are targeting. It also shows how to plan your training with "smarter" goals, and gives you beginner, intermediate and advanced programs.
With information on optimizing your diet and answers to common questions, this indispensable volume puts you on the fast track for a lean and healthy body.
256 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2009
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October 20, 2025
These DK exercise books are so helpful at conveying complex info in simple ways, with lots of illustrations. This book is out of print, so I got it used and it offers more variety of exercises than the DK book on the Science of Strength Training. Plus it has more overall program suggestions.
May 24, 2010
The illustrations show exactly what muscles you're using when you're doing specific exercises. Clearest weight lifting book I've ever read.
May 3, 2012
Great book. Read a few of these and its a definite keeper. Its a must have.
July 8, 2016
Good diagrams. Inadequate discussion of nutrition.
December 25, 2018
Good book overall with a brief introduction about the fundamentals of strength training. Good plans at the end of the book. However, it lacks some info about good form and maintaining overall fitness with other kinds of sports such as cardio.
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