Bestselling author Delavier brings his singular style to a resource designed to help serious weightlifters increase mass, definition, and strength. Filled with over 330 full-color photos and 130 distinctive illustrations that highlight more than 100 exercises.
Bestselling author Delavier brings his singular style to a resource designed to help serious weightlifters increase mass, definition, and strength. Filled with over 330 full-color photos and 130 distinctive illustrations that highlight more than 100 exercises.
Two of the most trusted and respected figures from the world's largest bodybuilding periodical, "Muscle & Fitness," have come together to write the definitive resource for building muscle from the waist up. Photos throughout.
Delavier’s Women’s Strength Training Anatomy Workouts delivers the exercises, programming, and advice you need for the results you want. Based on the anatomical features unique to women, this new guide sets the standard for women’s strength training. The 290 full-color illustrations allow you to see inside 157 exercises and variations and 49 programs for strengthening, sculpting, and developing your arms, chest, back, shoulders, abs, legs, and glutes. Step-by-step instructions work in tandem with the anatomical illustrations and photos to ensure you understand how to maximize the efficiency of each exercise. You’ll see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how movement variations can isolate specific muscles and achieve targeted results. Delavier’s Women’s Strength Training Anatomy includes proven programming for reducing fat, adding lean muscle, and sculpting every body region. Whether you’re beginning a program or enhancing an existing routine, working out at home or at the gym, it’s all here and all in the stunning detail that only Frédéric Delavier can provide. The former editor in chief of PowerMag in France, author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier has written for Le Monde du Muscle, Men’s Health Germany, and several other publications. His previous publications, including Strength Training Anatomy and Women’s Strength Training Anatomy, have sold more than 2.5 million copies.
Going far beyond standard pull-ups, push-ups, and squats, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy presents 156 unique exercises that work every muscle in the body. Detailed anatomical artwork accompanies step-by-step instructions for performing each exercise anytime, anywhere, without the need for equipment or machines.
Building big shirt-busting arms is possibly the number one reason why many of us go to the gym. If it's not THE reason then it's certainly one of our top reasons. HOWEVER standard 3-4 sets of 3-4 exercises is now becoming outdated. We want to get to total muscle failure in the most complete way, in the shortest way possible. That's where THIS book comes in. I've written many fitness books, mainly covering overall body development, gaining mass and size, leaning up, on the entirety of the musculature and especially covering diet plans. With these two key pillars of knowledge I then wanted to write a book that focused on something more specific than overall development. I wanted to get into the fine detail of a specific body part - building massive bulging arms. Many of us who go to the gym train for hours but don't make the progress we want, if any. Maybe you have hit a plateau, maybe you have just started training or are returning to the gym, or hit a wall where your growth has just stopped and we can't seem to move forward and get that size we crave. I've written many fitness books, mainly covering overall body development, gaining mass and size, leaning up, on the entirety of the musculature and especially covering diet plans. With these two key pillars of knowledge I then wanted to write a book that focused on something more specific than overall development. I wanted to get into the fine detail of a specific body part - building massive bulging arms. I really enjoy training arms, and the more knowledge I have gained, the more research I have learnt, combined with my dietary investigation - led me to pairing down exercises I believe cause the most growth. This led me to compiling this go-to guide. I certainly didn't want to write a mammoth 300 book that drones on and on for hours. Who has time to read that? There are enough of those about. I wanted to give you a fast 'go-to' guide to 6 weeks' worth of training - the type of book you can throw in your gym bag or have on your phone. Plus I wanted to include a whole selection of 20 easy-to-make snacks and smoothies - pre and post workout nourishment. The type of food and drink that you can make before you go to the gym and when you get back when you're knackered. Fast and simple with a high protein hit to begin the recovery phase as soon as possible. My workouts are designed to get to failure as fast as possible, therefore breaking down the muscles fibers to ignite rebuilding and size. I mix heavy-duty, 100 reps sets and stationary pulls and pushes. Join me on the epic quest for growth.
Frédéric Delavier has captivated millions with Strength Training Anatomy. Now readers have access to his exercise expertise and trademark illustrations once again with Delavier's Stretching Anatomy. With 250 full-color photos and 300 detailed illustrations, this guide depicts over 130 exercises to increase flexibility, tone muscles and reduce injury. All body regions are covered and sport-specific stretching routines are included. Original.
Highlighted by the author's illustrations and hundreds of full-color photos, an ideal supplement offers 200-plus exercises and 50 programs for strength, power, bodybuilding, shaping and toning, and sport-specific training in more than 30 sports, with each exercise including step-by-step instruction, callouts for variation and safety considerations. Original.