One of the best tools for developing your body is your body. This book is your A-Z guide of exercises that you can do to target every muscle in your body to build power, strength, and size. Whether you want to train legs, back, chest, or your core, this book has you covered. In addition to the exercises, you will receive images, detailed descriptions and how to incorporate the exercises for all levels.
Provides exercises based on empirical know-how and scientific research and all the basic and numerous less common exercises with comments and illustrations.
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.
Mad Skills is the world's largest illustrated exercise encyclopedia and contains over 700 unique exercises to build strength and mobility. It is designed as a reference tool for athletes, trainers, and coaches, to help steer creative movement selection for effective workouts. Categories of exercise movements include: barbell lifts, kettlebell skills, gymnastics conditioning, whole body movements, yoga postures, stretching, partner skills, and more!
The benefits of personal heath and fitness have been shown to lead not only to fat loss, increased muscular strength and a more efficient circulatory system but also improved general wellbeing in all areas of everyday life. This comprehensive practical book will show you step-by-step how to fight the flab, strengthen and tone muscle, and enjoy increased vitality and a more positive outlook on life, no matter what your age or gender. This accessible book explains clearly how to assess your current level of fitness and how and why you should set goals that will help you get the most from your workouts. The main part of the book focuses on how to improve the strength and efficiency of your heart and lungs - your cardiovascular system - through all the most popular exercises, sports and pastimes, from basic walking, through running and cycling, to swimming and boxercise. Then, learn how to strengthen your body and develop the core muscle groups with the best and most effective resistance training exercises, using dumbbells and fixed weight machines, both at home or in the gym. Getting fitter and stronger is also about learning to exercise safely, using the correct techniques. The book goes on to show you how to maintain flexibility and avoid injury, as well as how best to fuel your body through the right nutrition, not just for successful workouts but for a more active, healthier lifestyle. Lastly, the book brings together all this valuable information into personal training plans. These will enable you to tailor your training to your personal goals, whether you simply want to lose weight, run a marathon, look toned for your wedding day, de-stress or become fitter and healthier, whatever your age. With over 670 clear and inspiring photographs, this book will show you what to do, how to do it and how to incorporate the right activity effectively into your everyday schedule.
Are you hungry for more variety in your training? Do you want to become a more well-rounded athlete? If you answered "yes" to either of these questions, then this book is for you. The Mad Skills Exercise Encyclopedia is an illustrated guide to over 1000 bodyweight and free weight movements. Within its covers you will learn how to: - Warm-up before a training session - Master bodyweight and calisthenics-type exercises - Perform classic weight lifting techniques - Build strength with barbell and kettlebell lifts - Challenge yourself with whole body movements - Incorporate single arm and single leg drills - Fashion a rock-solid core for better athletic performance - Improve your mobility with yoga postures and stretching variations - Have fun with partner-based skills - Design killer at-home and garage gym workouts - Never be bored with fitness again!
Forget crunches! Build your strongest core ever with 100 Planks! It includes 100 of my all-time favorite plank variations with lots of tips for beginners, correcting movement patterns, planks for weight loss, preventing back injuries, and much more. I've been teaching abs classes for nearly 20 years so I've had a lot of time to see what works, what doesn't, and what lights up the eyes of my participants as they strive for goals they didn't even know they wanted to achieve. Also included are sample plans of where to start as a beginner, and standing modifications and tips on wrist health for those who have trouble being on the floor. All planks are assigned levels 1-4 to help you choose wisely and progress safely. When you purchase the book, you'll also get access to video tutorials on all 100 planks and more!
An over-all guide to physical conditioning for wrestlers with emphasis on strength development. Includes information on nutrition and injury prevention.
From an elite Special Operations physical trainer, an ingeniously simple, rapid-results, do-anywhere program for getting into amazing shape For men and women of all athletic abilities! As the demand for Special Operations military forces has grown over the last decade, elite trainer Mark Lauren has been at the front lines of preparing nearly one thousand soldiers, getting them lean and strong in record time. Now, for regular Joes and Janes, he shares the secret to his amazingly effective regimen—simple exercises that require nothing more than the resistance of your own bodyweight to help you reach the pinnacle of fitness and look better than ever before. Armed with Mark Lauren’s motivation techniques, expert training, and nutrition advice, you’ll see rapid results by working out just thirty minutes a day, four times a week—whether in your living room, yard, garage, hotel room, or office. Lauren’s exercises build more metabolism-enhancing muscle than weightlifting, burn more fat than aerobics, and are safer than both, since bodyweight exercises develop balance and stability and therefore help prevent injuries. Choose your workout level—Basic, 1st Class, Master Class,and Chief Class—and get started, following the clear instructions for 125 exercises that work every muscle from your neck to your ankles. Forget about gym memberships, free weights, and infomercial contraptions. They are all poor substitutes for the world’s most advanced fitness machine, the one thing you are never without: your own body.
