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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 through all the most popular exercises, sports and pastimes. Then, learn how to strenghen your body and develop the core muscle groups with the best and most effective resistance training exercises. 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. Lastly, the book brings together all this valuable information into personal training plans.
About the Author
Andrew Wadsworth is a former world class athlete, first competing as a professional mountain bike racer, then winning the 2002 Xterra Offroad Triathlon World Championship. At the end of his athletic career, he then went back into education, gaining a degree in Sport and Human Movement. He is currently the Director of My Life Personal Training in Bristol, UK. He has written for a variety of sport magazines, including What Mountain Bike, 220 Triathlon, Men's Health, and Men's Fitness.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
In the past, I have struggled to find a book that covers everything - i.e. how to keep fit (whether you're pregnant, preparing for a wedding, rehabilitating after an injury or just want to improve your fitness), what to eat, how to stretch and how to stay motivated. This book does all of this and more and is great for recreational and serious athletes alike! It has clear pictures to show you exactly how to do things, simple explanations and even delicious recipies for when you don't know what to cook! A great book - one that you'll go back to again and again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I bought this book 1 month ago, and have been following it very specifically, with two goals in mind.
1. Weight Loss
2. Increase overall levels of fitness for long distance cycling.
The book isn't just about "here is what you do in the gym", its much more lifestyle encompassing than that. It talks about body types, metabolism, about the modern diet, and how you can eat healthy with just some minor changes.
There are sections on different types of training for different aims, and the exercises are not just focused on the gym, there is plenty you can do at home.
More important then all that, he tells the truth about motivation, how to get over the small goals, and about the fad of "get thin" quick fads that the modern media bombard us with.
Simple, honest, clear, and incredibly detailed instruction for a wealth of different training types. Also has a great array of pictures (only down side in this is that they tend to be very trim, perfect types that may be a bit off putting, but then again, its something to aim for too!)
I have been lucky enough to have shifted 1st safely in a month, increased core strength and an my cycling performance/endurance has increased beyond my wildest hopes.
Get it, follow it, and live longer and happier - I will be!
1. Weight Loss
2. Increase overall levels of fitness for long distance cycling.
The book isn't just about "here is what you do in the gym", its much more lifestyle encompassing than that. It talks about body types, metabolism, about the modern diet, and how you can eat healthy with just some minor changes.
There are sections on different types of training for different aims, and the exercises are not just focused on the gym, there is plenty you can do at home.
More important then all that, he tells the truth about motivation, how to get over the small goals, and about the fad of "get thin" quick fads that the modern media bombard us with.
Simple, honest, clear, and incredibly detailed instruction for a wealth of different training types. Also has a great array of pictures (only down side in this is that they tend to be very trim, perfect types that may be a bit off putting, but then again, its something to aim for too!)
I have been lucky enough to have shifted 1st safely in a month, increased core strength and an my cycling performance/endurance has increased beyond my wildest hopes.
Get it, follow it, and live longer and happier - I will be!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This is a truely superb book. What a relief to finally find a book on fitness that gives clear instruction with both words and clear photographs.
The training plans for people in different kinds of sports, or just beginners are inspirational and the nutrition section also very helpful! This is a book that can be used by a beginner to exercise or an elite athlete -how amazing to get all that between 2 covers!
The training plans for people in different kinds of sports, or just beginners are inspirational and the nutrition section also very helpful! This is a book that can be used by a beginner to exercise or an elite athlete -how amazing to get all that between 2 covers!
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