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Achieving your physique, strength or fitness goals hinges on the bedrock of correct exercise techniques. This guide will teach you how to use perfect exercise technique. Whether you're a hardcore bodybuilder or a fitness trainee, male or female, beginner or very advanced this book is for you.
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Stuart McRobert
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I train with weights for general fitness and to keep at bay a weakness in my back, possibly caused by poor technique 20 years ago. I train at home and I've found this book to be most helpful. It took me some time to escape the vanity of the glossy body-building mags from the States!
The truth is you don't need a ton of gym gear to train properly. I learned quite a bit from this book and have put it into practice. Commonsense does go a long way in weight-training but it can also go out the window in the silly pursuit of quick gains.
Good form is a cornerstone of McRobert's ethos, and time and again there's little of it to be found in mainstream training. For too many the result is frustration and even injury.
McRobert stresses that good form coupled with hard work produces real injury-free results. It's tough going but it's the safest way to get stronger and fitter. I train for general fitness, not to enhance my appearance or for competitions, and I'm happy to use the advice given in this book because it works.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some people I have seen spend years going to the gym using very suspect technique, when I was training to become a gym instructor, I wanted to find some solid evidence of exactly how to do all the best lifts, this book tells all leaves nothing to the imagination and leaves out the dangerous moves that you see condoned by many bodybuilding mags I used this book to pass my gym instructors weight lifting course with distinction.
Don't waste time thinking you know technique get this book it won't let you down and yes it presumes you know nothing as this is the only way to truly learn.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a really great book that could improve your training gains as well as helping you to avoid injuring yourself while training. It is, at least in my mind, undoubtedly the best of its kind.
The truth is hardly anyone knows how to perform weight training exercise safely and effectively. Most trainees don't (e.g. me before I read this book), many instructors and personal trainers don't and even some of the so called experts in the field don't. Stuart McRobert, however, DOES!
Using the excercises from this book will give you good results but with incorrect form you could be hurt badly enough to put you off going to the gym for life. The excercise form given in this book, if studied in detail, will prevent such accidents from occuring.
In this book Stuart McRobert explains in great detail how to perform every excercise you need to know in the most effective and safest form. It does not contain any of the excercises which could injure you even when performed correctly or that you really don't need.
The most difficult exercises get the most attention, for example the bench press gets ten A4 size pages, which is excellent because the most difficult excercises to get right (and the easiest to make mistakes in) are often the most important. Every excercise in this book is covered in what I feel to be the required depth. This is not a picture book like many books of its kind. Although it does have many pictures they are there to complement the text and to make the key points crystal clear in your mind.
If you work out with weights, or want to work out with weights then I would recommend you buy this book, and 'Beyond Brawn' by the same author which covers everything you need to know not covered in this book (The two books were written as companion texts for one another by the same author).
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very in depth book on weight training...
this is possibly the best book i have ever read on weight training (i will include muscle magazines as well). Read more
Published 8 months ago by Gcrikey
Good Resource Book
Seen recommendations to buy this book, so forked out my hard earned cash for it. This book is written in a very direct way, theres hardly any illustrations but even so, if you are... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2006 by "extraordinary_books"
Does exactly what it says
The scope of this book is as the title says, weight-training technique. The correct form and technique for all the most important weight-training exercises is described here in... Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2004
not for the common..........
this book was a dissappointment. it assumes that everyone is dumb, go to gyms with every known piece of weight training equipment ever made and have at least two assistants to help... Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2004
Not as good as it's made out to be.
I bought this book recently on the strength of these other reviews by Amazon customers and I must say I was disappointed. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2002
Totally essential to any weightlifter
The McRobert series of books is what I needed 5 years ago when I started training. These books are essential to every single weight trainer. Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2001 by Mr. C. F. Corbett
IT is true you MUST read this book
This is an excellent book. What the other reviewers say is true, you really must get this book especially if you are new to lifting. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2001 by Oavde
A MUST HAVE FOR ANY LIFTER!
It does what it says and trust me you probably need it. Almost every gym rat i've seen since reading it doesn't use propper form. GET IT AND PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST INJURY. Read more
Published on 9 May 2000
Persistent injuries spoiling your progress in the Gym?
If you require, yearn, need to build honest drug-free muscles without persistent aches or injuries upsetting your progress then actively seek out and buy this instructional... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2000
A "must have" for all individuals that train with weights
The Insiders Tell All Handbook on Weight Training Technique - Second edition.
I have recommended this book to numerous friends at my local gym and have yet to find one person... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 1999
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