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Over 1 million copies sold! Translated into over 20 languages. The original and best, just got better! With new exercises, additional stretches and more of Frederic Delavier's amazing illustrations, you'll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during exercise. This one-of-a-kind best-seller combines the visual detail of top anatomy texts with the best strength training advice. Many books explain what muscles are used during exercise, but no other book brings the action to life like "Strength Training Anatomy". Over 600 full-colour illustrations reveal the primary muscles along with all the relevant bones, ligaments, tendons and connective tissue. Like having an X-ray for each exercise, new pages show common strength training injuries in a fascinating light and offer precautions to help you exercise safely.
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Frederic Delavier is a gifted artist with an exceptional knowledge of human anatomy. He studied morphology and anatomy for five years at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied dissection for three years at the Paris Faculte de Medecine.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
EXCELLENT reference book,
By Kate "Kate" (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strength Training Anatomy (Sports Anatomy) (Paperback)
I am a relatively experienced gym-goer - been training regularly for about 15 years and I consider myself knowledgeable on issues relating with weight-training. I still found this book very useful in giving me a better, more professional, insight into how different muscle groups respond during the execution of different variations of exercises. It even helped me realise that some of the routines that I switch to now and then did not really maximise the effectiveness of my workout as they did not exactly target the fibres I thought they did.All in all, a MUST for anyone who starts or is thinking to start weights training - it will save you developing an awful lot of bad habits (be it poor posture, poor execution or suboptimal use of your workout time). Also, the book gives very useful instructions on stretching routines - which again is a good idea to follow and get used to them from early on as they WILL save you injuries later on. For more experienced lifters, well my opinion is that it is still a useful reference book. You will of course probably find out that you know most of the exercises cited in there - but again the focus is not as much on teaching you new routines, but explaining in full detail what happens "inside the box" when you execute these routines. Unless you have physio training, you are unlikely to have seen this information before at this level of detail - I hadn't. All in all, a good investment.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
==Lots of Strengths==,
This review is from: Strength Training Anatomy (Sports Anatomy) (Paperback)
With over 450,000 copies sold, this book is arguably the best book of its kind. What's it useful for? Mainly to help the reader (from the weekend athlete to the athletic trainer to the professional bodybuilder) figure out what exercises work what muscles.It's neatly divided up into sections (arms, shoulders, chest, back, etc.), so all you really have to do is flip to one of these sections and it will have detailed pictures of various exercises and exactly which muscles are involved. A great reference to keep have around, I give it five stars easy. Readers who lift weights regularly might also be interested Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff to avoid shoulder problems a lot of lifters eventually get.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book. Detailed and to the point.,
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This review is from: Strength Training Anatomy (Sports Anatomy) (Paperback)
I purchased two book by Frederic Delavier. This one and The Strength Training Anatomy Workout. They are both very useful but this one broadens the scope of the the other one.Strength Training Anatomy is organized by muscle groups. It has a very useful general index at the beginning of the book and another one specific to each muscle group that makes finding an specific exercise quite easy. It describes a lot of exercises, in great detail. It explains how to perform each one in a way to obtain the most out of it, while advising clearly of the things to avoid in order to maintain proper form and keeping injuries away. Each exercise has a detailed drawing that makes it so much easier to understand how the muscles work and perform. It also shows the relation of joint, bones and muscles for many of the exercises. The book offers also many variations to classic exercises, explaining what muscles will be then used the most. It has drawings and full explanations on stretching and how to avoid injuries for each muscle group. These pages are clearly marked by red and yellow, making them even easier to find. I think it's very practical and I keep going back to it to check how to properly execute a given exercise. I also check it to find alternative exercises when I don't have access to a gym or when some of the exercises require certain machines that are not available. If you want to target an specific muscle, chances are you'll find in this book a few exercises tailored to your needs. The same is true for multi-joint exercises.
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