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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is THE book from which to learn exercise technique, 21 Jun 1999
By A Customer
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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by Frederic Delavier
by Stuart McRobert
