Product Description

Tailor your own physique - at home.

You don't need to muscle your way into the gym to get a great workout. As more and more people turn to home exercise equipment and strength training, this encyclopedic volume shows you how to get the results you want no matter what gear you own or what your experience level.

Designing a programme to suit your own goals, equipment and circumstances, you can:
• Get the results you want no matter what equipment you have (even if you have none at all)
• Discover the best equipment for your personal needs
• Make the most of the equipment you have - the chapters are organised by equipment type
• Progress through the skill levels - information is broken down for beginner, intermediate and advanced

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #336314 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-21
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Synopsis
You don't need to muscle your way into the gym to get a great workout. As more and more people turn to home exercise equipment and strength training, this encyclopedic volume shows you how to get the results you want no matter what gear you own or what your experience level. Designing a programme to suit your own goals, equipment and circumstances, you can: get the results you want no matter what equipment you have (even if you have none at all); discover the best equipment for your own personal needs; make the most of the equipment you have - the chapters are organised by equipment type; and progress through the skill levels - information is broken down for beginner, intermediate and advanced.

About the Author
Lou Schuler is Fitness Director, Men's Health;
Michael Mejia is Exercise Consultant for Men's Health.

Customer Reviews

Home is where it's at!
If you want to work out at home but aren't quite sure where to start, then this is a book that will definitely get you headed in the right direction.

Readers should also consider this book if you: 1) have exercise equipment and want to get better results, or 2) plan to buy exercise equipment for your home.

In a nutshell, the book starts out giving you basic muscle anatomy and then jumps right into pictures of dozens and dozens of exercises that can be done with all kinds of stuff in your home AS WELL AS dumbell, barbells, and other equipment you can purchase and use with in your home. The book ends nicely with miscellaneous advice on things such as the best workout videos, training logs, and advice on personal trainers.

A great book all in all, it will provide the reader with a wealth of info- and since the book is almost 2 inches thick, you can always use it to lift up and down for exercise! Also recommend "Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff" if you have a torn cuff or shoulder pain that is keeping you from working out.

Useful
Lots of good useful info in here. Only fault i can see is that the authors are very into Olympic weights and other equipment that you will usually find in a gym.
As the book is originally written for the US market, some of the equipment they advise buying would not fit into your average British house.
Apart from these (small) gripes, all in all a very handy book to have.