Product Description

Long awaited Weight Training Workouts that Work: Volume II is finally here!

Three years of research and testing on (very happy)clients!

After the great success people are having with the first Weight Training Workouts that Work (20,000 copies worldwide and growing), Volume II has arrived. A simple, proven 12 week program for the post-beginner to the advanced weight trainer. You will gain strength, build lean muscle, lose weight and look fabulous.

Contains 40 of the best weight training exercises. Each exercise has 3 detailed photos of the complete range of motion and simple bullet point instructions. You will always know exactly how to perform each weight training exercise correctly.

Volume II is portable book to be followed at your workouts. Keep track of your progress. The workouts are quick, tested and all planned out for you. They work! Plus the exercises are always at your fingertips for fast reference! The book is designed with the New Openbak Eurobinding. Lays flat, stays open and never falls apart.

*If you are new to weight training or have not lifted weight recently or with any results, it is highly recommended that you start with the first Weight Training Workouts that Work, then proceed to Volume II.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #264735 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Weights Work Newsletter, February 15, 2004
"An easy to use guide that made our muscles grow and our tummys shrink. Highly recommended!"

About the Author
James Orvis is an author and certified personal trainer.
Training clients one-on-one or leading group fitness classes for +13 years, he has discovered what people want and need when lifting weights.

Simple, proven workouts that help you gain strength, build muscle and lose unwanted weight in the shortest time possible.

James Orvis is the author of the Weight Training Workouts that Work & Weight Training Workouts that Work:Volume II.

Excerpted from Weight Training Workouts That Work: The Portable Handbook That Shows You Exactly What to Do at Every Workout: 2 by James Orvis. Copyright © 2004. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
INTRODUCTION

Weight training is essential to losing weight,
keeping it off and looking your best.
Period!

A great workout program is needed
for maximum results.
Period!

Muscle is your engine. It burns close to 90% of your calories everyday. Because most of us are "clerks" in this day and age, we don’t perform a lot of physical activity like cutting down trees or plowing the fields like our ancestors. Consequently, we are losing muscle because our bodies do not need it anymore. We are burning fewer calories and gaining fat!

A great workout program will add muscle fast!

Every new pound of muscle you add burns 60 extra calories a day. Just think…If you add 10 pounds of lean muscle tissue on this 12 week program (which is very possible), you will be using 600 more calories a day.

You turn into a fat burning machine 24 hours a day!

Weight training is the best way to make your body gain back its lean muscle. Weight training should be quick, simple and fun. This proven 12 week plan will reshape your body with new lean muscle tissue and fat loss.

Volume II is the workout program that works!

Customer Reviews

Right on Target!
Reviewer: Sherri A. Wilcox

I am a 44 yr old woman, and I went through the 12-week plan in Volume I twice, and then bought Volume II. Still trying to get my husband to try it! The ONLY reason that I did not give it 5 stars was because the new book is not spiral bound like the first volume. Use it at the gym, but where do you keep your pen? I love both books; they got me into a consistent workout routine. The workouts are definitely progressive (they get a little tougher and they vary each week) as they should to keep you improving.
This is not an all-encompassing health and well-being book (as it sounds some other reviewers were looking for)it is a simple straight-forward workout book. Follow it exactly, as you would a trainer standing there coaching you - don't cut corners! There is no math to figure, no advance planning, no complicated formulas. JUST DO IT! And then record your progress and watch yourself become sculpted and strong! Then keep the book, because in the future you will want to go back and select a weeks-worth of workouts to repeat.

Excellent Book
I have been weight training for 2 years now (with a personal trainer) this book not only saved me a lot of money, but has the best workout routines I have ever done. It is fantastic.

THE RETURN OF THE KING!
James Orvis has done it again by providing the people with what they want....expert advice, instruction, and a functional manual to take it all with you anywhere!!!! In short he does what evey other exercise book doesn't or won't......he tells you exactly what to do!!!!! That includes; how many sets, reps, and proper form hints.

Best of all, once again, NO NO NO NO NO math, funky tables, or guesswork!!!! The only thing better than this or book one is to have a trainer right there with you to do the exact same thing....tell you what to do, how to do it, and for how long. The difference? James Orvis gives it to you for alot less money! Face it he is the King and no one beats him. I've read em all and still do and while every book out there tries to put a new spin on weight training they still won't ever never ever tell you this is it! This is what you do for the next 8-12 weeks period!!!!! Instead they fill their books with options, charts, graphs personal philosophies, and the biggest charletains of all.....supplement company recommendations?????!!!!!!!!!! At that point I really toss the other books against the wall, good and hard, before they land in the dumpster!!!! I mean come on! In todays fast paced world everyone everyhwere is getting back into the resurgence of the total body 15 or 20 or 30 minute workout in local gyms across America. James Orvis did it for you before, for any gym at a much lower price and now he is doing it again!!!!!
I cannot tell you how many personal trainers have seen me with Book 1, getting results, and tried to not only sneak a peak but sell me on the idea they could do better.....FAT CHANCE and even if they could not at this price!!!!!!!! I've even purposely left it on lunch tables at my job for 10-20 min only to have the "discoverers" beg me to lend them the book or make copies on a daily basis...NO WAY! Jimmy JAMES Orvis Congratulations! Again!!! on providing myself and millions of others with exactly what we always wanted........
A DEFINITIVE BLUEPRINT OF WHAT TO DO WHEN WE GET TO THE GYM WITHOUT ANY INTERFERENCE OR COSTLY HELP OR, IF YOU WILL, THE CURE FOR THE MOST BASIC FUNDAMENTAL REASON PEOPLE HAVE FOR NOT GOING TO THE GYM.....WHAT WILL I DO WHEN I GET THERE? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? HOW MANY SETS/REPS? AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?
IT'S ALL HERE!!!!!!

PS--For those people who prefer to collect or follow books that are shall we say "more flexible"=wishywashy. Contain tons of data on building the perfect abs or biceps, supplements, philosophies, scientific studies, tons of pictures, personal interviews with competitive pros, posters, dieting tricks, etc. In short all you gym rats with no life outside of the gym, gobbling down supplements (or worse)dreaming of a flawless image you saw in a magazine or the aforementioned books ...Don't read this book! It's too simplistic or basic for you. It would only shatter your idea that fitness should always be a part of your lifestyle and not your whole life! Plus worst of all gym rat fears....You'd only be outside in the real world among the rest of us alot faster with terrific results to boot if you did! No mad science here! Just like the title says.....these are simply "WEIGHT TRAINING WORKOUTS THAT WORK"!!!!!!!