Product Description

The Complete Guide to Strength Training is essential reading for anyone wanting to increase strength and resculpt their body. Its unique combination of effective training methods and cutting-edge nutritional guidance delivers a comprehensive training programme adaptable to both beginner and advanced trainer alike. This fully updated fourth edition includes:
* an illustrated, step-by-step guide to over 70 exercises, using both free and machine weights
* beginner, intermediate and advanced training programmes
* eating to burn fat and gain muscle
* tips on motivation, techniques and goal-setting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12760 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
A former British National Bodybuilding Champion, Anita Bean is the award-winning author of the bestselling Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition and Food for Fitness.

Customer Reviews

really sensible
This book is what you need.It gets rid of any nonsense out of mags or professional books.I am an intermediate bodybuilder who has read everything and anything. this book is not so simple the exercises and eating is what anyone already knows but new clear summarised info. I still read this book again and again before anything else it is like a bible. I only disagreew with the 3 workouts a week. I prefer 6 with a new body part a day. But the ideas for upping intensity and periodisation are good. Plus the info on supplements good with no hype. Buy this book it will beat any silly bodychanging motivation book.It is for athletes and bodybuilders that don't waste money on supplements that don't work or over ambitious steroid routines

Comprehensive guide to weight training
The book covers strength training from the very basic and explains the concept in an easy-to-understand way. Some exercises do not have illustrations and can be a bit confusing to a beginner. Also, the author assumed that the reader is familiar with the names of muscles and did not explain very well - you might need a "muscle chart" in hand while reading the book.

The Complete Guide to Strength Training
The Complete Guide to Strength Training is a book intended for both beginners and seasoned strength trainers alike. The book takes you through most aspects of training, including details on performance of exercises, exercise selection, choice of routines, aerobics, diet and a brief part on modern supplements. The book also includes sections on your specific goals, be it improving your overall fitness, increasing your muscle mass or becoming more powerful.

The book is well written and includes scientific journal references of relative information, which adds credibility to the author's arguments. This impressed me as, having read too many bodybuilding books for my own good, this was the first book I have read to do so. This is also the first book I have read that lays out a periodised program that can be followed for the rest of your life, incorporation a program consisting of both volume training and high intensity training.

In my opinion, this is a fantastic book and is well worth a read, it is also the only book on strength training you will need to buy. If you want to make drug free gains, then follow the advice of an expert in her field and not that of a juiced up bodybuilder. If you are sensible with the authors advice and don't over-train, you will make good gains.