Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144381 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Synopsis
For intermediate to advanced exercises, Essential Chest provides quick, simple exercises to increase strength and muscle mass. Along with Essential Abs and Essential Arms, this volume completes the set for a total upper body workout. The 6-week programme provides shoulder and back exercises in addition to chest exercises, maximizing the results. Fitness expert Kurt Brungardt, author of the successful Complete Book of Abs, offers the latest advances in fitness research, including a stretching programme and an introduction to cardiovascular exercise for a total body workout. Extensive diet information helps men choose the right foods to foster muscle growth. He also offers more advanced routines for strength, sports performance and accelerated muscle growth. Most important, Brungardt encourages men to stay motivated and excited about weight training so that they can enjoy it for a lifetime.

Customer Reviews

A good platform
I have this book and essential arms too, they compliment each other quite nicely. This book really is for beginners, but in that repect it is an excellent book. Inside you have a 6 week training program and then 4 extension programs which look at different aspects of training, strength, size, sports and using different equipment. For those who want to pack on the muscle this probably isn't the best book, but the concepts considered go further than simply the weights, it promotes a healthy intelligent attitude towards weight lighting and training in general, it also considers cardio work. It is generally a good all round read i think once you understand everything in this book it lets you make better decisions about which direction you want to go in and then perhaps a more advanced book will be neccessary, for the price its worth starting here.

This is the book
I'm not an expert on fitness or bodybuilding but I'm an enthusiast who is training for 2 years,more or less and have been always looking for new books to give me the results everyone is looking for.
I first bought "the complete book of abs" from Kurt Brungardt and followed his programme. By the moment I finished the programme, I had no doubt in buying this book as well as the complete book of arms.
If you want to have a sculpted body, then kurt has the right programme for you. Buy his books and follow his programmes and you'll be satisfied for sure.