Product Description

A properly executed strength or weight lifting regimen can lower your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, stabilize your blood sugar, reduce the risk of heart disease, increase your strength, and more. Weight Training For Dummies, Third Edition, is packed with all the information you need to start your own personalized weight training program and get yourself into peak condition fast. You’ll find out about:

• Circuit and resistance training
• 20–minute weight training routines
• The newest and best weight training equipment
• Combining weight training with other exercise
• Gender differences in weight training goals and routines
• Specific approaches for baby boomers and seniors just starting out
• Using weight training to address specific health conditions
• Preventing injuries
• Weight training for children and teens

If you’re getting pumped about weight training, don’t delay. Buy Weight Training for Dummies, Third Edition today, and you’ll be in shape in no time!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24249 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Publisher
A great book for beginners to gym instructors. . .
"...This clearly written and comprehensive book shows how anyone can make weight training a safe and beneficial part of their fitness life." -Peter Sikowitz, Editor-in-Chief, Men's Fitness Magazine

Would you like to add weight training to your fitness routine, but don't know where to start? Are you interested in toning and developing your muscles, but aren't sure which exercises work? Don't sweat it... roll up your sleeves and get ready to flex your muscles with "Weight Training for Dummies™".

This handy reference gives you the scoop on the most effective exercises for all your muscles-with tips for how to get the best value for your money.

By reading "Weight Training for Dummies™", you'll discover how to:

*Develop a personal weight training program based on your personal fitness goals

*Test your current strengths and track your improvements

*Use proper techniques to lift weights safely and get great results

*Distinguish the great weight training gadgets from the rip-offs

*Evaluate the polls, potions, and powders you hear about in the gym

*Choose trainers, videos, and classes to fit your schedule and your budget

*Adapt a weight training program for young kids, pregnant women, and seniors IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., headquartered in Foster City, Calif., is a leading global knowledge company featuring a diverse portfolio of technology, business and self-help books and computer-based learning tools, including the best-selling …For Dummies®, ...Secrets® and Teach Yourself® and Cliffs Notes™ brands. IDG Books Worldwide has more than 700 active titles plus translations in 36 languages around the world.

From the Back Cover
Now featuring new quickie, core, and other specialized workouts

Fight flab, build strength, increase flexibility, and sculpt your body!

No matter what your age or fitness level, weight training has many health benefits. Featuring illustrated step–by–step exercises plus tips on equipment and specialized workouts, this friendly guide shows you how to get started and get results — at home or at the gym, using free weights or weight machines.

Praise for Weight Training For Dummies

"A fun, easy–to–follow guide. . . . You′ll never be intimidated by a weight room again."
—Peg Moline, Editorial Director, Shape

"Takes you step–by–step through setting up your own gym to developing a training program."
—Self

"One of the easiest–to–understand, best–illustrated guides to important strength exercises we′ve ever seen."
—Men′s Fitness

"Solid, comprehensive, and fun. . . . Photos illustrate more than 150 pages of exercises."
—Seattle Post–Intelligencer

Discover how to

• Work with free weights or weight machines
• Select a gym or set up a home gym
• Exercise each major muscle group
• Add Pilates or yoga to your workout
• Use exercise bands and balls

About the Author
Liz Neporent: Liz’s first set of weights (actually, her brother’s) were made of blue plastic and filled with sand; when they started leaking sand all over the house, her mother relegated all weight lifting activities to the basement.
Since that time, Liz has graduated into a well–known corporate fitness consultant, designing and managing fitness centers worldwide. Along the way, Liz also was a personal trainer, received a master’s degree in exercise physiology, and got certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, National Strength and Conditioning Association, American Council of Exercise, and the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She is coauthor and author of several books, including Fitness For Dummies and Fitness Walking For Dummies and writes frequently for the New York Times, Family Circle, Shape, and others.
She currently hosts a daily internet show on eyada.com.

Suzanne Schlosberg: Suzanne’s writing career began her freshman year in college when she was assigned to cover a pre–season NBA game and found herself in a locker room interviewing a dozen, tall, muscular, naked Boston Celtics. She decided she liked this writing stuff. Suzanne went on to become a newspaper reporter and magazine writer. Now a contributing editor to Shape and Health magazine, Suzanne is the coauthor, with Liz Neporent, of Fitness For Dummies and the author of The Ultimate Workout Log. She is also an instructor in the UCLA Extension Certificate in Journalism program. Always happy when she has a barbell in hand, Suzanne has lifted weights in Zimbabwe, Morocco, Iceland, and Micronesia, among other locales. She is the women’s record holder in the Great American Sack Race, a quadrennial event held in Yerington, Nevada, in which competitors must run 5 miles while carrying a 50–pound sack of chicken feed.

Shirley Archer: Shirley is a former New York City attorney who traded the fast life for the fit life. A survivor of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from stress and overworking, her recovery helped her to become a champion of fitness for health and to live fully in body, mind and spirit. She’s now a health educator and fitness specialist at the Health Improvement Program at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, the author of ten fitness and wellness books, an international trainer of fitness instructors, and a frequently quoted media spokesperson worldwide. Her master’s degree is in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, and she has special expertise in mind–body exercise. She’s a mind–body spokesperson for IDEA, author of a monthly mind–body news column, and a spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise. She’s certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, American Council on Exercise, and National Strength and Conditioning Association, among others. She’s also a certified Pilates teacher and yoga instructor. She’s created a number of corporate fitness programs, including Walking for Workplace Wellness, Fitness 9 to 5, and Stretching and Relaxation Tips for Workday Survival. Shirley believes that healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and that you can live a longer, happier, and better life by choosing fitness every day.

Customer Reviews

Good for a beginner
This book is ideal for anyone just beginning weight training. However, most of what is covered in this book would be told to you at a good gym induction.

Maybe a good reference for the few months after starting a free weights programme but pretty useless after that.

With the Dummies books, it's O.K. to start from scratch ...
My fiancee is an experienced weight lifter. I wanted to get started also, but was very intimidated. He got me this book because he knew that it would include a comprehensive coverage of everything I needed to know before beginning a routine(not because he thinks I'm a Dummie). It was a great way for me to read up on the subject before going to the gym with him where he demonstrated many of the concepts in the book. My fiancee even learned a new exercise for his rotator cuffs! Now that I feel more comfortable with the ideas, I still take the book with me when I go alone to the gym, in case I have any questions. I don't think this book is meant to be used by experts, but it's great for [weight training] "dummies" like me!

Good book
Probably has everything a beginner could ever possibly want to know about weight lifting. This book has got a very light, informal and even friendly tone which actually makes it an enjoyable read!