Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116799 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 47 pages

Customer Reviews

Good explanation of anatomy, not a good variety of exercises
This book does a good job of explaining the anatomy and function of the abdominal & back muscles, but it's hard to follow because you have to flip back and forth to get to the correct diagrams. There isn't a good variety of exercises. Many of the exercises require cable machines that aren't available at the gym I go to. Definitely not a book for doing exercises at home.

Intelligent and superbly written!
Finally an intelligent book on ab training. Of all the hundreds of books I've read about abdominal training this one surpasses them all by far. It is superbly written and teaches you everything you need to know about ab training as well as how to prevent back pain. The fitness world has been in need of an intelligent source of information for so long and now Paul Chek has joined the elite few. Hopefully we'll get to see him publish more books in the not too distant future.

A good book on Abs that needs a little work to understand it.
This book is a good read if you want to UNDERSTAND how ab training works. It is okay for a beginner but might be better for someone with some experience. Yes its thin and its its padded with irrelevant old photos of pro bodybuilders, yes the training diagrams are helpful but badly labeled, reading it is confusing and it seems to be an expanded article rather than a book. But once you cut through all that to the information then what this book has to say is informative as with all works by Paul Chek are. Judge it by results not by design layout or ease of use.