Serious Strength Training - 2nd
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0736042660 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lead author Tudor Bompa demonstrates how to use periodized workouts to peak at optimal times by manipulating six different training phases: anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, mixed, maximum strength, muscle definition, and transition.This edition also presents a revolutionary metabolically based approach—created by Maura Di Pasquale, an internationally renowned physician—that allows readers to structure their diets to meet their individual metabolic profiles.Serious Strength Training includes programs for strength trainers and bodybuilders as well as for those with special needs and interests. Then it sets detailed guidelines for program design, explaining how to calculate
kenji yamamoto said Looks like this book is aimed at bodybuilders. Looks like this book is aimed at bodybuilders. I thought its targeted primary audience were sports athletes. You can cull info/exercises for sport athletes if you want, but will take time. Bodybuilders will love this book.. A bodybuilding book, not really strength building. Good book, but.it is more a book for body building rather than strength training. Sorry, the two aren't synonymous. In fact, the two terms are intermixed at the beginning, and as the book continues, they finally drop "strength" word and admit they are talking about body building. A little less talk about getting "cut" and building mass and more on aspects of building strength please. If the title was more accurate, I'd give this book a much higher rating. ****[added 2/2008]: However there is lots of good info to be found in this book and periodization is indeed a powerful technique for _both_ body building and for strength training. But to. You better be serious! There is a lot of information in this book. Maybe too much. Even though it says "Serious" in the title, the writers are trying to target everyone from beginners to professionals; they are trying to be all things to all people in all stages of strength training. In doing so, they have muddled the waters. They lose you (at least they did me) in all the definitions, classifications, descriptions, explanations, and reasons. Plus, they are promoting their products. (I guess I can't blame them for that.) It is not a bad book for those that are really serious about strength training. The information is there for those who are meticulous enough to
Hone your workouts with the most effective, efficient exercises and get the gains you deserve for your sweat and effort." Steve HolmanEditor in chief, Ironman magazine "From the Journal of Sports and Sports Sciences"A book which should be in possession of all coaches and trainers as well as the libraries around the world. ""With science as the backbone and loaded with in-depth practical advice, "Serious Strength Training" provides a carefully constructed step-by-step approach. It's about time! You will find programs for entry-level, recreational, an