Weight training steps to success
Combining the experience of strength and conditioning experts Thomas Baechle and Roger Earle, this guide will maximize your development with a progressive approach to weight training using either free weights or machines. Learn which exercises target which muscles and how to perform each one correct...
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| Language: | English |
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Champaign, IL
Human Kinetics
©2012
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| Edition: | Fourth edition |
| Series: | Steps to success activity series
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Table of Contents:
- Climbing the steps to weight training success
- Acknowledgments
- Fundamentals of weight training
- Learning about equipment and its proper use
- Mastering stretching, lifting, and spotting skills
- Learning how to select exercises and training loads
- Selecting chest exercises and training loads
- Selecting back exercises and training loads
- Selecting shoulder exercises and training loads
- Selecting upper arm exercises and training loads
- Selecting leg exercises and training loads
- Selecting core exercises and training loads
- Selecting total-body exercises and training loads
- Completing your first workout
- Applying program design principles
- Learning how to manipulate training variables to maximize results
- Designing your own program