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The Ultimate New York Body Plan

David Kirsch

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Total reviews: 76 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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"Initially, I went to David to reshape my body, not knowing that my interaction with him would ultimately reshape my life."
--Linda Evangelista

"I work out with David Kirsch on a regular basis, but I really see his magic when I need to get in shape quickly....Within two weeks I see huge results and feel stronger, healthier and 100 percent better inside and out."
--Liv Tyler

"When I first contacted David, I had five weeks to get in shape for my first movie role. His attitude and take-no-prisoners approach was not only inspiring, it was actually enjoyable!"
--Faith Hill

In as little as two weeks, David Kirsch's unique combination of exercise, nutrition, and motivation will help you transform your body and achieve maximum wellness. The Ultimate New York Body Plan will show you how to:

• Lose weight . . . without expensive surgery
• Increase energy . . . and burn calories
• Tone muscles . . . in the fastest time possible
• Define shape . . . for a lean, sculpted look
• Look your best . . . and feel even better
• See real results . . . that will last a lifetime

Training for Mass

Gordon LaVelle

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

All You Need 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

All you need is in this book; eliminate unneccesary workouts that are not good mass builders and abandon high volume marathon sessions that are ruinous to your joints and free time. This is unlike anything you've ever read. An intellectual approach that explains WHY a high intensity routine is effective. I love it.

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The definitive guide for building muscle: Training for Mass is a comprehensive, intelligent guide for constructing effective and efficient weight training workouts. It also offers a scientific analysis of current popular weight training strategies, and demonstrates how the vast majority of workout routines are neither scientific nor effective. Based on observations about how the human body responds to exercise, Training for Mass advocates a less-is-more approach, and shows how spending endless hours in the gym is counterproductive and even harmful--debunking the myth that building muscle requires a great investment of time. Training for Mass is not a picture book; rather, it is filled with useful information. Nor is it a rigid scientific journal or text book; the author draws upon unusual examples and provides uncommon insight into the factors required for success in weight training.

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football

Robert G. Price

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football is the most comprehensive and up-to-date football-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round football-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other Football book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have players of all positions and skill levels increasing strength, agility, and power dramatically resulting in more touchdowns, crisper and harder tackles, and the flat-out domination of opponents all over the field.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding

Joe Weider, Bill Reynolds

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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"This massive and authoritative Master Blaster book is the greatest bodybuilding book ever written, primarily because it is firmly based on the training principles of the Weider System of Bodybuilding, which have been followed by literally every bodybuilder in the modern history of the sport. I began developing my Weider System back in the 1930s and continue to refine and add new Weider Training Principles to it. You can rely on the information I present in this book to improve your physique. Good luck!" -- Joe Weider On Instinctive Training "One of the most fundamental secrets of successful bodybuilding is getting to know your body and how it reacts to various training and nutritional practices. Unless you have finely honed your instinctive training ability, it will take many weeks, even months, to evaluate each experiment. It definitely pays to master the Weider Instinctive Training Principle." -- Franco Columbo, two-time Mr. Olympia On Progression "The key to building massive, powerful muscles is to doggedly increase the training weights you use. But it is only good to increase training poundage if you do so in perfect form. There is a direct correlation between the amount of weight you use with perfect biomechanics in an exercise and the mass of muscles that move that weight." -- Lee Haney, three-time Mr. Olympia On Muscle Confusion "Once I reached the advanced level of bodybuilding and started entering competitions, I discovered that I quickly became bored with a set training program. I began to use the Weider Muscle Confusion Principle, changing to a new and more challenging routine every time I came into the gym to bomb a particular body part." -- Lou Ferrigno On Supersets "Since supersets constitute a big jump in training intensity, I always tell bodybuilders new to the Weider Supersets Training Principles to experiment with supersets, compounding movements for the biceps and triceps, or forearm flexors and forearm extensors." -- Albert Beckles, IFBB World Pro Grand Prix Champion

Stronger Abs and Back: 165 Exercises to Build Your Center of Power

Dean Brittenham, Greg Brittenham

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

By comparing over 10 abs books, I concluded... 4 out of 5 stars.
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I purchased about 10 books from Amazon on abs in order to compare them. This one is unique for recommending different routines for people who have the different goals of fitness, strength, or power. The idea of strength vs. power workouts was a late 90s fad in sports training, which isn't to say it was wrong, but you won't find any chapter here called "Wellness: The Big Picture," like you will in one of the books published in 2006. If you want to know how these compare, here are my conclusions...

If You Want to Trim Your Waistline: You can't trim your waistline without losing fat, and you can't lose fat around your waist without losing it everywhere (focusing on a muscle group like the abdominal muscles doesn't burn fat in that location, just a little bit of fat from everywhere on the body). So, if you want to trim your waistline, skip the ab workout books and go with a good, proven overall weight loss and fitness book like Bill Phillips' Body for Life. The Abs Diet is a similar program, but like all the Men's Health publications, it advertises a 6-week transformation, which is just a little unrealistic. Plan on more like 12-24 weeks to see really noticeable changes if you are fat.

If You Want Sculpted Six-Pack Abs: If you are overweight at all, see above--you can't get a six pack while you're overweight, and you can't lose abdominal fat by doing an ab workout, so go for overall fitness. However, if you are already lean, see below.

If You Want to Strengthen or Build Your Ab Muscles: If you're trying to improve for work, play, or rehab, you might consider the following books: The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs Deluxe DVD Edition contains decently up-to-date information and tells you exactly what to do and when to do it, based on a six-week fitness course. If you're looking for a similar book with more information, you can choose from The Complete Book of Abs or The Complete Book of Core Training. The Complete Book of Abs (1998) is a little out of date in terms of its dietary/nutritional recommendations, but it focuses more on exercises that develop the external abdominal muscles (the ones you see in a six-pack), including lots of variations on leg lifts, bicycle motion, and sit-ups. It will also give you more resources for creating your own program, and, if that's what you want to do, go with this one instead of The Body Sculpting Bible. The Complete Book of Core Training (2006) focuses more on the functional body core, including internal abdominal muscles, legs, etc., and includes more trendy exercises using medicine balls, exercise balls, yoga, etc. A different sort of book is Stronger Abs and Back (1997), which was written before the current fad of selling "core training," but contains the elements of core training because it gives good functional sports-focused advice. Its dietary recommendations are out of date, but it recommends a 24-week workout plan, which is much more realistic than the 6-week plans advocated by many of the other books.

If You Have Back Pain: See your doctor, and if he prescribes abdominal/core strengthening, see above.

My one-book recommendation: Body for Life.
My two-book recommendation: Body for Life + Stronger Abs and Back.
My three-book recommendation: Body for Life + Stronger Abs and Back + The Complete Book of Abs.
My four-book recommendation: Body for Life + Stronger Abs and Back + The Complete Book of Abs + The Abs Diet.

Hope this helps!!

Editorial Review:

This heavily illustrated book provides 165 exercises to develop greater flexibility, stability, fitness, strength, and power at the body's core. It explains how to perform each movement for best results and outlines training programs specifically for fitness and sports.

Bodybuilding Anatomy

Nick Evans

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Bodybuilding Anatomy 5 out of 5 stars.
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Very nicely illustrated book for the novice bodybuilder...May be usefull to Kinesiology & Exercise Physiology students....

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This work is aimed at bodybuilders, strength training enthusiasts and as a reference for fitness professionals. It is a new addition to the best-selling "Anatomy" series. The original text "Strength Training Anatomy", has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages. This book has enough detail for any serious strength training enthusiast, with training for specific body image goals and key emphasis on technique to avoid injury. It is a combination of top medical and anatomical knowledge with 280 illustrations to guide the reader. Organised by muscle group, each body part is subdivided into muscle target zones allowing the reader to select the specific exercises they need to emphasise hard-to-hit target spots in their physique. Each chapter includes detailed variations on modifying grip, body position, exercise trajectory and range of motion in order to emphasise different muscle groups.

The Resistance Band Workout Book

Ed McNeely

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

An excellent primer. 5 out of 5 stars.
22 of 29 people found this review helpful.

The Resistance Band Workout Book advocates workout routines using the resistance band - and reinforces theory with almost a hundred exercises using this accessory. The blend of general workouts and sports-specific, goal-oriented exercises comes with illustrations and makes for an excellent primer.

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Great book for those who want exercises for the resistance band at home 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I didn't buy this through Amazon. But I thought it was a great book. Many more uses for the band than most books. It discusses stretching, rest periods for the muscles, etc. It is divided into groups of exercises for each of the major muscle groups. Off-hand, I can recall it has exercises for arms, shoulders, chest, trunk and abs, legs, hips, thighs and buttocks. That's great for targetting. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because the workouts in the back don't refer to the page the exercise is on so I constantly have to go back to look for them and then do them. I still haven't found one of them yet, lol. But all in all, it did have more excersises for the bands for each muscle group than any of the other books I have so far.

Editorial Review:

Complete instructions for using exercise tubing for fitness.

The United States Marine Corps Workout, Revised Edition

Andrew Flach

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Total reviews: 29 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Solid workout book. 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I liked this book. To complement what other reviewers wrote, the book has actual day by day schedule of Marine boot camp pt exersices. It highlights the difference between OCS at Quantico and Parris Island/San Diego recruit training. In addition to daily 16 it has workout schemes for different time schedules. The photos were useful, as many would concentrate on a particular machine or exersice and show it from various viewpoints.

David

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GET IN FIGHTING SHAPE WITH THE US MARINES
You want to get fit? Tell it to the Marines! This authentic, inside look at the physical fitness training programs of the United States Marine Corps is guaranteed to get you in the best shape of your life. Whether you are a Marine, plan to be a Marine, or just want to be as tough as a Marine, you’ll discover how to get in top physical condition.

WITNESS THE LEATHERNECKS IN ACTION!
Come join us at Recruit Basic Training and Officer’s Candidate School as we experience firsthand the rigorous physical regimens that turn ordinary people into extraordinary Marines. From the obstacle courses, rifle PT, and running to Boot Camp and back, you’ll discover the fitness secrets that make the Marines the toughest fighting force in the world.

Over 200 pages and more than 300 action-packed photos, including the official Daily 16 and Rifle PT.

High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way

Mike Mentzer, John R. Little

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Total reviews: 51 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

High-intensity bodybuilding advice from the first man to win a perfect score in the Mr. Universe competition

This one-of-a-kind book profiles the high-intensity training (HIT) techniques pioneered by the late Mike Mentzer, the legendary bodybuilder, leading trainer, and renowned bodybuilding consultant. His highly effective, proven approach enables bodybuilders to get results--and win competitions--by doing shorter, less frequent workouts each week. Extremely time-efficient, HIT sessions require roughly 40 minutes per week of training--as compared with the lengthy workout sessions many bodybuilders would expect to put in daily.

In addition to sharing Mentzer's workout and training techniques, featured here is fascinating biographical information and striking photos of the world-class bodybuilder--taken by noted professional bodybuilding photographers--that will inspire and instruct serious bodybuilders and weight lifters everywhere.

The Russian Kettlebell Challenge

Pavel Tsatsouline

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Total reviews: 67 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Best thing since sliced bread 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I had flown past the 60 year old landmark and was feeling it. Deciding I needed to do something to slow the inevitable slide, yet not wanting to devote my remaining life to fitness training, I decided to try kettlebells as they provide a great workout in just a few minutes per day which was the amount of time that I wanted to allot for workout training.

Wow... There is not much else to say. After about six months, I feel better than I have since I was in my 30's or early 40's. Energy in surplus, I don't tire when doing any moderately strenuous activity. Golfers take note, it added 25 yards to my drives and more than a half club lenght to my iron shots. I now sleep like a stone where as before I would toss and turn. Oddly, I sleep less time but awake completely refreshed. Could be my age - fitness combination, I don't have an answer to that one.

I have a friend who is in his 40's and is in fairly good shape, I now need to stop for him when we are on long uphill hikes. Before he would stop for me. Now he is a believer and ordered the book and a kettlebell.

Highly recommended to anyone who is not satisfied with aging the old fashioned way.

Editorial Review:

Both the Soviet Special Forces and numerous world-champion Soviet Olympic athletes used the ancient Russian Kettlebell as their secret weapon for extreme fitness. Thanks to the kettlebell's astonishing ability to turbo charge physical performance, these Soviet supermen creamed their opponents time-and-time-again, with inhuman displays of raw power and explosive strength. Now, former Spetznaz trainer, international fitness author and nationally ranked kettlebell lifter, Pavel Tsatsouline, delivers this secret Soviet weapon into your hands.