Weight Training For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness))

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! more

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From: Amazon
Posted: Sep-23-2009

decent overview

Useful overview of weight training, though more photos would have been useful, especially in describing how to do the specific exercises. More discussion of the way one can train with multi gym devices would have been helpful as well.

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Posted: Jul-30-2009

for women

this book is for women in one of the chapters it tells you that you cannot lose weight by excersing with weights this book after reading it is pretty much designed for women by women and is pretty much useless to men

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Posted: Jul-29-2009

Disappointing

This is the first Dummies book that I'm disappointed in. Disjointed writing predominates. The overall impression is of short segments of writing thrown together without regard to flow of the material. Two complete readings later, I'm still uncertain as to how to put together a workout program...

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Posted: Jun-30-2009

Great guide book

Weight Training for Dummies is a great guide for establishing the fundamentals of fitness training using weights. It does not purport to be an encyclopedia of weight lifting. Most all of the muscle groups are covered as well as the moves to take to improve them. I like the book for the...

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Posted: Jun-29-2009

Ok book for beginners

This book is great for beginners, however intermediate or adavance lifters would probably find this book less helpful. It just doesn't go indepth enough in advance concepts. This is why I gave it a 4 instead of 5.

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Posted: Jun-03-2009

I'm still confused.

I'm a beginner.I feel like the book has scattered information and certain important details are missing. For instance, they don't really explain how to get create a workout. They sort of give you guidelines in pages of text, but I'm still confused. They give you sample workout routines but don't...

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