Muscle Mechanics
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Book Overview
Obtain optimal muscle gains using superior technique Muscle Mechanics will teach you how to train for strength, definition, and muscle size using 65 of the most effective exercises covering all the major muscle groups. By combining full-color anatomical illustrations and expert technical guidance, this book will help you better understand how to properly target specific muscles by using the most efficient alignment, positioning, and lifting technique for each exercise. Three programs for base strength, full-body fitness, and advanced split routines show how to combine the exercises into progressive strength programs. And by varying intensity, volume, recovery, and exercise sequencing, you can design customized programs for reaching both immediate and long-term training goals. Resistance training expert and Cooper Institute instructor Everett Aaberg is one of the world's foremost instructors and authors in strength training. In Muscle Mechanics , he puts the emphasis on training mechanics to help you maximize results and minimize the risk of injury.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0736061819
ISBN13:9780736061810
Release Date:November 2005
Publisher:Human Kinetics Publishers
Length:232 Pages
Weight:1.71 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
All the Right Moves
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
If you feel totally clueless whenever you step into the strength-training section of a gym, then "Muscle Mechanics" is the book for you. For many bodybuilding and fitness novices, learning the proper form or way to lift, pull, or push bars, pulleys, or other gadgets that are commonly found on a gym floor can be a task itself. Without the assistance of a personal trainer, which can be an expensive investment, weight training can be very difficult, if not hard for most.Unlike many other books on the market, "Muscle Mechanics" is a perfect companion to those who want to really get into the move of things. Using photographs, and easy-to-read type, the book surpasses many professionally written books by top name fitness gurus because. In plain English, this book is similar to a "Dummies" or "Complete Idiot's" guide to weight-resistance exercises. Although I am much more of a pro when it comes to training, this book was helpful in helping me learn several exercises that I was not performing correctly. Overall, the book's design, setup, and price are all added pluses when it came to me in purchasing it.So, if you're looking for a simple, yet thorough book on weight training, this book is the right choice.
An excellent, illustrated learning tool
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I'm an exercise science student and I happened to see my professor going through this book one day--it makes the leap in applying all those anatomy classes to resistance training in one place. There are excellent drawn diagrams that show which muscles are used, and even pictures that show correct postures and positioning for the exercises. If there is one thing the book lacks, it is an explanation of exactly why certain muscles for seemingly similar exercises are or aren't used (variations in positioning are an obvious cause: Deciding if the development of those muscles is what is desired is left up to the reader, and making the leap in understanding that the smallest variations can lead to different results). The book outlines basic biomechanical concepts, and has pictures for everything--and that is a great strength! This is a required text for any exercise science and/or athletic training student, and probably helpful to others too!
Excellent book, with info you can really learn from!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I enjoyed and really learned from this book. Concise descriptions, depictions and definitions of...body mechanics... as well as some exercises and excellent background information. Explicit description of "good form" for excercise that I haven't seen in many books & magazines. Although some might consider this a "beginners" book, there is a lot of stuff many of the old-timers in the gym could learn...
A complete guide to specific muscle exercises
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
No intimidating photos of overdeveloped bodybuilders! This book shows how to correctly perform some 73 different exercises for a full body workout, complete with an anatomy diagram showing which muscles are worked in each exercise. This book has been a great aid to me in designing a variety of workouts with different exercises (to prevent boredum) to target all the muscles for an efficient full body workout. I have shown this book to several friends, that are into self improvement, and they have all purchased it.
Tells Exactly What Muscles Are Worked!!!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
If you want to maximize a single muscle or muscle group this book will pinpoint it with very nice graphics. Aaberg stresses form as do all pros. If you are lacking technical terminology and want a well organized, easy to study book with suberb drawings and photos, get this one. If you don't know the info in this book, you probably don't that much about body building. Chapters 2,3 and 4 will allow you to learn the proper vocabulary of motion and physiology in a graphic manner. This is a very nice book to suppliment your workout programs.
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