Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique: Illustrated Step-by-step Guide to Perfecting Your Exercise Form for Injury-free Maximum Gains, 3rd Edition [Paperback]

Stuart McRobert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2009

This book provides the most thorough, comprehensive and safety-minded guidance on exercise technique. It is targeted at gym members of all ages and levels of experience -- from fitness trainees to hardcore bodybuilders, male and female. The book will teach readers how to become their own expert personal trainers on exercise technique.

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About the Author

Stuart McRobert has over 30 years of training experience, has had nearly 500 articles published, was the publisher and editor of a training magazine for 15 years, and is the author of five books on exercise and physique transformation. Stuart is English, and lives in Cyprus, Europe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 318 pages
• Publisher: CS Publishing Ltd; 3 edition (September 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9963916325
• ISBN-13: 978-9963916320
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #674,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Proper weight training techniques, November 10, 2011

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This review is from: Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique: Illustrated Step-by-step Guide to Perfecting Your Exercise Form for Injury-free Maximum Gains, 3rd Edition (Paperback)

This is the 3rd Edition of Stuart McRobert's weight training technique handbook. It is basically a guide to proper weight training techniques in order to prevent injuries.

Photos are shown for each exercise technique. Photos are in black and white. Photo size varies, but in general, are the size of a business card. I would have liked larger photos.

Mr. McRobert notes that most of the information in this book is already available in his other book, "Build Muscle, Lose Fat, Look Great".

Here is the breakdown for this book on weight training techniques. It is divided into three parts.

Part 1
Training safety
Rep speed and control
Four main hand grips
Anatomy

Part 2: Exercise techniques - It includes the muscles worked, a description, and explanations on how to do the exercise. It may include grip, spotting and other information.
1. Back extension
2. Bench press
3. Calf raise
4. Chin-up and pull-up
5. Crunch
6. Curl
7. Deadlift
8. Finger Extension
9. Hand-gripper work
10. Lateral Raise
11. Leg curl
12. Leg press
13. L-fly
14. Neck work
15. Parallel bar grip
16. Press
17. Pulldown
18. Pullover
19. Pushdown
20. Torso rotation
21. Row
22. Shrug
23. Side bend
24. Squat
25. Time hold
26. Grip machine training
27. Lever bar work
28. Overhead lockout
29. Pinch-grip lifting
30. Rader chest pull
31. Wrist roller training

Part 3
Handling weights between exercises
Making a technique checklist
Video recording for correct technique
A very short guide to stretching