This title provides the background, theory, and science of how muscles develop imbalances, how testing can pinpoint problems, and how specific training to correct imbalances optimizes muscle function. The DVD enhances the information presented in the book with practical exercises and three levels of muscle testing that you can use to develop an individualized training program.
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"Optimal Muscle Training takes the guesswork out of lifting and provides the secrets to ultimate body conditioning."
Peter Twist
President of Twist Conditioning, Inc.
Author of Strength Ball Training
“It's the best fix-it-yourself guide for gym rats we've ever seen.”
Men's Fitness
"Optimal Muscle Training is the best resource available for detailed and accurate exercise descriptions. With this book and DVD package, you can realize gains that you never thought were possible."
Eric Serrano, MD
Consultant, Sports Performance and Nutrition
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"Optimal Muscle Training takes the guesswork out of lifting and provides the secrets to ultimate body conditioning."
Peter Twist
President of Twist Conditioning, Inc.
Author of Strength Ball Training
"It's the best fix-it-yourself guide for gym rats we've ever seen."
Men's Fitness
"Optimal Muscle Training is the best resource available for detailed and accurate exercise descriptions. With this book and DVD package, you can realize gains that you never thought were possible."
Eric Serrano, MD
Consultant, Sports Performance and Nutrition --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Peter Twist
President of Twist Conditioning, Inc.
Author of Strength Ball Training
"It's the best fix-it-yourself guide for gym rats we've ever seen."
Men's Fitness
"Optimal Muscle Training is the best resource available for detailed and accurate exercise descriptions. With this book and DVD package, you can realize gains that you never thought were possible."
Eric Serrano, MD
Consultant, Sports Performance and Nutrition --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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A must for personal trainers,
By Ritchie Kim (Roxboro, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Optimal Muscle Training: Biomechanics of Lifting for Maximum Growth and Strength with DVD (Hardcover)
This book is a must for personal trainers. The DVD enclosed with the book goes through assessment procedures that are crucial when prescribing weight training exercises to your clients. For the novice weight trainer, it will definitely clear up any misconceptions you might have about how each weight training exercise should be performed in order to ensure efficiency and safety. Also recommended for personal trainers: Muscles: Testing and Function by Florence Kendall
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Train well with weights,
By Pen-and- sword (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Optimal Muscle Training: Biomechanics of Lifting for Maximum Growth and Strength with DVD (Hardcover)
Two quotes every athlete hears from nineth grade till the last day of collage:
"Coach says we need to focus" "Coach says to lift in the off season" That second recomenation- to lift weights- seems present in just about every sport. Why is this? Not because weight lifting is fun, but because it conditions the tendons, strenghens the muscles, and soldifies ones' balance to such a degee that many people get results even if they are doing it "wrong". An added bonus is that skeletal muscle, like cardiac muscle, is the stimulator to burn fat. Anerobics is now as highly recommended as aerobics! Unfortunately we don't all have "bodybuilder" friends or the money to hire a personal trainer. Therefore, I was very pleased to find this book/DVD set. The DVD shows proper form for the most common lifts, and the book shows both the right way AND the wrong way to perform these exersizes. Bravo, Mr. Kinaken. I also recommend: "Getting Stronger"--B. Pearl (beginning and advanced weight routines) And "Fitness is Religion"--R. Kybartas (motivation and inspiration)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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EXCELENT FOR ME,
This review is from: Optimal Muscle Training: Biomechanics of Lifting for Maximum Growth and Strength with DVD (Hardcover)
THIS WAS JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. I BOUGHT SOME WEIGHTS AND DIDN'T
KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT LIFTING BUT THIS BOOK AND DVD GETS RIGHT TO THE POINT WITH THE PROPER WAY OF WORKING OUT. IT WAS WELL WORTH IT'S PRICE.
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The main focus of any weight-training routine is to optimize your potential for strength and development. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
High High, Human Kinetics, Ken Kinakin, Weight-Training Readiness Exam, Shrug Head New!
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- Mobilisation of the Nervous System, 1e by David S. Butler B Phty Grad Dip Adv Manip Ther MAPA MMPAA in Back Matter
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- Scrawny to Brawny: The Complete Guide to Building Muscle the Natural Way by Michael Mejia on page 64
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