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Ken Kinakin (Author)
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November 14, 2008

Have you stopped experiencing increases in strength and mass? Do you equate the bench press with shoulder pain? If so, your body may not be functioning at 100 percent. Optimal Muscle Training is a unique book and DVD package that will show you how to achieve the highest level of function.

The book provides information on how your body develops imbalances, how testing can pinpoint problems, and how specific training to correct imbalances will optimize muscle function. The DVD enhances the information presented in the book with over 100 practical exercises and three levels of muscle testing that you can use in developing an individualized training program.

This fully integrated package allows you to learn the subtleties of muscle testing and exercises. Optimal Muscle Training—with its testing procedures, technical instructions, anatomical considerations, exercise demonstrations, and training guidelines—is one powerful training tool.


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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

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics; 1 Pap/DVD edition (November 14, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0736081720
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736081726
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #565,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for personal trainers, May 16, 2004
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Ritchie Kim (Roxboro, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
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
Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques by Kisner and Colby

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Train well with weights, July 13, 2005
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)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELENT FOR ME, September 14, 2008
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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