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Everett Aaberg (Author)
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January 2001 0736038639 978-0736038638 1

Developed and hosted by resistance-training expert Everett Aaberg, the Resistance Training Instruction Video Series walks trainers through the steps of instructing clients during resistance training. The videos demonstrate the proper techniques for the participant and proper instructional methods for the fitness professional.

The three videos, which cover the lower body, trunk, and upper body, allow trainers to watch and learn the proper exercise and training techniques for all of the exercises in the book Resistance Training Instruction and many more exercises not included in the book.

Targeted muscles are identified for each exercise, providing trainers with information about functional anatomy. Plus, a time-coded program log makes it easy to find specific exercises.

Resistance Training Instruction: Lower Body demonstrates exercises from the hip down. Since the hip's primary function is to work with the knee and ankle during compound movements, numerous variations of squats, presses, and lunges are presented. Several exercises that isolate lower-body movements are also included, as these more specific exercises may be equally important for accomplishing a variety of goals.

Resistance Training Instruction: Trunk focuses on strengthening and developing the trunk and core muscles. The core muscles, or “inner unit,” work interdependently with the outer abdominal and oblique musculature to stabilize the spine and produce a variety of movements. The video demonstrates how to correctly perform and instruct numerous resistance and Swiss ball exercises to strengthen the core muscles and trunk region.

Resistance Training Instruction: Upper Body begins with an examination of how the shoulder girdle is designed to function during an upper-body exercise. The video then demonstrates exercises that focus on the larger pushing and pulling movements. Pushing and pressing exercises that target the chest, anterior deltoid, and associated triceps are presented at several angles with numerous variations. Dumbbell presses, barbell presses, cable presses, machine presses, and Swiss ball even presses and push-offs are demonstrated in this video. Many types of pulling and rowing exercises and variations are also demonstrated and are divided according to their associated joint movement.

With the Resistance Training Instruction Video Series, you will learn how to teach resistance training so that your clients use the proper techniques to get the most out of their exercises.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Everett Aaberg has been both a teacher and practitioner of resistance training for over 15 years. He is the director of education and personal training for International Athletic Club Management in Dallas and was named the 2001 IDEA International Personal Trainer of the Year. He's also a national presenter and consultant for several fitness organizations and health clubs around the country. He is an instructor for a specialty certification course titled The Biomechanics of Resistance Training at the world-renowned Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research.

Aaberg holds a bachelor's degree in exercise science and recreation management with continuing education credits in exercise physiology, anatomy, kinesiology, biomechanics, and nutrition. He is a resistance-training specialist and a certified personal trainer through some of the most highly accredited organizations in the United States, including the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the National Academy of Sports Medicine. He's also a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Aaberg has extensive practical experience in resistance training. He has instructed and trained thousands of athletes, fitness enthusiasts, coaches, fitness instructors, and personal trainers. Plus, he has used resistance training throughout his life for health and fitness as well as for preparation for a variety of sports and athletic competitions. He was an academic All-American in football and has won several state and national powerlifting championships and bodybuilding titles, including AAU and NPC Mr. Colorado titles and the Mr. Junior America title in his class. Aaberg lives and trains in Dallas, Texas.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 1 edition (January 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0736038639
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736038638
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,250,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Take Your Workouts To The Next Level!, August 11, 1999
Whether you are a personal fitness trainer looking for new movements for your clients or a self-starter who wants to learn from the best, this is the book for you. Everette Aaberg is one of the nation's premier personal trainers and biomechanics experts. I had the pleasure of learning and studying biomechanics and advanced biomechanics from Everette at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas. Biomechanics is the study of human movement with a weight bearing load, force or resistance and how these forces affect the body both in a constructive and sometimes destructive manner. Peforming movements "biomechanically correct", as Everette suggests, is a formula for efficiently working your muscles while protecting your joints and avoiding injury. I have learned the power of his theories first hand with my personal training clients. Lift safe, the way your body was meant to move, and the results may astonish you. Proper form and technique is explained throughout with excellent anatomy illustrations of what primary and secondary muscles are being worked. A good variety of exercises for the entire body are included. Every fitness enthusiast should have this on their bookshelve. You may find yourself dragging it to the gym with you. - Michael J. Merlino, Certified Professional Fitness Trainer
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars muscle mechanics updated, January 7, 2003
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I disagree with other reviewers on a couple of key points. First, Aaberg's MSUCLE MECHANICS is not basically the same book. It lacks crucial information on exercise tempo, periodization, etc. MUSCLE MECHANICS has a list of references that RESISTANCE lacks. RESISTANCE has acknowledgements, but Charles Poliquin's name is spelled incorrectly (Poliquin is author of THE POLIQUIN PRINCIPLES). If you don't already have MUSCLE MECHANICS, then opt for RESISTANCE TRAINING PRINCIPLES. If you do currently possess MM, then go for Aaberg's other book STRENGTH, SPEED, & POWER. It does cover tempos, etc. as well as being a good intro to functional training.

A second disagreement I have with another reviewer concerns partial movements. As a long time trainee I have learned through bitter experience that, "The body never forgets an injury". Aaberg's advice regarding the disregarding the "full range of motion" philosophy (a philosophy that will take many years to kill)is right on the money. Using heavy resistance in the "red zone" of a joint on the premise that it is necessary or useful for "fully developing the muscle" or that it will increase or maintain flexibility is an invitation to injury. This may be one of the reasons that the Westside Barbell Club spends very little time doing full range bench presses and instead chooses partial movements such as board presses and floor presses for much of its training.

RESISTANCE TRAINING INSTRUCTION is too short to illustrate every exercise. Happily, it does not show potential shoulder wreckers such as upright rows, lat machine pulldowns behind the neck, or presses behind the neck. Nor does it show stretches. The routines do have exercises for the rotator cuff. This is a huge plus. Aaberg at times announces quite clearly that some subjects are beyond the scope of his book.

At the present time -- January 2003 -- this is one of the best introductory texts on the market. If you're looking for a single text that covers everything, forget it. If there is one, it will probably be outdated in one month. When I read most training texts my BS detector goes off several times. When I read Aaberg's stuff it's pretty silent.

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars read.., June 23, 2000
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this was a very good book but do know that if you already have Muscle Mechanics that you have basically the same book (ie the pics are the same wording etc). the difference here is in that spotting techniques by personal trainers is covered.
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kneeling lunge position, spinal positioning, cable overhead lat row, machine standing hip abduction, weight over the ankles, cue the lats, delt abduction, ham flex, monitor pelvic, front delt press, contract the posterior deltoids, rear delt row, standing calf extension, arm lat row, contract the rhomboids, original start position, contract the glutes, optimum motion, scapulae retracted, contract the hip flexors, good joint strength, cue the chest, contract the lats, standing hip extension, sternal pectoralis
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