Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Martial Arts [Paperback]

Rob Price (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2007

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Martial Arts is the most comprehensive and up-to-date martial arts-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round martial arts-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other martial arts book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book is the most informative and complete resource for building muscles, speed, and stamina to enable the body to excel in judo, karate, aikido, kung fu, jujitsu, taekwondo, kempo, muay thai, and all other martial arts forms. The book provides martial artists with an abundance of easy to follow training techniques needed to be effective in the martial arts, such as flexibility, joint stabilization, balance, and muscle development.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

Editorial Reviews

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Your book for Martial Arts has greatly helped my power and speed. I feel younger than I am. I am 43 and started Taekwondo almost one year ago. The programs in your book have also helped my confidence. I really like the different workout programs that are available in the book. --Anthony S, 3rd place in tournament in Forms

I have been following the program in your book for two weeks. The program has helped me focus and helped me become stronger, wiser, and more well-rounded. It is crucial for jiu jitsu to be all around physically strong and I aim to follow the workout to better myself in my favorite marital art. --Daniel A

About the Author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Price World Publishing; 2 edition (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549544
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549546
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #738,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Sart, March 14, 2009

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Samuel Clements (Midwest) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Martial Arts (Paperback)

All of the books in this series are nearly the same which can be a bit annoying. However, I view any weight-training programs offered as just a start rather than as the end all of what to do.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Should be tailed to martial arts!, December 4, 2011

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vaaesthete (Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Martial Arts (Paperback)

While I am confident that the author understands and is fully qualified to discuss traditional weight training techniques, I would have expected a sports-specific practitioner to have been consulted on the specific exercises and techniques necessary for that sport. In martial arts, stretching and warm-up is very important and I would have expected the stretching and warm-up section to be much larger than it is. The exercises should also be specifically chosen to best complement your sport. This does not appear to be the case here.
I would buy a book (or multiple books) specific to your style of martial art. In my case (Karate), I am using "The Art of Hojo Undo" for training and an older introduction book by Shingo Ohgami for warm-up (but any comprehensive book covering your specific martial art will provide the proper stretching and warm-up exercises necessary).
Keep looking.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Value of the book, July 25, 2008

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I thought that this book would have been more robust, the exercises in the book are good, just nothing ground breaking. May want to save your dollar if you are an experienced martial artist!