The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Gymnastics (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 14) (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for ... Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 14) [Paperback]

Robert G. Price (Author), Maryanne Haselow-Dulin (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2003 | Series: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 14

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Gymnastics is the most comprehensive and up-to-date gymnastics-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 gymnastics-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other gymnastics book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have gymnasts increasing flexibility, strength, and agility enabling the highest level of performance. By following this program you will improve everything from compositions to releases with better overall execution.

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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I’m the most improved soldier in our District, thanks to the awesome strength training information I got from this book. -- Rogelio A., Soldier in the US Army, April 22

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: 78 pages
• Publisher: Price World Enterprises (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549137
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549133
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,940,749 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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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A general weightlifting text, September 25, 2008

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Jo-Be-Se - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Gymnastics (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training: Gymnastics) (Paperback)

This book is nothing special in my opinion. I bought it expecting a discussion of how weight training can benefit gymnastics training. Unfortunately all I got was a general discussion of how to lift weights. There was little on programming, a decent discussion on periodization, and a good discussion of general lifting exercises...but why do you need general lifting exercises? There's nothing special here. It gives a decent, but not great, overview of how to lift for general conditioning and strength training. Basic questions such as:
How to incorporate weight training with gymnastic training
What lifts will help you power through sticking points in which gymnastic techniques
No discussion of appropriate volume.

One of the biggest problems this book has is it recommends a complete weightlifting regimen. You don't need that if you're training for gymnastics already. You get a lot of strength and explosive work through normal training. Adding a compelte lifting routine on top of that is a sure route to over-training.

I give this three stars because it is a good introductory weight lifting text. It just has nothing special for gymnasts.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title - this is NOT for gymnasts, June 17, 2011

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grottie - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Gymnastics (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 14) (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for ... Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 14) (Paperback)

The author comes across as a normally competent weightlifter, and the advice is very standard and of reasonable quality. If the author has any understanding of gymnastics-specific strength requirements, he isn't successful in expressing this understanding via his book.

2 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best guide to training, April 19, 2004

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Alba Robles (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Gymnastics (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 14) (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for ... Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 14) (Paperback)

It's the best way to training gymnastics and gaing muscle and condition.