Weight Training For Dummies [Paperback]

Liz Neporent (Author), Suzanne Schlosberg (Author), Shirley Archer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 6, 2006

A properly executed strength or weight lifting regimen can lower your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, stabilize your blood sugar, reduce the risk of heart disease, increase your strength, and more. Weight Training For Dummies, Third Edition, is packed with all the information you need to start your own personalized weight training program and get yourself into peak condition fast. You’ll find out about:

• Circuit and resistance training
• 20-minute weight training routines
• The newest and best weight training equipment
• Combining weight training with other exercise
• Gender differences in weight training goals and routines
• Specific approaches for baby boomers and seniors just starting out
• Using weight training to address specific health conditions
• Preventing injuries
• Weight training for children and teens

If you’re getting pumped about weight training, don’t delay. Buy Weight Training for Dummies, Third Edition today, and you’ll be in shape in no time!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Owning Weight Training for Dummies is like having two knowledgeable and entertaining personal trainers into your home. The authors, Liz Neporent and Suzanne Schlosberg, authors of the popular Fitness for Dummies, are both fitness professionals who walk (lift, run, bicycle) their talk. They explain the basics of weight training simply, then take you through every step to setting up your own program and doing it properly. Whether you have free weights (dumbbells and barbells), a home machine, or access to a gym with many machines, you'll get an introduction to safe and effective weight training, plus descriptions, technique, and illustrations of dozens of exercises designed to target all major muscle groups. And just in case this is the only fitness book you buy, the authors include some information on cardio exercise, stretching, and other exercise options. Best of all, the book is motivating, easy to understand, and fun to read.

This updated edition of Weight Training for Dummies includes a few new chapters: "Yoga and Pilates" and "Improving Your Balance and Coordination," both in the "Beyond the Barbell" section; "Advanced Weight Training Exercises"; and a few snippets of new material (such as the addition of "Don't dress like a porn star" in the "Weight Training Etiquette" chapter). Otherwise, it's pretty much the same book. If you own the first edition, there's probably no need to buy the updated version. But if you don't own the first edition of this handy and cheery guide already, and weight training is not yet a part of your fitness program, the second edition of Weight Training for Dummies will teach you exactly what to do and how to do it. --Joan Price --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

One of the easiest-to-understand, best-illustrated guides to important strength exercises we've ever seen. -- Men's Fitness

Solid, comprehensive, and fun...Photos illustrate more than 150 pages of exercises. -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 412 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition (March 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471768456
• ISBN-13: 978-0471768456
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

110 of 114 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Book...missing stuff though March 6, 2001

By A Customer

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If you are starting out, this book will give you the basics (as the name implies); the excercises are very well explained and the fundamental facts of weight training are here. However, if your goal is to obtain body mass and really define your body, and I'm NOT talking about going overboard or looking to win a body building contest or anything of that sort but simply looking good, then I would look elsewhere. This book is for the VERY beginners or for people who want to excercise without really "building", and just want to be fit and have a light but useful workout.

73 of 75 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners... May 20, 2003

By M. P. Procter Sr. VINE™ VOICE

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but I really needed the next level. Don't get me wrong, it's a great book and is loaded with information. Unfortunately, the first third of the book was basic, like "this is a weight" and "these are barbells." The last third didn't really involve weight training at all, but talked about yoga and Pilates.

The sections that covered actual weight training and exercise routines was very good, but not as in-depth as I would have liked. It seems to me that "Fitness for Dummies" should have covered the stretching and yoga. I would have liked to seen more on just weight training.

But, if you've never - and I do mean never - been exposed to weight training, then this book is for you.

101 of 107 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for beginners October 23, 1999

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

This book explains the basics of weight training in enough depth to be useful, without assuming that everyone who starts lifting weights wants to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. The book goes into good detail about an assortment of excercises for different parts of the body, as well as things to watch out for with each excersize, and has a good chapter on designing your own program. The pictures are of real people, not bulked up steroid cases, and the writing style is fun to read.