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Summary: This book has it all!
Review: This is a great resource for those wanting to strengthen their midsection. The book contains a number of chapters, covering the importance of a strong body core, warm-up, stretching, and cool-down exercises, training guidelines, and exercises categorized into trunk stabilization and balance exercises, ab fitness exercises, ab strength exercises, and ab power exercises. About half of the exercises can be performed anywhere, and the other half require equipment such as a TheraBall, ab bench, barbell, etc. Each exercise is accompanied by a photograph and the proper steps to performing the exercise. The book is balanced nicely with different sections on setting goals, muscle physiology, proper exercise guidelines, and the like. A few sample programs are given at the end of the book, from which individuals can tailor their own program. All in all, this book has everything you need for a successful ab fitness program.
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Summary: Good book
Review: This is a very good book in which it guides you trough your training process. I like how it tells you where to start and what are you working in each exercise. So far this book has given me the idea on which muscles I have to focused to shape them up. I've enjoyed this book and read it in two days after work.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This is an excellent book. I've always found that some abdominal exercises hurt my back and some back exercises I'm unable to do. You may think that 165 exercises is overkill, but the nice thing is that you can pick the ones that work for YOU. Then as you progress, you can try others. I only do about 6 exercies right now, but I tried about 50 to find these 6. I have adjusted several times. The exercises are well described and pictures are good. In most cases, there is a final picture and not a progression of the exercies, which would help in a few cases. I read this book not from the bodybuilding perspective, but from a back pain rehab perspective and I am pleased. It has been more helpful than most back pain relief books, and I have read dozens.
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Summary: Excellent book for improving midsection
Review: When I first purchased this book I was hoping to make a modest performance gain in my sport. However after reading and performing several of the exercises over a period of 6 weeks I was able to run easier and faster. The biggest bouns is that I no longer wake up each morning with any back pain whatsoever. This is a really good ab and back book and I would recommend it to anyone.
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