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Summary: Good reference book
Review: This is a good book to have around as a reference book to learn or remind yourself of the proper technique to perform certain lifts. I found this book useful and informative. However, this is not a tell all guide or a book about training programs.
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Summary: Essential
Review: This is an excellent book with detailed explanations of 34 excercises with photographs that eliminate guessing. Not a comprehensive book, more information on the author's philosophy is in "Beyond Brawn" and this book is meant to be a companion to that text. Unfortunately, Beyond Brawn is about five times longer than it needs to be, and the author should have condensed that information down to about 100 pages and made it the first section of this book. Then the author would have had THE comprehensive text for beginners and the 95 percent of us out there that aren't genetically gifted. Extremely useful, but falls short of what could have been.
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Summary: An excellent book on how to train injury free
Review: This is an excellent book with detailed explanations of 34 excercises with photographs that eliminate guessing. Not a comprehensive book, more information on the author's philosophy is in "Beyond Brawn" and this book is meant to be a companion to that text. Unfortunately, Beyond Brawn is about five times longer than it needs to be, and the author should have condensed that information down to about 100 pages and made it the first section of this book. Then the author would have had THE comprehensive text for beginners and the 95 percent of us out there that aren't genetically gifted. Extremely useful, but falls short of what could have been.
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Summary: Excellent reference
Review: This is an excellent reference book on weight training technique. It goes into excruciating detail on the how-to's of all of the major exercises. I have had this book for about six months, and I find that I still refer to it often enough that it has found a permanent spot next to my power rack.
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Summary: Excellent guide to training techniques
Review: This is the book I wish I had been given when I first started weightlifting. It provides thorough, in-depth information on dozens of exercises. It assumes nothing about a trainee - the book covers stance, setup, execution, breathing, variations of the exercises, and more. The information is presented concisely but thoroughly. The illustrations are useful and provide additional clarity to the text. Importantly the book also takes into account individual variations instead of providing cookie-cutter solutions and false precision. You do not need to have (or buy into) any specific routine or training system to benefit from this book. This is not a book telling you how often to Bench Press or how many sets and reps, but how to execute each rep you do without injury. I highly recommend this book to any person doing resistance training.
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Summary: This book is essential reading for weight trainees.
Review: This is the book that people wish they had when they started lifting. If you're just starting out now, this is the book you NEED to have. It teaches you what the productive (ie - strength and size producing) exercises are and how to do them effectively and safely. There's even a section on flexibility management. Each exercise is written up in great detail along with alternate forms of the exercise, tips, and practices to avoid with each exercise. Also, every exercise is illustrated with photographs that, when combined with the text, show you exactly how to perform each exercise safely and effectively. I strongly recommend this book to everyone who trains with weights.
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Summary: The weight-training technique bible
Review: This is the first book any weightlifter should buy. A highly detailed explanation of different lifts, along with pictures tell you how to use excellent form.
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Summary: Excellent book, essential for safe training!
Review: This is the most comprehensive and detailed book on exercise technique
I have read and probably the best in existence. Regardless of how long you
have been training with weights, you will find essential advice in this book.
Buy this book and also get "Beyond Brawn" by the same author, which
explains every aspect of weight-training except what's covered in "Technique".
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Summary: The best book on weight training
Review: Well written, with helpful illustrations showing both the right way to perform exercises and the wrong way. Simply the best book there is for genetically average, non-chemically-enhanced trainees. A comment on a prior review: the book does not insist that any exercise not described in the book is unsafe. Rather, it states that exercises were omitted either because they were unsafe under all conditions, unsafe without a trainer, or were reundant with better ones. Excellent lifts, such as cleans, were omitted because doing them without a lifting coach is a dangerous prospect.
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