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Summary: Hastily fabricated
Review: Although the author claims to have high credentials, he presents very lousy descriptions of exercises, with complete disregard to grace or esthetics.
As soon as you pass the well designed and colorful cover, you will be immersed in a collection of chicken scratches that the author intends to represent exercises. Each exercise is described in three or more steps, which provide no clue on the proper execution of exercise. Most of the exercise sketches are flawed and hint to the total lack of experience or exposure of the author to athletic performance.
Many high school dropout kids have published sports' book that are much more sophisticated than this outsider to fitness. Although the book was first published in 1996, there were then reasonable level of technical skills and knowledge with publishing good illustrations that the author disregarded.
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Summary: To Basic for it's Title
Review: I found this book lacking in information except in the area of how to perform basic exercises.
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Summary: Teaches neuromuscluar and strength speed
Review: This book combines Weight training and plyometrics. This method is considered dangerous by many but if used correctly is extremly effective. Two athletes in the USA were said to have improved their 100m best times by over a second, one of them improving from 12.3 down to 11.1 after a years use of this training method along side his sprint training. If not used correctly this method of training could be the end of your athletic career. Do NOT build up too quickly. Use the preparation phase properly and ease off if you are still tired from any previous training session. Used wisely you can pretty much abolish the idea that you have to be a born sprinter. Michael Johnson is a second quicker than most because in his training he also uses this method and has been for years. I started my training a year ago and have improved my 400m time from 48.32 to 46.21 and I believe the complex training has had a major role to play in this. A very good book.
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Summary: Sorry
Review: This book is one of the bibles of realistic strength and conditioning training for explosiveness in sports. It is NOT for someone who has no clue whatsoever how to do a bench press or any other exercise, even though it does have some basic illustrations on how to perform exercises. A lot of people think you've got to do a ton of different little exercises etc. for a routine to be effective. Wrong. Maybe for a bodybuilder but NOT for sports performance. Olympic athletes and pro football players do NOT do anything like what your bodybuilder or gym rat does, they do 99% similar stuff to what Chu prescribes here. There are sample routines in the book for various sports as well. Chu is a major member of every respected strength and conditioning organization there is, has been the S&C coach for various pro and university teams, and most recently is the S&C coach to Frank Shamrock, the 5-time middleweight champ of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (whose trademark is his conditioning). Get this book if you want to learn how to add specific exercises to benefit your speed, power, and explosiveness in sports. Don't get it if you are just looking to do some bodybuilding.
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Summary: Great instruction for creating team workouts
Review: This is an excellent book that is broken up into 3 parts delineating the nature of complex training, then the nuts and bolts of complex training, and finally how to customize a workout routine for your athlete or team.
It is my most frequently used resource on a shelf full of this type of material.
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