Average Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Total Number of Reviews: 57
Editorial Review: You dont need to muscle your way in to the gym to get a great workout. While recent statistics show that strength training is one of the countrys fastest-growing exercise activities, there is a corresponding rise in dollars spent on home exercise equipment. If a home workout is your style, this encyclopedic volume shows you how to get the results you want no matter what gear you own or what your experience level. Each chapter focuses on different types of equipment (dumbbells, barbells, cable station, full multistation home-gym apparatus, or even no equipment at all) with workout advice appropriate to the beginning, intermediate, or advanced weight lifter. Learn how to create a customized workout program based on your goals, equipment, and experience. Those interested in creating or expanding their home gym will find valuable consumer tips for making the wisest choices and getting the best deals.
Just Great 5 out of 5
Need to work out at home and have NO EQUIPMENT?
This book shows you how to use what you have, from nothing, to dumbbells to barbells.
Plenty of visuals to show you how to do each excersize.
Great way to either mix up or supplement your workout 5 out of 5
Great book with illustrations of hundreds of exercises. Furthermore if gives you multiple options and techniques so you aren't doing the same thing over and over again. I was doing P90x and actually memorized some the workouts, however I like this book because on the typical breaks on the video. I can maybe do a another type of move that's not part of the program. Even if you don't have weight equipment it tells you common household items you can use. Good investment.
Finally...A Workout That's Not BORING 5 out of 5
I recently had foot surgery, and I was on crutches for two and a half months. I found out just HOW out of shape I was. I'm a woman, and like a lot of women, I was doing mainly cardio, not strength training. I have to have surgery on my other foot next fall, so I decided I'm NOT going to get my butt kicked like I did this time, because being on crutches is exhausting. But I also didn't want a "typical woman's workout plan." Most of those are, "Lift a three pound weight three times, then go have a Diet Coke." That won't give me the results I want. So I started looking for a man's workout plan. This book not only has routines that will kick your butt, these exercises and routines are not BORING. There are sections for different types of routines, like just using your body weight, dumbbells, barbells, a pulley system, and fully-equipped exercise stations. There are exercises I've never seen before, which I like. I get tired of the same old trite exercise routines, with exercises I've done before. Yawn. Not with this plan. And there are so many different ways to do the exercises that I know I'll never get bored. The main thing I'm looking for is something I can stay with because I won't get tired of it--and I won't with this. I've already started doing the exercises that I can, because I'm still not fully recovered. But I can't wait to do the whole thing. Very cool book, and I highly recommend it.
Good value 5 out of 5
Pretty complete discussion of the subject, with good, clear info and lots of illustrations. Even as a lifelong lifter (but not a body-builder) I found a lot of new and important info and exercises. It is well worth the small investment.
Excellent if you just have Dumbbells 3 out of 5
This is a very good book esp. for people who work out a lot previously to reading this. It has different variations that you may not have heard of before. The instructions of how to do the workout are pretty plain and assume you already know what you are doing. Lifting without knowing how can lead to extreme shoulder pain and issues
Pretty good book but gets boring after a couple of weeks of doing the same stuff.
I give it a 6 out of 10
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