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A guide to weight training that provides information on customizing a program, using free weights, building strength, improving balance, and other related topics.

Outlines a training and nutrition regimen designed specifically for women and includes exercises for each area of the body as well as suggested workout schedules.

"If you want to be toned, lean, and strong as quickly as possible without crash dieting, "good genetics," or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on supplements ... regardless of your age ... then you want to read this book"--Back cover.

Presents a sixteen-step progressive learning program to weight training success.

"Building and retaining physical strength is integral to living a fuller, longer life. Lifting weights can reduce the symptoms of everything from osteoarthritis and back pain to depression and diabetes. In Strength Training for Seniors, certified personal trainer Paige Waehner provides a detailed twelve-week strength program to help you safely and gradually build power, balance, and resistance with simple, easy-to-follow exercises"--

Explains how weight training contributes to fitness; talks about toning vs. building muscle, proper nutrition, supplements, and setting up a program; describes how to lift and gives examples of basic excercises.

Fifteen fantastic years after first publication, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to teach and motivate a new generation of athletes with this fully updated and revised New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. Inside, Arnold covers all the very latest advances in both training and competition, with new sections on diet and nutrition, the treatment and prevention of injuries, and methods of training, each illustrated with detailed photos featuring bodybuilding's...

From the author of the bestselling book "Strength Training Anatomy" comes a workout program. Highlighted by Delavier's trademark illustrations and hundreds of full-color photos, this supplement offers 200-plus exercises and 50 programs for strength, power, sport performance, shaping, and toning

The exercise will never hurt you; only improper form causes injury. Master the essentials of proper weight training and be safe while performing the squat, lunge, leg press, lat pulldown, reverse fly, bench press, chest fly, shoulder press, shoulder raise, biceps curl, triceps extension, plank, and more. With over 350 full-color, step-by-step photos, "Weight Training Without Injury's" unique, revolutionary approach teaches right from wrong at every...