Insider's Tell-all Handbook On Weight-training Technique: The Illustrated Step-by-step Guide To Perfecting Your Exercise Form

You can have a great training program, the best equipment, a perfect nutritional plan, an ideal rest and sleep schedule, and the most positive attitude in the world, but it will all be largely if not totally wasted if you do not use good exercise technique. In order of priority, exercise technique comes BEFORE program design. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, have been forced to give up weight training because of pain and injuries caused by using faulty exercise form. But apply what you learn from this book and you will be able to train safely for a lifetime. Though it may seem unbelievable, gyms are usually terrible places for learning about good exercise form. You need to be knowledgeable enough so that you can take full responsibility for your training. That is where this book comes in. Read – Grasp – Apply – Persist – ACHIE VE! This book is for you if you are any of these: • • • • bodybuilder fitness trainee strength trainee powerlifter The emphasis you place on weight training will vary according to your specific interest, and the degree of size and strength you desire. But the pool of the most effective exercises you can select from is universal to almost everyone who lifts weights. When you lift weights, the bottom line is exactly the same no matter who you are, what your goals are, or where you train: If you want your training to be successful, and not cause injuries, you must use excellent exercise form. • Without excellent exercise technique, your physique, strength or fitness goals can never be achieved. • Properly done, all weight-training activities are safe and hugely satisfying. But too few people experience the rewards of weight training—and largely because they use poor exercise form. • The use of excellent exercise form is the exception in nearly all gyms, not the rule. Do not expect to learn first-class exercise technique from a gym. In step-by-step detail this book will teach you precisely how to use excellent exercise technique. What others are saying… Here are some excerpts from a review by Dr. Gregory Steiner in the March 999 issue of CONTACT, the Professional Journal of the British Chiropractic Association. Dr. Steiner was specifically addressing chiropractors, but because the book is strongly recommended for chiropractors and their patients, it is also strongly recommend for anyone who lifts weights. In fact, by following the advice of this book, you should never sustain a serious training-related injury, and thus never need to be treated for one. “Here is a book for any chiropractor or patient who ever touches a barbell — and wants to train injury-free for his or her entire life. The focus of the well-written, safety-first THE INSIDER’S TELL-ALL HANDBOOK ON WEIGHTTRAINING TECHNIQUE is to contribute to the booming world of fitness by clearly explaining to the weight trainee how and why to perform useful, effective exercises in a cartilage, ligament and tendon friendly way. The author does all of this in a motivating style. “As a clinician for eight years, and exercise fanatic for twenty, I have been pleased to come across this book, and have recommended it in the strongest terms to my patients who train with weights. The book has added value because it reads well for beginners and even for experienced trainers who need fine-tuning in performance form. “All major exercises are detailed, and even more importantly, techniques for training the rotator cuff, neck, wrists