Strength Training Anatomy Book

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by: Frederic Delavier

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Average Rating: Rating: - Indispensable! I buy lots of fitness and strength training books, and this one is by far the best I've purchased. The book may look small, but it provides an extensive listing of exercises and includes tips about variations that will change how you work each muscle. This is important for a couple of reasons. To maximize your gains in the gym, you have to constantly change your program so that your body doesn't hit a plateau. Regularly incorporating new exercises will also keep you from becoming bored with your workout. This book will show you how using a rope attachment with the pulley works a different part of the triceps as opposed to doing bench dips or doing a kickback. Also, the illustrations show you the auxiliary muscles that are recruited during compound movements like presses and deadlifts. At first I was worried that the book might be too much for me to absorb, but it's not because the author does not get overly-technical with the explanations. The text is concise, yet thorough, and the pictures are highly detailed. This is a wonderful reference book, and I highly recommend it. Rating: - PHENOMENAL!! I had high hopes for this book based on the customer reviews I read, but I still didn't expect such an extremely high level of detail and quality! It turned out to be everything I was looking for and more. It is very well laid out - a section is devoted to each bodypart (i.e. arms, chest, shoulders), and on the first page of each section is a rundown of all of the exercizes that are profiled. What follows is a beautifully drawn depiction of someone performing the given movement with the targeted muscles highlighted. It also offers tips on proper form and possible variations. I can honestly say I have never been more satisfied with ANY book I have purchased. I HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone with even the slightest in the way the human body works and it is an absolute MUST HAVE for anyone who is at all involved in weightlifting at any level. It will help make your workouts more effective because you will know exactly which muscles you have been targeting in your workouts and those you may have been neglecting. Please do yourself a favor and buy this book!!! Rating: - This Is a Fantastic Book! There is a HUGE number of books dealing with anatomy for both athletes and artists. As an artist interested in anatomy, I have studied many of them, but I can say unequivocally that Frederic Delavier's book is without a doubt the BEST I have ever seen. Athletes will find this book particularly good because it is so easy to read and understand. This book should be required reading for artists as well, because it is probably the FIRST book ever written on the subject which seriously demonstrates in TRUE, COMPREHENSIVE detail the working muscles of the FEMALE body. Historically in art the female body is often portrayed WRONG, from a distorted masculine viewpoint--either like the ugly, distorted men-women of Michelangelo, or else the Vargas-Elvgren-Playboy fantasy pin-up idealization. Delavier corrects this error in perception and shows us the RIGHT viewpoint. He has a profound understanding of not just medical anatomy and strength training, but also of the classical tradition in art. His superb 3-way rendition of the Farnese Hercules, which has been drawn by many great artists like Rubens, clearly proves this. After studying this book, I fail to see how any artist can not agree that it clearly outclasses all the other books on the market today. Any artist or person interested in physical training--as well as medical and sport professionals--will also find it a really excellent book. I look forward to Delavier's future publications.

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