Anatomy of Strength Training: The Five Essential Exercises

Awesome book

Great exercises with multiple variations (with and without weights, medicine ball, props etc.). The book also has programs designed for weekly routines but the way they are prescribed are very difficult to decipher. I don't get the tables and how they relate to exercise sequences and duration. I really wish that part was explained better. If anyone figured it out, please let me know. Nevertheless, I did the best that I can to figure it out and I am seeing a noticeable difference in muscle tone and feeling significantly stronger week by week with the help of an app to track progress. And kindle version would have been great.

This book gives an excellent breakdown of the major full-body compound exercises that you need to make your trip to the gym quick, easy, and efficient, and most importantly, EFFECTIVE. Too many people get caught up in the myths and misinformation, and take their lead from other un-informed people at the gym wasting time doing their arm-curls, tricep kickbacks, and spending hours on the eliptical day after day thinking they can skip legs strength training. Our gyms are full of people who got their routines from a body-building steroid pumping magazine who's main goal is to sell supplements, and sell more magazines with this month's "breakthrough new routine". Rubbish. This book gives you some easy to follow routines and explains why you are doing them. A great book for women and men, will likely change your reality of how you thought you were supposed to work out.

I enjoy the simplicity of the exercises in this book. The author understands how to best activate your muscles with these 5 exercises but that doesn't mean you are going to have an easy workout! I'm sore after each workout no matter how many times I do them, which is a sign of using all different muscle groups to me. The workouts in the back of the book provide a good structure and variations are provided for different levels. I find the sample exercise programs a little difficult to understand and use at the gym as a "workbook". I usually have to bring something with me that is smaller to remember the workouts/reps. Overall a great buy for me as a moderate level fitness person.

People may not give this book the credit it deserves because on the shelf it looks like any number of generic workout '6 minute abs' books...lots of high rez photos and not a lot of text. However, this book is really clever in showing what types of exercises are important for overall health and strength (the 5 essentials) and shows some simple ways to program these as well. But I think the highlight is how it shows the many different ways you can do these exercises - with barbells, kettlebells, bodyweight, swiss balls, etc - allowing you to create different versions of the '5 essentials' based on what you've got to use and what feels 'fun' to you. A really good resource.

Well designed, very colorful and detailed. The only con I have is it's user...(me)...like other workout equipment purchased...this book is now collecting a lot of dust. Not for the book, but, due to the user.

This seems like a great book so far. I have several others from the same author and they don't disappoint. The only reason I gave it 4 stars vs. 5 was that I thought I noticed a couple places where it repeated the same picture for both the starting position and ending position of a movement. Otherwise great!

You can take this book as a novice or a seasoned weight lifter, trainer, and really customize your workout to understand which muscle groups work in conjunction with which ligaments etc. I really enjoying seeing the 5 exercises that I can do to really make improvements to my physique. I borrowed this book for the longest time from the library and then finally decided to buy it. You can't go wrong and it is a great reference book for anyone in the family, young or old.

Includes multiple photos of each motion, and detailed anatomical drawings showing which muscles are used.As the exercises aren't listed anywhere else, they are:1. Deadlift2. Lunge3. Push-ups4. Pull-ups5. Ab-wheelTo do all the variants you will need a fully equipped gym, but many (obviously, none of the deadlifts) can be done with just a chin-up bar and a yoga ball.

I love this series of books. Highly recommend. I use them all the time when planning sessions for clients and class prep.

Incredibly detailed infomative and well written

One of the best book on training, easy to understand the excercises. And Pat Manocia is one of the best trainer in the world.

very prompt service and very good condition. This book is a welcome addition to my collection and there is a minimum need fo the use of weights