Product Description: Millions of people want to add muscle, get stronger, and look fit as a result. But when they look for expert guidance, they face a sea of self-proclaimed fitness gurus who say they have a can't-miss program for fast and easy results. So where do you look for solid, no-nonsense advice you can trust from true experts in the strength training field? Inside this book!

Written by a team of experts chosen by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Strength Training combines the most valuable information with the best instruction for proven results:

• Increasing metabolic rate to burn more calories more efficiently

• Improving bone density to help combat osteoporosis

• Increasing muscle mass as well as strength, power, and endurance

• Preventing injuries

• Improving balance, flexibility, mobility, and stability

• Reducing back and arthritic pain

• Decreasing cholesterol and blood pressure to lessen the risk of coronary disease

• Paperback: 359 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (November 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736060596
• ISBN-13: 978-0736060592
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,474 in Books

Strength Training (Paperback)

Product Description: This new second edition of Science and Practice of Strength Training comes with many additions and changes. A new coauthor, Dr. William Kraemer, joins Dr. Vladimir Zatsiorsky in expanding on the principles and concepts needed for training athletes. Among Dr. Kraemer’s contributions are three new chapters targeting specific populations—women, young athletes, and seniors—plus the integration of new concepts into the other chapters.

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 2 edition (May 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736056289
• ISBN-13: 978-0736056281
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,730 in Books

Science and Practice of Strength Training, Second Edition (Hardcover)

Product Description: Strength Training Over Fifty focuses on the health needs of more senior men and women. Men and women lose as much as 20-40% of their muscle mass, beginning in their 30's. This muscle loss, often thought of as an irreversible part of aging, is really the result of disuse. Strength-building enables you to regain this lost muscle. It is the key to feeling and looking great after 50. With over 80 explicitly described exercises and 350 color photographs, this user-friendly book will teach you what you need to know to get started, get strong, and stay motivated.

• Get started with reassuring advice if you are just returning to training.

• Stand straighter (and have a trim waist) by strengthening your core.

• Improve functional strength, making all the actions of daily life easier.

• Learn which muscles can be strengthened to alleviate specific problems such as back pain or achy knees.

• Improve your balance.

• Exercise safely, even with arthritis, osteoporosis, or if you are over 65 years old.

• Learn about nutrition, motivation, and how to design your own work-out.

• Follow extended exercise programs, including sessions for exercise on the road, a 15-minute work-out, and one to protect and strengthen your lower back.

• Spiral-bound: 160 pages
• Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series (May 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764158120
• ISBN-13: 978-0764158124
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #69,604 in Books

Strength Training Over 50: Stay Fit and Fabulous (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: Practical Programming offers a different approach to exercise programming than that typically found in other exercise texts. Based on a combined 60+ years of academic expertise, elite-level coaching experience, and the observation of thousands of novice trainees, the authors present a chronological analysis of the response to exercise as it varies through the training history of the athlete, one that reflects the realities of human physiology, sports psychology, and common sense. Contrary to the one-size-fits-all models of periodization offered elsewhere, Practical Programming explains the differences in response to exercise commonly observed between athletes at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels, explains these differences in the context of the relevant exercise science, and presents new training models that actually work for athletes at all levels of experience. Complete with new, innovative graphical representations of cutting-edge concepts in exercise programming, Practical Programming is sure to become a standard reference in the field of exercise and human performance. Contributor: Glenn Pendlay

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: The Aasgaard Company (September 29, 2006)
• ISBN-10: 0976805413
• ISBN-13: 978-0976805410
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,383 in Books

Practical Programming for Strength Training (Paperback)

With a basic knowledge of how the body works, you can buff up your body with the book's 90 exercises, grouped by body region and involving gym machines, free weights, and body weight/stretching, as well as yoga and Pilates. Each exercise is vividly illustrated by a full-color anatomical illustration of the targeted muscles, together with instructions on execution and technique.

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071475338
• ISBN-13: 978-0071475334
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,997 in Books

Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training (Paperback)