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Weight Training For Dummies For Dummies Health and Fitness

Any large bookstore has a few shelves of books about exercise and fitness. Usually they fall into one of two categories: basic books meant for people who’ve never exercised before, and bodybuilding manuals meant for people who do nothing but. Weight Training for Dummies is just about the only book that spans the knowledge gap between the two groups. It has plenty of easy-to-understand instruction for complete beginners, but there’s also a lot of information for those who’ve been training a while. In fact, some veteran gym rats may be startled by the authors’ extreme skepticism about nutritional supplements and some popular classes offered in many gyms.

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2 Stars for women
this book is for women in one of the chapters it tells you that you cannot lose weight by excersing with weights this book after reading it is pretty much designed for women by women and is pretty much useless to men

5 Stars Great guide book
Weight Training for Dummies is a great guide for establishing the fundamentals of fitness training using weights. It does not purport to be an encyclopedia of weight lifting. Most all of the muscle groups are covered as well as the moves to take to improve them. I like the book for the captions which encourage the Do’s and Don’ts of exercise moves. The writing style keeps you interested and I find myself improving my fitness routines with info from the book. Some jocks criticize it for being too elementary, but I believe there is something for everyone who seeks improvement. )

4 Stars Ok book for beginners
This book is great for beginners, however intermediate or adavance lifters would probably find this book less helpful. It just doesn’t go indepth enough in advance concepts. This is why I gave it a 4 instead of 5.

3 Stars decent overview
Useful overview of weight training, though more photos would have been useful, especially in describing how to do the specific exercises. More discussion of the way one can train with multi gym devices would have been helpful as well.

2 Stars Disappointing
This is the first Dummies book that I’m disappointed in. Disjointed writing predominates. The overall impression is of short segments of writing thrown together without regard to flow of the material. Two complete readings later, I’m still uncertain as to how to put together a workout program that will fit my needs. Perhaps if some of the space devoted to topics other than weight training (yoga, pilates, supplements and bad advice about nutrition) had been dedicated to rounding out the topic of weight training, it would have been more useful. Too much of a single-gender viewpoint is also apparent.

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