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Dumbbell Training for Strength And Fitness

This is not your conventional how-to book. With an emphasis on safety, it thoroughly covers all aspects of proper strength training while simultaneously debunking certain myths and misconceptions such as explosive training and sport-specific training. The book shows how to perform nearly 50 exercises with dumbbells in a safe and effective manner. Unique to this type of book is the inclusion of more than three dozen dumbbell workouts that have been submitted by approximately 24 strength and fitness professionals from across the USA.

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5 Stars Great for beginners
This book was a great way for me, as a complete beginner, to learn my way around all the basic exercises for all the major muscle groups.

It is great for a beginner because:

1) It requires no previous knowledge.

2) It requires no fancy equipment (a basic dumbbell bench would be nice, but isn’t necessary).

3) It emphasizes safety and proper technique.

4) Between this book and some cheap hex dumbbells dumbbells I spent about $50.

I got appreciable results in just a few weeks by working out in my living room (I’m not going to be a model anytime soon, but I’m stronger and more fit than I was before).

If you already use dumbbells in your routine, then you probably don’t need this book. I’m sure after I get some experience under my belt, a dumbbell bench, and a wider array of dumbbells, I’ll want a more comprehensive book, but for the price, this was a great investment.

3 Stars OK
I found this book on dumbbell exercises to be fine. However, I much prefer the Men’s Health Ultimate Guide to Dumbbells.

4 Stars Dumbell Training for Strength and Fitness.
Contains a treasure trove of practical dumbbell circuit workouts by different trainers.Just skip through the first half of the book.Glyn

5 Stars Another Excellent HIT Title!
This is another excellent title from Matt that emphasizes HIT, High Intensity Training. It provides the reader with a brief overview of HIT and then describes how to use this excellent training method with dumbbells. Is it supposed to be an encyclopedia of dumbbell exercises? Absolutely not! Is it designed to be an extensive work on the biomechanics of exercise? Not even close! It’s designed to provide the reader with a simple plan for getting the most out of training with dumbbells, nothing less and nothing more. If readers are looking for exercise encyclopedias or works on biomechanics I would suggest looking elsewhere. However, if you want to get the most out of your dumbbell training, $10 is a small investment to pay for such knowledge and worth every penny.

5 Stars Great book with Clear Photos
This great little book covers all the important details of using dumbells to work on each specific group of muscles. There is a larger book with thousands of dumbell variations (the “Great Big Book of”) but nothing is left out of this little book. The other one in the must read list is New Rules of Lifting.

The photos are small but quite clear. The instructions are quite specific about how things are held and how to stand so the photo isn’t always needed. A big photo taking up half a page at a time in a big book is hardly an advantage.

I think the secret is that the real facts of lifting don’t really take up that much space. It has lifts arranged by muscle groups, not alphabetically, like the “Great Big Book of”. It even a good size to take along with the workout gear.

This book answered my questions on how to get by with squats using dumbells (one leg at a time, that’s how). The book also does not focus entirely on isolation of single muscles which is a good thing. For the price I don’t see what the problem is. It’s great to have another view of what your doing to help keep it fresh. This and New Rules are my current reading.

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