Bodybuilding Anatomy

Sculpt your physique like you never thought possible! With full-color, detailed anatomical illustrations of all exercises, combined with step-by-step instructions on proper execution, Bodybuilding Anatomy is the ideal resource for gaining mass and achieving the definition you desire. Focusing on the primary muscle groups of shoulders, chest, back, arms, legs, and abdomen and targeting muscle zones and hard-to-work areas, Bodybuilding Anatomy can make the difference between bulking up and sculpting an award-winning physique. In this new edition of his best-selling book, Dr. Nick Evans provides 100 primary exercises, along with 104 variations, to ensure you achieve the results you need when, where, and how you want. You’ll also go beyond the exercises to see the results in action. Illustrations of the activated muscles in the most popular poses show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to competition. Whether you’re seeking to begin your training or have been competing for years, you’ve come to the right place. Discover what countless bodybuilders and dedicated strength trainers already know. Bodybuilding Anatomy is the ultimate training guide—one you can’t afford to be without.

The Classic Anatomy Gym is where you had to go to get the benefit of Steve Speyrer’s training wisdom. Until now. From his renowned gym, Steve trained many students successfully for bodybuilding, powerlifting, sports, or just fitness and personal improvement. Everyone of course can’t make it to his gym, but with this book, Steve shares his unique and highly successful methods on training and nutrition. A successful natural bodybuilder himself, Steve spent years learning what works and doesn’t, for him and for others. He’s developed some of the most innovative and effective methods of training and eating. >> Want to lose weight? Steve can show you the best ways for you to do that. He’s done it for hundreds of people and he can do it for you. >> Want to get stronger? Steve will help you develop impressive power, for lifting or sports. >> Want to gain muscle? Steve’s an expert on that. He’s done it himself and taught so many others. >> Want to get ripped and compete as a natural bodybuilder? Steve can show you the way. Steve is a real natural bodybuilder who trains drug free and learned how to build muscle on his slender frame, while achieving hard-to-get championship definition. Along the way, Steve developed such revolutionary workouts as his power-packed “Mass, Power & Cuts” training, his “Clock Diet,” and other unique fat loss diets, and his latest, sensational muscle-building program, “Over Train & Grow!” Steve reveals his drug-free techniques inside these pages, and shares his compelling personal story with you as well. Enter into the world of Steve Speyrer’s Classic Anatomy Bodybuilding, learn straight from Steve himself, and develop your body of a lifetime!

Understanding how muscles in action function is key to performing exercises correctly and getting a great workout. In Barron's Anatomy & Bodybuilding, highly detailed anatomical illustrations demonstrate exactly what happens in the body during exercise. The muscles of the back, shoulder, abdomen, arms and legs are featured with special sections for glutes and abs. Health and fitness trainers, students of sports science, and those hoping to start or improve their own fitness regimen will find: An examination of muscle function through exercise Advice for performing exercises safely and efficiently An atlas of the body’s muscles and a guide to the planes of motion With more than 150 full-color anatomical illustrations, a glossary of helpful terms, and more, Anatomy & Bodybuilding is an ideal manual for expanding one’s understanding of muscle anatomy and improving the effectiveness of workouts.

Women with muscles are a recent phenomenon. While generating a good deal of interest, both positive and negative, their importance to the cultural landscape has yet to be acknowledged. Leslie Heywood looks at female body building as a metaphor for how women fare in our current political and cultural climate. BODYMAKERS reveals how female bodybuilders find themselves both trapped and empowered by their sport. 14 illustrations.

Gives an inside view of the specific muscle(s) in action during every resistance training exercise.

The term “functional training” has been associated with a fair amount of controversy ever since it became part of the fitness training vernacular more than a decade ago. In Functional Training Anatomy, noted strength and conditioning specialists Kevin Carr and Mary Kate Feit cut through the clutter and misconceptions about functional training and cover all aspects of how to build a purposeful, effective, and efficient program that provides the strength, stability, and mobility you need to support your body in life and in sports. Beginning with a clear definition of what functional training entails, you will learn about the importance of mobility training and its impact on movement quality, performance, and injury reduction. Use the warm-up activities to prepare for high-intensity activities. Use the medicine ball and plyometric exercises to learn to produce and absorb force. Develop power with Olympic lifts, kettlebell swings, and jumping exercises. Improve strength in the upper body, lower body, and core with hip-dominant, knee-dominant, pushing, pulling, and core exercises. See the inner workings of each of the exercises with superb full-color illustrations that show the primary and secondary muscles and connective tissue being used. The detailed instructions for these multiplanar and unilateral exercises ensure you execute each one correctly and safely. The Functional Focus element shows how the exercises translate to specific activities, whether that be an explosive athletic move or simply moving a box. Functional Training Anatomy incorporates traditional and nontraditional exercises and mobility drills that will help you increase functional strength and reduce injury so your body is prepared to support the demands of athletic performance and daily living. Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.

100 STEP-BY-STEP EXERCISE PHOTOS AND 100 COLOR ANATOMY ILLUSTRATIONS COMBINE TO CREATE A HELPFUL, INFORMATIVE GUIDE FOR MAXIMIZING YOUR STRENGTH TRAINING RESULTS Picturing hundreds of step-by-step exercises and clearly colored muscle illustrations, Freeweight Training Anatomy reveals precisely which muscle groups are being built, stretched and sculpted in every workout. This extensive anatomy and fitness guide is the ultimate resource for creating smart, balanced fitness routines that employ barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, sandbags and even your own body weight. • Isolate and exercise hard-to-sculpt muscles • Revolutionize your routine with unconventional weights • Add hardcore combination moves for a full-body workout