The Men S Health Guide To Peak Conditioning

An exercise guide for men offering suggestions on how to make time for exercise, featuring illustrated exercises and workouts for specific muscle groups and goals, and presenting an overview of equipment, gear, and gyms.

Provides conditioning programs for various lifestyles and interests; discusses nutrition, sleep, and time management; and offers advice on buying equipment and workout gear

One of the nation's elite strength and conditioning coaches presents a unique training program designed to help men achieve functional strength and muscular balance throughout their bodies For decades, the conventional measure of an individual's strength was the amount of weight he could bench press. Now, that measure is being challenged by expert trainers like Robert dos Remedios who argue that the variety of movement patterns used in functional training is the real key to getting bigger, stronger, and more powerful. In Men's Health Power Training, this acclaimed collegiate strength and conditioning coach describes in detail the methods he has used to develop hundreds of Division I scholarship athletes, including several current NFL players. The key features that make this book a standout in the fitness field include: • exercises geared toward functional strength that can be utilized in real-world situations, from playing sports to lifting furniture • training sessions that are short, intense, and highly effective • compound, multijoint exercises that replace the less-effective isolation exercises found in many fitness books • no-nonsense dietary information utilizing a new and innovative food pyramid developed by the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition that will optimize strength gains, recovery, and physical progress

Provides instructions on following a six-week program designed to help men integrate abdominal exercises into a workout either at home or at the gym, and suggests ways to build abdominal muscle for fitness or participation in sports.

Revised edition includes 100 new exercises! The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever created, this book is a body-shaping power tool for both beginners and long-time lifters alike. This book contains hundreds of useful tips, the latest findings in exercise science, and cutting-edge workouts from the world's top trainers. Backed by the authority of Men's Health magazine, this updated and revised edition features 100 new fat-loss exercises in 20 workouts designed by BJ Gaddour, Fitness Director of Men's Health, and 1,350 photographs, showing movements for every muscle and a training plan to match every fitness goal.

Men everywhere want to improve their health and fitness--and their bodies. This new series of books, Men's Health Best, addresses all aspects of a man's physical fitness, from building core strength to managing sports injuries. Authoritative, affordable, handsomely produced and extensively illustrated, these 96-page books are the perfect guide to achieving strength, fitness, and well-being. Men's Health Best: Weight-Free Workout shows you how to put together a workout program you can follow anywhere--no need to go to the gym! It includes all the exercises you need for whole-body fitness and maximum flexibility and explains the exact benefits of each one.

Based on the wildly successful Men's Health Big Book of Exercises, this portable handbook offers readers step-by-step instructions (and color photos) on how to perfectly execute the best fat-torching, muscle-building exercises known to man. This essential workout guide is for anyone who wants to lose weight fast and build a better body. Complete with fast, effective workouts for home use or to take to the gym, this easy-to-tote package gives readers access to their favorite routines wherever they go. The guidebook details "main moves" for targeting each major muscle group and then shows readers variations that make the moves more challenging and effective. Other highlights: • The best core exercises for a six pack • Body-weight workouts to do anywhere • A circuit workout that'll add inches to a man's arms • The best chest exercise to boost a guy's max benchpress • Plus, 10 new exercise plans and a workout log From start to finish, this muscle manual bulges with hundreds of useful tips, breakthrough science, and cutting-edge workouts from top trainers.

Want a chest to treasure? Work your back! The secret to a strong, powerful chest is the right balance of upper-body strength. That means doing as many exercises, sets, and reps for your back as for your chest. And that great set of shoulders? Again, the key is balancing shoulder work with chest and back exercises. In Essential Chest & Shoulders, best-selling fitness author Kurt Brungardt shows you how to pull off this upper-body balancing act with a masterful 6-week play designed to make you bigger, stronger, and more studly, whether you're viewed from the front, back, or anywhere in between. YOU'LL LEARN: * How to build impressive muscle without injury * Why working your chest gives you killer abs * The stretches that help you get bigger * How short workouts and long recovery produce a great body * Foods that fuel versus foods that fool