Basic Weight Training for Men and Women - Softcover

Fahey, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073376582 ISBN 13: 9780073376585

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Synopsis

This popular text is a comprehensive, practical guide to developing a personalized weight-training program with both free weights and machines. Weight training concepts and specific exercises are grouped by body region, and many photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and figures demonstrate proper technique and form.

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From the Publisher:

The text gives students tools, including a detachable training log, to create a personalized weight training program.
Weight training concepts and specific exercises are grouped by body region.
Plentiful illustrations, diagrams, and figures demonstrate proper technique and form.
Inset drawings next to training illustrations show each muscle group being developed.
The new fourth edition contains the latest information on exercise, including both the 1998 ACSM guidelines and The Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health.
Expanded coverage includes a discussion of weight training and health, resistance training and aging, and isometric training and strength gain.
The text addresses current trends and issues in weight training and answers questions such as 'What's the optimum number of sets and reps for gaining strength?' and 'What do I need to know about supplements such as DHEA and creatine?'
A new Web site appendix includes up-to-date lists of relevant sites for further information.

About the Author:

Thomas D. Fahey (Ed.D.,University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of Kinesiology at California State University, Chico, where he teaches Exercise Physiology and Principles of Strength and Conditioning. In addition to writing college textbooks and trade books on exercise physiology, wellness, and athletic training, he has written hundreds of articles for scholarly journals and popular magazines and is a contributing editor and writer for several fitness magazines. A volunteer assistant coach with the track and field team at Chico, he is a world-class masters discus thrower and has won many international awards and medals. He is a former competitor in powerlifting, highland games, alpine skiing, and tennis.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073376582
• ISBN 13: 9780073376585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288