Weight training for life / James L. Hesson.
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TextSeries: Wadsworth activities seriesPublisher: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, [2005]Edition: Seventh editionDescription: x, 166 pages : color illustration ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0534637027
- 613.713 21 H.J.W
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Summary: WEIGHT TRAINING FOR LIFE, SEVENTH EDITION is ideal for anyone interested in learning about weight training. It is designed to help men and women of all ages build a solid foundation of current knowledge and practice in weight training, as well as learn the most effective ways to develop the body shape one desires. The text contains full-color photos demonstrating exercises. It also contains forms for writing goals, for planning a personal weight-training program, and for recording circumference measurements, strength measurements, and muscle endurance measurements. Readers will learn how to design and maintain a safe, personalized, effective, and enjoyable weight-training program. They will learn that weight training, done properly, can be a fun and beneficial activity. Whether as a required or recommended text, WEIGHT TRAINING FOR LIFE continues to be the best-selling, most visually oriented weight training text in the higher education market.
Muscle structure and function -- Warm-up, flexibility, and stretching -- Safe and effective weight training -- A beginning weight training program -- Chest exercises -- Back exercises -- Shoulder exercises -- Arm exercises -- Leg exercises -- Abdominal and back extension exercises -- Nutrition, rest, and drugs -- Record-keeping and progress -- A formula for success -- Planning a weight training program -- Advanced weight training.
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Pages are perforated.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index.
Muscle structure and function -- Warm-up, flexibility, and stretching -- Safe and effective weight training -- A beginning weight training program -- Chest exercises -- Back exercises -- Shoulder exercises -- Arm exercises -- Leg exercises -- Abdominal and back extension exercises -- Nutrition, rest, and drugs -- Record-keeping and progress -- A formula for success -- Planning a weight training program -- Advanced weight training.
WEIGHT TRAINING FOR LIFE, SEVENTH EDITION is ideal for anyone interested in learning about weight training. It is designed to help men and women of all ages build a solid foundation of current knowledge and practice in weight training, as well as learn the most effective ways to develop the body shape one desires. The text contains full-color photos demonstrating exercises. It also contains forms for writing goals, for planning a personal weight-training program, and for recording circumference measurements, strength measurements, and muscle endurance measurements. Readers will learn how to design and maintain a safe, personalized, effective, and enjoyable weight-training program. They will learn that weight training, done properly, can be a fun and beneficial activity. Whether as a required or recommended text, WEIGHT TRAINING FOR LIFE continues to be the best-selling, most visually oriented weight training text in the higher education market.
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