Strength Training Anatomy
April 15, 2009 by Fitness Training · Leave a Comment
Discover for yourself the magic of Strength Training Anatomy, one of the best-selling strength training books ever published!
Get an intricate look at strength training from the inside out. Strength Training Anatomy, with over 850,000 copies already sold, brings anatomy to life with more than 400 full-color illustrations. This detailed artwork showcases the muscles used during each exercise and delineates how these muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the information gives you a multilateral view of strength training not seen in any other resource.
This updated bestseller also contains new information on common strength training injuries and preventive measures to help you exercise safely. Chapters are devoted to each major muscle group, with 115 total exercises for arms, shoulders, chest, back, legs, buttocks, and abdomen.
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5 Stars Great Saler!!!
Overall, fast shipping, book is new, a must have for everyone who like to know more about the art of body. BUY IT. You won’t regret it.
5 Stars Amazing book
This book tells you everything you need to know. Hundred’s of photos, exact muscle group targeting, tons of exercises for the entire body. Nothing left out. Follow this book and build a great body.
4 Stars A very good reference for strength training
This is a beautifully illustrated guide to body building and strength training. It has instructions to avoid injuries common to heavy weight lifters.
5 Stars First rate
Strength Training Anatomy is perfect for any conditioning coach working with athletes at any level, as it provides clear visuals of the specific muscles being worked, and also describes with cautions, exercises to enhance those particular muscles. We use the visuals to show our athletes in hockey, soccer and track and field what we are focusing on with each exercise and find that this helps the athlete to become much more in tune and serious about concentrating and being specific. Perfect to show an athlete with an injury exactly what has happened and where, and what we have to do to work around the injury or to provide rehabilitation.
Buy it. You’ll like it!
5 Stars Great Book
Great book. It is what it is. The book shows weight lifting exercises and the muscles that are affected by the moves. It also give you advice to prevent you from really hurting yourself and different ways to lift a weight to target different sections of a particular muscle. You must include this book in your fitness section of your home library.
The New Rules of Lifting for Women Lift Like a Man Look Like a Goddess
April 15, 2009 by Fitness Training · Leave a Comment
The New Rules of Lifting for Women Lift Like a Man Look Like a Goddess
The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding The Bible of Bodybuilding Fully Updated and Revised
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The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding The Bible of Bodybuilding Fully Updated and Revised
Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t competed as a bodybuilder since he won the Mr. Olympia title in 1980, but he remains the sport’s No. 1 icon. He hosts an annual bodybuilding contest in Columbus, Ohio, and allows a column to be ghost-written under his name in a muscle magazine. Today’s bodybuilders may have bigger muscles than Arnold ever did, but everyone inside and outside the iron game gives him credit for exponentially broadening the popularity of physique training.
With this updated Encyclopedia (it was originally published in 1985), Schwarzenegger wraps his huge arms around the entire sport. He hits the history of bodybuilding, the champions (he’s quite generous in his praise of predecessors, contemporaries, and successors alike), the training systems. Some of the information is more bodybuilding lore than science; for example, exercises are said to “expand the rib cage” or develop the “inner” or “outer” chest, all physiological impossibilities. But they’re still good exercises, and the book includes every movement imaginable for every muscle group.
If you love the sport of bodybuilding, you’ll want this book in your library, if for no other reason than to feast your eyes on the hundreds of photos of the best physiques in the history of the sport. And, in a pinch, the 800-page encyclopedia can fill in nicely for a missing dumbbell. –Lou Schuler
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Anrold Schwarzenegger’s Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
I absolutely love this book. There is a ton of great information in here. The book is a great resource if you find yourself searching for new exercises, or want to focus your training.
I’m about 99% certain that the majority of the bodybuilders pictured in the book are on the juice, but don’t let it discourage you.
5 Stars IT is what it says….an Encyclopedia, it covers EVERYTHING!
This was quickly delivered and in mint condition. It has been very useful so far and I’ve only read a very small part of it! I’m not personally trying to become a Mr. Universe or end up anywhere near that size, I’m after more of a Tyler Durden from Fight Club look but this book will help you with every aspect. It’ll help you determine your body type, the style of training to suit, exercise after exercise, how you should be eating…..the list goes on. If you’re into training to any degree really then I think this book will be able to offer you no end of guidance and information. A worthy purchase as far as I’m concerned!
5 Stars The Holy Bible of Bodybuilding!
I don’t like to type much or ever give reviews for that matter, but this product is one of the few products that i have to write a review for because its so good. This book is like a scientist, who is a bodybuilder (with a pHd in “the human body) wrote it. This book is the Holy Bible of Bodybuilding.
5 Stars The Only Workout Book YOU Will EVER NEED!
Another five star review. I have had to buy this book three times because I use it so much. Instead of buying all those diet and workout books, simply put the money out and purchase the book by the man who made it all happen. He puts this book together, so that no matter if you are a beginer or a professional bodybuilder and marathoner, you will be able to use it. Arnold discusses pretty much EVERY possible excercise and the benefits of it and what muscle groups it effects. He covers all the vital elements needed to build up, or tone down, lose weight, or even gain weight. Becaues Arnold has such a passion for this topic, it makes as a very useful reference guide. So much ‘useful’ information that you will catch yourself looking at it over and over and over. Put it to use and you will get results.
5 Stars Perfect!
This book arrived just in time for Christmas in excellent condition. The person receiving the gift was completely satisfied as I was!
ChiRunning
April 15, 2009 by Fitness Training · Leave a Comment
Toby Tanserauthor of Train Hard,Win EasyThe most exciting and revolutionary book to hit the running community this decade.
Baron Baptisteauthor of Journey into PowerThis program will totally revolutionize the way you run.
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5 Stars Great Book!!
More than just an instruction on running, an instruction on a better way to live and keep focus on your inner self. Take your time and its not so difficult. No pain, no pain.
5 Stars Amazing Book! A must have for any runner!
ChiRunning
My running coach told me this book would be a requirement for me if I was going to truly attain the goals I set for myself concerning running. I purchased it and have already read the book 3 times over. It truly teaches you a better and easier form of running. I have already increased my speed without any more effort. In fact, less effort. The book touches on every aspect of ones life and teaches you how to have a well balanced, well rounded life.
I would recommend this book to anyone that is a serious runner or a beginner runner that wants to really learn to run.
4 Stars Enlightening
I am enjoying this new way to look at and monitor my running performance.
This book is helping me to enjoy my running more as well as enabling me to receive feedback from my body.
2 Stars Chi-Running, more like cha-ching running
I am a running coach and had heard all the hype about this book so I felt compelled to buy it. At the end of the day, the information was not nearly as useful or revolutionary as the hype suggests. What it is, is merely a copy cat of “Pose running” with Ti-Chi attached.
Now I don’t have a problem with Ti-Chi, I just think it was the “juice” to sensationalize a system of running that is already in play. Well written, not much to argue with, I just was hoping for a bit more unique factor from the author which I did not find.
5 Stars Run Baby Run
This book is great for those who want to run correctly. As a Chiropractor, this book helps you run in an injury free way. For distance runners it is great, or for those who want to run for a long time at a slower pace. Ultramarathoners would benefit from this book too.
How Doctors Think
April 15, 2009 by Fitness Training · Leave a Comment
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5 Stars everyone who goes to the doctor should read this book
Four years ago I went to my doctor in Massachusetts with a high fever and an earache. She diagnosed an ear infection and gave me antibiotics. Ten days later, I was in the hospital - in a room where they could turn on the negative air pressure at a moment’s notice - with malaria. If I read Groopman’s book before having that experience, I might have gotten the treatment I needed at a much earlier, safer stage.
Groopman’s book is all about why doctors get it wrong sometimes and what we can do - as patients and their loved ones - to help them get it right. Ultimately, doctors - like everyone else - are subject to a number of cognitive biases, such as availability (where they think you have whatever they’ve seen a lot of recently) or search success (where, as soon as they find a problem, they stop looking even though it could be something else). Groopman outlines these biases and illustrates each with multiple actual cases.* He then gives the reader practical advice about how to help doctors avoid these biases. For example
Patients can help the doctor think by asking questions. If he mentions a possible complication from surgery, they can ask how often it happens. If he talks about pain and lingering discomfort from a procedure, they can ask how the pain compares with having a tooth pulled under Novocain, or some other unpleasant event. If he recommends a procedure, patients can ask why, what might be found, with what probability, and, importantly, how much difference it will make to find it. (p175)
Here are a few of the other questions he recommends in the course of the book:
* What is the worst diagnosis that could explain these symptoms?
* What organs are near where I’m feeling discomfort?
* Is it possible that I have more than one problem?
* What else could it be?
* Is there anything that doesn’t fit?
* Is this treatment standard or do different specialists recommend different approaches? Why?
* How time tested is this treatment?
The book describes a litany of medical cases, each interestingly (like a good tv show - see below). Groopman also describes lots of research on medical decision making. I found it 96% interesting. But if you don’t find those elements interesting, the book may feel a little bit long.** In that case, I highly recommend reading at least the epilogue, which concentrates some - but not all - of what patients and families can ask to help doctors do a good job. I don’t agree with Groopman on everything; I have a little less faith than he does in doctors’ judgment and a little more in evidence-based medicine,*** where it can be appropriately applied. But those aren’t the things that matter in this book.
Take-away: Give the book a try; if it starts feeling long to you, at least carefully read the epilogue.
* The first third of the book basically felt like watching a season of House M.D., a show in which a brilliant doctor is surrounded by a smart team, each member of which brings her or his biases to the case of the episode, leading to incorrect diagnoses, until the brilliant Dr House saves the day. Each of the biases and many of the diseases have come up on the show.
** If you do find reading this stuff interesting, one of my favorite books by a doctor is Arun Gawande’s recent Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance.
*** Super Crunchers makes a strong case for evidence based medicine, written for the layperson.
5 Stars How Doctors Think
How Doctors Think
An amazing book. This is a book all should read wheather you are healthy or not. Fore warned is for armed. You have been warned
4 Stars Should be mandatory reading for all medical students
As a physician who teaches communication skills, and as someone who’s been a patient on the “other side of the fence” I think this topic is critical.
The book’s one failing is it’s title - rather than “How doctors think” it should be called “How doctors don’t listen”. Over and over again he regails the reader with examples of failures of medics, nearly all of them accomplished, even famous clinicians, who made preventable mistakes. What Dr Groopman does though it take us through the errors in mental judgement and preconception that lead to the mistake, so while they are regretable they are at least understandable. In many instances you could be left thinking “would I have done any better..?”
A common theme of course is in failures to truly listen to the patient. In a field where we are told that 90% of the diagnosis comes from the history, this is inexcusable.
The theme of the book it seems is to try to educate the layman on the inherent limitations and failings of common medical thought processes - processes that are often efficient, effective and accurate, but far from perfect. I would submit though that it shouldn’t be up to the layman to compensate for the failings of their medical provider - rather we should be educating the providers about these limitations and failings so they themselves might think of them and, perhaps, rethink their ideas, their approach and their plans. This book should be required reading for all medical students during their pre-clinical training, to help prepare them for real patient contact - and there are a few qualified physicians who ought to take a look at this book as well…
This book is an excellent contribution to the popular medical literature.
1 Star Not terribly enlightening for medical student
I got the book as a gift and felt obliged to finish it despite the entire second half taking a turn for the worse. Granted the first half scratched the surface of actually addressing the matter of the title — how doctors think. Anyone who has spent a year or two in medical training has been hit over the head numerous times with the truisms of this book — listen to the patient, don’t listen to drug reps, don’t diagnose from the hip, check behind the radiologist when feasible, give the radiologist some useful patient info, some people want the chemo, some people don’t want the chemo, etc. The vignettes in the early part of the book are useful examples of mistakes not to make. But this dozen or so cases is only a drop in the bucket for anyone who has spent time in a hospital. This book may be groundbreaking stuff for the laymen, but it has nothing particularly interesting or enlightening for even a novice in the health professsion as myself.
4 Stars How Nurses Think…
It’s interesting to know that the number one reason people go to an Emergency room is for Abdominal pain; not Chest Pain - which is a complex complaint for any doctor or nurse to deal with. Every doctor is known to make mistakes; it’s a fact of science and nature. Sometimes when working full-time with heavy caseloads, it’s easy to burn - out and and make an error which may result in the demise of patients presenting with vaque complaints. No one can be 100% right all the time; doctors are mere humans and they do err. This book delves into the minds of doctors, and how they are trained to think and discern. Dr. Groopman delves into the process of making a medical diagnosis and the type of thinking that is required to come to an appropriate and correct diagnosis.
I love it when Dr. Goopman tries to inspire other doctors to form a more personal relationship with their patients; as he also motivates them to actively listen to what information the patient offers.
This slim little volume is a study on physician cognitive pathways; how doctors think is really what is contained within. How doctors are trained is what conditions them the most, so it is a very important time in their lives …. selection of an accredited medical school deserves a bit more elaboration that would have helped this book to gain a more comprehensive footing on how MDs are formed.
Epistemology is the nature of knowing, and this book elaborates on it.
—Which also throws alot of light into understanding medical decisions. A the statement on page 174 says, “There is nothing in biology or medicine that is so complicated that, if explained in clear and simple languarge, cannot be understood by any layperson.”
This is as true a statement that Dr. Groopman could ever have made.
This yarn continues to unravel and becomes quite amusing when the author examines the accuracy of diagnosing in MDs.
It’s quite funny to discover that on average, each pathologist agreed with his own diagnosis only 89 percent of the time! (On page 182.)
Sort of like not being able to read one’s own handwriting when asked to do so in a court of law. Very embarrassing, but revealing nonetheless.
The point is that doctors sometimes are given such a huge and vast load of work to read and interpret, that mistakes are unavoidable. Dr. Groopman impresses that more time is needed for every MD to just spend thinking about all the possibilities in making medical diagnosis.
Finally, this book does come into dealing with very serious and grave medical conditions - cases that involve terminal conditions such as cancer that do not have a cure. These are the most difficult cases to work with; especially on an emotional level.
I found that the book was very helpful to me, as a nurse, in understanding how doctors make their diagnosis. It is a good book and I recommend it to anyone who wishes to watch how the gears turn in the head of the doctors they work alongside with, or make an appointment to see.
