Strength Training Anatomy-3rd Edition
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Overview
Over 1 million copies sold! With new exercises, additional stretches, and more of Frédéric Delavier’s signature illustrations, you’ll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during strength exercises. This one-of-a-kind best-seller combines the visual detail of top anatomy texts with the best of strength training advice.
Many books explain what muscles are used during exercise, but no other resource brings the anatomy to life like Strength Training Anatomy. Over 600 full-color illustrations reveal the primary muscles worked along with all the relevant surrounding structures, including bones, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissue.
Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the anatomical depictions show both superficial and deep layers and detail how various setup positions affect muscle recruitment and emphasize underlying structures. New pages show common strength training injuries in a fascinating light and offer precautions to help you exercise safely.
Author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier is the former editor in chief of the French publication PowerMag. He is a journalist for Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to Men’s Health Germany and several other strength training publications.
Synopsis
The third edition of Strength Training Anatomy offers the most compelling artwork ever applied to a strength training resource. Packed with over 600 anatomical illustrations of muscles from each major muscle group, the updated edition features 48 additional pages, 12 new exercises, and 18 stretches.
Editorials
Reviewer: Erik H VanIterson, M.S., M.Bio(University of Minnesota School of Kinesiology)
Description: This book excels in providing detailed and organized illustrations outlining the muscular and skeletal structures involved in specific weight-training movements. This is an update of the 2005 edition.
Purpose: It is a detailed, illustrated guide to the muscular and skeletal anatomy involved in basic strength training exercises. It sets out to outline the major and minor muscles and skeletal structures involved in each movement while also providing various exercises to target specific muscles.
Audience: Although intended for anyone interested in strength training exercise, it will be especially useful for health and fitness professionals, movement science students, physical therapists, exercise physiologists, and other allied health professionals teaching or applying the principles of resistance training.
Features: The author focuses on what he deems to be the seven most important anatomical structures of the human body and how they are involved in strength training. Detailed sections on each of these structures provide both illustrations and text to help readers understand resistance exercise and the muscles and skeletal structures involved with specific resistance training movements. The book excels in providing detailed and easy to understand illustrations that depict specific strength training exercises. The value of these illustrations cannot be overstated, as they are what make this book unique and valuable for a broad audience. However, a shortcoming of this book is the omission of notable references to ensure readers of the accuracy of the illustrations.
Assessment: This book is exceptional for its clear writing style and accurate, detailed, and easy to read illustrations for all health and fitness enthusiasts. It may be particularly useful for health and fitness practitioners interested in reviewing resistance training human anatomy as well as those new to the field. This edition adds complementary sections focusing on stretching and injury identification related to resistance training.