Weight Training: Steps to Success

by Thomas R. Baechle, Roger W. Earle

Weight training is the most popular type of fitness training activity in the world. But if you are new to the weight room, how can you ensure you are training properly to reap the most benefits while also avoiding injury? Weight Training: Steps to Success, Fifth Edition, takes the guesswork out of weight training and provides you with the steps to learn proper exercise technique, determine appropriate loads, and set up your whole program.

Combining the experience of strength and conditioning experts Thomas Baechle and Roger Earle, Weight Training: Steps to Success will maximize your development with a progressive approach to weight training, whether you are using either free weights or weight machines. Learn which exercises target which muscles and how to perform each exercise correctly and safely. As you master technique with lighter loads, you will move on to heavier loads and more challenging exercises, including eight new exercises for this edition that use versatile equipment such as stability balls and kettlebells. Gain insight on the importance of nutrition and follow the step-by-step directions to calculate safe training loads and design an overall training program that fits your interests and training preferences.

The fifth edition also offers options to further advance your training after learning the basics. Improve your performance in recreational or competitive sports with a sport-specific training program or increase your overall fitness with a high-intensity interval training program.

Whether your goal is to improve muscular endurance, build strength, increase muscle mass, tone existing muscles, or reduce body fat, Weight Training: Steps to Success will help you be successful. With over 40 exercises, each explained and demonstrated through full-color photo sequences, along with guidance on how to approach introductory workouts and create a tailored training program, the fifth edition firmly establishes the work as the go-to guide for weight training success.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1992

About the author

Thomas Baechle is the executive director of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certification Commission. He is also a professor and chair of the Department of Exercise Science at Creighton University (Omaha, NE).

Reviews

[Mrs C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great for beginners! Looks at the physiology, moves, equipment and breaks it down to make it easy to understand. This book is a great addition together with Delavier and the Strength Training Bible series.

[Ariadna73 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Very nice book; printed out in a high quality paper; with charts and graphics that depict the human muscles in great detail. I liked the explanations about how the dynamics of the muscle-training works and some explanations about how to manage the breath. The exercises per-se didn't provide any new knowledge from what I already knew; although the text-book approach was interesting and helpful.