Men’s Health Home Workout Bible
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You dont need to muscle your way in to the gym to get a fantastic workout. While recent statistics show that strength training is one of the countrys fastest-growing exercise activities, there is a corresponding rise in dollars spent on home exercise equipment. If a home workout is your style, this encyclopedic volume shows you how to get the results you want no matter what gear you own or what your experience level. Each chapter focuses on different types of equipment (dumbbells, barbells, cable station, full multistation home-gym apparatus, or even no equipment at all) with workout advice appropriate to the beginning, intermediate, or advanced weight lifter. Learn how to make a customized workout program based on your goals, equipment, and experience. Those interested in making or expanding their home gym will find valuable consumer tips for making the wisest choices and getting the best deals. more info
Brilliant Book!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book should be in all exercise libraries. It offers a structured workout plot for home gyms that consist of no equipment, free weights all the way to a multi station gym, commonly found in apartment complexes, so there really is no excuse to not get a workout in.These well thought out routines can help you realize all your potential. Brilliant and informative pictures also.
A must for exercise thoughts
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
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SO SO
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
fantastic book, but not if you already have the gym bible. Not really practicable because many of the exercises require equipment that is more gym oriented. It does include some fantastic exercises that I do use, but at the Gym. Probably my fault for thinking this book was for a typical home gym.
Excellent for beginers but with flaws
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Well I have some experience with working out and seeing that this book is aimed at beginners , it does not do justice in many ways.
Cons :
1.It does not clarify clearly what exercise trains what muscle group
clearly.
2. There is no information on Exhale/Inhale(Very vital for exercise).
3. It take for granted that people will know certain postures etc and does not clarify in detail as to what Barbells to use.(Ez,Straight,etc)
Pros:
1. Lot of exercises.
2. Excellent routine to follow.
3. Decent information for beginners.
Well this book has its flaws but it is a lot better than many books out there.
Excellent enough
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book is useful, and overall I like it. There are many options for exercises different muscles, depending on how much gear you have/want.
Here’s what I recommend for the next time they revise it.
Clean up the charts in the end. For the suggested workouts, there are charts in the back, but it’s like the editors/graphics designers got tired and stopped trying when they got to this most critical part of the book. Page numbers for each exercise would help enormously. It took me a lot of time to find the exercise descriptions that they listed, and simple page numbers would help a lot. Also, they reused the same charts without checking to see if they really made sense, so there are things like “Weight” columns to let you track how much weight is involved in exercises that really don’t require using weights, such as pushups. Or, they tell you to do just one rep for the beginning workout, but then have a “Reps” column for you to track how many reps you did. They don’t have an obvious way to track how many pushups you did, just how many reps of 10-15. So, this needs some logical revision.
Also, it would be helpful to have an simple way to make exercise substituttions. For example, if you have dumbells but mostly want to do body weight workouts, you might want to substitute a dumbell curl for a self-resisted bicep curl. There isn’t an simple way to make such substitutions, but doing so would be an obvious way to use the book, in accordance with the authors’ approach.
Some of the exercises listed in these charts aren’t really listed in the book with the same name. For example, the unilateral calf raise. In the exercise descriptions it’s called one-leg calf raise. So, a consistency check needs to be done.
There should be a paragraph somewhere in the book telling you to figure out what an appropriate amount of weight to use is. I have tried starting exercise regimens many times in my 40 years, but have had a recurring problem: two days afterwards, my back goes out and I’m in enormous pain for two weeks, which ends my attempt. I believe the reason is that in my exuberance to change my life, I push myself too hard at the very beginning, and wind up trying too many reps or too much weight. It doesn’t hurt at the time, but long run it does. So, some way to help gauge what makes for a sensible effort would be helpful. I’m really cutting some exercises in their recommended beginner workout in half at first in hopes of avoiding injury. I imagine that’s a excellent strategy….
Also, I’d like just a small more info about cardio, which these authors clearly don’t like much. But a description about how to monitor heart rate and how to incorporate cardio into a regular routine would be helpful. Half a page is all I’m asking for.
Generally, I like the author’s organized approach and informal, readable style. A few tweaks would inspire a fifth star, and I reckon these guys have it in them.
Excellent overall workout book
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This is a excellent book for any home gym. As long as you have a excellent bench and some weights you can utilize the exercises in this book in a very efficient way. I have been lifting weights for fifteen years and still find this book to be pretty helpful in changing up my routines.
Informative
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book has a lot of technical expertise in it for sure. But, the format of the book and they way it delivers the routines can be kind of confusing for someone who is just starting out. Otherwise, a fantastic read and certainly helped me make some gains.
excellent book for beginners and intermediate lifters alike
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
fantastic descriptions and pictures. could have slightly better descriptions of the movements involved in getting from start to end. I use this in conjunction with another book, Scrawny to Brawny, to supplement the descriptions of right form so I get things right.
The Scrawny to Brawny book gives the FIRST AND ONLY excellent description of what a person like me, who is not very limber, should do before starting to lift. Get flexible first and then start lifting.
Home Workout Bible.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Very nice condition, arrived quickly. Excellent information for anyone from beginners to advanced!
Fantastic except for one thing well maybe two.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book is a fantastic resourse. It has so many exercise and four different types of resistance each in its own section: no equipment, dumbbells, barbells, and crossover. It also list exercises based on experience, in the catogory of beginner, intermediate, and expert. My largest complaint about this book is that it doesn’t specifically tell what muscles are being worked for each exercise. The exercises are place into catogies and are not narrowed down any further than “knee dominant” or “hip dominant”. Which is fine I guess, but how are you going to know which exercise works which specific muscles? There are some sample routines in the book which are okay, but if you don’t have the equipment there aren’t alternatives sugguested. Which leads back to complaint number one. Tell what muscles are worked and I can find an alternative exercise with what I have to work with. All and all a fantastic book! It is a fantastic companion book to The Body You Want in the Time You Have by Matt Murphy which is 2/3 of the 350+ pages are rountines based on the how many days and how much time. That book does tell you exactly which muscles you working, but only includes 48 exercises and not all the fantastic alternatives and of the Homework Bible.
You don’t need another book on this subject.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve used this book for several years, and I can say it’s brilliant for its purpose.
What I did: set up a miniature gym in my small house, focusing on dumbbells. I have a Body Solid bench and rack for the weights and a Swiss Ball, that’s it. My whole set-up ran me $800, which is what I spent each year on gym membership. I like all the time I save; no travel, no gym bag, lock, checking in, waiting in line, avoiding the sight of other naked men in the showers, etc.
Results: I am a typical white guy, aged 48. I will never compete for Mr. Universe, but I remain trim [6'2" / 175lbs] and strong enough to get up at 5:30 each morning for a full, challenging day. I have no heart disease, despite the fact that every other man in my family has had it by this age. Rock on.
The book tells you all you need to know to make an effective workout. You will need to test different techniques and see what works for you; everyone is different.
I find the criticisms of the book rather amusing. Some guys reckon they need more specific techniques or one exercise to work one muscle, by name. I had no thought so many elite body builders lived in America. Where are these guys? When I look around me at the airport or the shopping mall, it’s hard to find a man over 40 with a trim waist. Many of these ancient hogs look like they are pregnant. Don’t let it happen to you! Follow the Home Workout Bible plot, and you’ll stand out like a giraffe in the pig pen.
SIMPLE AND EFFECIVE HOME WORKOUT BIBLE
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I orginially bought this book for my 16 year ancient son to help him learn how to work out in our home gym and at his school gym. He regularly opens the book, takes it into the gym, and follows the exercises described. The exercises are described well and the pictures make the book simple to follow. I have also given the book to a number of my patients so they too can benefit from the descriptive exercise detail.
We all have to take care of our body, the temple of God, and this book will help you in your pursuits.
BE WELL
DR. WARREN BRUHL
PEDIATRIC AND FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN
GLENCOE, IL
Worth the money.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book is really the Bible of workouts. After applying the exercise with my dumbbells and bench at home, I chose I did not need to pay all that money to the Gym anymore. The text is very descriptive on all exercises. Highly recommend.
Nearly Complete
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
It is a must for anyone wants to start training at home!!
It was simple to read and very clear. But, the only disadvantage is that it doesn’t include a section about nutrition and dieting.
ummmmm….
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
dull book to read…… not fascinating at all. I read a few chpters and then bought the lean & hard book.