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BookPrices.net - Practical Programming for Strength Training
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List Price: $21.95
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Manufacturer: The Aasgaard Company
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780976805410
ISBN: 0976805413
Label: The Aasgaard Company
Manufacturer: The Aasgaard Company
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-09-29
Publisher: The Aasgaard Company
Studio: The Aasgaard Company
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Summary: Very practical training book
Comment: I read the first Mark Rippetoe book, "Starting Strength" and I was amazed at how detailed all the information about every type of recommended exercises was. "Practical programming" has the same amount of detail, but this time geared towards the planning part of training. It has everything from proper rest, nutrition to specific training programs depending on how advanced you are. It's a really good read...
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Summary: Better investment then gold!
Comment: For two years I've been doing different routines and searching countless hours on the net for the "right" routine. I've spent hours trying to come up with my own. I've made progress, but wonder how much more I could have made if I would have just started with this. I was smart and bought starting strength months back (I then learned how to do the exercises)but didn't think I needed this. I was wrong. Now after two years of lifting I'm starting over. But now I no longer need to look for the next best routine, I already have it. The best part is I'm set for, probably, the rest of my life as far as my routine foundation goes. Now in a year or two if I change my mind I'll be sure to update this, but at this point it doesn't appear that I'm going too. Even if you don't agree completely with this book it does simplify a lot of seemingly complicated theories on strenght training. The strength chart at the back is worth the money by itself. Can't wait to start crushing those intermediate numbers!!!!
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Summary: Practical Programming for Strength Training. A must have!
Comment: Whether you are a strength coach, any person who trains others to increase their strength or looking to learn more about improving your own strength, this is a must have. It is science digested and put into print in a very easy to understand format.
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Summary: Barbel work for Cyclists
Comment: This has been a fanastic book. I coach cyclists for the Velodorme, and it has been nothing but helpfulll in bringing up the power output in riders and having them pull out some better numbers on the track.
I recomend this book to anyone who has been having trouble in getting anyone over the line in any sport that requires power, strength, or a combination of both.
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Summary: Must-have book.
Comment: This is the best book I've read on planning strength training programs. If you exercise for strength, you need to have this book.
However, while I thought this was a great book by the standards of the field, the lack of references really irked me. What's fact and what's opinion? It's hard to tell. Rippetoe often implies things are scientifically supported (and from other reading I have a pretty good idea about which of his points are supported), but he doesn't give you the references you would need to be able to tell. He doesn't tell you where his knowledge stops and his speculation begins. This book really is closer to best-practices than anything else out there, but you can't tell that by casually reading it.
Myth-based training and unsupported theories run amok in weight training. Scientific-ish people like Rippetoe could combat that. In that narrow sense, this book is a missed opportunity. There are readers who will get through the book and put it on the shelf next to McRobert, Mentzer and Schwarzenegger and not be able to tell the difference.
Quibbles: The Intermediates chapter, which ought to be the most useful for the target audience, is hard to follow. I was particularly disappointed in the description of the Texas Method. There's also basically nothing on mixing weight training with other sports, which is a common need.
Overall, it's a very good book, but it could have been a great one.
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Practical Programming offers a different approach to exercise programming than that typically found in other exercise texts. Based on a combined 60+ years of academic expertise, elite-level coaching experience, and the observation of thousands of novice trainees, the authors present a chronological analysis of the response to exercise as it varies through the training history of the athlete, one that reflects the realities of human physiology, sports psychology, and common sense. Contrary to the one-size-fits-all models of periodization offered elsewhere, Practical Programming explains the differences in response to exercise commonly observed between athletes at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels, explains these differences in the context of the relevant exercise science, and presents new training models that actually work for athletes at all levels of experience. Complete with new, innovative graphical representations of cutting-edge concepts in exercise programming, Practical Programming is sure to become a standard reference in the field of exercise and human performance. Contributor: Glenn Pendlay
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