Fitness is hard. Very hard. Everyone knows it is, but everyone is also willing to risk time and money on the mythology of easy fitness. If anyone, ANYONE, tells you that there is an “EASY” way to fitness, they just want your money. FIT is a book about how to get fit. It defines what fitness is in measurable, observable, and real-world terms. There is no mumbo-jumbo, just facts, practical information, and a logical approach to creating fitness from the first day of training through the day you reach your goal in fitness. No other training resource provides the reader the programming basics to specialize in one component of fitness or seamlessly program for comprehensive fitness and take the trainee from beginner to intermediate then to advanced and beyond - it’s a book for a lifetime of training. Exercise is dangerous - from 1 yard to 100 miles, 1 pound to half a ton, on land, in the water, on a bike - hazards abound and you need to pay attention to what your body tells you. But the body can adapt to much more than we give it credit for. If you use the concepts in FIT - no excuses, no whining, no shortcuts - and just get to the gym, garage, or wherever, and train hard, you will amaze yourself with results and how fast they are earned.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lon Kilgore

Exercise & Fitness

Killustrated

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

Practical Programming for Strength Training

Mark Rippetoe

Sports & Outdoors

The Aasgaard Company

Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 2nd Edition

A new and improved print edition of the original e-manual is now available. The improved and re-illustrated book provides coaching and PE professional students with a "laboratory" text that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. And one that they can really use in the field once they graduate. In the manual, there are detailed instructions for administration and evaluation of field-based tests relevant to sport and fitness (designed to logically supply the experiential content of a typical 16-week university semester). No metabolic carts, electromyographs, lactate analyzers, or any other specialized laboratory or clinical equipment is needed. Less than $50 worth of basic supplies available at Wal-Mart can support almost all of the 26 assessment activities. All tests can be done easily with the physical plant normally found in any school, club, or clinic. The manual presents 6 pre-exercise participation/testing screening activities and 20 varied testing activities each assessing either strength, endurance, or mobility. Every individual activity section is prefaced with a physiology-based explanation of what is tested, why it is tested, and how the results can be interpreted and applied. A student laboratory report form is included at the end of each activity or related group of activities.

Basic Fitness Testing: Field Tests for Sports and Fitness Professionals

Chad Touchberry

Heimdall Books

Progress depends on information. It is critical that every serious trainee keeps accurate, detailed, and up-to-date records of all training activities. The Basic Barbell Training Log can be the most important source of data for the overall effectiveness of the training program. Detailed information regarding an individual's response to the various parameters of a training program makes the programming of training a manageable task. The detailed training history provided by a properly-kept training log provides both trainee and coach with the necessary information to select appropriate weight or repetition changes between workouts. It helps determine whether a particular training organization is useful in achieving training goals, and it reveals trends in training and schedule compliance, both of which having a definite bearing on progress. A log should also include the trainee s subjective impressions of the quality of the work done in the training session and any other information that might later serve a purpose. Serious trainees include notes about sleep, diet, and other information pertinent to recovery. Every detail surrounding training and recovery has the potential to be important for progress; the more serious you are, the more detailed your training log should be. Contents Introduction..................1 Using this log ........... 1 The Training Logs ..... 3 Basic Strength Standards and Goals...109 Percentage Charts...116 Pound-Kilogram &amp; Kilogram-Pound Conversion Charts...117 Kettlebell Conversions - Poods, Kilograms, &amp; Pounds...119 Heat Index Chart...119 Volume of Training...120 Intensity of Training...120 The Repetition Continuum...121 Subjective Difficulty and Adaptation Stimulus...122 Calendars...123

Basic Barbell Training Log

Practical Programming for Strength Training, 2nd edition

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