Strength Training

Practical Programming and Science of Barbell Training

By: Health Class

Narrated by: Mark Wheeler

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's Summary

There is a difference between exercise and training. Exercise is physical activity for its own sake, a workout done for the effect it produces today, during the workout, or right after you're through. Training is physical activity done with a longer-term goal in mind, the constituent workouts of which are specifically designed to produce that goal. Training is how athletes prepare to win, and how all motivated people approach physical preparation.

Strength Training details the mechanics of the process, from the basic physiology of adaptation to the specific programs that apply these principles to novice, intermediate, and advanced lifters.

This scientific and practical book reveals that there is no single program that works for everyone, at all times and in all conditions. It addresses the complexity of strength-training programs, while providing straightforward approaches to take under specific circumstances. Those approaches are backed with physiological concepts, ensuring listeners gain a full understanding of the science behind the practice of strength training. In addition, Health Class provide examples of strength-training programs to demonstrate the principles and concepts they explain in the book.

With new exercises, additional stretches, and more signature descriptions, you’ll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during strength exercises. This book offers the best of strength-training advice.

Strength Training offers updates based on current science and new information to enhance the practical application of the concepts. Influenced by both Eastern European and North American perspectives, their experience and expertise are integrated into solid principles, practical insights, and directions based on scientific findings.

The most comprehensive book on the theory and practice of programming for strength training.

Health Class forms a simple, logical, and practical approach to strength training. Here’s what you will find in this book:

• Day-to-day, workout-to-workout, week-by-week detailed programs for every level of training advancement
• Why barbells are the most effective tools for strength training
• The mechanical basis of barbell training concisely and logically explained
• Descriptions of all the lifts, and the biomechanics behind them
• Complete easy-to-follow instructions for performing the basic barbell exercises: the squat, press, deadlift, bench press, power clean, and the power snatch
• How the human body adapts to stress through recovery, and why this is the foundation of the development of strength and lifetime health
• How to program the basic exercises into the most effective program for long-term progress
• The most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength-training program

©2020 Health Class (P)2020 Health Class

A great audiobook to listen!

This audiobook is perfect for those of us who travel and can't always get to a gym. It provides sets of exercises that can be done anywhere and don't require equipment. The illustrated movements insure complete understanding of proper techniques. A great book to listen!

Just perfect!

This tested program appealed to me right from the start when I laid my eyes on the cover of this book. It says it all, don’t you think? Now, through this, I’m surely enjoying it! Not to mention that hearing the author's words added motivation more than I've expected.

I chose to stick and follow this guide...

Instead of being confused with all the diet advise from all parts of the world, I chose to stick and follow this Strength Training audiobook and it was worth it. It was a really good choice.

Easy and quick

It’s a quick book with straight to the point information. I got thru the whole thing in a flight , loved it .

Great & Concise

very nice audiobook, simple and to the point! if you are serious about strength training without the shenanigans and without spending a bomb, this is it!

Quality info

I’ve always sought the best guidance I can in search of maximizing strength. This is a quality book for anyone needing to put a strength training program in place with the do’s and don’ts and the best exercises to maximize strength and or hypertrophy

A must "have" for gym rats

A must "have" for anyone interested in barbell training and programing. Keep up the good work!

Excellent audiobook

If you desire to improve your training for yourself and/or clients, this book is a must. Simply amazing , best gift ever !

This is absolutely worth of my time.

I just love this audiobook was narrated because it has given me direct details on how to focus my mind to transform my body into a good shape. This is absolutely worth of my time.

Extremely useful, clear and to the point.

I love to do Strength training so I believe this book is perfect for me. I also like how the narrator delivered the content. Good job!