Strength Training for Beginners

A Start Up Guide to Getting in Shape Easily Now! (Ultimate How To Guides)

De: Jason Scotts

Narrado por: Mike Paine

Using strength training as a fitness regime you're able to use resistance in order to not only make the skeletal muscles within your body stronger, but it also helps to increase their size and anaerobic endurance. When it comes to strength training there are many different types you can undertake. In this book Strength Training for Beginners I will explain in more detail about not only the benefits of strength training, but also how to get your training started.

However before we look at these areas I'm going to explain a little bit about where it originates. Up until the 20th Century, you'll find the history of strength training is very similar to that of weight training. However with the arrival of certain technologies, materials and knowledge that's come to light since the 20th Century the methods we now use as part of our strength-training regime have grown somewhat. In fact, if you were to look back at what has been written over the century's regarding strength training, it was something the Ancient Greeks were already doing. Certainly when you look at some of the pictures that appear on ancient Greek cups and plates you'll see images of men carrying things such as large animals on their back or lifting what seems to be a set of weights.

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Not what I needed

I didn't like the guys voice, it was very monotone and annoying.
Everything written was obvious here and I wouldn't recommend .

Needs audio post-production work and structure

I'm having a hard time figuring out a target audience for this book as some things felt extremely beginner friendly while other things - like exercise names - were just mentioned in passing without any explanation other than "look it up". The layout could've benefited from more structure (even just naming the chapters, defining terminology before using it instead of after) and maybe an accompanying PDF to help with describing equipment? The narrator didn't do a bad job but the audio definitely needed more polishing. There was a tinny and uneven quality to the sound, a slight hairdryer-like hum in the background and one small mistake where the narrator stuttered that wasn't edited out. Even if I'd want to give it the book a second chance, the audio quality kills it a little for me.

I received a free copy and feel bad for giving it such a low score. I learned a lot about different dumbbells though!