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Title: Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning by Thomas R. Baechle, Roger W. Earle ISBN: 0-7360-0089-5 Publisher: Human Kinetics Pub Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $67.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: One of the most well rounded training manuals in existence
Comment: This books separates the reality of training with the nonsense some authors try to convince the everyday novice of. Most books are based on principles that bodybuilders, who are on ridiculous amounts of steroids, utilize. For a natuaral athlete that wants to manipulate his/her own bodily functions to maximize potential gains in the overall field of physical conditioning, whether it be for strength, size, cardiovascular, or plyometric enhancement, this is the ideal book. It begins with an overview of the muscle system, moves into the nervous system, and continues onward, dissecting all the main facets of conditioning into smaller pieces so as to cover EVERYTHING, and I mean everything. This book is not recommended for novices or the uneducated.
Rating: 4
Summary: A must read for the physical conditioning specialist
Comment: This is a high level scientific book. Before reading it you should be familiar with knowledge of human anatomy and exercise physiology - undergraduate level.
If you want to read about everything you need to know about physical conditioning in just one book this is what you were looking for.
I've expected some more information on the athletic training subject, but you can not hope to find everything the exercise science has to offer in a 650 pages book. However the book respects its title ofering you "the essentials".
I also admire the author's objectivity about some athletic nutritive supplements - it is telling you that you shouldn't waste your money on many of them.
Because it is not written by a single author it makes you look back and forth and sometimes repeats some information.
Overall is a complete and reliable resource of scientific knowledge. I go back to it anytime I think I need to remember something.
Rating: 1
Summary: Tricked by five star reviews
Comment: I purchased this book mainly because of the positive remarks I read here on Amazon. The reviews are helpful in guiding my purchase most of the time but this time I got burned. There are some very important things that I have to clear up.
1. This book is NOT organized well. Similar pieces of information that would make more sense in the same section or chapter are many chapters apart. I spend a great deal of time flipping between chapters linking one fact to another trying to piece together underlying principles or purposes behind similar functionality, AND angrily wondering why so many similar sections were haphazardly scattered throughout the text.
2. The writing is DRY. I am a scientist, and I hate having to plow through technical, monotonous, fact-driven, unispired lectures. Scientific writing does not have to cause headaches or blurry vision. I'm not looking for a text that romances me with an ambiance of literary magic. I just want something worded in a way that is lucid, meaningful, and to the point ("Understanding Nutrition" is an excellent example of intelligent scientific writing that is also very readable). This text in sharp contrast is choppy, cumbersome, and aggravating.
3. "However" I am so sick of seeing this word thanks to this text. However shows up in the strangest places. Over and over again. It is very distracting to have to constantly stumble across this word while trying to make sense of the rest of the drivel surrounding it.
I am sure this book is a wealth of valuable information. It is just not worth it for me to spend the extra time and energy mining the text for that information. There are other books that cover the same material just in a logical order and worded in a more conversational -- less clinical -- way.
My last piece of advice is to do what I didnt do: check out the example pages. They wont convey the weak organization because the Table of Contents actually looks kinda organized but its deceptive. They will at least clue you in to writing style, but keep in mind that it only gets worse as the book goes along.
Compare it to the style in the example pages for a very similar book "Physiology of Sport and Exercise".
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Title: Strength Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier ISBN: 0736041850 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Designing Resistance Training Programs by Steven J. Fleck, William J. Kraemer, William J. Kramer ISBN: 0873225082 Publisher: Human Kinetics Pub Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription by American College of Sports Medicine, American College of Sports Medicine ISBN: 0683303554 Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Jumping into Plyometrics by Donald A. Chu ISBN: 0880118466 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Program Design for Personal Trainers: Bridging Theory into Application by Douglas Brooks ISBN: 0736000798 Publisher: Human Kinetics Pub Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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