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Drawing on the foundation of Mens Health magazine, this superb guide explains everything that inexperienced or lapsed exercisers need to know to tailor a fitness program to their individual goals and abilities. The ability to personalize a workout plan allows readers to achieve quicker results and spend less time with ice packs and sore muscles. Unlike other books that lump beginning exercisers into one group, this program differentiates among beginners, such as: high-schoolers with newfound interest in lifting 30-year-olds who want to get back the bodies they had when they played college sports 50-year-olds who work out only for the first few weeks after New Years resolutions every January Michael Mejia, contributing editor to Mens Health magazine and coauthor of Scrawny to Brawny, thoroughly explains the fundamentals of fitness, including strength training, cardiovascular activity, and nutrition. He provides self-assessment tests to help safeguard against injuries by identifying muscular imbalances, decreased flexibility, or other weaknessesand then shows how to correct these problems. Whether readers are Newbies, Ex-jocks, or Seasonals; hope to build muscle or increase strength; are willing to work out every day or are able to spare only a couple of days a week, they will find the blueprint for their better body in this book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #275693 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

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