- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill; illustrated edition edition (Jan 11 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0809228270
- ISBN-13: 978-0809228270
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 649 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #75 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Exercise & Fitness > Ab Workouts
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"Occasionally revolutionary ideas disrupt the physical sciences. Such is the case with Power Factor Training." -- Flex magazine "After using the Power Factor Training system, I can't believe I ever used anything else. All the training I used in the past is now obsolete." -- Chris Duffy, Nationals Heavyweight Champion "Power Factor Training has picked up where Arthur Jones, Ellington Darden, and Mike Mentzer left off--and carried high-intensity training to its furthest possible level. I recommend it to all of my students who are interested in building maximum muscle mass--drug free!" --Dr. David Staplin, University of Minnesota In Power Factor Training: A Scientific Approach to Building Lean Muscle, bodybuilding and fitness pioneers Peter Sisco and John Little introduced a revolutionary new bodybuilding system that showed you how to develop your muscles to their fullest potential in the shortest time possible. Based on effective, scientifically proven principles of exercise, startling new research on recovery ability, and the importance of high intensity for stimulating muscle growth, the Power Factor Training system revealed how building a massively muscular body need not take years to accomplish. The response to Power Factor Training was overwhelming, so much so that readers demanded fuller Power Factor Training programs to isolate exercises for specific body parts. Power Factor Specialization: Abs & Legs provides exact, meaningful measurements for all shoulder exercises and back exercises and compares the intensity, or Power Factor, of each exercise. Complete with charts, graphs, and photos, this book enables you, at a glance, to see what exercises are truly the best (and which ones are the worst!) for stimulating maximum muscle growth in your shoulders and back. For example, for your back workout, why perform bent-arm dumbbell pullovers when they provide only 34 percent of the intensity of close-grip underhand chin-ups? offers a completely authoritative method for determining the muscle-stimulating benefits of every ab and leg workout you perform--with no more guesswork. It is now possible for you to determine exact exercises, weights, sets, and reps that you personally need to stimulate maximum muscle growth. You'll see immediate results from your first workout. Peter Sisco, editor of Ironman magazine's Ultimate Bodybuilding series, is the innovator of the Power Factor measurement of muscular intensity. John Little's articles have been published in every major bodybuilding and fitness magazine. The creator of the Static Contraction Training method, he is the editor of the Bruce Lee Library Series. Sisco and Little are the coauthors of Static Contraction Training and The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout, as well as Power Factor Specialization: Chest & Arms and Power Factor Specialization: Shoulders & Back. Bodybuilders and strength athletes in more than fifty-eight countries have used their techniques.
About the Author
Peter Sisco is the co-author of numerous fitness and bodybuilding books, including Power Factor Specialization: Abs & Legs (0-80902-2827-0), Power Factor Specialization: Chest & Arms (0-8092-2828-9), and Power Factor Training (0-8092-3017-2).
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Anyone who works out realizes that it takes more than just running to firm and tighten the muscles of the legs and more than just dieting and indirect training to develop a chiseled midsection. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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5.0 out of 5 stars
THE BEST AB BOOK,
This review is from: Power Factor Specialization (Paperback)
The information provided in this latest edition of the "Power Factor Specialization" series is first-rate. All scientific, all proven and geared to make every workout efficient, this book is the ultimate ab (and leg) training book I've ever read. If you want a chisled midsection and muscular, powerful legs, then you will definitely benefit from the information in this book. All of the ab and leg exercises are rated, so that you will never again waste time on an unproductive exercise. The Power Factor Specialization series is the best "training" series of books I've ever read. They should be compulsory for all personal trainers who take their business seriously.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 41 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
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THE BEST AB BOOK,
By "fredneets" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Power Factor Specialization (Paperback)
The information provided in this latest edition of the "Power Factor Specialization" series is first-rate. All scientific, all proven and geared to make every workout efficient, this book is the ultimate ab (and leg) training book I've ever read. If you want a chisled midsection and muscular, powerful legs, then you will definitely benefit from the information in this book. All of the ab and leg exercises are rated, so that you will never again waste time on an unproductive exercise. The Power Factor Specialization series is the best "training" series of books I've ever read. They should be compulsory for all personal trainers who take their business seriously.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Perhaps even more misleading than the original Power Factor book.,
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This review is from: Power Factor Specialization (Paperback)
Power Factor Training is a theory that has been disproven by -thousands- of dissatisfied trainees, (yes it works for a -tiny- minority of genetically appropriate responders) . In the case of midsection work, it's even more useless. The only thing that makes your abs look good is -leanness-. A combination of diet, full-range strength building and aerobic exercise is the way. Power Factor Training does nothing for enhancing leanness, nothing. (If anyone thinks the model on the cover got this way from Power Factor Training, think again).
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