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Muscle & Fitness, August 1998
"In their book, "Serious Strength Training," the authors outline a workout routine that takes into consideration family obligations and hectic holiday seasons. It's about time! You will find programs for entry-level, recreational, and advanced strength trainers and bodybuilders. This book is excellent."
MA Training, March 1999
"Serious Strength Training "gives us the ultimate advice because authors Di Pasquale and Bompa are the world's most recognized authorities on nutrition and training.""
Robert Kennedy
Publisher, MuscleMag International, Oxygen, and American Health & Fitness
Serious Strength Training "brings science into the gym. Hone your workouts with the most effective, efficient exercises and get the gains you deserve for your sweat and effort."
Steve Holman
Editor in chief, Ironman magazine
"From the Journal of Sports and Sports Sciences"
A book which should be in possession of all coaches and trainers as well as the libraries around the world.
Book Description
Maximize your strength and muscle definition by applying the latest breakthroughs in scientific research to your training. The new edition of Serious Strength Training presents
-scientifically based guidelines for periodization workouts,
-new information on incorporating popular bodybuilding systems into the periodization plan,
-80 exercises that cause the greatest stimulation in the muscles,
-a nutrition periodization program that explains how to meet the body's changing dietary needs during each phase of training.
Serious Strength Training begins by outlining the basic scientific principles of training for strength and muscle mass—what happens to the body during training and why. Then it sets detailed guidelines for program design, explaining how to calculate training volume, intensity, rest intervals, number of exercises, and loading patterns. Lead author Tudor Bompa demonstrates how to use periodized workouts to peak at optimal times by manipulating six different training phases: anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, mixed, maximum strength, muscle definition, and transition.
This edition also presents a revolutionary metabolically based approach—created by Maura Di Pasquale, an internationally renowned physician—that allows readers to structure their diets to meet their individual metabolic profiles.
Serious Strength Training includes programs for strength trainers and bodybuilders as well as for those with special needs and interests. Scientifically sound and research-based, it's also ideal for strength and conditioning experts and exercise scientists who want to know the best methods for developing greater muscle power and mass.
Everyone who engages in strength training and bodybuilding should understand certain theoretical principles and fundamental concepts of these activities. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not great,
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This review is from: Serious Strength Training and Body Building (Paperback)
Good, accurate information - which is hard to find in the fitness field - but these guys are a little too enamored of bodybuilders and isolation exercises. They've spent too much time in the lab hooking up 'roided out booby builders to the EMG machine, not enough time with athletes from real sports who need real strength. They've written one too many articles for the muscle magazines (aka soft-core porn for the supermarket magazine racks.) Bodybuilding is not about strength, it's about size. It's hard to take a fitness writer seriously who associates with that drug-abusing crowd.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Book for Anyone: Entry-level to Advanced Athletes,
By "b-eshragh" (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Serious Strength Training and Body Building (Paperback)
I have read and reviewed a number of books regarding strength training and bodybuilding. This book is by far the best among the ones I have read. It's a complete guide to strength training, and covers all aspects of the sport. It's easy to read and comprehend, well-organized, and uses a number of scientific (but practical) methods to improve the efficiency of the workout sessions.Part 1 gives the background needed to plan effectively including a basic understanding of human body. Part 2 shows how to use "Periodized Workouts." And Part 3 gives detailed information about exercise, and nutrition. The Periodized Workouts bring variety to strength training making the workouts a lot more challenging and interesting for any level of strength trainers. Overall, the book is near perfect. One area it can improve on is the nutrition and diet sections. The book gives recommendations on the amount of protein, carbs, fat, and total calories for each phase based on body weight. It would be useful if it would have also provided information on building an eating plan, food groups and their amount of carbs, proteins, fat, and calories (a great book on this subject is Power Eating by Susan M. Kleiner). One point of caution: It takes time to build a Periodized strength training plan and discipline to adhere to it. I guess that's why the title is "SERIOUS Strength Training." If you don't have the time or the discipline, this is not the right book for you.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Should be "Serious Bodybuilding",
By Fat Sean (New Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Serious Strength Training and Body Building (Paperback)
I was dissapointed. The book did a good job of explaining the principles of periodization, but that was about it. All the knowledge could easily be condensed into half as many pages. Not really a bad book, but I thought it would be more advanced than it was. If you buy it, remember that the weight reccomendations for the example routines are just that: reccomendations. It is more important that you adhere to the number of repetitions.
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