Beginners weight training
beginners guide to
weight trainingoliver roberts
EXTENT:
96pp
FORMAT:
210 x 148mm (5.75 x 8.25 in)
BINDING:
Paperback with flaps
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Over 150
WORDS:
25,000
Oliver Roberts is the fitness and nutrition writer for one of the UK’s best-selling sports and fitness magazines, Runner’s World. He trains six days a week, complementing his weight training with swimming, running, yoga and cycling. He has also been a long-distance cyclist and triathlete for five years, competing in events ranging from 16-km (10-mile) time trials, to full marathons in London, Bristol, Great Yarmouth, Reading and Nottingham, and the half ironman distance triathlons. Oliver is also the author of How to Get Wheely Fit, another title in the Beginner’s Guide
series.
Weight training is becoming an ever more popular way of developing a stronger, leaner body. But without proper advice on how to train, as well as how to progress, there can be little to show for a lot of effort.
Beginner’s Guide to Weight Training shows you how to build strength effectively. It starts with a self-assessment to help you determine your level of fitness, before giving expert advice on nutrition and equipment. After demonstrating a wide range of exercises for the chest, back, shoulders, arms, legs and core body, it moves on to a graded training programme designed to allow you to progress at your own pace. There are also clear guidelines on warming up, stretching, exercising safely and dealing with injury.
Concise, easy to follow and packed with charts, tip boxes and ideas, this is the essential guide to getting stronger and fitter.