by Matt Brzycki, Fred Fornicola
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Product Description
This is not your conventional how-to book. With an emphasis on safety, it thoroughly covers all aspects of proper strength training while simultaneously debunking certain myths and misconceptions such as explosive training and sport-specific training. The book shows how to perform nearly 50 exercises with dumbbells in a safe and effective manner. Unique to this type of book is the inclusion of more than three dozen dumbbell workouts that have been submitted by approximately 24 strength and fitness professionals from across the USA.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Dumbell Encyclopedia, 2008-10-19
The author is a Marine and earned his degree from Penn State. He has written over 350 articles and numerous books on fitness and strength training. One of his works is a book upon which my strength training program is built upon, Maximize Your Training, which is one of the most important books in bodybuilding in my professional and personal opinion.
Maximize Your Training
When I saw that he authored a book about dumbbell training, I knew his style and knowledge would truly give the most comprehensive information available. Starting out with the history of dumbbells, the advantages and disadvantages of this method of training, and the extensive training details related to technique and safety, this book is the definitive text on incorporating this fitness equipment into your lifestyle.
A section broken down by body parts emphasized with black and white photographs, techniques and technical/physical limiting considerations are covered.
There are numerous exercise routines that are outlined depending upon whether you work out 1 to 3 days a week. He covers exercise myths regarding sports specific training and other myths of core training with exercise balls and balance boards.
His key theme is effective workouts with an emphasis on safety.
I highly recommend this book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 good book per my son, 2008-08-23
I bought this for my son and he says he has used it many times, and that it is a good book for DB weight lifting.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
It's a great book, 2008-07-23
I have to laugh at some of the reviews, like the one that gave one star and says "don't waste your money". It's 10 bucks! Makes one wonder what axe they have to grind. Not surprisingly, the reviewer promotes a competing book.
I find that many of the reviews are misleading. For one thing, this isn't a beginner's book. It describes 50 different exercises in good depth, with instructions and photos, and it contains around 30 different workouts.
The photos are not too small or too blurry to see. My eyesight isn't great but I had no trouble at all. By keeping them on the small side, the book could be much more compact, which is helpful during my workouts.
The background information runs from basic to advanced. I am no novice, yet I picked up quite a few new things I hadn't known previously.
For $10, it's hard to go wrong with this book. I researched quite a few and this is the one I like best.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 Don't wast your money, 2008-05-18
I bought this book and Men's Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide. This book is not worth the money. The pictures are small. The book from men's health is the only book to own on dumbell training.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
 Author got lazy, 2008-03-25
I was disappointed with this book. The author is not specific with the muscles worked. He says an exercise works the triceps instead of which of the 3 heads it focuses on or the exercise works the abs and not if it is upper, mid or lower abs. Same thing with shoulders. The author doesn't state if the exercise works the middle delt or the rear or front delt. The descriptions of the exercises are also re-hashed. Every explanation of particular muscle groups exercises are basically the same with a few words changed out. It just seems like the author wanted to churn out this book wihout being fresh or specific.
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