Comments on: The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular YOU!

By: Luca Vincenzo

Luca Vincenzo — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:00:35 +0000

A decent book with misleading marketing While this book is marketed as the end-all of training books that gives every exercise you need along with sensible workout and nutrition plans, it falls a bit short of that promise.It does have a TON of exercises with pictures and tips on how to do them correctly, and thus, it’s a good reference book. The organization of the exercises, however, is poorly executed. While they appear in their proper categories, such as “back,” there are no further details about the many exercises that follow as to which particular parts of the back that the exercises target.It also doesn’t indicate which exercises are compound, mass-builders, which are isolation exercises, and which are in the middle. Unless you really know what you’re doing, you won’t know what exercises to do and why.The workout programs given in the book seem to be thrown together kind of haphazardly, and while they’ll keep you “busy” in the gym and are better than being completely random, they’re…

By: Tom "gym rat"

Tom "gym rat" — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:58:25 +0000

Big Book Equals Complete Book If I had to pick one word to describe this book, it wouldn’t be “big”, it would be “complete”. It’s not just a big book of exercises- its that plus a whole lot of other info as well. Here’s some of what I liked the best about it…-it devotes a chapter to answering questions we all have about lifting, questions such as “how fast should I lift?” or “how many repetitions should I do?”-the exercises are organized by body part, so you get a bunch of ex’s for the chest in Chapter 4, a bunch of exercises for the back in Chapter 5, and so on. Easy to navigate around in this book.-included is a section on warm-up exercies- which a lot of people forget about doing. Here you’ll find a lot of stretches.-there’s a workout plan towards the end of the book for just about every need you might have. For example, you’ll find a workout plan for the crowded gym, for fat loss- even for vertical jumping. Neat!The book ends with a section on…