"Dumbbell Training" by Allen Hedrick

More often in the past, but recently as well, I have picked up some dumbbells for exercise, and while

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basic statistics show that as one ages that strength training typically enhances your health if not prolongs your life.  Apart from this, athletic training with dumbbells can be fun, in addition to being on the same level as NCAA, Olympic, and other championship people in training :  You can use the same method as used by professional athletes and Olympians for strength and endurance training for your own body with this text.  An excellent deal for $ 20 U.S. that illustrates much of the technical about weights exercise within the binding of a short and very well - put - together text on weight training. The book for the larger part covers individual dumbbells exercises that range from those for cross - country and other athletes that have more slow and deliberate, repetitive motion over their foot races, to more powerful and explosive routines that allow for better performance, the goal of all physical exercise, in sports calling for those attributes.  Weight training for swimmers is even touched upon here, and resistance training is the norm here while some tailored exercises that focus more on different activities by the athlete are in the text as well that's made up mostly of exercise routines like a smorgasbord or Chinese menu of exercises.  In a former life as a competitor, people like me used athletic facilities while carrying on weight strength training, people like me used an interval exercise routine or routines, and this text seems like an extension of that everyone needs know of at this point.  Before that I used a training text itself with sporting exercises (Csanadi - 1954).  The routines in this text are not for the faint of heart, and make sure you are cleared by your physician before beginning your routine here -- certainly the book will recommend that for everyone.

The training routines in the text have break times that I do not really "get" though that is understandable as after the quite intensive sets the author prescribes, maybe such rests are necessary.  At one time I am supposed to have carried on a "six minute" workout, and when something new came along that had higher training impact it was nice to try, though most of these were fads.  There are probably as many fads in the sports and exercise training world as there are weight - loss diets from So Cal and the like, Hollywood, etc., where one might tend to lose oneself and eventually forget about the training -- this is wrong as well.   The text here is outstanding in that it speaks mostly to those who're not playing right now and want to engage in some exercise while readying themselves for a future contest or contests.  Great!