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Increase your strength to improve your health, your appearance, and your performance with Strength Training Past 50.
Strength training offers many benefits for active adults, including enhanced athletic performance, reduced risk of disease, and decreased symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
Whether you are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength Training Past 50 has you covered. In the third edition of this best-selling guide, you’ll find these topics:
– 83 exercises for free weights, machines, bands, and balls
– 30 workouts for increasing size, endurance, and strength
– Sport-specific programs for tennis, golf, cycling, running, and more
– Eating plans and nutrition advice for adding lean muscle and losing fat
Strength Training Past 50 will keep you active, healthy, and looking great with workouts and programs designed just for you.
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Stay active, healthy, and looking great
Increase strength to improve your health, appearance, and performance. Whether you are just getting started or have been training for years, Strength Training Past 50 has you covered. In the new edition of the best-selling guide you’ll find:
83 exercises for free weights, machines, bands, and balls 30 workouts for increasing size, endurance, and strength Sport-specific programs for tennis, golf, cycling, running, and more Eating plans and nutrition advice for adding lean muscle and losing fat
Partial exercise examples
Figure 11.1 Weighted toe raise. page 215
Even runners who train with machines, body weight, or resistance bands should
consider concluding each exercise session with a set of weighted toe raises as
shown in figure 11.1. This simple exercise strengthens the shin muscles (anterior
tibialis) to maintain lower-leg muscle balance and reduce the risk of shin splints.
Machine Excercises: Core: ROTARY TORSO page 69
Beginning Position
1. Sit all the way back on seat, facing forward with torso erect.
2. Position left upper arm behind arm pad and right upper arm against (in front of) arm pad.
Rotation Movement Phase
1. Rotate torso slowly to the right about 45 degrees.
2. Exhale throughout rotation.
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Alternative-Equipment Exercises: Leg: WALL SQUAT: EXERCISE BALL WITH DUMBBELLS, page 144
Beginning Position
1. Grasp dumbbells with elbows extended and stand erect with feet about hip-width apart and parallel to each other.
2. Position dumbbells with palms facing outside surfaces of thighs and elbows straight.
3. Place exercise ball between back and wall with feet far enough from wall so that knees are directly over the feet in down position.
Downward Movement Phase…More on page 144
Publisher : Human Kinetics; Third edition (May 4, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1450497918
ISBN-13 : 978-1450497916
Reading age : 18 years and up
Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
Dimensions : 6.92 x 0.39 x 9.85 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book very useful in constructing their own routines. They appreciate the good photos and examples of how to do the exercises. Readers also describe the book as readable, solid, and thoughtful.
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