Weight Training Diary For Dummies

by Allen St. John

Overview

From free weights and resistance bands to Pilates and yoga, weight-training is an exciting — and healthy — trend. The Weight Training Diary For Dummies is the perfect tool for any avid body builder. Filled with expert advice on health, nutrition, equipment, and accessories, it also includes injury prevention exercises and body fat to weight conversion charts to help you keep track of your progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764553363
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/13/2001
Series:	For Dummies Books
Edition description:	SPIRAL
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	431,628
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

About the Author Allen St. John is the author of Bicycling For Dummies and Skiing For Dummies and is a former senior editor at Conde Nast Women's Sports and Fitness magazine. An avid recreational athlete, he has written about sports and fitness for a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines including Men's Journal, MH-18, U.S. News & World Report, Maxim, and the New York Times. He's a columnist for Skiing magazine, a regular contributor to Tennis, and a founding contributing editor for Bike, and he has covered the New York Yankees for the Village Voice for the past eight seasons as well as contributed to the hardcover book and CD-ROM, The Way Baseball Works. He lives in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Sally, and two children, Ethan and Emma.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I: The Training Basics 7

Chapter 1: Creating your workout plan 9

Chapter 2: Just warming up 23

Chapter 3: Giving yourself a life 35

Chapter 4: Cooling down and fueling up 45

Part II: The Weight Training Diary 55

Your training diary 57

Part III: The Part of Tens 179

Chapter 5: Ten weight room etiquette tips 181

Chapter 6: Ten top weight-lifting songs 185

Index 189