Dumbbell Training
Maximum results with minimal equipment.
Dumbbells have always been a strength training staple because of their versatility, affordability, and effectiveness. With the enormous popularity of all-in-one, adjustable versions, dumbbells have solidified their standing as the must-have muscle building tools. Now comes the one authoritative guide to using dumbbells to achieve the results you want.
Developed by renowned strength and conditioning coach Allen Hedrick, Dumbbell Training features the most effective dumbbell exercises for increasing strength, power, and muscle mass. Targeting the core, upper body, lower body, and total body, the more than 81 exercises are accompanied by step-by-step instructions, common errors and corrections, and safety considerations. Expert insights, variations, and training tips further explain how to isolate muscles, increase range of motion, and stimulate stabilizing muscles to protect joints.
More than just exercises, Dumbbell Training includes workouts and programs proven to add muscle mass and definition and enhance sport performance. You’ll find 33 programs for increasing power, speed, agility, and balance for athletes in 11 popular sports: basketball, cycling, ice hockey, skiing, soccer, softball, speed skating, swimming, track, volleyball, and wrestling. It’s all here and ready to use.
At the gym, home, or on the road, Dumbbell Training is a targeted approach to improving strength, power, musculature, and performance. If you own dumbbells, this book is a must-own.
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While it appears focused on athletic programs, a superior variety of exercises are very well described and illustrated. I’ve been looking for some guides to routines for my wife and I (it will be different for her an me) to start a dumbell based exercise plan to get back in shape. We’re an older couple, in our fifties, but I was an athlete in high school and college and familier with weights based exercise. What I am looking for is a good outline of exercises, dumbbell only (no barbells) for each of us.What this book doesn’t really do is provide a relatively straightforward “Here is a set of…
adjustable bench required I can not add anything positive about this book that has not already been said. I can add one negative thing that sort of ruined it for me. All of the chest and several non chest exercises require an adjustable bench. In my mind minimal equipment means dumbbells only. Apparently the author does not agree. As someone who already has decent weight lifting knowledge I can easily work around this issue. But it could be seen as a major letdown for people who only have the money for a set of…