Men’s Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide: More Than 21,000 Moves Designed to Build Muscle, Increase Strength, and Burn Fat
The easiest, most inexpensive way to build muscle strength, size, and power turns out to be the best, with this supremely effective guide from the world’s largest men’s magazine
Workout fads and fitness equipment come and go, but as trainers and bodybuilders know: nothing tops a simple set of dumbbells for convenience, reliability, and versatility when you are trying to build muscles and get in shape. In Men’s Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide, Myatt Murphy, a fitness expert and longtime contributor to Men’s Health, shows readers how to use dumbbells to develop just about every part of their bodies.
For anyone who believes that dumbbells can be used only for arms and shoulders, Myatt Murphy proves them wrong. Featuring 200 photographs, Men’s Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide demonstrates how to perform a total body workout and get maximum results. There are exercises here–lunges, squats, dead lifts, curls, shrugs, kickbacks, presses, and more–that develop abs, arms, chest, legs, and shoulders, along with innovative new ways to get the most of this versatile piece of strength-training equipment.
With instructions for creating literally thousands of dumbbell exercises for the novice to advanced lifter, Men’s Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide will be an indispensable addition to any home gym.
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Too Much Fluff, Not Enough Meat First, this is a solid book. The information provided is all accurate, to my knowledge, and organized reasonably.The problem is its emphasis on numbers of moves instead of good form. The author will list a scant 4-5 bullet points describing a basic “master move” like the squat and then spend 15 pages describing different ways to tweak it to create more variations, “new moves.”This is way out of proportion. There should be much more discussion of the basic…
Too fluffy. Not much content. There are too much of what I consider “Fillers”. For example, way too many pages are spent on variations of each exercise with pictures. (We are talking about an additional large photo for just turning your arm 90 deg. or similar. A “Variation” that can easily be explained by one sentence) The book would be 1/3 of the size if it wasn’t for this.Very few pages are spent on providing specific workout routine examples. It explains some sort of a proprietary…