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Practical Programming for Strength Training |  | Authors: Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
Publisher: The Aasgaard Company
Buy New: $21.95
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 5395
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 204
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0982522703
EAN: 9780982522707
ASIN: 0982522703
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
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Product Description
Practical Programming offers a different approach to exercise programming. Based on a combined 70+ years of academic expertise, elite-level coaching experience, and the observation of thousands of novice trainees, the authors present a chronological analysis of the response to exercise as it varies through the training history of the athlete, one that reflects the realities of human physiology, psychology, and common sense. Practical Programming explains the differences in response to exercise commonly observed between athletes at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels, explains these differences in the context of the relevant science, and presents new training models that actually work for athletes at all levels of experience. Complete with new, innovative graphical representation of cutting edge concepts in exercise programming, Practical Programming has become a standard reference in the field of exercise and human performance.
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Buy it! November 16, 2009
Boomer Torres (New Mexico)
If you are srious about designing your training programs or training others, this is one of the most important resources you could buy. It will teach you the why's of your training, so you can think for yourself. Get it!
review November 5, 2009
Thomas Lambert (colorado springs, CO . USA)
This is a very helpful book. Provides a wide range of information, for the very experienced to the novice. Recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about physical training. One can't find this information anywhere else.
Get the new 2nd edition September 4, 2009
Eiji Hirai (San Mateo, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
You should get the new second edition of this book instead. Amazon doesn't show the second edition on this product page, but search for ISBN 982522703 and you'll find it on Amazon. Hope this helps.
One of the best August 21, 2009
Casey B. Butt
Mark Rippetoe and Lon Kilgore have done an excellent job of explaining and laying out how anyone from beginners to advanced, even elite, strength and power athletes should program their training to avoid plateaus and make the most progress possible. Rippetoe/Kilgore present sophisticated, yet not overly complicated, strength training guidelines based on hard work on proven, "basic" exercises. Rather than the 'fluff' that most bodybuilding and strength training books are filled with, this one is for real - hard work with heavy iron and how to keep doing that without undue plateaus until you get as far as you can go.
What this isn't however, is a bodybuilding text. Yes, the principles in here can and should be applied to bodybuilding (particulary if you're drug-free), but strength athletes are the groups at which this book is primarily aimed. Having said that, every drug-free bodybuilder would benefit from digesting the material in this text as strength progression on basic exercises is the foundation of building a good physique without drugs.
If there's a weakness to this book I'd have to say it's the lack of sample programs for a variety of lifters at each stage - beginner, intermediate, advanced - of their careers. I know that is a tall order and at the advanced level it's practically impossible to give generic programs for everyone (and beginners are covered in Rippetoe's other works), but an appendix with some more sample powerlifting, Olympic Weightlifting, and strong-man training routines would help better illustrate some of the concepts given in the main chapters. To be fair though, Rippetoe/Kilgore do give the reader enough information to draft this up on his own, considering intermediates to advanced trainees should have the foundation of experience and knowledge which allows them to do that.
Given the lack of worthy, comprehensive texts on strength traning programming (most are either much too generic, much too specific to a certain group, or much too full of theoretical mumbo-jumbo to be truly useful), this book stands out as one of the best, practical, take-it-to-the-gym sources of strength training information available. Highly recommended.
INFORMATION PACKED May 12, 2009
Francesca E. Hughes
In the world of strength publishing, there are few coaches that can create and relate real-world information to the masses. Mark's and Lon's work is without equal.
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