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 enlarge | Author: Kurt, Brett, & Mike Brungardt
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 46714
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.6 x 1
ISBN: 1401307884
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9781401307882
ASIN: 1401307884
Publication Date: January 11, 2006
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 New Routines April 9, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are tired of your old routines, learn some new ones. This book makes a great addition to any workout library.
Awesome Workouts March 11, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you workout and want new exercises and routines you got to have this book. Its an awesome addition to any workout library. Easy to use. Very well written.
 not so great January 20, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found that this book was very hard to follow. The exercises are good to incorporate into other workouts but this book overall is not worth the money.
Great ab workout, the rest, well..... June 14, 2006
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book has great ab routines, although it took me a bit to organize them all into a workout. Its kinda like the authors threw all the pages of the book into the air, then glued them together and put a cover on it. However once you actually find the routines, they are good. Although I would get another strength training routine, one that may not have the best abodominal excercises and combine it with this book. The rest of the stuff in the book was usless to me, and most training routines, that I've seen, dont really have a great ab/core workout. Bottom line; you get the best for your core, and you can dump the rest.
Great ideas presented in poorly organized manner April 15, 2006
54 out of 57 found this review helpful
The basic premise of the book is conditioning the abdominal, low back, and hip muscles such that the whole body mass is stabilized during activity. That great idea is over inflated with the word "core" that the authors overuse redundantly and apply it to the mind, body, anatomy, and eating. The simple format of writing style, short chapters, and plenty of the authors' well tested advices, render the book invaluable source of information on effective fitness practice.
On the low side, the three hundred and fifty pages in this book would have been reasonably condensed into a 100 pages had the authors organized their thoughts and placed themselves on the readers' side. The first 17 chapters spanned over a hundred pages of non-sense talking. The idea of placing exercises at the end of the book, separated from the relevant text, is unwise choice. Many people seeking expedient engaging in generic fitness training could not afford the luxury of flipping pages to locate relevant exercises.
When the talking got serious, at page 106, and exercises started showing up, chaos also started. For example, the topic "Introduction to exercises" appears at pages 41, 155, and then at page 221. The authors seem to be at loss of where to put their exercises. Stretch exercises, strengthening exercises, endurance exercises, and complex exercises are intermixed in a haphazard and illogical fashion. A hundred or so pages after the "Introduction to Core Workout", there is the "Introduction to Core Routines", and then comes "Introduction to Exercises" on page 221. Although most of the book materials are based on personal experience and are fairly and reasonably argued, yet they lack concrete scientific support.
Mohamed F. El-Hewie
Author of
Essentials of Weightlifting and Strength Training
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