Discusses bodybuilding and sports training using free weights, Nautilus, and electronic weight training machines.

In 1980 during his senior year at Wallace High School, Michael Strong was the starting point guard on the varsity basketball team and voted "Most Talented and Best All Around." But when Strong left his Bennettsville hometown for The Air Force after graduation, he had no idea that during the next 20 years he'd get married, father two children, travel to five of the world's seven continents - and become a drug addict. Strong, who lives in Baltimore and works a program manager for a facility for homeless veterans, chronicles his life in Strong Getting Stronger, a no holds barred autobiography that doesn't sugarcoat addiction but instead provides readers with a firsthand account of its destruction.

Strength training for 21 sports ; General conditioning ; Body building.

How to Build a Better Body Fast Where do you belong on the strength continuum? And where do you want to be? Too often, we know what we should be doing to gain strength, but we lack direction, a plan, motivation and intelligent guidance to make appreciable gains over the long haul. We have no real goal, no proper focus and therefore underachieve--going nowhere with our strength... Get Strong is a guidebook for those who are dissatisfied with their current rate of progress--and who want to effect lasting changes, fast... While the Kavadlo brothers have achieved supreme feats of calisthenics strength--like the one-arm pull up, the human flag and the back lever--they have also spent decades helping thousands of clients meet and often exceed their training goals. So, you can consider the Kavadlos curators of not only the most effective bodyweight exercises, but also the programming needed to extract the full juice from those chosen drills. As experienced architects and constructors of strength, the Kavadlos know what it takes to advance from absolute newbie to elite practitioner. You'll discover what key exercises in what exact progressions will give you the best results in the fastest, safest time.

This book is about the ups and downs of trying to live in an imperfect world for a perfect God. It's not always easy. It's even harder when you're young. I know that's how the seasoned saints make it look while they judge you for your downfalls, but I'm here to tell you that I know the struggle. We're going to have doubts in our walk. We're going to make mistakes; just don't give up. Just keep pushing forward. This book is about transparency. I haven't always done what I was necessarily supposed to do, and honestly, I still struggle 'til this day. I have to deal with the pressures of being young and trying to live for Christ. Someday I go all in; someday I give in to my flesh. I know that I'm not perfect, just progressing. The walk doesn't really get easier; I'm just Getting Stronger.

As women age, their metabolisms slow, and over a 20-year period, the average woman packs on about 30 pounds of fat. So, in order to lose weight, women turn to diet plans that not only restrict calorie consumption, but also are very difficult to maintain. Now, with Get Stronger, Feel Younger, you can shed the fat that you've accumulated over the years, while regaining and maintaining a healthier body composition and a faster metabolism-without depriving yourself of the foods you love. Acclaimed fitness experts Dr. Wayne Westcott and Gary Reinl present their proven strength training program that has helped over 3,000 research participants shed fat, regain atrophied muscle, and experience dramatic increases in resting metabolic rate. Using cutting-edge exercises and brief high intensity workouts, in as little as 10 weeks you can experience a 15-pound improvement in body composition and physical appearance: up to 12 pounds of fat loss, 3 pounds of new muscle, and a 6 percent increase in resting metabolic rate. There are two programs: the Standard Strength Training Program, which requires only 20 minutes for completion in 2 days a week, and the Advanced Strength-Training Program, which requires 30 minutes 3 days a week. Dr. Westcott and Reinl also provide a natural nutrition plan that not only may enhance your results, but also is realistic and easy to follow. They explain how using brief high-intensity workouts and strength training can transform your body-as well as help prevent diabetes, heart disease, stroke, osteoperosis, low back pain, arthritis, and several types of cancer.

This is not your run-of-the-mill fitness book. Developed by world-renowned gluteal expert Bret Contreras, Strong Curves offers an extensive fitness and nutrition guide for women seeking to improve their physique, function, strength, and mobility. Contreras spent the last eighteen years researching and field-testing the best methods for building better butts and shapelier bodies. In Strong Curves, he offers the programs that have proven effective time and time again with his clients, allowing you to develop lean muscle, rounded glutes, and greater confidence. Each page is packed with information decoding the female anatomy, providing a better understanding as to why most fitness programs fail to help women reach their goals. With a comprehensive nutritional guide and over 200 strength exercises, this book gets women off the treadmill and furnishes their drive to achieve strength, power, and sexy curves from head to toe. Although the glutes are the largest and most powerful muscle group in the human body, they often go dormant due to lifestyle choices, leading to a flat, saggy bum. Strong Curves is the cure.

Fitness today is confusing for so many. We are bombarded with just too much information on a daily basis to be able to filter the things we need to know to improve our chances of living longer and with more energy and vitality. How much exercise do we really need and what are the best ones? What should we eat? How do we manage our weight? Master Fitness Trainer Rich Freedman answers these questions and more in a concise format that will help energize you to manage your health and wellness. Drawn from his years of experience, you'll not only learn the proper pathway to fitness, but also find his illustrated training regimen easy to follow for all fitness levels, beginner through advanced.

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body By Michael Matthews

A streamlined exercise program uniting diet advice and step-by-step exercises for women who want to train hard and lift heavy to look and feel strong. Women who lift know that training with weights is the best way to firm your glutes, tone your abs, and sculpt a powerful, healthy body. Forget the waif-like model: girls with muscle prove that strong is beautiful, so it's time to brave the pain for the gain to get the body you want. This fitness manifesto provides clear, step-by-step exercise instruction as well as easy-to-follow workout programs so you can enter the weight room with confidence and become your strongest self. Using strength-training, cardio, and weight-lifting exercises, Get Strong for Women gives you the tools you need to build muscle, burn fat, and get a strong, fit body.