Building Strength and Stamina - 2nd Edition

By Wayne L. Westcott

Book Overview

Develop a lean and strong physique in just 30 minutes a day! Building Strength & Stamina will teach you how by using the same principles used successfully in conditioning programs of 10 NFL teams and the U.S. Navy. The unique approach combines both strength and endurance training to build muscle and cardiovascular fitness -- fast. Studies show strength gains of 50 percent after just two months using this approach, and exercisers training both their muscles and cardiovascular system improve more than when they train for either strength or endurance alone. The two-month and six-month programs of circuit training and high-intensity training with free weights, machines, or both will lead to major gains at home or in the gym. The results are in: Building Strength & Stamina is your guide to a more muscular, fatigue-resistant body in less time. For most fitness-oriented people, there's no better way to train. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736045155
• ISBN13: 9780736045155
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The results crushed my 'common knowledge'

(Review for 1st edition) Coming from a hard core overachiever school (-many- state championships), I grew up with a solid work ethic and spent ~20 years with the 3-sets-of-8-to-10-reps dogma drilled into me. Then someone suggested this book to me, and I scoffed. 90% of the gains with a single set? Walk out without feeling dead? I all but laughed, but I'm an engineer so I decided to try it. The exercises were old news,...

Very Useful Reference for a Personal Trainer/Exercise Physiologist

This book is great as a reference for a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, or someone who is taking classes related to Exercise Science, and/or even someone just interested in the subject. The book is clear in it's explainations along with being clear to understand. It has great images for a variety of resistance machines and gives detailed information on what muscles are being used, the joint action, the movement...

It really works!

Five years ago, after my first child was born, I discovered this book. I've always worked out and been pretty fit, but as a new mom, I realized I could no longer live at the gym. I needed to make my workout more effective, but do it in less time. By following Dr. Wescott's advise, I was able to cut my workout to 1 hour, 3 times a week (I used to workout 2 hours, 4-5 times a week), and increase my strength and endurance...

excellent theory book

The book includes a description of free weight and other exercises, but the primary focus of the discussion of different excercises is Nautilus exercise equipment. Having said that, the book does an excellent job of discussing the theory behind setting up both strength and cardio training programs. It does a particularly good job of explaining and contrasting the various strength training approaches such as circuit training,...