Optimal Muscle Training-Paper [With DVD]

by Ken Kinakin

Book Overview

Have you stopped experiencing increases in strength and mass? Do you equate the bench press with shoulder pain? If so, your body may not be functioning at 100 percent. Optimal Muscle Training is a unique book and DVD package that will show you how to achieve the highest level of function. The book provides information on how your body develops imbalances, how testing can pinpoint problems, and how specific training to correct imbalances will optimize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736081720
• ISBN13: 9780736081726
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Really good book!

I had to by this book for a class, and it is incredibly helpful! Anyone looking to become a personal trainer should at least check it out, if not by it.

EXCELENT FOR ME

THIS WAS JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. I BOUGHT SOME WEIGHTS AND DIDN'T KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT LIFTING BUT THIS BOOK AND DVD GETS RIGHT TO THE POINT WITH THE PROPER WAY OF WORKING OUT. IT WAS WELL WORTH IT'S PRICE.

Excellent book for a trainer or fitness enthusiast

This book is excellent in describing muscle dysfunctions that many trainers don't recognize in prescribing weight training to clients. It shows the best way to optimally perform an exercise for max safety and max development. This is one of the best books Ive read for personal training clients. This book comes with a great course by the IFPA (google it) called the bodybuilding specialist course. It teaches you a ton of great material!

Train well with weights

Two quotes every athlete hears from nineth grade till the last day of collage: "Coach says we need to focus" "Coach says to lift in the off season" That second recomenation- to lift weights- seems present in just about every sport. Why is this? Not because weight lifting is fun, but because it conditions the tendons, strenghens the muscles, and soldifies ones' balance to such a degee that many people get results even if they are doing it "wrong". An added bonus is that skeletal muscle, like cardiac muscle, is the stimulator to burn fat. Anerobics is now as highly recommended as aerobics! Unfortunately we don't all have "bodybuilder" friends or the money to hire a personal trainer. Therefore, I was very pleased to find this book/DVD set. The DVD shows proper form for the most common lifts, and the book shows both the right way AND the wrong way to perform these exersizes. Bravo, Mr. Kinaken. I also recommend: "Getting Stronger"--B. Pearl (beginning and advanced weight routines) And "Fitness is Religion"--R. Kybartas (motivation and inspiration)

A must for personal trainers

This book is a must for personal trainers. The DVD enclosed with the book goes through assessment procedures that are crucial when prescribing weight training exercises to your clients. For the novice weight trainer, it will definitely clear up any misconceptions you might have about how each weight training exercise should be performed in order to ensure efficiency and safety. Also recommended for personal trainers: Muscles: Testing and Function by Florence KendallTherapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques by Kisner and Colby