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10 Reddit comments about The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular YOU!:

u/Kabloooey · 3 pointsr/coolguides

There's a pretty good book by men's fitness that is great for beginners and advanced alike. My ex is a personal trainer and she turned me on to it. The only thing left from that relationship I didn't burn from my mind. Gentlemen: Big Book of Exercises And
For the ladies...

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/gaybros

Trainers can be good, but be aware that personal training is a totally unregulated field, so you can have any piece of paper and be a "certified" trainer. Men's Health can be a good magazine, but a few issues and you're good. I've found that they repeat a lot of their older routines and label them as new, or combine two and do the same thing. As a matter of fact, I recommend Men's Health books more than the magazines. Their Big Book of Exercises is a great resource, especially if you want to try your hand at making your own routine. I also agree that looking on blogs is a great idea. I'm going for my certification in personal training right now and haven't quite been brave enough yet to make my own routine, but I just recently finished this Shortcut to Size and really liked it. If you just google exactly what you want, chances are you'll find a great routine that you'll love.

Hope this helps!

u/musicbro · 2 pointsr/gaybros

It actually is called that haha.
THE BIG BOOK has basically every excersize that's worth a damn in the gym as well as things to eat and workout programs inside.
I sound like a commercial for this book so I'm going to stop talking about it

But if you're looking at a workout book to switch up your exercises or just correct techniques in the gym, this is a good one to go by.

u/scottklarr · 2 pointsr/Fitness

My first suggestion is do not neglect your lower body. Besides the obvious reason of having total body fitness, the legs and core have large muscles which means more calories needed for fuel (which in turn means less fat over your whole body, leading to a more overall "toned" look).

As already mentioned by the other commenter, exrx.net has a great listing of exercises. I am also a fan of Big Book Of Exercises for quick ideas (it also spells out some nice routines if you prefer to be told what specifically to do).

u/platocplx · 1 pointr/Fitness

You should check out this book. Its practically the bible on weight training IMO.

The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises

It will give you a ton of tips, show you how to make your own workout and gives good sound advice on eating etc. Im currently doing a beach body workout from the book.

Also it will show you body weight workouts as well.

Protein shakes could be good as a meal replacement. However you need to be careful that they dont add too many calories. if your main goal is losing weight you want to adjust your diet to help to do that.

u/onemessageyo · 1 pointr/gainit

Yeah there's plenty. None are going to work as well as going to the gym and lifting heavy shit and putting it back down though.

I was using this routine when I was recovering from back surgery and getting myself ready to get back in the gym. Here it is. BTW this is customizable and you can create your days as you wish. I was given three different work outs but I used a combination of them to make something that worked best for me. You might have to look some of these up, but trust me they work. I lost ~12lbs of fat with this and after that I gained ~20 lbs muscle. I'm over it though, and I totally prefer to lift heavy shit, because that's what makes your muscles big.

Workout A

Body-weight Bulgarian split squat 3x10-12, 1 min rest
Pushup 3x12-15, 1 min rest
Hip Raise 3x12-15 1 min rest
Side Plank 3x30sec, 30 sec rest
Floor Y-T-I Raises, 3x10, 30 sec rest (first set Y, second T, third I)

Workout B
Iso-explosive jump squat, 4x6-8, 1 min rest
Iso-explosive pushup 3x6-8, 1 min rest
Single-leg hip raise 3x12-15, 1 min rest
Inverted Shoulder press 3x10-12, 1 min rest
Prone Cobra, 2x1min, 1 min Rest

Workout C
Jumping jacks 2-5x30 secs, 0 rest
Prisoner squat 2-5x20, 0 rest
Close-hands pushup 2-5x20, 0 rest
walking lunge 2-5x12, 0 rest
mountain climber 2-5x10, 0 rest
inverted hamstring 2-5x8 0 rest
t-pushup 2-5x8, 0 rest
Run in place 2-5x30sec, 0 rest

Notes: The point here is to gain weight. I don't feel like I have the authority to change what was written in the book, so I'll just add this appendix. IMO workouts A and B are the most useful. The third says to start at 2 sets and work your way up to 5, IMO that's for weight loss and/or endurance training. You want something concise and heavy. Substitute everything for the hardest way you can do them. My routine was like this:
Iso-explosive prisoner squat 3x8 - This means a prisoner squat, but you hold the bottom for 5 seconds, activating all muscle fibers, then all of a sudden EXPLODE up and jump as high as you can off your HEELS (using your toes will use your calves which isn't what we want here)
Iso-explosive swiss ball push ups 3x8 - There's a lot of progression here. I started with regular pushups, moved to push ups with my feet raised on a solid platform (chair, table), to those same push ups with the iso-explosive element added, and finally started using a swiss ball which makes the hold a lot harder and hits your core in a beautiful way.
Iso-explosive single-leg swiss ball hip raises 3x8-12 - self explanatory
Swiss ball side planks 2x30 - This was the only way I could figure out to target my obliques really at home. I would dip my hip down and lift it, so it's not a static hold, but there are actual repetitions.
Floor Y-T-I raises 3x10, first y then t then i, this is all about form and explosiveness. Don't let your arms rest on the ground and hold for 5 seconds at the bottom exploding up. Try to go really far up, keep your thumbs pointed at the sky, and let them down slowly.
Inverted shoulder press 3x8. Again, use the same progress as you would with push ups. I'd do these wide grip on days that I'm doing my push ups narrow grip, and alternate with the push ups.

My final note is that form is key in all of these. You want to make it hard, you want to flex the muscles you're working. You want to make a low set/rep count mean something. I kept the reps low because I wanted to get stronger. You and I aren't the same, I've been training since I was a kid, one way or another. You might need more core work than I do. Swiss planks may very well be out of the question for you, and you might want to incorporate the prone cobra more often than I. The main idea is to make it hard. Every work out try to make it harder in some way.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Mens-Health-Big-Book-Exercises/dp/1605295507 <- I own this book and these workouts are listed in the back.

u/TheLastRedditAccount · 1 pointr/Fitness

I ordered this book on someone's recommendation (still in mail, so can't comment on how good it is): The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises. Now I know you're probably thinking the same thing I was thinking - it's by men's health mag so is it any good or is it just a way to sell the magazine? I trust the person who recommended this to me and have seen him go from being skinny-but-unfit to very-fit doing mostly bodyweight exercises and said that this good is good. I am at a point where I need to look up good exercises to design my own workout, so it was the one he recommended to me.

> though some diet stuff wouldn't hurt

I haven't read it yet, but Good Calories, Bad Calories sounds like a good one to begin with. I'm definitely going to read that soon.

u/rAtheismSelfPostOnly · 1 pointr/INTPBookmarks

u/GalaxiesCollide · 1 pointr/GetMotivated

Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If you are just wanting to lose weight, bike riding is fine. If you want bigger muscles, then yes, you'll probably want to follow this quote. I don't know a lot about exercising, but this is the book I've been following for about two weeks now as an absolute beginner and I like it so far: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mens-Health-Book-Exercises/dp/1605295507

u/notareal_chingon · 0 pointsr/Fitness

Per Mens health big book of exercises by Adam Campbell, " lifting of the heels is a sign off tight hips.... To remedy the problem perform a squat, find the moment in the motion where heels start to lift but still on ground, and hold that position. Do two sets of these. " Also in the book it shows a variation of the squat being perform on your toes, states that it engages your quads more than a normal squat.

Link for the book. Really good read and great guide to your muscles.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1605295507?ie=UTF8&amp;at=&amp;force-full-site=1&amp;ref_=aw_bottom_links