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Stronger Legs and Lower Body |  | Authors: Keli Roberts, Linda Shelton
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 403496
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 073603403X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9780736034036
ASIN: 073603403X
Publication Date: May 31, 2002
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Amazon.com Review
Whether you're a recreational exerciser looking to create a shapelier bottom half, a competitive athlete focused on increasing your leg power for your sport, or anywhere in between, Stronger Legs and Lower Body presents 124 clearly illustrated exercises and drills that will satisfy any fitness level or goal. The exercises use machines, body weight, free weights, body bars, steps, ankle weights, stability balls, bongo boards, and bands to work the calves, thighs, and buttocks. But the book is more than an excellent collection of exercises--you'll get information about setting up a strength-training program, assessing your level, training effectively and safely, and much more. Both women and men will find enough information and exercises to create a personalized program for strength, body sculpting, power, and performance. Keli Roberts is a celebrity trainer and an international fitness instructor. She is the author of Fitness Hollywood: The Trainer to the Stars Shares Her Body-Shaping Secrets. Exercise physiologist and fitness consultant Linda Shelton is fitness editor for Shape and Fit Pregnancy. Stronger Legs and Lower Body is highly recommended for exercisers of all levels designing their personal lower-body strength program. --Joan Price
Product Description
Get fit, look better, and improve performance with Stronger Legs and Lower Body, the only book solely devoted to developing both the physique and fitness of the lower body. It's not just about looking good; it's also about becoming more active, moving better, and performing better in sport. Two internationally recognized fitness experts wrote this book for those who want to enhance athletic performance as well as body aesthetics. As a personal trainer, Keli Roberts has helped hundreds of clients—including many Hollywood celebrities—achieve their fitness goals. Linda Shelton, fitness editor for SHAPE magazine, has more than 30 years of experience in exercise instruction. In Stronger Legs and Lower Body, Roberts and Shelton combine their expertise to show you how to - improve muscle tone, strength, and body shape with progressive resistance-training exercises, including exercises that target every muscle group;
- increase flexibility and enjoy greater freedom of movement;
- get results with proven eight-week programs; and
- customize your own program to meet your training goals. This comprehensive book includes strengthening and stabilizing exercises to target every area of the lower body—hips, buttocks, hamstrings, quadriceps, lower legs, and calves—making it easy for you to focus on the specific areas you need to work on. You'll find clear guidelines for conditioning and training, plus progressive eight-week programs that yield swift results: toning and shaping programs for quick and visible progress, conditioning programs to improve your athletic performance, and fat- burning cardio programs to keep your body looking and feeling good. There's also an entire chapter dedicated to showing you how to design your own program. Whether strength, athletic fitness, or fat burning is your goal, you'll look better, feel better, and perform better with Stronger Legs and Lower Body.
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A great variety of workouts January 15, 2009
Angelika Copp (Tahlequah, OK USA)
My husband plays hockey so strong legs and lower body are very important to be fast and agile on skates.
This book has a great variety of exercises for all parts of legs and lower body. All exercises are well-explained and easy to follow.
All in all a great reference with enough different drills to stick around for a while.
 A good reference on lower body strengh and deveopment July 13, 2006
David De Sousa
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A complete, concise and comprehensive reference with 124 different exercises for legs, and lower body (gluts, abs, lower back).
It has exercises for strengthening, stabilizing, toning, shaping, and conditioning. There are even cardio programs for fat-burning. Each exercise is fully illustrated and described in detail, including setup, action, and safety information.
I disagree with the previous reviewer, since the book has dumbbells and barbells exercises alternatives (squats, dead-lifts and lunges) that can be used at home. I own this book, and it has been very illustrative to help me pick the right exercise to workout at the gym, and at home.
If you are lloking for an at home exercise guide, you might want to consider "The Men's Health Home Workout Bible".
 ALOT of lower body exercises February 21, 2003
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book is a veritable dictionary of lower body exercises. There are stabilizing exercises, resistant exercises, exercises done on the floor, using exercise bands, etc. Most of these exercises are ones you've probably seen or done if you're a regular exerciser but some are alternatives to those standbys, which can be great if you're tired of doing the same old squats and lunges.My main gripe about this book is that a good deal of the really great exercises need to be done in a gym with gym equipment. For many people, this is fine but for people like me who don't want to sign up to a gym nor have the time to go to one, I just wished that they provided at home alternatives usings dumbells. Not a ground breaking, revolutionary book but not a bad one either. A good book to have if you problem or main focus is the lower body. (Buy it used or rent it out from the library)
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