5 Books That Might Help You Get Fit
March 20, 2009 by Scott Wharton
Filed under Fitness
Your not going to get fit by reading a book. You could buy every fitness book and magazine you can find, read it from cover to cover but if you don’t apply what you read and learn about, then you’re wasting your time and money. I read quite a bit, whenever I have time and I have learned so much about health and fitness that I wish I had learned and applied a long time ago. Here are 5 suggested books to help you learn more about fitness, dieting, building muscle and how the human body works.
Strength For Life
Strength For Life by Shawn Philips: Strength for life not only gives you tips on exercise and nutrition but also covers keeping a strong and positive mind. It’s a book to not only help transform your body but to help transform your life.
Maximum Strength
Maximum Strength by Eric Cressey and Matt Fitzgerald: Maximum Strength takes you on a 16 week strength training program to strengthen and build muscles through 4 phases of training from foundation, building, growing and peaking. Maximum strength also has some great suggestions for supplements and ones to avoid as well.
Mens Health Training Guide 2009
Men’s Health Training Guide 2009: The men’s health training guide is nothing more than a lot of articles from previous magazine issues with great pictures of exercises, diet plans, muscle tests, etc. This is a softcover book that you can pick up at the grocery store for about $9.99 and it’s worth every cent. It’s a great book to take with you wherever you go. A great all around learning aid for fitness.
Your Body, Your Responsibility
Your Body, Your Responsibility by Debra M. Corbo and Douglas Splittgerber: This is a great book that teaches you about the human skeletal and muscular system. It goes in depth about stretching, posture and fitness injury prevention. Your Body, Your Responsibility talks about dieting, strength training and proper form in a straight forward manner and is very enlightening.
The New Encyclopedia Of Modern Bodybuilding
The New Encyclopedia Of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold Schwarzenegger: Whether you’re a bodybuilder, a weightlifter or just a fitness geek, this is a great book to have around. Fitness, muscle building, dieting and nutrition, this book has almost everything you need to get big and even compete in bodybuilding meets.
Fitness books are just like fitness equipment. If you don’t use them, they are worthless. Read, look, learn, watch, listen and progress.
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I LOVE ARNOLDS BOOK.
got it 15 years ago—-still use it today.
It is, and you can get a good arm workout just picking it up to read it! So much great information.
Wow I was going to say I liked the Shawn Phillips one. But maybe now I should check out the Arnold one. Interesting.