The Men's Fitness Exercise Bible: 101 Best Workouts To Build Muscle, Burn Fat and Sculpt Your Best Body Ever!

Review The Men's Fitness Exercise Bible by Sean HysonThe Men's Fitness Exercise Bible is an excellent modest size book that would fit into most luggage and be very useful. It contains over 100 sets of exercise for most every situation, machine, body weight, pool, common exercise tool you can think of. Each goal or item is pictured with an fit young man doing a workout of a series of exercises. Thus, if you find yourself in a average hotel “gym” or in an elaborate fully equipped gym, or just out in the wilderness with just you and your body and this book, you have at your fingertips a reasonable plan for working out.The word “best” is overused here. The workouts are very good. But best has to be defined by your goals and your situation. These are excellent, mostly short workouts for many situations. These are accessible workouts for the average, fit gym goer. These are not elaborate advanced workouts for the elite athlete. Thus this book is very useful for most of us.To be where your only tools are a pair of dumb bells and an elliptical machine and wondering how to work out, is difficult. This book answers the question with workouts for 1 or 2 dumb bells and a workout for the elliptical machine. Combining the two gets you a good workout. You might only have a stairclimber, or a pool, or a running track, or swiss ball, or jump rope or just your body and no tools. This book gives you good workouts for each tool or total lack thereof. There is even a good total body warm up.There is no attempt to be encyclopedic here. Men's Health Big Book of Exercises does that. There are no long programs to keep you working out for months on end. There are no progressions in difficulty. There are no specific strength or speed or power or flexibility goals here. This book is just how to approach various exercise tools and situations and make the “best” of them. Many of the workouts are less than thirty minutes in length, and some are even as short as 4 minutes. The book is just what it says it is, a collection of workouts for various exercise machines and tools. And as such, it is very, very good.

I thought overall this was a really good book. I had been looking for a new program to jump start my return to training after a layoff of several months. As soon as I got the book I made workouts 3, 4 and 5 my new program. I've found the workouts challenging and effective. I was also pleased that the workouts were relatively short (about 45 minutes or so, not including warmup and cool down), which fit right into the amount of time I had.I've only glanced at the other workouts in the book, but they all seem good. The workouts come from top trainers in the industry, so you know you are getting quality advice.My only complaint about the book would be that the workouts are only loosely organized into programs (basically the introduction for a given workout might mention that it can be done with the preceding workout(s) as a program). I would have liked to have seen an appendix or something that outlined different programs you might follow using the workouts in the book.One note -- I bought the Kindle version of this book for my Android tablet, and I've found it to be a great choice. Having it on my tablet makes it much easier to use in the gym for reference on a specific exercise, vs. trying to keep a book open to a specific page (typically involving laying a heavy object across the book to keep it open to a given page).

Love the book. Helped me add versatility to my workouts. I love books because I am able to refer to it, read why this is a good exercise and what part of the body its good for.

Although this book is over 300 pages, it's a fairly short read. It mainly lists the exercises with very brief description of each one. The layout is similar to a typical fitness magazine where they would have one photo of the exercise and a brief description of how to execute it.These "best workouts" that they've listed are fairly common exercises such as bench press, squat, deadlift, dumbbell curls, pullups, etc. I don't believe there are any exercises that I've seen that I thought were unique or creative. You can get all this information if you had ever subscribed to any fitness magazines or can find them free on the internet.Don't get me wrong. I think this book would serve someone who's new to fitness very well. It does list all the workouts that you can do in one book instead of scattered across multiple magazines and internet. But anyone who has over 6 months experience in the gym will not find the book very helpful.

I bought this guide for my man over a year ago. He was working out regularly and staying fit but wasn't building the muscle he thought he should be. He started the workouts in this guide as well as following a higher protein diet and he is getting ripped and looking hot.I have several women's lifting guides, but I do the core workouts in THIS book and they have made a huge difference in my core strength.

This book is just what I was hoping it would be. About six months ago I began working with a personal trainer and he introduced me to the principles of weight training. Looking ahead to when I'll no longer be able to afford such a luxury (which will be soon!), I wanted a book that will serve up the same kind of inspiration offered by my trainer. The illustrations are great and the exercises are organized by body part, which is why I purchased this one.

If you're looking for ideas, this has it. I recommend it to anyone who cares enough to find ways to switch up their exercise routine. I don't use this every day but its been almost 3 years with this and I still browse through every now and again just to get some new ideas. It does some explaining of the exercises you're doing, but generally I use it just to get a visual of what i should be doing for difference muscle groups.

Excellent book. A lot cheaper than a personal trainer (certainly at my gym!). The range of exercises is huge, covering all muscle groups - and training environments. The descriptions are clear and informative. If you want lots of anatomical detail and endless permutations of the same exercises, look elsewhere. If you want a practical guide to training that you will actually USE - look no further

A must have for anyone wanting to lift weights

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Excellent book very helpful

I want my money back.. that's what can I say about this book. It's such a basic things you can find everything on google. There's no good explanation of exercises, and so on. Well though if you a beginner there is some info which would be useful.