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    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Weight Training and Total Fitness
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Weight Training and Total Fitness
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Weight Training and Total Fitness
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    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Weight Training and Total Fitness

    By Yucca Road Productions

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    You already know (don't we all?) that you can't just sit around and drink and eat and watch TV and still be healthy!

    But there is so much information out there, telling you how to get fit and have a healthy body and avoid this or that disease... well, it's just too much. Information overload, right?

    So why listen to us?

    Well, our story began with helping a friend study for the contestant quiz of the Jeopardy! Game show. After a few months, we got really good at compressing large and sometimes chaotic amounts of knowledge into simple and organized little works of art.

    And, fitness-wise, we needed some work. Okay, a lot of work. So we started collecting info and compressing, and pretty soon...

    KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Weight Training and Total Fitness separates the facts from the myths and gives you an all-around view of this fascinating fitness phenomenon. We'll help you decide what type of training suits your needs, and give you the exercises, routines, and nutrition tips to reach your goals.

    Whether you're a wannabe lifter or seasoned athlete, this little study guide answers your important questions:

    Does weight training provide the type of cardiovascular workout that benefits the heart and aids in weight loss?
    Will women become huge and masculine if they lift weights?
    How can I build muscle and increase flexibility?
    What foods and vitamins provide good nutrition, energy, and muscular growth?
    Are those expensive nutritional supplements necessary for building the kind of body I want?
    Does muscle turn to fat if I stop working out?
    What routine should I use?

    This guide walks you through the basics (what are sets and reps) and the intermediate (is circuit training or priority training better for me) and introduces you to the advanced stages (what are supersets, giant sets and plyometrics.)

    Of course, you'll need to know a lot about the foods you'll be eating. Part Three: Eating Right is Half the Game explains calorie counting and the roles of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals in sculpting your body.

    Besides the loads of practical advice and actual pictures of ordinary people performing the exercises, you get:

    POINTS TO REMEMBER
    You are never too old to begin, but you are never too young to get a doctor’s OK first.
    Don’t try to impress anyone by lifting more than you should.
    Don’t expect fantastic results overnight or in a pill.
    Pain means stop.
    Life is good.

    Don't just train hard, train smart!

    The KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Series compresses a great mountain of available information into easily digestible morsels.

    You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little study guide provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge...
    Blasted!

    We wish you the best of luck in your quest for knowledge in this fascinating subject. 'Bye now.

    And, oh yes, buy now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYucca Road Productions
    Release dateJun 16, 2020
    ISBN9780463171202
    Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Weight Training and Total Fitness
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    Yucca Road Productions

    Yucca Road Productions started as all great enterprises do... having a cup of coffee with friends at the kitchen table. One of our little gang of misfits had decided he was destined to appear on the Jeopardy! game show. The rest of us were foolhardy enough to volunteer our surprisingly diverse knowledge sets for the task of preparing him for said destiny.A couple years later, we had accumulated so much info, it was nuts. After deleting what we decided was "trivia" in the game show's dozen or so most-used categories, we figured we could teach anybody to do well on a game show. Or an exam. Or trivia night at the neighborhood pub. Oh, yes... we nailed that one.And so, the Knowledge Blaster! series was conceived and delivered!Then Terry Marsh wrote a couple novels and approached us about getting them published. We liked the books. So, after coercing him into buying bagels for everybody, we added him to our list of ne'er-do-wells.Then Leo Moss surprised us with a book of more-or-less poetry and a novel about a reluctant magic man. We added his works to the list, too. We had to. Moss is the only guy in the group who can spell without a dictionary (so we made him editor), and we just can't find anybody else who will work for the "prestige" of it. Just kidding, Leo.So, time passes, as is its habit. We're still at the kitchen table, wondering what might happen next. We hope it involves pizza, but you never know.

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      Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Weight Training and Total Fitness - Yucca Road Productions

      Knowledge Blaster! Guide to

      Weight Training and Total Fitness

      By Yucca Road Productions

      Copyright 2020 Yucca Road Productions

      Smashwords Edition

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,

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      work of this author.

      The Knowledge BLASTER! Series consists of books of general and academic interest, written with the specific intention of compressing a great mountain of available information into an easily digestible morsel.

      You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little book provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge...

      Blasted!

      Yucca Road Productions

      yuccaroad.com

      Contents

      Part One: I Really Should Do Something!

      Myths and Misconceptions … "I Shouldn't Weight Train Because...

      In Truth is Power … I Should Exercise Because...

      Why Weightlifting? It Ain't Aerobic, Is It?

      Circuit Training: Aerobics and weight lifting?

      Priority Training

      Free Weights Versus the Machine

      Part Two: Okay. So... Let’s Do It!

      So, These Are Your Muscles (Front) ….. (Back)

      And Here's What You Do With Them!

      Weight Training Exercises for Muscle Group

      Now You Just Need Some Pictures (Standard Exercises)

      The Routines

      Checking Your Heart Rate

      Estimated Maximum Heart Rate

      Warming Up and Cooling Down

      A Word (Or Two) Of Caution: Be Informed And Beware!

      Some Useful Tips

      After the Break-in Period

      Advanced Training

      Part Three: Eating Right is Half the Game

      Calorie Counting

      Calories Used Per Minute of Activity

      Protein

      Carbohydrates

      Fats

      Vitamins and Minerals

      Whole Foods: Oysters To Chocolate

      Drugs and Tobacco

      Points to remember

      Glossary

      Selected Bibliography

      Part One: I really should do something!

      Myths and Misconceptions

      I Shouldn't Weight Train Because...

      1. I’ve heard the saying, `no pain, no gain.’

      —This bit of misinformation has been passed around among the locker room crowd so long that it has gained unwarranted credibility. The fact is, if it hurts, you’re doing it wrong.

      Overloading your muscles to make them strong can be uncomfortable, but discomfort is not pain.

      2. I’ll get a hernia, lifting weights.

      —One researcher found that weight lifters were twenty times less likely to rupture than non-lifters. (Ask around at a gym and chances are good that nobody there even knows a lifter who’s ruptured.) Of course, some people are predisposed to rupture, and a good hard cough can do it sometimes. A sound program requires that you start with weights that you can easily handle and stay with them until you are capable of more. When in doubt, ask your doctor.

      3. When you stop working out, all that muscle will turn to fat.

      —Not so; muscle does not turn into fat. But if you continue to eat the same amount without burning off the fat with exercise, muscle decreases, fat increases. Exercise or lack of exercise may cause one to be replaced by the other.

      4. Weight lifting makes women look too muscular.

      —This fallacy might be attributed to the high visibility of female body builders in

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