Weight Training Resources

[LordGrover]

I'm quite a keen gym-goer and always keen to find out what works. I spend a fair bit of time reading and searching t'interweb for ideas and proven methods. I've gone down many a blind alley over the years, but have settled on just a few to which I return time and again. I thought it may be useful to post up what I've found useful and if anyone else has anything they think may be of use/interest, please let us know.

Books

• Strength Training Anatomy - Frédéric Delavier
• The Anatomy of Stretching - Brad Walker
• Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle* - Tom Venuto
• Supertraining - Mel Siff
• Speed trap and Training for speed - Charlie Francis (see comments by bales below)
• Stretching - Bob Anderson
• Serious Strength Training - Tudor Bompa
• Arnold Schwarzenegger's Modern Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding
• Brawn - Stuart McRobert

Internet

• exrx.net - click
• bodybulding.com - click
• Stronglifts.com

* only available online, the website's a PITA, it's a terrible read and very 'merican, but the advice/instruction is excellent IMO.

ETA To incorporate info below.

Edited by LordGrover on Friday 14th January 13:58

[bales]

Supertraining by Mel Siff

Speed trap and Training for speed by Charlie Francis - sprinting mainly but has a lot of info about strength/power & weights etc...there is a famous quote somewhere saying speed is one of the greatest expressions of strength so all relevant to just gym goers.

Charles Poliquin has written some good stuff also.

[Animal]

Stretching by Bob Anderson
Serious Strength Training by Tudor Bompa
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Modern Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding

Useful books all.

[markh1]

Brawn...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9963916317/ref=...

An essential read for any hard gainer. The book is a big advocate of compound exercises, particularly the 20 rep squat. Following the principles in this book I have gained a lot of strength and some reasonable size, particularly in my legs.

[markcoznottz]

markh1 said:

Brawn...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9963916317/ref=...

An essential read for any hard gainer. The book is a big advocate of compound exercises, particularly the 20 rep squat. Following the principles in this book I have gained a lot of strength and some reasonable size, particularly in my legs.

Good lad, nice to see someone coming over to the good side of the force.....

[Henry Hawthorne]

I like Stronglifts.com

Taught me how to do all my compounds correctly (although not sure on his powerclean tech). Don't abide by the 5*5 anymore but it was a good intro to training.

[LordGrover]

markcoznottz said:

markh1 said:

Brawn...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9963916317/ref=...

An essential read for any hard gainer. The book is a big advocate of compound exercises, particularly the 20 rep squat. Following the principles in this book I have gained a lot of strength and some reasonable size, particularly in my legs.

Good lad, nice to see someone coming over to the good side of the force.....

Right you two... I have the book, read the book, still not a lot clearer to me. Undeniably some interesting and useful ideas but so jumbled up it's hard to make any conclusion or even a basic starting point.

If you're interested, I'd like to post up what I think is probably my starting point based on the info gained from Brawn to get your comments/recommendations.

[Ordinary_Chap]

I have recently spent time working on the HIT method of weight lifting.

And I bought a book that blew my mind about training by the ledgendary Mike Mentzer on his version of HIT training.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Mike-Mentzer-Philos...

This opened my mind to training less but with a very high intensity and I've got to say doing it was the first time I've ever thought I'm going to be sick from weight lifting!!

Edited by Ordinary_Chap on Friday 14th January 16:27

[Animal]

Ordinary_Chap said:

Mike Mentzer/his version of HIT training.

Very useful if (a) you can stomach the training (and be honest about what failure really is!) and (b) you can get two piece of equipment to yourself to perform the supersets adequately.