Anatomy for Strength & Fitness Training: An Illustrated Guide

From the Publisher: Get an In-Depth Look at Your Muscles

Discover what happens to your muscles when you exercise! Learn how to make your workouts more powerful and effective by seeing how your muscles actually work when you exercise with safe and proper form. Boost your performance with more than 75 selected workouts, grouped by body region and involving gym machines, free weights, body weight/stretching, yoga, Pilates, and more.

100+ full-color anatomical illustrations provide an inside look at how exercise affects the 70 main muscles. Over 75 exercises cover the major body parts and types of training and will condition your entire body to give you a stronger, more flexible, centered physique. Expert instructions for each exercise include difficulty levels, training tips, starting positions, and technical muscle analyses.

Conditioning and Exercises

Conditioning Primer: Learn about the musculoskeletal system, then all about joints and movements, fitness concepts, the 3 phases of your fitness journey, CrossFit, Zumba, Pilates, Yoga, SoulCycle, TRX, Orangetheory, and more.

Pre-Training Warm-Up: Squat Push Press, Standing Torso Rotations, Bend and Reach, Multidirectional Lunges, Seated Stride into Saw Stretch, Walking Arm Swings, and more.

Abdominals, Stabilization, and Balance: Posture Primer (pictured), Abdominal Stabilization Program, Forward Stability Ball Roll, Plank Pose Stabilization, Bodyweight Leaning Side Abdominal, Bodyweight Sit-Ups, and more.

Compound and Power Exercises: Bent Leg Good Morning, Bodyweight/Air Squat, Back Squat, Front Squat, Overhead Squat, Medicine Ball Clean (pictured), and more.

Legs and Hips: Barbell Lunge, Freestanding Lateral Lunge (pictured), Bench Step, Freestanding Barbell Plié Squats, Seesaw with Ball.

Plyometrics and Explosive Conditioning: Standing Jump and Reach, Box Jumps (pictured), Wall Balls, 4-Point Burpee.

Chest: Push-Ups, Bodyweight Modified Push-Ups, Dumbbell Bench Press, Barbell Bench Press (pictured), Dumbbell Flat Bench Flyes, Bodyweight Dips.

Back and Shoulders: Machine Cable Front Lat Pulldown, Bent-Over One-Arm Dumbbell Rows (pictured), Dumbbell Seated Shoulder Press, Seated Low Cable Pulley Rows, and more.

Arms: Dumbbell Seated Overhead Tricep Extension on a Ball (pictured), Supine Barbell French Curl, Barbell Triceps Press, Standing Barbell Curl.

Aerobic and Metabolic Training: Skipping/Jump Rope, Aerobic Machines (pictured), Jogging and Running.

Post-Training Cool Down: Supine Legs to Chest, Side-to-Side Hip Rolls, Supine Lying Single-Leg Hamstring Stretch, Seated Rotation (pictured), Knee Iliopsoas Stretch, and more.

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