14 best weight training books

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Strength Training Anatomy

Now updated, expanded, and better than ever.

Incline Dumbbell Curls

Lateral Raises

Stretching the Shoulder

Shoulder Injuries

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Delavier's Women's Strength Training Anatomy Workouts

Step-by-step instructions work in tandem with the anatomical illustrations to ensure understanding of maximizing the efficiency of each exercise. You’ll see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations of movements can isolate specific muscles and achieve targeted results.

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Gregory M.

12 Months of Progress.

Kendrick T.

4 Months of Progress.

Matthew W.

6 Months of Progress.

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Reverse Fly

This exercise is really good for working some of the smaller muscles in and around your rotator cuff muscles. It’s also a great way to improve your posture and overall strength. This movement is similar to Bent-Over Rows but is much more difficult due to the use of smaller muscle groups.

Curtsy Lunge

This is another exercise that works your muscles in a different plane of motion: the transverse plane. This movement also helps strengthen your vastus medialis oblique, which is a thigh muscle that is often underactive. Strengthening this muscle can help reduce the risk of knee injuries in females, especially female athletes who play sports that involve cutting movements, like soccer, basketball, and tennis.

Standing Bicep Stretch

This is one way to stretch your biceps so that you don’t catch a cramp following your isolated weight lifting. You may notice your elbows staying in a bent position after a bicep workout because your biceps have shortened. It’s important to stretch your biceps to restore them to their original length. Tight, shortened biceps can cause your shoulders to round forward, which in turn will affect your shoulder mobility.

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The Strength Training Anatomy Workout

Over 150 full-color illustrations allow you to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. The Strength Training Anatomy Workout includes proven programming for strength, power, bodybuilding, and toning that can be used in a gym or at home. You’ll find targeted conditioning routines for optimal performance in more than 30 sports, including basketball, football, soccer, track and field, and golf.

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Increase flexibility, reduce injury

Each exercise includes step-by-step instruction for the main stretch and variations, anatomical illustration of movement, and safety considerations. There are stretches for each body region—neck, shoulders, back, arms, core, buttocks, and legs—integrating active, pulmonary, and external breathing techniques into each stretch. With something for everyone, the programs include beginner, intermediate, and advanced routines as well as sport-specific programs, including golf, combat sports, swimming, running, soccer, skating, cycling, bodybuilding, and horseback riding.

Stretching the extensor muscles in the forearms

Standing version with fingers pointing to the side

Stretching programs - Intermediate

Stretching programs - Combat sports

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An entirely new way to train.

In Functional Training and Beyond, Adam reveals how we can become “better than just functional.” We can improve not only our physical performance but also our mental state. We can train so that we move better, think more clearly, feel energetic, and even live more efficiently. Functional Training and Beyond shows us how we can train our brains just like our bodies, and how to incorporate this into a comprehensive, well-rounded program.