A guide to exercise. Somewhere between sport and diet there's a big hole with exercise in it.

March 2, 2008 2:25 PM

Can anyone recommend any resources (websites, books, magazines, whatever) that are a practical guide to using popular home exercise equipment such as assorted stretchy tubing or those squeezy hand spring things?

Bookstores go; Diet - Aromatherapy - Yoga - Pilates - Sport. They mostly skip practical guides to exercising. I have managed to find a large book with a significant proportion devoted to a practical guide to larger machines that you'd see at a gym along with dumbbells and barbells. As well as a very well written introduction to resistance training in general.

However, I see heaps of cheesy exercise stuff in the secondhand market and I was wondering if anyone had put together something better than the one page "training manual", or less, that typically accompanies such products.

Even a guide as to which stuff to avoid would be handy.

posted by krisjohn to health & fitness (1 answer total)

Ross Enamait is a professional trainer that has a couple of great books detailing how to achieve elite fitness with minimal or no equipment. And here on his forum, he lists several links detailing how to make homemade equipment. His book, Never Gymless, details how to use such equipment.
posted by keith0718 at 3:00 PM on March 2, 2008