Beginner's Guide to Weight Lifting: Simple Exercises and Workouts to Get Strong

I bought this book for my 17 year old son who is very self conscious and has wanted to lift weights but didn't know where to start. The book is extremely easy to follow and the photos for several moves are well done and clear. I appreciate the details paid to form as I don't want my son to get hurt. For anyone who feels overwhelmed about where to start, this book truly is great, highly recommend.

If you want to start weight training. This book gives you a good foundation.

It really is the very basic most simple and beginner book

FINALLY. A book where I don’t have to read endless chapters on fitness. This book is straight to the point, easy to follow and a true beginner guide.

Thought this book was aimed more at home exercises than it is. Mostly gym exercises with many different types of equipment needed.

I like this book. Not one to read and put away, this book will live next to your weight equipment and get referenced on a regular basis. Intelligently written and copiously illustrated, the author refrains from making whacky dietary recommendations, sticking to simple well-documented concepts. In a field awash with unrealistic expectations, this book urges moderation and progress in baby steps. One of the smartest books of its kind, I highly recommend it.

Easy to use- I’m on week 4 and it’s the best book I’ve found to help me learn to lift

The "Beginner's guide to weight lifting" is excellent for who it is targeted for-a complete beginner who has never handled weights before. I'm an avid exerciser and have done HIIT and Firm/Jari Love workouts for years-the former and latter workouts use weights in varying degrees to accelerate your heart rate during the aerobic portions of the workout and to create non-bulky, firming muscle in place of fat. At the most in these workouts I've used 12 pound weights. While I've done bodybuilding previously, it's been years, so I wanted an elementary type guide to get me back into doing the type of workout at home that I want to do without aerobics. This book is excellent for that. This book by Kyle Hunt discusses reasons to lift weights and shows very basic exercises for the back, chest, shoulders, legs, biceps and triceps. The discussion of why and how to do what exercises he's selected and how many repetitions is very straightforward. I did not like the illustrations. They are not actual photographs, which I think would have been more helpful but drawn pictures of people lifting weights. There were some exercises I've never heard of in this. The dumbbell goblet squat, inverted row, and the Y-W-T-isohold are all knew to me. Dumbbell pullovers, air squats, and seated cable rows to name a few are not new at all. I felt this was easy to read and very useful. The part at the end: 4 weeks of weight lifting routines is very useful, and gives lots of routines to start with at home or at the gym. Please note that unless you have a full gym with cables and benches, you might not be able to do some of the exercises in this book. The glossary, references and index is also very helpful. I think this is an excellent reference for a beginner.

Very informative

Not what i was hoping for

This book is pretty heavy, but i am now lifting it above my head 50 times.

I like this book. It's straight and to the point. Very helpful tool of you're a beginner. I really appreciate the visual descriptions.

Good but a bit basic. A nice encouragable read for beginners.