| Title | : | Younger, Fitter, Stronger: The Revolutionary 8-week Fitness Plan for Men |
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| ISBN | : | 1472964462 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781472964465 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 439 |
| Publication | : | Published April 18, 2019 |
Younger, Fitter, Stronger: The Revolutionary 8-week Fitness Plan for Men Reviews
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I much prefer the tone of men's fitness writing. The stuff aimed at women assumes that the reader is afraid of acquiring muscle bulk, and is on a hair-trigger reflex to mob the author on social media about diet and body image issues. Urgh. Can we please get on with some actual lifting?
This book is okay, and it seemed like a reasonable catch-up on 10-15 years of fitness ideas, quite a few of which had passed me by since I last seriously read around the topic. There is so much more info out there, so much more detail known from research and practice, and accessible to the public now, it's amazing, and one has to re-start somewhere. Just as I turned to familiar authors on food, like
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, (one now sees also, all white British authors) I got this book simply because I used to have older books by Roberts in the early 00s.
But if you already know your way around resistance exercise, you may be better off getting a compendium like
The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises and putting together what you need.
A big problem with Younger, Fitter, Stronger is that, although it's specifically aimed at middle-aged people, there's negligible material about injuries and especially adaptations to avoid aggravating them. In a general book, I wouldn't necessarily expect that, but how many people have got to middle age without an issue with a knee or a shoulder or something? People who used to exercise a lot, but not recently - surely a big market for a book like this - may be the most likely to have had such injuries. And of course you can also get injured by (re-)starting exercise too fast and too hard. Again The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises is better here. It's hardly comprehensive, it's not a physiotherapy book, but there are some warnings about moves to avoid because they can cause shoulder problems, and it says how important it is to be careful with shoulders because so many other exercises depend on them. Exactly!
Complete set fitness programmes have never appealed to me (and don't suit me; making your own to suit can feel more positive than removing stuff from one created for an average person with no injuries) but for someone without any significant old injuries or other exercise-relevant health issues, this one may be fine.
Read March, reviewed April 2021 -
Interesting
