What are your favorite strength training books?

I’m looking for more guidance on how I should structure my workouts. What books have you found to be most helpful?

Here is my top choice, which has REALLY helped me: M&F Training Notebook. It’s made by Muscle and Fitness Magazine. I love their philosophy on developing a workout plan for both structure and nutrition. It covers workouts, nutrition, plus is a full-color guide and a GREAT resource for when you’re exercising and can’t remember how to do something, and wish you had a book in front of you. It’s tabbed, high-quality descriptive photos and thorough explanations with tips and muscle charts for each exercise. As far as I know, it’s only available at MuscleStuff.com .

There’s also 101 Workouts for Men and 101 Workouts for Women by these editors that are supposed to be great. Your best price shipped on these is probably from deepdiscount.com% , which I highly recommend.

I also highly recommend Muscle and Fitness magazine (and Hers for women). If you can get past the ridiculous ads that don’t fit the spirit of the magazine at all, you’ll find a solid magazine dedicated to “regular guy” workouts and nutrition—without all the fashion and sports and hot chick stuff like other men’s fitness magazines. You can usually find a new subscription for this on ebay for about the price of 1-2 issues.

(OK, so I know I sound like a Muscle and Fitness evangelist, but I swear I don’t work for them or have any stake in selling their material! I just happen to think it’s the best available!)

I took the liberty of uploading all the fitness/exercise e-books I’ve had including the Men’s Health and Muscle and Fitness Workout books. I have like 14 other ones, but their on my other USB drive at school. Total of 13 Fitness E-books in the pack!

Hope this helps!
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Thank you so much Jexxer… the collection you have are really good. I started reading the Tom Venuto’s “Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle” one and it is soooo good.

Thank you again!

The website www.stronglifts.com has a 5×5 Beginner strength program:
http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5×5-beginner…

(And I believe someone has already created a workout based on this too)

Stronglifts programs are really good. And yes there is a workout based on this here: http://www.gyminee.com/workout_programs/21934-S…

My favorite book for structuring is:
“Practical Programming for Strength Training” by Ripptoe & Kilgore
If you plan on setting up your own program with periodization, this book is a ‘must-read’.

Sorry, for the double post. I saw the “Edit Post” to late. ;-P

Don’t know if this is allowed, but I share an new e-book on my blog every Sunday.

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Thanks larrylar… that’s awesome….!

I’m a big fan of the classic, Getting Stronger by Bill Pearl.

It’s detailed and authoritative, without any new fads which will soon be disproven.

For a yoga bent, I’m enjoying Strength Training for Women by Joan Pagano, though she underestimates how much women can lift.

I also enjoy Strength Training for women. Since I am a firm believer in the use of cardio in tandem with strength training, I have developed my own program for myself (a 59 year old woman with diabetes. I consider my diet also a component of my health strategy.

It really depends on where you are and what you goals are…I have always liked Body for Life by Bill Phillips. I recently read The New Rules of Lifting which is definitely worth a look, but I will always go back to Body for Life especially for new lifters. It is a great basic pyramid program…be sure you focus on learning the proper lifting technique and personally I would say to stick to basic movements (squats, dead lifts, bench press, pullups, etc) that use multiple muscles to perform.

A few I’ve looked at that seem good: New Rules of Lifting for Women (fine for men too), New Rules of Lifting and Power Training.