The Men's Fitness Exercise Bible: 101 Best Workouts To Build Muscle, Burn Fat and Sculpt Your Best Body Ever!

For more than 7 decades I have had a passion for numerous martial arts and warrior fitness systems, (Judo, Jujitsu, Karate-Do, Boxing, Wrestling, Combatives, circuit fitness, SEAL/MILITARY fitness systems and tactical aerobics), and I am always seeking more knowledge on these subjects. This is why when I saw this large soft cover 340-page book (The Men’s Fitness exercise bible: 101 best workouts to build muscle, burn fat, and sculpt your best body ever by Sean Hyson, C.S.C.S. and the editors of Men’s Fitness) I had to purchase it. As someone who has read numerous books and taken various fitness courses in my lifetime, I thought this is one of the very best books I have read on fitness workout programs. I loved this book for a lot of reasons. The beautiful and clear color photographs showing each of the exercises are fantastic. The instructions are clear and to the point. It covers more types of exercises routines than I have seen in other fitness books. This excellent book covers and enormous amount of material beginning with “Men’s fitness food pyramid, how to warm up, full body workouts, body part workouts, upper body and lower body workouts, cardio workouts, and short workouts.” This short review merely touches upon how fantastic this book is for anyone seeking a comprehensive and wide range of exercises to become strong and fit. Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tactical Principles of the most effective Combative Systems).

Review The Men's Fitness Exercise Bible by Sean Hyson The Men's Fitness Exercise Bible is an excellent modest size book that would fit into most luggage and be very useful. It contains over 100 sets of exercise for most every situation, machine, body weight, pool, common exercise tool you can think of. Each goal or item is pictured with an fit young man doing a workout of a series of exercises. Thus, if you find yourself in a average hotel “gym” or in an elaborate fully equipped gym, or just out in the wilderness with just you and your body and this book, you have at your fingertips a reasonable plan for working out. The word “best” is overused here. The workouts are very good. But best has to be defined by your goals and your situation. These are excellent, mostly short workouts for many situations. These are accessible workouts for the average, fit gym goer. These are not elaborate advanced workouts for the elite athlete. Thus this book is very useful for most of us. To be where your only tools are a pair of dumb bells and an elliptical machine and wondering how to work out, is difficult. This book answers the question with workouts for 1 or 2 dumb bells and a workout for the elliptical machine. Combining the two gets you a good workout. You might only have a stairclimber, or a pool, or a running track, or swiss ball, or jump rope or just your body and no tools. This book gives you good workouts for each tool or total lack thereof. There is even a good total body warm up. There is no attempt to be encyclopedic here. Men's Health Big Book of Exercises does that. There are no long programs to keep you working out for months on end. There are no progressions in difficulty. There are no specific strength or speed or power or flexibility goals here. This book is just how to approach various exercise tools and situations and make the “best” of them. Many of the workouts are less than thirty minutes in length, and some are even as short as 4 minutes. The book is just what it says it is, a collection of workouts for various exercise machines and tools. And as such, it is very, very good.

I thought overall this was a really good book. I had been looking for a new program to jump start my return to training after a layoff of several months. As soon as I got the book I made workouts 3, 4 and 5 my new program. I've found the workouts challenging and effective. I was also pleased that the workouts were relatively short (about 45 minutes or so, not including warmup and cool down), which fit right into the amount of time I had. I've only glanced at the other workouts in the book, but they all seem good. The workouts come from top trainers in the industry, so you know you are getting quality advice. My only complaint about the book would be that the workouts are only loosely organized into programs (basically the introduction for a given workout might mention that it can be done with the preceding workout(s) as a program). I would have liked to have seen an appendix or something that outlined different programs you might follow using the workouts in the book. One note -- I bought the Kindle version of this book for my Android tablet, and I've found it to be a great choice. Having it on my tablet makes it much easier to use in the gym for reference on a specific exercise, vs. trying to keep a book open to a specific page (typically involving laying a heavy object across the book to keep it open to a given page).

This book has everything I want in an exercise book. They cover the best exercised to do depending on your access to equipment. If you have zero gym equipment to use, there are plenty of body weight exercises listed. You pretty much don't have an excuse to not exercise if you read this book. I highly recommend it. It's well written, the pictures are nice, and the descriptions are simple and easy to understand.

Great information and easy to use. Impressed with the nutrition part more than I thought I would. I gave it to my 18 year old son (who hates reading) for Christmas. He has read it twice and uses it for his weightlifting goals. He has improved all of his ORM by 20-50 pounds in just two months.

Although this book is over 300 pages, it's a fairly short read. It mainly lists the exercises with very brief description of each one. The layout is similar to a typical fitness magazine where they would have one photo of the exercise and a brief description of how to execute it. These "best workouts" that they've listed are fairly common exercises such as bench press, squat, deadlift, dumbbell curls, pullups, etc. I don't believe there are any exercises that I've seen that I thought were unique or creative. You can get all this information if you had ever subscribed to any fitness magazines or can find them free on the internet. Don't get me wrong. I think this book would serve someone who's new to fitness very well. It does list all the workouts that you can do in one book instead of scattered across multiple magazines and internet. But anyone who has over 6 months experience in the gym will not find the book very helpful.

I was skeptical about buying this - I figured it would be confusing like all other workout books out there, or a waste because all the information was easy to find on the internet. But this book is awesome! I was exhausted of going through all the different websites online, looking for routines and comparing them with other routines I found - what a waste of time! This book has ALL the routines you'll ever need, with different combinations that will keep your body challenged over and over. Highly recommend getting this if you need some new ideas or need a place to start - very good for beginners!

As a fitness trainer,I never regretted the purchase of this book, it's a 360 degree body changer,never a dull workout,full of fun,New & unique training methods that build,sculpt & develop every muscle in the body. I love this book because it caters for every fitness level whether you're starting with old injuries. A must read, I guarantee much excitement. :0)

Excellent book. A lot cheaper than a personal trainer (certainly at my gym!). The range of exercises is huge, covering all muscle groups - and training environments. The descriptions are clear and informative. If you want lots of anatomical detail and endless permutations of the same exercises, look elsewhere. If you want a practical guide to training that you will actually USE - look no further

Tutto in un libro e non serve altro. Esaustivo ma di stimolo in questo universo che è il bodybuilding ed il fitness.

All the exercises I ever wanted to do, for every part of the body, whether you have a full gym, just dumbbells, just resistance bands, no equipment at all... Great book that I have on hand and use every workout.

good book but not in proper schedule workout, good exercises

Habe mir mehr eine detaillierte Darstellung der verschiedenen Muskelgruppen und wie man sie genau und am besten trainieren kann gewünscht. Das Buch ist meiner Meinung nach eher was für Anfänger um in das Thema Kraftraining rein zu kommen, aber kein wie gedacht guter Ratgeber um einen eigenen neuen Traniningsplan mit neuen Übungen aus dem Buch zu erstellen..