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The Men's Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts: A Leaner, Stronger Body--in 15 Minutes a Day! Paperback – October 25, 2011
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The Men's Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts contains fast-paced circuit training and interval workouts that boost calorie burn, build muscle, and fry belly fat in half the time of regular workouts. Readers can choose from at-home, body-weight-only workouts and total-body barbell programs to exercises that target major muscle groups—the chest, arms, legs, and back—and sport-specific workouts. Other highlights include:
- a special section of 15-minute core workouts to build a rock-hard six-pack
- an eating plan with delicious meals that take 15 minutes or less to prepare
- workouts for the office or when you're traveling and can't make it to the gym
- hundreds of tips from America's best trainers, nutritionists, and exercise scientists
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRodale Books
- Publication dateOctober 25, 2011
- Dimensions8.05 x 0.82 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101609617355
- ISBN-13978-1609617356
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SELENE YEAGER is a top-selling author and professional health and fitness writer who lives what she writes as a certified personal trainer, professional mountain bike racer, and triathlete. She has authored, co-authored, and contributed to more than two dozen books. She is a frequent contributor to Runner's World, Women's Health, and Shape magazines and dishes out training advice monthly as Bicycling magazine's "FitChick." She lives in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
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Here's how you do it. You focus on a few key exercises and move quickly from one exercise to another, with mininal rest time between exercises. Then, you repeat the exercises in a circuit, again with minimal rest.
These workouts work on increasing strength, by building muscle and strong bones, thus burning more fat. These workouts emphasize getting a lean strong body, rather than bodybuilding, and is, therefore, not a general bodybuilding book.
In the number and variety of workouts, this book is excellent. It contains 78 workouts, all 15-minutes long. Some workouts are bodyweight or require dumbbells. Others use a pull-up bar, a barbell, a kettlebell, a medicine ball, a stability (Swiss or large) ball, an exercise band (tubing), a foam roller, a jump rope, a BOSU, a bench, a cable machine, a step, and so on.
Instruction and exercises for each of the workouts vary, but in general, one may do a circuit of 3 to 7 relatively intense exercises, with little or no rest between each exercise. Then, rest for 60 between each circuit. Finally, repeat 2 more circuits.
All exercise photos are large and in color, clearly showing their positions, with descriptions.
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Here's a detailed list of the 78 workouts or exercise plans. I have listed the exercises for a few of the workouts.
TOTAL BODY WORKOUTS
Bodyweight exercises
1. Beginner: strength and agility workout
Judo pushup
Seesaw lunge
Wall slide
Plank reach
2. Intermediate: your body is your barbell 1
Y squat
Spider-man pushup
Squat and jump combo
Single-leg romanian deadlift
Spider-man lunge
3. Intermediate: your body is your barbell 2: (bench or step used)
Squat
Tucked-elbow pushup
5-second forward lunge
Stepup
Jump
4. Advanced: belly off! No gym classic 1: (bench or step and a pull-up bar used)
Shoulder press pushup
Single-leg bench getup
Mountain climber
Wide-grip pushup
Inverted row
5. Advanced: belly off! no-gym classic 2: (bench, large ball, & a pull-up bar used)
Front-foot elevated split squat
Walking offset pushup
Stability ball leg curl
Single-leg hip raise
Chinup
Dumbbell workouts
6. The single: dumbbell blast workout 1
Woodchopper
Arms-out squat
Standing pressout
Towel row
7. The buildup: dumbbell blast workout 2
Straight-leg deadlift
Thrusters
Bent-over row
Squat thrust
8. Fast and furious: dumbbell blast workout 3
Incline bench press
One-arm snatch
Seated calf raise
Chest-supported row
Dumbbells, a barbell, and/or a barbell plate used.
9. Muscle definer workout 1
10. Muscle definer workout 2
11. Classic Powerlifter Workout
Jump rope used.
12. Total-body stress-buster workout
FAT BURNING WORKOUTS
Dumbbells, barbell, and other tools used.
13. You're melting: A
14. You're melting: B
One dumbbell used.
15. Strength, stamina, speed, and sweat
Pull-up bar, dumbbells, and other tools used.
16. Superhero workout
Dumbbells, bench and large ball used.
17. Supersweat Supersets
ABS & CORE WORKOUTS
Medicine ball and one dumbbell used.
18. No crunch core workout
Medicine ball and other tools used.
19. Six pack abs workout 1
Large ball, slanted bench, and pull-up bar used.
20. Six pack abs workout 2
Dumbbells used.
21. Obliques obliterator workout
Mix of tools used. Bodyweight workouts possible.
22. Build your own 15-minute core workout: choose 5 out of 19 exercises to create your own workouts.
SHOULDERS AND ARMS
Dumbbells, bench and slanted bench used.
23. Dumbbell total arms workout
Concentrated curl
Seated triceps extension
Wrist curl
Alternating grip hammer curl
Cross-shoulder extension
Standing scaption
Barbell, slanted bench, and cable machine used.
24. Arms and dangerous
Barbell, dummbells, cable machine and bench used.
25. Deltoid Definer workout
Dumbbells and barbell used.
26. Shoulders and arms combo 1
Dumbbells and cable machine used.
27. Shoulders and arms combo 2
Dumbbells, rowing station, and slanted bench used.
28. Shoulders and arms combo 3
CHEST AND BACK
Dip bars, barbell, bench, dumbbell, and barbell plate used.
29. Chest pound workout 1
Dip
Barbell bench press
Incline dumbbell fly
Seated Single-arm external rotation
Single-arm dumbbell row
Weighted pushup
Dumbbell, bench, cable machine, dip bar, and pull-up bar used.
30. Chest pound workout 2
Barbell, squat rack, dumbbells, and pull-up bar used.
31. Back attack workout
Bodyweight exercises. No equipment used.
32. Strong and steady
Cable machine, dumbbells, bench, and squat rack used.
33. Chest and back combo
Bodyweight and TRX suspension straps used.
34. Perfect pushup circuit 1
Box and medicine ball used.
35. Perfect pushup circuit 2
BOSU, bench, and box used.
36. Perfect pushup circuit 3
LOWER BODY WORKOUTS
Dumbbells, barbell, large ball, and bench used.
37. Flat butt fix
Dumbbells and large ball used.
38. Iron glute workout
Dumbbells and barbell used.
39. Ready for liftoff
Dumbbells and other tools used.
40. Total lower body blast
Cones and boxes used.
41. Lower body leaps and bounds
Bench and circular band used.
42. Protect your assets
SUPERFAST CARDIO: HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING
Basically, go fast for short periods of time, to burn more calories.
Treadmill workouts
43. Workout 1: speed demon
44. Workout 2: HIIT the hills
Running workouts
45. Workout 1: dash it off
46. Workout 2: flying laps
Cycling workouts
47. Workout 1: Lance Armstrong
48. Workout 2: rolling hills
Elliptical workout
49. Boredom beater
Swimming workout
50. Interval medley
Jump rope workout
51. Skipper 2
SPECIAL GEAR WORKOUTS
52. Kettlebell workout 1
53. Kettlebell workout 2
54. Exercise band workout 1
55. Exercise band workout 2
56. Medicine ball workout 1
57. Medicine ball workout 2
58. Stability ball workout 1 (large or Swiss ball)
59. Stability ball workout 2
60. Sandbag workout 1
61. Sandbag workout 2
IMPROVING YOUR STAMINA WORKOUTS (actually called better-sex workouts in the book)
Dumbbells used.
62. Stamina workout
One dumbbell used.
63. Over the top workout
Stability ball used.
64. Man on a mission workout
65. Pretzel position workout
Dumbbells and a sandbag used.
66. Four on the floor workout
HEALING WORKOUTS
Dumbbells, stability ball, cable machine, and slanted bench used.
67. Shoulder stretch and strengthen
One dumbbell used.
68. Knee saver
Bodyweight exercises. No equipment needed.
69. Lower back booster
Box or step used.
70. Age eraser workout
71. Foam roller workout
SPORTS WORKOUTS
Dumbbells and medicine ball used.
72. Golf workout
Dumbbells and low step used.
73. Tennis workout
BOSU, dumbells, step, medicine ball, and barbell used.
74. Ski and snowboard workout
Barbell, bench, step, and plate used.
75. Running race workout
Hyperextension station used.
76. Triathlon workout
Dumbells, bench, and step used.
77. Cycling workout
Dumbells used.
78. Basketball workout
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I did workout #3 (bodyweight) and I was breathing heavily during the exercise and I did a modified version of workout #7 (dumbell blast 2) and it was intense and made me sweat. I loved the concept of 15 minute workouts and I liked this book.
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If you liked this book, try the women's version of this 15-minutes book. This shows more bodyweight and dumbbell workouts.
If you want just bodyweight exercises, (with no equipment), get this book, "You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises" by Mark Lauren and Joshua Clark. This is excellent in the range of exercises which, again, do not require equipment.
The workouts work if you put in the work. (Sorry, I couldn't resist saying it.)
Start small. Ten to fifteen minutes a day may not seem enough. If you do it every day, however, it is long enough to build a habit.
Exercise as a habit is the hardest thing to cultivate and is the chief reason so many quit.
Take this book for a spin. In the beginning, it doesn't matter which workout you pick. Just get into the swing of working out.
[Note: The usual medical disclaimer. Ask your doctor first if you are well enough to exercise.]
I've given this book out as gifts to friends who claim they don't have the time to workout. They became fans.
Fifteen minutes may not seem enough after you have made it a habit.
Enjoy. Wish you a lifetime of fitness. In the end, it's the health of your body that matters more than anything.
In my opinion this book is not for an advanced athlete. It is more for someone like me who needs to improve their health. It has done that for me. I have even started to extend my workouts by adding more exercises to my daily regimen.
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Far better than paying gym fees. Payment plans, membership options and various grades of services are only designed to part you from your hard earned cash. Some of these books advocate body weight exercises, some with a dumbbell. At the very least, it’s surprising what benefits the average guy can get from the purchase of just one 10kg dumbbell. Two shortens the time it takes. Books like this show you what to do with it.
Apart from the financial aspect of gym membership, and it’s myriad problems, there are health risks in going to such places. Especially as the COVID crisis has focused on human to human transmission of infections. Sweating bodies leave body fluids and these can pass on infections. You really are far safer in your own home or garden and look at the money you’ll save. Plus, you won’t have nasty life-changing drugs pushed under your nose. Nobody sensible would take those. An end to a man’s sex life too.
Pas approfondi, certes, mais très large pour des routines prouvées.
Dans la série M.H, mon préféré !!