Authors:Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove,
Publisher: Avery
Keywords: moves, maximum, muscle, basic, six, rules, lifting, new
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-12-29
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1583332383
ISBN-13: 9781583332382
A revolutionary method of weight lifting using today’s science for maximum results. In The New Rules of Lifting, fitness guru Lou Schuler and strength-training expert Alwyn Cosgrove boil down the most recent findings on weight lifting and fitness to create a program of workouts that focuses on the movements at which the body naturally excels. These six "real-life" movements-squat, bend, lunge, push, pull, and twist-compose three complete programs for three distinct goals: fat loss, muscle gain, and strength improvement. At home or at the gym, these routines can be mixed and matched for
Author: Ellington Darden Ph.D.
Publisher: Rodale Books
Keywords: building, system, muscle, training, intensity, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1594860009
ISBN-13: 9781594860003
Certain to become the bible of HIT-the training that revolutionized lifting with shorter, far-more-intense workouts-this impassioned guide is the last word on how to achieve explosive growth safely, without steroids! For many dedicated bodybuilders, the weight-lifting theories of Arthur Jones are gospel. It was Jones, the inventor of Nautilus exercise equipment, who first discovered that short, intense workouts could produce better results than the long, high-volume workouts then in vogue. Even though research into Jones’s methods has proved them correct, a number of high-profile strengt
Author: Abraham Morgentaler
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: muscle, mass, overall, health, drive, sex, life, recharge, vitality, testosterone
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-10-27
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071494804
ISBN-13: 9780071494809
"Dr. Morgentaler, an internationally recognized expert in sexual medicine and male hormones, shares his secrets for a healthy life."--Irwin Goldstein, M.D., Director of Sexual Medicine, Alvarado Hospital, San Diego, and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Sexual Medicine "A highly valuable resource. Finally debunks many of the myths about testosterone’s safety, which has been an impediment to its appropriate usage for far too long."--David E. Greenberg, M.D., President, Canadian Society for the Study of the Aging Male From a Harvard doctor and a leading expert on testosterone--the groundbr
Authors:David Anthony Jones BSc PhD, Arnold De Haan, Joan R
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: movement, molecules, muscle, skeletal
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2004-04-21
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0443074275
ISBN-13: 9780443074271
This text is an essential resource for any practitioner interested in how muscles work, whether from the point of view of training for sport, treating physical problems and diseases, or understanding the basic cellular physiology and how the function interrelates with other body systems. It provides outstanding material on skeletal muscle physiology and biochemistry. The book also offers the reader important knowledge on topics like embryonic development, muscle organization, energy metabolism, structure of the muscle fiber, and mechanisms of fatigue.Outstanding number of photographs, illust
Authors:George Karpati, David Hilton-Jones, Robert C. Griggs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: muscle, voluntary, disorders
Number of Pages: 775
Published: 2001-09-15
List price: $417.99
ISBN-10: 0521650623
ISBN-13: 9780521650625
The seventh edition of Disorders of Voluntary Muscle has been rewritten and redesigned with the needs of the clinician and clinical scientist in mind. It contains up-to-date information on the etiology and pathogenesis of skeletal muscle diseases, including the mitochondrial myopathies, ion channel disorders, muscular dystrophies, and dysimmune myopathies. This volume covers the many recently identified diseases of muscle, and emphasizes the progress that has been made in diagnosis and treatment. As background to the clinical coverage, the new edition also has chapters summarizing advances in
Authors:Devendra K. Agrawal, Robert G. Townley,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: receptors, response, modulation, muscle, smooth, airway
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1990-10-24
List price: $404.95
ISBN-10: 084935904X
ISBN-13: 9780849359040
Airway smooth muscle plays a dominant role in bronchial asthma, as well as a significant role in various pulmonary diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis and emphysema. Myogenic, neurogenic, and humoral factors control airway smooth-muscle tone. This text provides a state-of-the-art summary and critical discussion of airway smooth muscle from a multidisciplinary point of view. Topics discussed include morphology, biochemical regulation, mechanical and electrophysiological behavior and reflex control of smooth muscle; the epithelium-derived relaxing factor; and methods to measure
Author: Prof. Kian Fan Chung
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: biology, pharmacology, copd, asthma, smooth, muscle, airway
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2008-06-11
List price: $187.95
ISBN-10: 0470060662
ISBN-13: 9780470060667
In this book, leading researchers in medicine and molecular pharmacology explain the cellular mechanisms that control airway smooth muscle. The means by which these are disrupted in disease, and the pharmacologic strategies by which they may be modified are discussed and future therapeutic interventions are identified. Aimed at specialists in pulmonology, this volume provides the clinician with the most up to date information on one of the core physiological processes in airway disease, and offers insights into current and future approaches to management. Authoritative update on key mechanis
