Weight Training Diary For Dummies

About the Author Allen St. John is the author of Bicycling For Dummies and Skiing For Dummies and is a former senior editor at Conde Nast Women's Sports and Fitness magazine. An avid recreational athlete, he has written about sports and fitness for a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines including Men's Journal, MH-18, U.S. News World Report, Maxim, and the New York Times. He's a columnist for Skiing magazine, a regular contributor to Tennis, and a founding contributing editor for Bike, and he has covered the New York Yankees for the Village Voice for the past eight seasons as well as contributed to the hardcover book and CD-ROM, The Way Baseball Works. He lives in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Sally, and two children, Ethan and Emma.

• Introduction 1Part I: The Training Basics 7Chapter 1: Creating your workout plan 9Chapter 2: Just warming up 23Chapter 3: Giving yourself a life 35Chapter 4: Cooling down and fueling up 45Part II: The Weight Training Diary 55Your training diary 57Part III: The Part of Tens 179Chapter 5: Ten weight room etiquette tips 181Chapter 6: Ten top weight-lifting songs 185Index 189