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Stronger Legs and Lower Body
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Product Description
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Get fit, look better, and improve performance with Stronger Legs and LowerBody, the only book solely devoted to developing both the physique andfitness of the lower body. Its not just about looking good its also aboutbecoming more active, moving better, and performing better in sport.
Two internationally recognized fitness experts wrote this book for those whowant to enhance athletic performance as well as body aesthetics. As a personaltrainer, Keli Roberts has helped hundreds of clientsincluding many Hollywoodcelebritiesachieve their fitness goals. Linda Shelton, fitness editor forSHAPE magazine, has more than 30 years of experience in exercise instruction. In Stronger Legs and Lower Body, Roberts and Shelton combine their expertiseto show you how to improve muscle tone, strength, and body shape with progressiveresistance-training exercises, including exercises that target every musclegroup increase flexibility and enjoy greater freedom of movement get results with proven eight-week programs and customize your own program to meet your training goals.
This comprehensive book includes strengthening and stabilizing exercises totarget every area of the lower bodyhips, buttocks, hamstrings, quadriceps,lower legs, and calvesmaking it easy for you to focus on the specific areasyou need to work on. Youll find clear guidelines for conditioning andtraining, plus progressive eight-week programs that yield swift results: toningand shaping programs for quick and visible progress, conditioning programs toimprove your athletic performance, and fat- burning cardio programs to keep yourbody looking and feeling good. Theres also an entire chapter dedicated toshowing you how to design your own program.
Whether strength, athletic fitness, or fat burning is your goal, youll lookbetter, feel better, and perform better with Stronger Legs and Lower Body.
About the Author
Keli Roberts is an internationally recognized fitness expert with morethan 15 years of teaching and instructing experience worldwide. She hasextensive experience training high-profile clients, including Hollywoodcelebrities like Cher, Kirstie Alley, Susan Dey, Jennifer Grey, Jennifer JasonLeigh, and Faye Dunaway.
Roberts is a regular presenter at IDEA and is known professionally for herprograms that focus on lower-body function and performance. She is certified infitness instruction with the Australian Council for Health, Physical Educationand Recreation (ACHPER), and the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA),in group exercise instruction and personal training with American Council onExercise (ACE), and in boxing and kickboxing with the International SportsConditioning Association (ISCA). Her first book, Fitness Hollywood, iscurrently in its fifth edition.
A native of Australia, Roberts now resides in Tujunga, California, where sheteaches group exercise classes and works as a personal trainer and continuingeducation specialist. Her hobbies are gardening, competitive road cycling,mountain biking, and whitewater kayaking.
Linda Shelton is the fitness editor for SHAPE and Fit Pregnancymagazines and has more than 30 years of experience as a fitness teacher andeducator. Linda has a bachelors degree in physical education and hascompleted her masters work in exercise physiology. She has owned an aerobicsstudio, and worked as a Reebok step trainer as well as a personal trainer.Shelton was the director of technical training and head trainer for the Aerobicsand Fitness Association of America (AFAA) and helped develop their standards andguidelines and their international certification exam.
Linda lives in Thousand Oaks, California, where she serves as a fitnessconsultant specializing in strength training at her own company, ProfessionalFitness Services. She enjoys gardening and hiking with her two goldenretrievers, Zeke and Libby.
Table of Contents
Part I Building a Strong Base
Chapter 1 Graceful Beginnings: Conditioning Your Lower Body
Chapter 2 Training Guidelines: What You Need to Know
Chapter 3 Preparation Phase: Strength and Flexibility Starters
Part II Strengthening and Stabilizing Exercises (First Gear)
Chapter 4 Hips
Chapter 5 Buttocks and Hamstrings
Chapter 6 Quadriceps
Chapter 7 Lower Legs and Calves
Part III Defining and Functional Strength Exercises
Chapter 8 Toning and Shaping Compound Exercises (Gearing Up)
Chapter 9 Horizontal Integrated Training Techniques (HITTS)
Part IV Eight-Week Programs
Chapter 10 Power Conditioning for Sports (High Gear)
Chapter 11 Fat-Burning Cardio Programs
Chapter 12 Design Your Own Program
Chapter 13 Beyond the Eight-Week Program
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