The Complete Guide to Lifting Heavy Weights
Ebook
Overview
This is the definitive book for fitness professionals, coaches and sportspeople using or supervising the use of heavy weights
Heavy weights are very popular in gyms but there is a lack of supervision and good instruction. This is not only dangerous to the gym user but also bad news for the gym, and it prompted the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPS) to authorise a range of new courses designed by the book’s author. The Complete Guide to Lifting Heavy Weights is required reading for students taking these courses, and an essential guide for anyone who works with or supervises the use of heavy weights.
As with all titles in the Complete Guide series it is packed with information, tips, strategies and
training plans from beginner level through to advanced. This applies to those who wish to build body strength and bulk as well as people wanting to improve their performance in a range of other sports.
Well-illustrated and authoritative, it covers everything you need to know to deal with heavy weights safely and successfully.
Packed with information, tips, strategies and training plans, this is the definitive book for fitness professionals, coaches and sportspeople using or supervising the use of heavy weights. An essential publication in a discipline where poor instruction can lead to serious injury.
The author is the only person
in the UK sanctioned by Skills Active and the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPS) to design and run courses in heavy
weight training
An important publication in a
discipline where poor instruction can lead to serious injury
Suitable for all students of the new Heavy Weights courses (levels 2, 3 and 4) as well as fitness professionals, coaches and serious sportspeople
The only book on this subject with up-to-date information on safety and drug use
All gyms will be forced to take training and supervision in this area more seriously following a number of recent injuries resulting in civil action
Introduction
Chapter 1 The principles of training
Chapter 2 Safety in weightlifting
Chapter 3 Drugs
Chapter 4 Exercises
Bibliography
Index
- Title: The Complete Guide to Lifting Heavy Weights
- Author: Geoffrey K. Platt
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408181485, 9781408133255, 1408133253, 1408181487
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408181485
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:05:28Z
A former official of the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, Geoffrey Platt has taught weightlifting and strength & conditioning to elite national coaches, and managed anti-doping operations on behalf of the International Weightlifting Federation, the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency.