Essential Exercises

Essential Exercises is a bodybuilding starter guide for exercise selection. Written by Chris Beardsley and Paul Carter, it includes the most effective exercises for achieving maximum muscular development that every bodybuilder should consider including in their routine.

The manual makes use of the very latest and up-to-date scientific information. It prioritizes exercises that are easy to coordinate and stabilize (to ensure the highest levels of motor unit recruitment by avoiding extra mental effort). It uses published data regarding internal moment arm lengths (to ensure that the correct muscles are targeted by each exercise in accordance with the principle of neuromechanical matching). And it references existing information regarding sarcomere operating lengths (to ensure that muscles that are sensitive to stretch-mediated hypertrophy are trained at long muscle lengths).

This book is quite simply the resource that we wish had been available when we started strength training. It would have saved us a lot of time and wasted effort doing exercises that were nowhere near as effective - Chris Beardsley and Paul Carter