Advanced Exercises

Advanced Exercises is an exercise selection guide for lifters with considerable bodybuilding experience. Written by Chris Beardsley and Paul Carter, it includes the most effective exercises for achieving maximum muscular development in muscles that can be difficult to develop optimally.

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). And perhaps most importantly of all for the advanced lifter, it provides guidance on both the susceptibility of each muscle group to post-workout muscle damage and the likelihood that each exercise will cause muscle damage.

This book is full of the exact information that we currently make use of in our own strength training programs - Chris Beardsley and Paul Carter