Home Fitness

Designing Your Own Home Gym and Workout Plan

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Suzanne Falaschetti, MS
2004

178 pages

US Price: $19.95

1585186473

Table of Contents | Words of Praise

Exercise physiologist and wellness expert Suzanne Falaschetti presents sound advice on how to design and implement a home exercise plan. Falaschetti guides the reader, step-by-step, as they prepare for exercise, design a workout plan, and select safe and appropriate exercise equipment.

Home Fitness includes logical, easy-to-follow exercises and workouts in sensible progressions that are suitable for beginners and advanced exercisers alike. Home Fitness thoroughly explains the benefits of exercise in a home gym and offers chapters on:

• preparing for exercise
• personal workout plans
• shopping guide to home gym equipment
  • with specific information on cardiovascular and strength training equipment

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Preface
• Why a Home Gym?: Fun, Convenient and Economical Workouts
• The Benefits of Exercise: A Fit Body and Healthy Mind
• Preparing for Exercise: Gear Up For An Effective Workout
• Your Personal Workout Plan: Be Your Own Trainer
• Equip Your Home Gym: A Complete Shopping Guide
• Cardiovascular Equipment: Get Your Heart Pumping
• Strength Training Equipment: Develop Lean and Toned Muscles
• Exercise Encyclopedia: Workout Routines That Fit Your Lifestyle
• Tying it All Together: Incorporate Health and Fitness into Your Life
• How to Choose an In-Home Personal Trainer
• Author

Words of Praise

Interested in exercising at home, but dont know where to start Home Fitness. Designing Your Own Home Gym and Workout Plan is full of excellent ideas on how to set up a home exercise plan. even if you re only interested in purchasing a single piece of exercise eqwpment. Suzanne Falaschetti provides an easy approach to creabng an effective and motivabng home workout. Read this book before you shop. and discover terrific tips for selecbng quality exercise equipment you will use and enjoy.

Barry A. Franklin. PhD
Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Laboratories William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan
Professor of Physiology Wayne State University
Past President American College of Sports Medicine

At last! A concise, well-written, and easy-to-follow format for lay people looking for reliable advice on setting up a home gym As an ACSM Certified Exercise Specialist. I am elated to see someone finally putting it all together in one pubhcation—l wish this book was available 15 years ago Healthcare providers and exercise professionals, this is a great addition to the reference library. Clients who want to exercise at home viill thank you for recommending it.

Betsy Nota-Kirby MS
Manager of Health Programs, M-GARE, Ann Arbor Michigan
ACSM Certified Exercise Specialist

As a registered clinical exercise physiologist, my patients and clients always ask me how to properly exercise at home. Home Fitness.’ Designing Your Own Home Gym and Workout P/all has all of the information that I want them to know, in a single, well-organized package! It helps my patients and clients supplement their supervised workout sessions with safe and effective home workouts, thereby maximizing their health benefits

Susi Mathis. MS. RCEP
Cardiac Rehabilitation and Wellness Coordinator Saint Patrick Hospital Missoula, Montana
Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist
ACSM Certified Exercise Specialist

As one of Suzanne’s personal training clients. I enjoyed first-hand how Home Fitness. Designing YoLir Own Home Gym and Workout Plan made effective exercise accessible in the privacy of my own home. I learned how to quickly convert my front hail to a home gym. using versatile equipment that easily hides in a closet and costs under Si 50. My results were amazing lost inches and revealed muscles I never realized I had! A home workout is the only workout for me.

Carol Hudgens
Personal Training Client
Knoxville, Tennessee