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I recently got out from the library just to wet my whistle with a little anatomy lesson. The book seems pretty good so far (I've only taken a cursory look), but I just want to express my complete amazement at biomechanics in general. The human body is such an awesome organism: muscles ripping and growing back to adapt to new stresses, tendons locking so we dont flop all over the place, muscles working in concert not only to provide force, but to stabilize the spinal column in order to prevent injuries to the central nervous system.

I'm just in awe. Maybe I should have gone into medicine.

Ok....enough of that.

Does anyone who's read the book have any comments on it ?

-Roger
 
openczun said:
I recently got out from the library just to wet my whistle with a little anatomy lesson. The book seems pretty good so far (I've only taken a cursory look), but I just want to express my complete amazement at biomechanics in general.

Does anyone who's read the book have any comments on it ?
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I have the Delavier book as well.

It's been a great and continual reference source for me...in fact, I include it among my ' Top 5 ' favorite health and fitness books.:)

I always find myself going back to the Delavier book to reacquaint myself with which muscle are the primary muscles and which are the secondary muscles being used for a given exercise.

I also find it ' amazing ' how the movement of virtually each muscle in your body - at least from an exercise perspective - can not only be be evaluated in terms of some very basic biomechanical principles like lines of force, leverage, planes of motion etc. but that you can use these principles to come with the ideal biomechanical orientation for almost any exercise.

Anyone serious about resistance training should have this book IMO.
 
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