Weight Training: Steps to Success

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Baechle, Thomas R., 1943-
   Weight training : steps to success / Thomas R. Baechle, Roger W. Earle. -- 4th ed.
       p. cm.
   Includes bibliographical references.
   ISBN-13: 978-1-4504-1168-4 (soft cover)
   ISBN-10: 1-4504-1168-1 (soft cover)
   1. Weight training. I. Earle, Roger W., 1967- II. Title.
   GV546.3.B34 2012
   613.713--dc23
                                         2011026944

ISBN-10: 1-4504-1168-1 (print)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4504-1168-4 (print)

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