Individual Sports

Hi, I’m James Atkinson (Jim to my friends and readers). I’m a qualified fitness coach, competing bodybuilder and have a burning desire to help others reach their fitness goals.

I have been training for nearly 20 years and this training has taken me from long distance running to bodybuilding competition.

It is fair to say that I have learned the secrets of weight loss and fitness from my own personal journey. I have been fat, skinny and muscle bound throughout my fitness career and I really feel fulfillment from helping and advising others when it comes to their goals.
This book is all about the very well-known but little practiced (correctly) method of training known as “Supersets”.
My aim with this book is to give you the knowledge so you will:

•Be able to identify the workload that best suits your training goal
•Effectively add supersets to your existing workouts
•Use the method “full time”
•Plan to use supersets to target your weaknesses
•Be in a position to devise your own workout routine using this method

From my first year of resistance training I knew of the superset concept but it was many years later that I started to use it to good effect in my training and later, my clients training too.

It was through my own exercise and learning that I was able to fashion this method into something that could be used in all types of workout.
Whether you are looking to build muscle, burn fat or even train for endurance, you can:

•Use supersets to shorten your workouts
•Increase intensity
•Add volume to your training
•Add variety to your average training session

This book includes examples of full workout routines for different levels of fitness and different fitness goals. These can be followed directly from the book, but my main focus is to pass on my knowledge so you can adapt your training or tweak the featured routines to great effect.
I will wish you good look and IL see you on the inside. Let’s get started!……

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From Amazon’s #1 New Release author comes, Punching Above Your Weight: The Untold Story of the Martial Arts

AS FEATURED

UK Martial Arts Show
MALMAG (Martial Arts Lifestyle Magazine)
Derbyshire Times
Around Saddleworth and Tameside Magazine
Glossop Chronicle

PRAISE

‘This book…will benefit both the experienced martial artist and the novice who is looking to take up a martial art for the first time.’
– Mike Gregory, Instructor under Dan Inosanto in Jun Fan Gung Fu/Filipino Martial Arts

‘A comprehensive overview of different martial arts styles, their philosophy and historical routes and their evolution over time… This book gives a real taste of global martial arts and an insight into which might just be the route for you. A roundhouse of a book that packs a real punch!’
– David Ochwat, Kickboxing Blackbelt

BLURB

People have been punching one another for thousands of years, and today is no different. It’s in our blood. But if you found yourself in the midst of a fight, with no time to think and nowhere to turn, what would be the best way of defending yourself?

Punching Above Your Weight tells the story of how many people across the globe tried to answer this apparently simple question. From Kung Fu and Karate to Wrestling and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, the book explores the role of martial arts in society whilst investigating how they’ve merged, changed, and evolved over past millennia.

Is it best to mimic a dragon when someone pulls out a knife?
How do you learn to punch at six times your bodyweight?
Why is it that fighting and philosophy go hand in hand?

This is the untold story of the martial arts.

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Fatima Whitbread had the worst possible start in life. Abandoned as a baby, she spent much of her childhood in and out of children’s homes. A brief, disastrous stay with her birth mother saw her raped by her mother’s drunken boyfriend – while her mother held a knife to her throat to ‘quieten her down’. Fatima was only twelve at the time.

Athletics was her saviour: local athletics coach Margaret Whitbread took the young Fatima under her wing, eventually adopting her. Fatima competed in three Olympics, winning bronze at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. In 1986 she set a world record, and the following year in Rome became world champion and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. But then Fatima faded from the public eye, leaving many to wonder where she had gone.

After the cheering stopped, Fatima faced prejudice, penury, scandal and heartbreak. Survivor describes how she defeated all her demons to rise triumphantly from the ashes once again, this time as queen of the jungle. Almost 13 million people watched her on I’m a Celebrity, and after surviving 20 days in the Australian heat, she has millions of new fans eager to know more about Fatima the woman: the forthright, focused, slightly bossy, charismatic single mum who knows how to transform even the most devastating experiences into lessons in life. This is the unforgettable story of a true champion, who triumphed against the worst hardships imaginable.

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