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The DVD exercises are demonstrated by Wesley Barnett, silver medalist at the 1997 World Weightlifting Championship, multiple US national weightlifting champion and record holder +  Javorek’s Dumbbell and Barbell Exercises – Demonstration – DVD. These two DVDs provides a wide variety of Dumbbell and Barbell exercise techniques and plyometrics demonstration on Javorek’s Conditioning Hill. This is an encyclopedia of my exercises with unique DUAL video angles so you can really learn the technique. Over THREE and a HALF HOURS of powerful barbell and dumbbell exercise techniques!!!!

 

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In the late '80s while participating in a NSCA pilot project, I had the pleasure to lecture with Istvan "Steve" Javorek. I found him to be a cultured man with a great sense of humor and a wealth of knowledge. He is an authority not only on the sport of weightlifting but also on sports conditioning, nutrition and biological forms of recovery.Javorek, an ethnic Hungarian born in Romania, became a head weightlifting and conditioning coach. From 1964 to 1982 he worked at the Clujana Athletic Club-Cluj in Romania, training many top Romanian weightlifters who competed for the national team. One of these athletes was Dragomir Cioroslan, a bronze medal winner at the 1984 Olympic Games who went on to become the head coach for US Weightlifting at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.In 1983 Javorek worked with the South Korean national weightlifting team, then came to America the following year to be the head weightlifting coach and an all-sports conditioning coach at Texas A&M for three years. This was followed by his current position as a full-time professor of fitness at the all-sports conditioning program at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Among Javorek's most successful athletes are Wayne Simien, a 2005 first-round draft pick in the NBA who plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Kareem Rush, another top NBA athlete who is currently playing for the Charlotte Bobcats.Javorek has a great book out called Javorek Complex Conditioning. I recommend it to all personal trainers and strength coaches who want to broaden their knowledge of the Iron Game. It is not for the research nerd but for the person in search of an excellent "how-to" book.Javorek's book is based upon workouts that he has developed for his athletes, and his approach is to increase overall athletic ability with training - regardless of sport. In Romania, for example, while attending to his weightlifting athletes as their head coach he also would train several dozen bodybuilders for competition."I remember my first bodybuilders had disproportionately developed musculature with a lack of general athletic abilities," says Javorek. His training prescriptions reflect this philosophy, such as the one he refers to as his "Tremendous Pleasure" workout (oh, did I mention that Javorek has a sense of humor?). Javorek's book reflects the importance of variation in exercise design, and in it you'll find not just dumbbell and barbell exercises but also dips, pull-ups, box jumps and walking lunges.Javorek offers the following guiding principles for designing workouts: "Make the schedule enjoyable, avoid monotony, use plenty of exercise variations and individualize the schedule." As such, he is especially fond of workouts that emphasize dumbbell training, which are detailed in chapters 13 to 25. Here are ten reasons that support Javorek's emphasis on dumbbell training:
  1. is safer than barbell work
  2. does not require a large practice area
  3. is easy to teach
  4. can be performed "simultaneously and very efficiently" with large groups of athletes
  5. is dynamic with large range of motion, and offers great variation in exercises
  6. stimulates balance
  7. develops muscular power, cardiovascular and muscular endurance, flexibility and strength
  8. is inexpensive
  9. is easy to monitor loading parameters
  10. is easy to monitor heart rate before and after each set

Another interesting aspect of his workout design is that he likes to finish his workouts with abdominal training and plyometric exercises. Says Javorek: "I was born with the East-European plyometrics movement (which we just called 'explosive drills'). I have helped athletes achieve great performance applying my philosophy to hundreds of programs, which develop quick, fast and explosive musculature."The result of such training is that his athletes often develop high levels of general fitness. Here are two outstanding examples:Istvan Tasnadi. Tasnadi became a silver medalist in weightlifting in the 1984 Olympic Games. At a bodyweight of 246 pounds, he could jump onto a 42-inch box 20 times consecutively and could run the 60-meter dash in 7.1 seconds.Wesley Barnett. Barnett was a student of Javorek in 1988-1991. During this time Barnett recorded a 10.4-foot standing long jump and a 64-foot throw on the overhead backward 10-pound medicine ball throw and ran 30 meters in 3.98 seconds. Barnett became a silver medalist at the 1997 World Weightlifting Championships in the 242-pound class.Many top athletes and coaches have endorsed Javorek Complex Conditioning. Here are a few: Al Vermeil, strength and conditioning coach, Chicago Bulls; Rob Rogers, M. Ed., C.S.C.S., football conditioning coach, Middle Tennessee State University; Randy Barnes, 1996 Olympic gold medalist in shot put; and Sumya Anani, IBA Lightweight World Champion. And you can add my name to that list.Javorek Complex Conditioning is a great book for those looking for a radical change in their program and who want to not only look like an athlete but also be able to perform like one. To purchase Javorek Complex Conditioning, go to www.istvanjavorek.com.

Charles Poliquin

Owner of “The Poliquin Group”, The Poliquin Group

The author, who is well known in conditioning circles, has penned a how-to text that covers a wide spectrum of conditioning activities. The book is well illustrated with many photos and is divided into 33 chapters. The first 5 chapters give the reader a background of the author’s extensive experience as an athlete and coach, along with a brief history of strength and conditioning focusing on weightlifting. The next 7 chapters focus on program design, and it is here that the author’s European background becomes evident in the areas of warm-up, general physical preparation and restoration.

Chapters 13 to 25 are the heart of the book and contain a wide variety of strength and conditioning programs from novice to elite level. The author has made famous many of the dumbbells complexes and circuits over the years. Again, the area of general physical preparation is well addressed with many innovative exercise regimes. The trunk and torso routines are very challenging in part because the authors’ gymnastic background. Chapter 26 contains a listing of the various exercises along with photos of each exercise. The author has myriad exercise variations that the reader can use to add variety to any conditioning program. Over 200 variations of dumbbell exercises and complexes are included. Chapter 27 – 29 concentrate on competitive weightlifting. Descriptions, technique progressions, and novice and advanced programs are presented. The next two chapters contain innovative material on wheelchair training and “at your desk” training for office workers. The author concludes with chapters on reconditioning and outlining a weight training class.

Because this is a how–to text, the author does not include a lot of research material. This book will appeal to anyone looking for innovative approaches to strength and conditioning. Its strength is in the area of general physical preparation and variety of routines for all ages and for all types and level of fitness

Dan Wathen

MS, ATC, CSCWS*D; NSCA-CPT,*D Youngstown State University, Ohio, Youngstown State University