The Concise Book of Muscles, Third Edition

This is great! I have a medical condition that has taught me more than I ever wanted to know about my muscles but not in a particularly accurate way. I decided it was time to try to put names to what I'm feeling and this book will allow me to do just that, as close as I can expect without a medical education anyway. Very pleased with it, and maybe it will even add to my healing. It gives just the right amount of knowledge--not overly detailed but definitely substantial enough to be very educational. Next time I see my massage therapist I will see if I can correlate what I've learned in the book to the muscles I feel.

This is a great book. Not heavy at all to carry around, but has a lot of detail. Very well organized and the illustrations are easy to understand. Broken down muscle by muscle with a lot of detail. Helpful for anyone interested in learning about muscles.

I'm a personal trainer but didn't major in exercise science. This book has helped me tremendously. I knew only about the major muscle groups but didn't understand the purpose of their origins and insertions. Now when I train clients I teach them how to concentrate on which bones they need to move in order to flex the desired muscle.

great

I'm currently studying to be a personal trainer and my goodness does this book help me learn all the muscles!

I love this book, but I love the first edition so much more. Mainly due to the lay out of the information was better in the 1st edition. Also, the pages are higher quality than this edition. But the information written is sooo great!

Such a great book for ANYONE to use and follow. From adults in a medical field to kids learning about the body... all can benefit from this book. Great descriptions with even better diagrams.

Really great if you're in Anatomy and Physiology I or need a refresher in an upper level course. Has good pictures of all the muscles and their origin, insertion and nerves.

Great reference book

This book is precisely (and more than) what it says it is; a concise book of muscles. The images are clear, the explanations are concise and the references are just as one might expect from an excellent clinical anatomist such as John Sharkey. In this work Sharkey has also attempted to step into the 21st Century and take the student, the lay reader and the professional educator or practitioners safely towards navigating what the leading edge of scientific enquiry is beginning to reveal: that is the evolving (expanding) significance of both connective tissues and their architectural organisation in the human body. (Reference Biotensegrity Chapter 2). Through clear text and illustration (from clinical practice and in the dissection laboratory) Sharkey points the reader gently in the direction of a path I suspect we will all have to embrace in the coming decades, in order to work optimally with the whole human bodies that walk into our practices, clinics, gyms, athletic environments or classrooms. It is a brave step and an incremental one, that deserves recognition for its contribution and excellent, clear, full colour content. Sharkey honours Jarmey's work, fully respects the topological map of classical education and appropriately includes the observable implications from the lab that are not always understood from many anatomy books. As director of a Yoga Teacher Training school and teacher of manual modalities, this book is at the top of the required reading list in any of my classes. It proves most helpful in private practice to show to clients and quite brilliant for students to begin to see how relationships work between muscles and in application, through the thumbprint illustrations that sit alongside much of the text. Highly recommended.

Excellent ouvrage. Je recommande.

This book is a must have for anybody who is interested in anatomy. I am currently doing an SMT qualification and this book was recommend to me by my teacher, I am not disappointed by it! It is extremely detailed and easy to read, it's my go to book for muscles if I ever need further information about a clients issues.

Complex and complete reference guide.