Building Strength and Stamina: New Nautilus Training for Total Fitness

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Outlines the basics of weight training using Nautilus equipment and includes exercises and training programs.

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With more than 30 years in strength training as an athlete, coach, teacher, professor, researcher, writer, and speaker, Wayne Westcott, PhD, is recognized as a foremost authority on fitness. Westcott is fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in Massachusetts, where he developed a model strength-fitness facility and training program rated the "Best Buy in the United States" by Fitness Magazine in 1995. This model is used as a prototype for designing fitness programs. Westcott has served as a strength training consultant for numerous organizations and programs, including Nautilus, the Presidentx92;s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA), the American Council on Exercise, the YMCA of the USA, the National Youth SportsSafety Foundation, and many others. He was awarded the IDEA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 and honored with a Healthy American Fitness Leader Award in 1995. Westcott is highly sought after as a speaker and writer. He delivered the keynote address for the annual IDEA conference in 1995, and he lectures internationally on his research. He has written several books on strength training, including Strength Fitness: Physiological Principles and Training Techniques, a text physical education and exercise science majors have used for more than 15 years. Since 1986 Westcott has written a weekly fitness column for one of the largest Boston area newspapers, the Patriot Ledger. The strength training advisor and fitness columnist for Prevention magazine, he also has served on the editorial boards of Prevention, Shape, Menx92;s Health, Fitness, Club Industry, American Fitness Quarterly, and Nautilus. Wescott lives in Abington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Claudia. He enjoys strength training, running, cycling, gardening, and volunteer work.