Published Books

Kilgore, J.L. and C.D. Touchberry (2008). Basic Fitness Testing: Field Tests for Sport & Fitness Professionals. Second Edition. Heimdall Books, Iowa Park, TX.

A new and improved print edition of the original e-manual is now available. The improved and re-illustrated book provides coaching and PE professional students with a  "laboratory" text that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. And one that they can really use in the field once they graduate.  In the manual, there are detailed instructions for administration and evaluation of field-based tests relevant to sport and fitness (designed to logically supply the experiential content of a typical 16-week university semester).  No metabolic carts, electromyographs, lactate analyzers, or any other specialized laboratory or clinical equipment is needed. Less than $50 worth of basic supplies available at Wal-Mart can support almost all of the 26 assessment activities.  All tests can be done easily with the physical plant normally found in any school, club, or clinic.  The manual presents 6 pre-exercise participation/testing screening activities and 20 varied testing activities each assessing either strength, endurance, or mobility.  Every individual activity section is prefaced with a physiology-based explanation of what is tested, why it is tested, and how the results can be interpreted and applied.  A student laboratory report form is included at the end of each activity or related group of activities. A semester calendar is also included as an appendix to enable easy tracking of important testing and assignment dates.

Audience - University students enrolled in coaching,, fitness, or physical education majors. Working coaches and trainers. 

ISBN 097680543X 
Book Size - 8.5"x11" - 112 pages - Price $20.00 USD - Table of Contents - Buy a Copy

Rippetoe, C.M.  and J.L. Kilgore (2007). Starting Strength (2nd Edition): Basic Barbell Training. The Aasgaard Company Publishers, Wichita Falls, TX.

Basic Barbell Training is the perfect student guide to LEARNING how to train with weights.  Delivering top notch instruction in barbell training in easy to understand language, Basic Barbell Training will have students training effectively and safely  within the first session of training.  The basic and important why’s and how’s of weight training are presented both in text and visual formats in order to educate and enable a life-long participation in this important component of health and fitness.  Added is a large section on the most useful assistance exercises.  The look of the book will be different as all the graphics from the original text are being revamped to make them conceptually easier for understanding. There were lots of graphics in the coaches version, even more have been added in support of the written text (475+ photographs and 275+ drawings).  And there's more of Rip's irrascible, but always relevant, humor buried in the to-the-point and easy reading text. I'm pretty sure that every student of weight training will love this text.

Audience – University weight training students or anyone beginning a strength training program
ISBN 0976805421 – 8.5”x11” Paperback - 328 pages - $29.95 USD - Buy a Copy

Practical Programming offers a different approach to exercise programming. Based on a combined 70+ years of academic expertise, elite-level coaching experience, and the observation of thousands of novice trainees, the authors present a chronological analysis of the response to exercise as it varies through the training history of the athlete, one that reflects the realities of human physiology, psychology, and common sense. Practical Programming explains the differences in response to exercise commonly observed between athletes at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels, explains these differences in the context of the relevant science, and presents new training models that actually work for athletes at all levels of experience. Complete with new, innovative graphical representation of cutting edge concepts in exercise programming, Practical Programming has become a standard reference in the field of exercise and human performance. 

Audience – Instructors of weight training courses, coaches, personal trainers
ISBN 0982522703 – 7”x10” Paperback - 204 pages - $21.95 USD - Buy a Copy 

A multi-disciplinary laboratory guide for introductory exercise science overview courses.  The text walks the student through a series of hands-on and practical exercises that forward their understanding of the universal impact of sport and exercise on the human from the smallest scale (the cell) up to the effects on society as a whole.  Targeted at the incoming freshman exercise science student, there are ten easy-to-do but information intensive activities included along with two "jump start" chapters for aerobic and anaerobic exercise programming.  Contributing authors: Dr. Mary McElroy, Lanell Blubaugh, Dr. Casey Kindig.

Out of Print

Audience - University students enrolled in "introduction to exercise sciences" courses. 
ISBN 0808756850 - 8.5x11" Paperback (spiral bound) - 158 pages - $15.95 - out of print 
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Working Books

Kilgore, J.L. (2010). Anatomy Without a Scalpel. 

This is a book that is intended to teach relevant anatomy to people who exercise and for people who train and coach them. How the body is structured dictates much about how we move - the addage "form equals function" is quite apropos. If we don't understand basic anatomy, we cannot understand how to train or coach effectively. This book has been an e-book used as an anatomy laboratory manual in my "Anatomical Assessment of Human Movement" class at MSU.  The istructure of this e-manual provides my students a study guide for use in the laboratory that can also be used for studying at home (learning anatomy takes study time in and out of class).  If the student has someone they can palpate at home, they can repeat most of the in-laboratory exercises at home.  If they spend $39 on a Mr. Thrifty 1/4 size skeleton, they can do all the exercises at home. I have been working on an extensive re-edit of the text, taking new photographs, and drawing new illustrations over the past couple years. The final printed product should become available sometime in 2010. It is a very applied text and is not intended to be as comprehensive as Gray's, as it covers the skeletal and muscular systems in detail, the cardiopulmonary system grossly, and the nervous system only in respect to balance and coordination. It is simply focused on anatomical issues in movement. It is not an amazing collection of water color plates like Netter's, just simple pencil illustrations and photographs with the additional benefit of instructions on how to locate and palpate the pictured anatomical features. It is not intended to be a pretty as Delavier's Strength Training Anatomy book, rather it is a more explanatory and complete treatment of how the body moves as a unit. 

Audience - University students enrolled in "Anatomicccaal Assessment of Human Movement". 

ISBN 0000000000 - 8.5x11" portable document file - 400 pages - currently free to my students 

Kilgore, J.L. (2011). Physiology for Function

Planned as a collection of essays and tutorials exploring physiological aspects of human adaptation in respect to physical fitness - the whys and hows of fitness gain.