The following electronic publications are available from gubernatrix.co.uk

Getting Into Weight Training: A female-friendly guide by Gubernatrix

This FREE guide is available as a pdf to download, or as a series of articles to read online.

Want to give weight training a go but don’t know where to start? This guide gives you all the basic information you need and points you in the right direction. It’s not just for women either – the information is relevant to men as well.

You will learn about the basic equipment and exercises involved and get an idea of how much weight to aim for in your first few months. You’ll even find out how to create your own training programme, instead of having to persuade the gym staff to let you lift something that isn’t pink and made of plastic!

The guide is completely free, but you can support this site and all the free content by making a donation via Paypal. Just click the ‘support this site’ link on the right to buy me a cup of coffee – or something stronger!

Kettlebell Training Guide by Andrew Stemler, Crossfit London

A step-by-step guide to mastering the key kettlebell exercises. The kettlebell is a unique and fun training tool but to get the best out of it, it is important to have correct form. With detailed illustrations, this guide takes you through the swing, clean, snatch, various types of presses, the turkish get-up and the windmill.

The kettlebell is a great addition to a home gym as it takes up very little space but still affords an awesome workout. At only £3.50, this guide is excellent value and if you purchase it here you will also be supporting this site.

Ring Training by Andrew Stemler, Crossfit London

For only £3.50, a lavishly illustrated guide to full body training with gymnastic rings. Training with the rings is one of the quickest routes to functional strength and is an important component of the increasingly popular Crossfit system. This guide includes all the progressions you’ll need to master the supreme test of bodyweight strength: the muscle-up, as well as an arsenal of exercises you can perform on the rings.

The guide includes:

- Full body ring training guide, including how to perform squats, dips, chest flys etc on the rings
- A-Z of pull-up training
- Muscle-up progressions and drills
- Muscle-up instruction

It’s great value at only £3.50 and if you buy it here you will also be supporting this site.