Book Weights

Many of our exercises will ask you to use hand weights. If you find yourself doing these exercises on your break at work the following chart provides a list of books and their weight. We have selected books that we thought would be widely available (if you are exercising from home, real hand weights are an excellent option -- or soup cans!). If you are just beginning your exercise regime we recommend that you start with Fudge-A-Mania, our lightest book, and work your way up as you become more fit. After doing 12 repetitions if you do not feel your muscles burning, choose a heavier book.

Author	Title	Weight
Blume, Judy	Fudge-A-Mania	11.3oz
Corder, Zizou	Lionboy	1lb 35oz
Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone	1lb 93oz
Funke, Cornelia	Inkheart	1lb 10.6oz
Riordan, Rick	House of Hades	1lb 12.6oz
Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix	2lbs 11oz
Selznick, Brian	The Invention of Hugo Cabret	2lbs 6.4oz
Published by Univesity of Chicago Press	The Chicago Manual of Style	3lbs 5.5oz
Rombauer, Irma; Becker Rombauer, Marion; Becker Ethan	The Joy of Cooking	3lbs 12.4oz
Eccleshare, Julia (editor)	1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up	4lbs 7.5oz
Jung, Carl	The Red Book*	8lbs 6oz

*Thanks, Matthew Ciuccio, for suggesting this really heavy book! Click here for a picture of Matthew holding The Red Book.