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Women's Strength Training Anatomy

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This book is a great help for training trouble spots. It covers training the lower body (back, abs, legs and butt). It gives many exercises for each body area (27 butt, 37 legs, 34 abs and 6 for back) each with a perfectly drawn illustration showing the muscles effected by the exercise and clear explanation on how to correctly perform the exercise. Most of the exercises can be done with minimal equiptment (free weights and bands) at home, only a few cover gym machines. This book does not give routines or diet plans. After 10 years of gym training I am now training at home. This no nonsense book has been an invaluable source of exercises and information for training (especially trouble spots) without the use of gym equiptment. Highly recommended!

I own & love Frederic Delavier's "Strength Training Anatomy", so when I saw this one at a local bookstore, I anxiously leafed through it, hoping it would be of a similar caliber. I was very disappointed to see that apparently, women do not have shoulder, chest & arm muscles (see table of contents)! Guess they are marketing this book to women who are trying to spot-reduce thighs, butt, & abs. I don't buy into that myth and thus did not buy the book. BOO, HISS!!!

I'm a personal trainer and found this book to be a great learning aid for my personal trainer national certification exam. The pictures are just great. They are transparent in the way they show you the muscles. For example, when doing a lat pull, it shows you the muscles that are being contracted. Also, the pictures are quite detailed and very descriptive. In this way, not only it helped me to be a good personal trainer but it was a great reference for my national certification exam. I also used the following which cut my study time in half for my national certification fitness exam: Key Facts for Anatomy and Physiology by Patrick Leonardi
This book made anatomy and physiology much easier to understand and helped me to get passing grades. I give both books 10 stars

CALM DOWN PEOPLE!!

The newer version of this book has all the women with sports bras on or underlying muscles. It is in no way "pornographic". I am not sure if Amazon carries the updated drawings but most likely they do.

This book IS lacking the upper body - but it is still worth buying, in my opinion. There is a large number or hip/stomach exercises and floor/core exercises which I was more in need of. I like how they explain limitations our bodies might have and how to adjust for them. As well as variations to target different muscle areas. The exercises that are included are comprehensively covered.

I would recommend getting the general book too for upper body, but this is a better lower body book.

I am guessing they focussed on the lower body because that is where most gender differences are. The hip and pelvis differences require more focus perhaps? I'm guessing that men's exercises will help UNDERdeveloped arms/shoulders/chest (relative to men), however they aren't going to help with the hips and buttocks nearly as much. Most men I know wouldn't even glance at these exercises.

I wanted to write a quick review for this book. While the information is valuable and accurate, this type of information can easily be found in any checkout counter "beauty magazine". The reason I am taking the time to write this is bacause any woman who wants to know about her anatomy and how it works in relation to work and exercise in a gym is definately going to raise her eyebrows at the way the women in this book are posed and drawn. Albeit some nudity is necessary to demonstrate the use of certain muscles, (strip away some skin as well), but in some of the examples it is ludicrous for me to believe that the artist isn't using a slight pornographic eye. For instance,on page 69 (is that an accident?) the woman is doing adductors at a machine and she is completely nude! This is a difficult machine for alot of people to use because of the obvious position it puts you in, then the "artist" draws only this woman completely nude. You can be rest assured you will see at least one nude breast on every other page. It was very funny to look at, but as far as a book to walk around with at the gym, I will pass thank you. If a man even picked up this book at the gym he would be called a pervert! In conclusion, I want to reinforce my statement to pass on this degrading book supposedly for women to help us with our workouts. Well, I wasn't fooled. This book gets two thumbs down and line the kitty litter with its pages.

If this book included the upper body (and more back exercises--deadlifts and back extensions are at the very end as an afterthought) I'd have given it at least 4 stars, if not 5.

I liked the idea of a strength training book for women that addressed our physiological differences, had great illustrations of which muscles are involved in each exercise, and showed women doing real exercises like deep squats, good mornings, etc.

Unfortunately, I didn't look at the small bit of the title which tells you it addresses lower body only. Where are the chest, shoulders, arms and the rest of the back?

Have to agree with the reviewer who mentioned the hip adduction illustration. Bare chest and, of course, nothing on the lower torso since the illustration is showing us the muscles involved. Given the legs wide position of the hip adduction machine, this picture seemed more sexual.

Maybe the author is planning Part 2 that will include the upper body.

Again, I feel the back was sorely overlooked here.

This wook is absolutely great. Highly recommended for any woman. Really impressed with drawings anatomical explanations and suggestions for different body types.

This book is actually a partial reprint of Delavier's complete book, "Strength Training Anatomy," which includes both upper and lower body workout illustrations. But in that book, almost all of the upper body illustrations are of men working out -- so I'm guessing they just took the second half of that book and repackaged it "for women" (though I haven't actually read this book).

The complete book is a good collection of exercises. I would definitely recommend it, even with its sometimes unnecessarily sexually graphic illustrations.

Ah...I see. I suppose women aren't generally interested in working out the upper-half of their body. Must be that myth out there that we will develop 'bulky' muscles from working out our arms, shoulders and pecs. Too bad that this book will only perpetuate this myth.

Fantastic book for strength training anatomy.
Each movement is perfectly adapted for women.
Not only the drawings are anatomicaly exact but the author is also an artist.