[.ca] Women's Strength Training Anatomy (ISBN 0736048138)

insulting and demeaning:
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.

Marketing lies:
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.

Excellent book!:
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!

Lots of ideas.:
Buy this book if you want to know what exercises work what muscles. The book has many great pictures and includes a description of how to do the exercise as well as exercise tips. Arranged by body part, the only thing I didn't like is that the book only covers the buttocks, legs, abs and back areas. Also recommend "Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff" if you have shoulder problems.

IF YOU HAVE HIS FIRST STRENGHT TRAINING ANATOMY BOOK DON'T BUY THIS ONE:
I have the "Strength Training Anatomy" and this one. To be honest, 99% of exercises in "Women's Strength Training Anatomy" can be found in "Strength Training Anatomy" but this book is only filled with illustrations of women. I took the Woman's s because I use it as a reference book for anatomy drawing, so I am happy with both. It is true that the women are drawn more naked and I also find that it is a bit demeaning (especially if you check out "Strength Training Anatomy" where women are portrayed more naked then men there, unnecessarily). However, the book is very informative (muscle work and exercises), stunningly illustrated and I would still recommend it.