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Title: Women's Strength Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier ISBN: 0-7360-4813-8 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Good Reference Book
Comment: The biggest benefit to this book is that Delavier shows you, with precisely drawn line illustrations, exactly which muscles are worked for each of the roughly 100 exercises that are described in this book. The book is also blissfully empty of philosophy, that is, you won't find any exhortations to eliminate carbs from your diet or aerobics from your routine. In fact, you won't find any "how to" information at all, except how to perform the exercises and an occasional comment about the efficacy of one version of an exercise over another.
The big negative is that Delavier seems to have forgotten that women also have upper bodies! Women's Strength Training Analatomy is divided into 4 sections: Legs, Buttocks, Abdominals and Back. There is no mention of chest or arms, body parts that every woman I know possesses! Some people may also find it a drawback that Delavier offers no suggested routines or information about how to apply the exercises he illustrates.
Overall, this is an excellent reference book that would have gotten 5 stars had it covered a woman's entire body.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book!
Comment: 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!
Rating: 1
Summary: insulting and demeaning
Comment: 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.
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Title: Strength Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier ISBN: 0736041850 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Body Sculpting Bible for Women by James Villepigue, Hugo A. Rivera ISBN: 1578260868 Publisher: Hatherleigh Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Weight Training Workouts that Work by James Orvis ISBN: 0967518822 Publisher: Ideal Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Strength Ball Training by Lorne Goldenberg, Peter Twist ISBN: 0736038280 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Woman's Book of Strength by Karen Andes ISBN: 0399518991 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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