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Review of Strength Training for Women

January 31st, 2010 No comments
Strength Training for Women

This guide will help you design your own program to fit your needs and wants.Well illustrated with photos, it’s also clearly written. The book gives descriptions of free-weight work-outs along with multi-station and Nautilus-type machines, and even has a section on working with a partner. Complete and easy to read, it’s perfect for me, a [...]

Review of Weight Training for Women

January 3rd, 2010 No comments
Weight Training for Women

While this book has some useful exercises in general, I actually gave it away this year, replacing it with a more current book.Some of the pictures in this book actually made me laugh…the jazzercize leotards, etc.I also feel like weightlifting and women’s fitness in general have progressed since this book was written and therefore it [...]

Review of Total Strength Training for Women

November 6th, 2009 No comments
Total Strength Training for Women

This book is heavily weighted toward the use of exercise machines.If you have access to them at home or in a gym, then it’s an excellent book for toning and strength building.If you don’t, you’ll discover that, aside from the sturdy spiral format, it has little to offer the at-home exerciser interested in using handheld, [...]

Review of Strength Training for Women

November 5th, 2009 No comments
Strength Training for Women

Excellent book for any woman who has done some lifting and wants to learn more.
I recommend it! Solid information and explanations of techniques and strategies.
Product DescriptionReady for an individualized approach to working out that produces better results? Strength Training for Women delivers with information tailored to the way your body works and responds to [...]

Review of Lean, Long & Strong

October 26th, 2009 No comments
Lean, Long & Strong: The 6-Week Strength-Training, Fat-Burning Program for Women

This book is wonderful! Finally a book that tells you realistically that you can succeed at working out and getting the body you want. Wini’s focus is not on spending hours in the gym, but on setting up a systematic approach to your workout to get in and get it done, by doing it right! [...]