Hers a Woman's Guide to Weight Training: Weider Books/Muscle & Fitness

By Editors of Muscle & Fitness Magazine

Book Overview

A Woman's Guide to Weight Training has everything you need to sculpt your best body ever... with weights! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094579746X
• ISBN13: 9780945797463
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Weider Publications
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Amazing!

This book is awesome! It has very detailed descriptions and pictures. It goes into helping you create your own workout and has pages at the beginning of each body part section labeling beginner intermediate and advanced exercises. Also a section at the end with stretches. An all around awesome book. I would recommend it to anyone!

Excellant "investment"!

I read the prior review above and it gave me the courage to order "A Woman's Guide to Weight Training". As a woman who has made excercise part of her life in the last two years, I'm constantly looking for new challenges and "mixups" in my routines. This book is a great reference for beginners, intermediate and advanced levels. It breaks down routines for each level and gives pros and cons for everything! I learned quite a few new things that I had not found in any magazines and found myself inspired again. This is definitely a great investment especially for beginners and intermediate excercisers. Advanced levels are also helped by means of mixing up your routines but not as extensive as they would be from Oxygen magazines. For a woman serious about her body and excercise this book is a definite plus!!

Good, but needs to be spiral-bound

To avoid gym boredom and that exercise "plateau", I am always looking for variations on exercises. This book is good for women, particularly those who have just started an exercise program, on several aspects. First, the exercises are a fairly even mix of weight machine and free weight exercises. Second, the concentration areas are divided into chapters (i.e. stretching, abdominals, arms, shoulders, etc.). Each chapter contains recommendations of exercises for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels in outline form, including sets and repetitions. Third, each chapter also has a list for when you cannot get to the gym. This is especially good for those of us who travel substantially or workout at home. Fourth, each exercise has photographed examples of correct form during the exercise along with text instruction, isolated muscles worked, and postures to avoid.Now for the negatives. The biggest, and only real, negative is the fact that the book is hardbound. This type of book needs to be spiral bound to allow those trying new exercises to glance at the text and photos DURING their workout, not just as a reference book. Being hardbound, this is impossible. Another minor negative is that the lack of tabs along the pages makes it difficult to flip from one muscle area to the next.Another decent book is "Do It Right: 75 Best Body Sculpting Exercises for Women" available at the Shape Magazine web site. This book is spiral, has section tabs, recommendations for the beginner and advanced, and photos with correct and incorrect form. The exercises as a whole, although, are better in the Hers Woman's Guide to Weight Training.