"Unlock Your Potential with Frederic Delavier's Women's Strength Training Anatomy"

Linda: My pt had this book and made the suggestion to buy it for future reference

United States on Apr 14, 2022

Jose Ramon: Frederic Delavier es un ilustrador que posee un control sobre la anatomía magistral. No compré este libro por su contenido de fitness ni ejercicio, sino por sus ilustraciones y para documentarme sobre todo sobre anatomía femenina para ilustradores, es dificil encontrar libros o ejemplos buenos de anatomía sobre todo de mujeres, pero aquí está la excepción. Detallado, minucioso y completo, si lo que estas buscando es documentación visual

Spain on Apr 30, 2018

pezninblue: Great Illustrations!. You know clearly the exercise and muscles that are being used.

Canada on Apr 20, 2018

Alex Stars: This book is an excellent gift for any of your female friends and family members.

Canada on Aug 03, 2016

Sometimes Magic: Great workout education for the novice to the advanced professional. In this book you will gain insights into the skeletal/tendon/ligament and muscular structure is a highly illustrated and detaileds fashion. It is a necessary guide to healthy exercises that target specific muscle groups through strength training regimens. This great resource takes all of the guess work out of the applicable knowledge of anatomy, muscle movement through range of motion, and maximizing muscle efforts throughout workouts. This is like an advanced college course in exercise science for $14!

A must buy!

United States on Oct 06, 2014

Jenny G.: Excellent! I bought this one and Strength Training Exercises for Women by Joan Pagano. But I find I like this one better.

The book gives sufficient details for each exercise especially that the pictures show which muscles are involved in the exercise. I find this quite useful when you want to tackle a particular area/muscles.

The only problem is that the book does not say anything about arms. Probably the author doesn't think women need arms which is not true though...

If you do not definitely need the women's version then grab the general version Strength Training Anatomy rather than women's. The hubby's got that one. The writing styles/formats do not have much difference between the two just the latter is more comprehensive and has more pages (it covers arms!).

United Kingdom on Aug 19, 2014

Roxie: I bought it because I started lifting heavy and I needed to see which muscles are used during different forms. Is a well documented book for human anatomy while exercising.

Germany on Mar 09, 2013

Old Geezer: This is a very well illustrated book on strength training anatomy. It has three strong points. (1) It is inexpensive. (2) It shows proper technique for comon exercises in the gym that "mortal human beings" actually do. Many other books are designed with illustrations of Arnold Schwartzenager-like bodys lifting free weights the size of train wheels. If you are interested in the "Schwartzenager" version of this book get a copy of "Strength Training Anatomy" by Delavier. It is the "male " companion book to this one. It can be downloaded free, on the web, if you do a little searching on Google. (3) The best part of this book is that is shows you what "not" to do. It gives illustrations and warnings about bad technique, and how you can get hurt.

United States on Aug 23, 2010

1913 Diva: I thought this book was pretty good. I loved the display of muscles worked from a scientific viewpoint (opposed to shading on the body to show what muscles are being worked or what the machine is for). You actually see your muscles highlighted on your skeletal frame. This book also shows proper form and tears to the muscle groups if you do not use the proper movement.

This book also makes it simple to understand how to do an exercise by showing range of motion diagrams. The only thing I didn't like about this book was that arms (tricepts and bicepts) were not covered as if women don't need to work them (smile). So I also bought the Strength Training Anatomy Book (same author) which is actually the one I recommend because its in essence the same book, same things covered but you get your bicepts and tricepts as well. There are diagrams of women in this book as well. But all in all both books are VERY helpful and productive for all workout levels. If you can read and follow directions well you should have no problems using this book. Hope this helps.

United States on Feb 10, 2010

Kindle Customer: 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!

United States on Mar 13, 2004