Women's Strength Training Anatomy

Great book lots of exercises to choose from. Very detailed diagrams and clear description of the movement. Diagrams of the anatomy are *very* detailed Great reference guide

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!

As a personal trainer this is exactly the book I was looking for. I wanted to be able to see how the muscles work together during an exercise and how a variation works on a different part of the same muscle group so that I can accurately prescribe exercise routines for people. Even if I wasn't a personal trainer, this book is really great for learning both anatomy and all types of exercises. The drawings are so beautiful and easy to understand what is happening.

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.

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.

I purchased this book and the Strengh Training at the same time not for body building purposes, but for anatomical reference as an artist. The illustrations are excellent for envisioning muscles in a variety of positions. If anyone else is considering purchasing the book for this purpose, I'd recommend that you buy the Strenght Training Anatomy first and then consider if you need this one as many of the images for the female anatomy are contained in the other book.

This is really good book, it has a lot of information and we can see how our body works during exercises

What happened to upper body? No arms, shoulders, back is an after-thought for a couple pages at the end of the book. I should have read the product description more carefully. I just bought the other version next that seems more inclusive. There's alot of good info on lower body here, it's just not fully comprehensive enough to use for a full-body reference. I don't undestand why they left the rest out.

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.

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

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!).

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

I bought this book to have a clear outline of specific exercises and the muscles they work. Even though I knew the exercise/muscle information it is wonderful to have it in illustrated format This fulfilled my need and I am delighted with the level of knowledge etc that Frederic Delavier puts into this book. I would have no hestitation buying another one of his books.