Scientific research has made it clear that a woman’s body should be exercised differently from a man’s, and that her training program should be adjusted to suit her body type and transformations as she moves through the various life stages.
Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Women is a unique guide, reference work, and graphic education tool suitable for any woman interested in understanding her own body, how it functions during exercise, and how to formulate a personal exercise program.
Over 90 exercises are provided to help you sculpt your entire body with gym weights, free weights, aerobics, and stretching, including:
- Swimming
- Transverse activation in four-point kneeling
- Barbell bench press
- Cable cross-over
- Freestanding barbell squats
- Hip abductor machine
- Seesaw with ball
- Seated low cable pulley rows
- Machine shoulder press
- Dumbbell standing lateral raise
- Rear deltoid machine
- French curl
- Cable tricep push-down
- Supine hip flexion stretch
- Plank to downward-facing dog
- Child stretch
- And much more!
The exercises are featured in clear anatomical detail and are grouped by aerobic training, abdominals, chest, legs and hips, back and shoulders, arms, and stretches and flexibility. Each exercise incorporates a full-body illustration plus instructions on proper execution and technique. Start and finish positions are shown, and supplementary information is included by way of hints and tips.
Inside this informative 144-page guide, you’ll also find a method of assessing your own fitness which you can use to help you choose the correct type of program for your life stage and fitness level. Sample programs illustrate how you can choose a program based on the needs you have established in the assessment.
Build a better you by understanding how your body performs when exercising, with Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Women!
The beginning contains a section on assessing your fitness and planning an exercise routine which I found interesting even though I did not want to plan my own routine.
Highly recommended.
For those interested in a 'walking program', a sample 10 week progressive plan is detailed in addition to analysis of the movement of walking joints. The exercises are broken down by Aerobic Training, Abdominals, Stabilization and Balance, Chest, Legs and Hips, Back and Shoulders, Arms, Stretches and Flexibility. Younger and much older adults will find this book of value; and at home gym program descriptives are included. This beautiful book would be an excellent addition for anyone interested in the physiology and anatomy of fitness; physical therapists, physical fitness trainers, orthopedists, chiropractors, massage therapist or just a long time Senior exerciser such as me wanting more correct information on keeping fit and avoiding muscle mass depletion (sarcopenia) as we age.
I have seen several new copies recently so I think i might be safe now! It really has exercisers that women like to do like using the stability ball which you don't see the guys lining up to use!
Full page detailed illustrations showcasing each muscle for every exercise showing proper form. Head to toe exercises, and stretches, all with great illustrations, like the ones you would see in a science anatomy book. It also includes a fitness test, and several different workout programs depending on your goals.
Great for anyone wanting to lift "heavy" weights at home, or the gym.
For those who have heard of "The New Rules For Weight Lifting For Women"
This book has all the same exercises. However "Anatomy For Women For Strength and Fitness Training" has more detailed descriptions of proper form & illustrations of all the muscles being used. Therefore, you will learn more about proper form and the muscles in your body.
The illustrations are clear and detailed, highlighting the targeted muscles for the specific exercise.
There's even a step-by-step program suited for your body. I have not used it (I just got mine!) but I will look into it later.
It also helped me get much more out of the services of a professional trainer. I read ahead and knew what I wanted to work on, had practiced the exercises, and knew how they felt. The trainer then could add his broad knowledge and experience to my program. I've had a lot of injuries, and so I needed to be cautious about being pushed. This book helped me have the clarity to ask for what I needed and work out in a way that is safe for me.
It's a great supplement to an Anatomy and Physiology class. Why not visualize and feel in your own body what you are learning in class?
really get the bird's eye view on a women's muscles.