101 Workouts for Women: Everything You Need to Get a Lean, Strong and Fit Physique

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	101 Workouts for Women: Everything You Need to Get a Lean, Strong and Fit Physique Muscle & Fitness Hers Magazine Triumph Books, 2008 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Muscle & Fitness HERS magazine has provided a program of rapid-fire core workouts for those seeking to "get moving" on a weight-training fitness program or for those who wish to expand, freshen-up, and enhance their workout regimen. There are 101 fully photo-illustrated workouts presented almost one per every page spread. This concept allows the enthusiast the opportunity to glance at the photo during a workout to check their faithful following of the routine. Whether one is a novice or an experienced weight trainer there is a chapter that focuses on a workout plan just for your progress level. And there is a guide to designing your own personalized workout system. Your fitness and well-being are considered with section presenting a cardio primer and there's a feature on basic fitness nutrition, as well. 101 Workouts For Women provides a complete one-stop get-fit package for fitness enthusiasts.

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Realistic Strength Training Workouts for Beginner through Advanced

101 Workouts for Women is a solid strength training reference guide for any woman interested in obtaining and maintaining a lean, fit body. It won't do the work for you, nor will it give you dietary advice of any kind, but it will give you a well laid out guide to what exercises you should be doing (and how many), how you should be doing them (shown in color photos with fit, but not overly-buff women), and why (for what body parts these exercises are intended).

I use this book along with the Strength Training Anatomy (Sports Anatomy) book to plan my workouts and to give me a good visual reference. While I consider myself to be an intermediate to advanced gym rat, I think there's always more to learn and new ways to do things that may be better than the way I'm doing them. More than once while looking through 101 Workouts for the first time I had 'ah-ha' moments in the form of new exercises and/or variations on the ones I'm doing.

Not all of the workouts are done in the gym. The book includes 'at home' workouts with the ball, dumbells and bands for each of the body parts. Workouts are a good mix of both gym and home exercises, but they do utilize the same basic exercises here and there in different 'workouts'. This is to be expected - particularly for body parts like the triceps - as there are really only so many ways you can work them directly. The 'upper body' and 'lower body' workouts use exercises that work several muscle groups at once - such as a basic lunge.

The authors also give tips on each workout page, along with routines listing sets and reps for each exercise, and 'Getting Started' info which is really a variation of the 'Tip' - suggesting how you might overcome various gender-specific fitness impediments.

I also liked that the models used in this book are not bodybuilders, but rather fit, attractive women 25-35, who look lean, toned and muscular. In a word "fit". Their bodies are examples of realistic goals that any woman - with the right bit of effort in the weight room and eating a healthy diet - can attain. The color photos illustrate how to do specific exercises using proper form, which is a great help to anyone who is trying to do it the right way and see how doing it will affect their body's shape.

Chapters included in 101 Workouts for Women:
1. Abs
2. Arms
3. Delts
4. Chest
5. Back
6. Legs
7. Upper Body
8. Lower Body
9. Beginners
10. Full Body

If you are a beginner to strength training, this book is an excellent guide and resource. If you are an intermediate to advanced weight trainer, you can still benefit from this book and use it to refresh your current workout routine.

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Weight-lifting Bible!

I absolutely love this book! Its premise is that women should not be afraid to challenge themselves with heavy weights and could benefit tremendously from strength training, and I would definitely have to agree, as I began taking that advice a few months ago with thrice-weekly lifting sessions that have changed my life. The writing style is unpretentious (e.g. "I barely passed high school chemistry, but I will still attempt to explain this"), but still incredibly informative and would be enjoyable to read even if I had no interest in the subject matter. I usually give books to the library after I finish them, but this one I plan to keep forever.

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Good book

Lots of moves, varied routines, great quality photos. Very nice but again nothing new or revolutionary but a nice assortment.

Gives really good tips

This book gives really good workout tips. The models are a little distracting because they highlight how you will never look in a million years. Plus they are so made up and hair dolled up, that it takes away from the authenticity of the workouts. But I like how the workouts are good for novices and the advanced, which allows you to grow with the book as you progress.

OK, but there are better books out there.

I bought this book and another similar book at the same time. I wish I hadn't spent the money on this one. The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Sexier, Healthier YOU! is a better book.

I love the M&F Hers magazine; the workouts often inspire me and are usually preferable to the wimpy workouts suggested by other women's magazines. This book did not live up. It felt like they just took all those magazine speads and crammed them into a smaller page. Each workout in the bodypart ares is three or four exercises for that bodypart, and they tended to be repetitive. The photos not very attractive unless you like bulky, man-like physiques, and I just didn't enjoy going through it. The workout is often in a different color or different spot on the page, and consistency in that would have made it easier to use (this is a reference book, after all.) It does have several workouts for each body part, and they do a good job of beginner, intermediate, advanced options. In the later portion of the book, where they provide more extensive upper, lower, total body workouts is somewhat more helpful, too. The index is useful. But there was a lot of wasted space (showing an exercise for a particular body part several times within that bodypart section of the book) and it felt like they were just trying to bulki it up to sell it for more money.

Overall, I found that in the future, I'll stick with the magazine and skip any books they put out. I think I'll use the Women's Health Big Book of Exercises more. This one isn't bad, and it wasn't a total waste of my money - I'll use it to some extent. I just don't like it as much as some of the other options.

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