Finally, a weight-training book that doesn’t treat women like weaklings!
If you believe what most women's magazines tell you, muscles can be "shaped", "trained" and "sculpted" with nothing but a small dumbbell that weighs less than a can of peas. But muscles are not modeling clay, and the only way to transform them is to strengthen them. The new rules for Lifting of women is the woman who is ready to throw down "Barbie" tickets, and begin a strength and conditioning program that will give her the body of her dreams. The book puts to rest and shop-worn concept that women who train with heavy weights will bulk up. Nonsens! Women simply do not have enough testosterone to pack on muscle as a hearted. Here is the truth: that promise weights not only makes you stronger, but also makes you slimmer. In fact, most women would have to run twice as long to get the same fat-burning benefits as weight lifters. A better workout in less time may sound too good to be true, but the champion trainer Alwyn Cosgrove creates six months' worth of workouts that will build strength, burn fat, and rev up the metabolism. His total body workouts target all the major muscle groups, and each exercise is accompanied by clear black and white photographs that illustrate the proper technique and form.
A nutrition level is another key element in the book. Winning the strength you have to feed muscle, and nutritionist Cassandra Forsythe has designed a regimen to achieve this objective. She strongly recommends small, frequent meals and offer meal plans with fifty recipes, to meet the specific needs of women through breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. The new rules for Lifting of women becomes the standard for smart women who take their fitness goals seriously.
About the AuthorLOU SCHULER, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, has been a health and fitness journalist since 1992 and was a fitness editor at Men’s Fitness and fitness director of Men’s Health. Although his previous book, The New Rules of Lifting, was written for men, it has generated much excitement among women looking to start lifting programs.
CASSANDRA E. FORSYTHE, M.S., is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Connecticut, where she is studying exercise science and nutrition.
ALWYN COSGROVE is co-owner with his wife, Rachel, of Results Fitness in Newhall, California. During his more than fifteen-year career as a strength and conditioning coach, he has earned virtually every major certification, and has worked with men and women on the national and Olympic levels. He has trained professionals and world champions in boxing, martial arts, soccer, ice-skating, football, fencing, rugby, bodybuilding, dance, and triathlon and fitness competition.
What swimmer45 said about "The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess"?"Lift like a man, look like a Goddess" says the book. But is it true? swimmer45 believe it is, and this book is right on the money. "The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess" is cleanly divided into three parts.
The first part discusses the similarities between men's and women's bodies as it pertains to weight lifting- and why they should train the same. I agree with "The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess" on this point entirely. While female's muscles won't get as big as a man's from lifting weights, the stimulus to make a woman's muscle bigger and stronger is identical to that of a man's- overload the muscle with progressively heavier weights.
Part two, "You aren't what you don't eat", is the eating/diet section of this book. A lot of wisdom is also packed in here as the book gives us a lot of basic nutrition info, such as calorie needs, protein intake, etc. We are also introduced to the four "Ironclad Rules" which include: we must eat breakfast, we must eat a total of 5 meals and snacks a day, we must have a post-bodybuilding recovery shake on the days you lift, and we must have more calories on workout days than the other days. Meal plans are nicely laid out for us in this section as well.
Lastly comes part three, "Resistance is vital." Of course this is the section that discusses the bodybuilding routines and the exercises. Without going into details, you workout 2-3 times a week, and the bodybuildings are divided in 7 stages (each with a certain goal) which roughly give you 6 months worth of workouts- which I might add, are all highly detailed in "The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess". Pictures of warm-up exercises and the resistance exercises are included and very easy to follow. Weight lifting exercises are nothing crazy, with a lot of them being sensible, basic exercises such as squats, deadlifts, and various presses.
As a trainer, swimmer45 found this to be a very sensible weight lifting book for women. It does invovlve some work, but then again that is the only way to make a muscle stronger, whether you are a man or a woman- which is the whole point of "The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess". Based on a lot of sound science, I give it two thumbs up for a very helpful, effective, and "doable" book. Swimmer45 also recommend Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff for readers who have a shoulder problem that interferes with their training.
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