Presents a guide to increasing abdominal strength, flexibility, and muscle tone with over one hundred detailed exercise descriptions supplemented with photograph illustrations and anatomical drawings, as well as sixty suggested exercise programs.

Gives an inside view of the specific muscle(s) in action during every resistance training exercise.

Delavier’s Women’s Strength Training Anatomy Workouts delivers the exercises, programming, and advice you need for the results you want. Based on the anatomical features unique to women, this new guide sets the standard for women’s strength training. The 290 full-color illustrations allow you to see inside 157 exercises and variations and 49 programs for strengthening, sculpting, and developing your arms, chest, back, shoulders, abs, legs, and glutes. Step-by-step instructions work in tandem with the anatomical illustrations and photos to ensure you understand how to maximize the efficiency of each exercise. You’ll see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how movement variations can isolate specific muscles and achieve targeted results. Delavier’s Women’s Strength Training Anatomy includes proven programming for reducing fat, adding lean muscle, and sculpting every body region. Whether you’re beginning a program or enhancing an existing routine, working out at home or at the gym, it’s all here and all in the stunning detail that only Frédéric Delavier can provide. The former editor in chief of PowerMag in France, author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier has written for Le Monde du Muscle, Men’s Health Germany, and several other publications. His previous publications, including Strength Training Anatomy and Women’s Strength Training Anatomy, have sold more than 2.5 million copies.

Bestselling author Delavier brings his singular style to a resource designed to help serious weightlifters increase mass, definition, and strength. Filled with over 330 full-color photos and 130 distinctive illustrations that highlight more than 100 exercises.

Frédéric Delavier has captivated millions with Strength Training Anatomy. Now readers have access to his exercise expertise and trademark illustrations once again with Delavier's Stretching Anatomy. With 250 full-color photos and 300 detailed illustrations, this guide depicts over 130 exercises to increase flexibility, tone muscles and reduce injury. All body regions are covered and sport-specific stretching routines are included. Original.

"More than 120 exercises and 20 training programs for the world's toughest sport"--Cover.