Strong: Nine Workout Programs for Women to Burn Fat, Boost Metabolism, Lou Schuler

Strong: Nine Workout Programs for Women to Burn Fat, Boost Metabolism, and Build Strength for Life by Lou Schuler

Print Length: 304 Pages
Publisher: Avery
Publication Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
ASIN: B00USMCGR0
ISBN-10: 1583335757
ISBN-13: 978-1583335758
File Format: EPUB

A groundbreaking strength and conditioning plan for women, from the authors of The New Rules of Lifting for Women.

Forget the elliptical machine and the candy-colored Barbie weights. Female athletes are hungry for real fitness. They want to be Strong.

By now, it’s common knowledge that women can and should train the way men do. Today’s women want to be strong, with lean and athletic physiques. Fitness author Lou Schuler and renowned strength coach Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength and conditioning plan to help women burn fat and build muscle by getting them off the machines and revolutionizing how they work out. Offering direct guidance and proven tools to help readers enhance their strength and get truly fit, Strong provides:

• A three-phase training program, including nine unique total-body workouts
• More than 100 exercises, with detailed instructions and step-by-step photographs
• Simple nutrition guidelines to cut through the barrage of trendy diets in magazines
• Inspiring success stories from women who have used this training program

Schuler and Cosgrove’s The New Rules of Lifting for Women has empowered tens of thousands of women inside and outside the weight room. Filled with the latest research distilled in Lou and Alwyn’s signature direct style, Strong will help women remake their physiques and reimagine their lives.

Loving these workouts!

These workouts have given purpose to my strength training at the gym again! I have previous experience with weight lifting but had fallen off the wagon with fitness the past several years. I started back to the gym at the beginning of the year doing a “biggest loser” competition that my gym was hosting and was doing group workouts once a week with a personal trainer. Unfortunately, the trainer’s workouts felt very introductory and there was no progressive direction from week to week…the exercises felt very random and no advice was given as to what exercises we should do outside of the once/week group training session. To add to the frustration, I couldn’t even really construct my own program to follow in between sessions because I never knew which muscle groups the trainer was going to target at our next session. Around this time I listened to an interview with Lou on the HalfSizeMe podcast and decided to ditch the group training sessions, purchase the book and give the workouts a try. Sooo glad I did…I’m about halfway through Phase I Stage 2 and am loving the workouts! I have scheduled all my workouts and to get through the whole program once is going to take me until roughly Oct-Nov…which makes me highly motivated not to miss a workout because I don’t want to get behind in the schedule!