Grenz's Bookshelf 6/27/16: Strong & Sculpted by Brad Schoenfeld

I just recently finished the book Strong & Sculpted by Brad Schoenfeld.  It is a book that is for women who want to resistance train. 

Here are some of the things I liked about the book:

1. It is simple to read and simple to follow.  It is only 216 pages long with 127 pages geared towards exercises and their descriptions.
2. It does a nice job of explaining the science behind exercise without making things confusing or overwhelming.
3. It has four different easy to apply training phases for different levels of fitness enthusiasts.  In fact women of all levels can start at the first level and work their way into the forth level over the course of a year and get good results.

Regarding topics I wish it would have covered more:

1. In the warm up section it referenced and used examples of the General and Specific warm-ups but only talked about dynamic warm-up/movement prep briefly.  It would have been nice if it would have covered that type of warm-up more as more people need it because they are more sedentary than before.
2. Like most books on resistance training it only spoke briefly on cardio.  It talked about Hight Intensity Interval Training and Steady State Cardio but did not go into too much detail on how to apply them.

If these two topics would have had a little more meat to them a good book would have been a great book.

To conclude this post, for women who want to get into resistance training this is a good, simple to read and apply book.  I would recommend it.