Frustrated with weight books for women ( After NROL4W)

I will be finishing the NROL4 women very soon and am looking for a new program- will probably have to go with NROL original as there just is nothing else out there.  WEnt on Amazon today searching and OMG why do all the books designed for women only mention "fat loss" "toning" "Lengthing" and other things of that nature and then the picture of the girls with the 3 lb barbie weights UGH!!!

Does anyone know of books for women besides the New Rules that actually is designed for women??  

Looks like for now I'm going to be doing NROL -- which is fine --  Just wish there were more options available so women wouldn't be wasting their time on those other waste of trees

I don't think you need to worry about them being "designed" for women. I'd say either do NROL or take a look at Starting Strength.

Really, the only thing that makes NROLFW "for women" is that it gives info on why it's ok to lift weights. And I think Schuler even says that if anything, the women's version has harder exercises (because we're tougher) .

Ditto. Why do you need books 'for women'?

Buy Starting Strength and a sharpy, at "for Women" to the title.  Problem solved.

I am doing NROL after NROLFW and am finding NROL alot harder.  Some of the NROLFW stages were longer workouts (stage 4-5), but I am finding the NROL for the most part has more volume.  I did Starting Strength for a month or so.... but didn't find it to be "enough".

I did order the NROL - just still very disappointed in the "fitness" industry's and book publisher's options for women.  I mean if I were new to this and didn't know anything about weight lifting and resistance training  etc...  I'd be stuck with those piddly arse barbie weights and money and time wasted.

I do want to add that I am currently letting a personal trainer ( female) read my NROL4W book during the days I'm in cardio step class at the gym -- She said she really is enjoying the book-- yee haw one more personal trainer converted

Original Post by dbackerfan:

 I'd be stuck with those piddly arse barbie weights and money and time wasted.

Exactly!

Keeping beginners in a constant stage of ignorance makes money for the fitness industry!

Like others have said have a look at starting strength or try www.stronglifts.com. 

If you search for fitness material aimed at women it's inevitible that you'll be presented with books that should really be in the humour or science fiction section of Amazon!

Starting Strength is a sort of core book that teaches you to do the lifts properly - and the basic program in it is great for beginners. Gives you a rock-solid foundation to work from for whatever you want to do.

 Naturally, a beginner's program is not sufficient for the intermediate and advanced athlete, so you need to build out the foundation in various ways depending on your goals. The companion volume to Starting Strength is "Practical Programming for Strength Training" which is all about how to build on the foundation from Starting Strength and assemble a coherent program that works for sports-specific goals.

Rippetoe isn't much into dieting so there isn't much about fat loss in those books, but specifics of dieting are much simpler than people with dieting books to sell you are saying. As long as you're counting calories and getting adequate protein the details of how you arrange your food intake is pretty much irrelevant for anyone who isn't trying to get into bodybuilder contest shape.

 And yes - the Pink Dumbbell Myth is deeply, deeply entrenched in the fitness industry; the toxic memeplex about what women can and can't do is reinforced daily through media, advertising and 'gym lore'.