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Sculpting Her Body Perfect 3rd Edition

If you’re a woman who’s serious about strengthening and sculpting your physique, expert trainer Brad Schoenfeld provides a progressive program with a variety of resistance exercises for each muscle group. This second edition of Sculpting Her Body Perfect updates the 1999 book and adds new exercises, notably many that can be done at home rather than at a gym. The exercises, using free weights, machines, bands, and cables, are well illustrated with clear photographs. Personal stories and photos of female fitness competitors and body builders make it seem as though this book is aimed at women aspiring to the competitive level, although it does start with a beginner’s program and progresses through the advanced level. The abdominal section still focuses on creating visually appealing abs with no mention of core conditioning (also known as functional training or stabilization), which trains the abdominals for daily life. (For that approach, see Athletic Abs by Scott Cole and Tom Seabourne.)

This book is a fine addition to your training library, whether you want a progressive program or simply an assortment of exercises to choose from. It’s recommended for serious exercisers who want a varied strength program. –Joan Price

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Good, motivating book on women’s body sculpting
This book is written by an experienced personal trainer who has trained average women into more stronger and attractive women. While the book is very gym and special-machine orientated, it is very straight forward in how a woman can sculpt the body that she wants. It describes how to train and perform the exercises as well as successful case studies. There is also section dealing with pregnancy. At the end of the book are several inspiring stories of women who have overcome obstacles, such as overweight, eating disorders and life-threatening injuries to become national level fitness competitors. I liked the book so, much that I bought a couple extra copies for gifts to fitness-orientated female relatives.

Doug Setter, author of Stomach Flattening

5 Stars Look No Further!
Two years ago after being treated for an illness, I was given my doctor’s okay to start dieting, walking, and then weight training. I wish I had known about this book then. It breaks everything down and answers all the questions that come to mind when you begin your fitness journey and throughout. I have several books on weight training, and this one is “the best.” It details all that you need to know from beginning training to advanced training, yet it’s easy to follow. It’s well organized, and the book and DVD are both excellent in demonstrating proper form, which helps to achieve the maximum benefits from your workout. There are several exercises offered in each muscle group that give you the option of working out at a gym or at home. So, look no further, everything you need is in this book! J

4 Stars Lots of information in a well organized format
I haven’t transitioned from my previous weightlifting routine to the one outlined in the book. It doesn’t look like this will be difficult as the book provides clear instructions and a DVD. This book is much easier to understand than my current book “The New Rule of Lifting for Women” which was confusing, so much so that the authors needed to address it on their website due to all the requests for clarification. “Sculpting her body perfect” is clear and well written. I am looking forward to following the routines outlined in the book.

5 Stars Great for beginners or those looking to improve their routine
I’m currently on my 8th week of working the program outlined in Sculpting Her Body Perfect. I started lifting weights about three years ago at the gym, basically just doing the same 12 or so exercises over and over. I reached a plateau that I wanted to cross without having to pay a personal trainer $50 a session. So, I got a used copy of this book, and I really wish I had started this program years ago when I was just starting out. It makes such a difference to be educated in how muscle breakdown and repair works, how you really need to focus on form, and how important it is to REST between workouts. The combination of this book and a re-vamped high protein, high fat, low carb diet has gotten me closer to my fitness goals than I have been since I started this journey. This book is user friendly and very inspiring.

5 Stars Excellent resource
I bought this book when I was ready to return to weight lifting after a number of years off. This is the best training book I have seen so far, and I own a good dozen or so. It gives detailed information on how to build up your own routine to get results (working hard enough without overtraining). The explanations of compound versus isolation exercises were a huge help, as well as the explanation in the beginning of each section that details which specific muscles are worked with each exercise. The information in this book has allowed me to put together constantly varying routines (a definite boredom-buster) while still making sure that I am targeting all the muscles. I have already recommended this book to many of my friends who have expressed an interest in weight training.

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