Title: Mediocre writing; beginnings will do better elsewhere
Review: Compared to several other weight training guides, this one is skimpy on explanatory details, rigid in not providing a choice of exercises within a given category of training, and, like "Stretching...", by Bill Anderson, another Shelter publication, far from elegant and efficient in it's design and use of space. It's also produced on cheap paper and too large to easily carry around.IMO, a much better choice is "Weight Training for Dummies," not the less well-written "Idiot's Guide" to same, BTW, and, for beautiful and detailed drawings of the anatomical side of all of the exercises you are likely to do, "Strength Training Anatomy," by Frederic Delavier. Also, you could do far worse than pick up "The Complete Guide to Strength Training," by Anita Bean. All three of these guides cover their topic much more coherently than "Getting Stronger" does.
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