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Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body
If you want to be fit, lean, and strong as quickly as possible without crash dieting, good genetics, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym . . . regardless of your age . . . you want to read this book.
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10 Reddit comments about Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body:

u/XUtYwYzz · 6 pointsr/newtothenavy

I can't recommend the book Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body enough. I have a couple of friends that compete in body building/physique competitions and started with advice from them. They all stand by the information in this book. Unfortunately, if you're a beginner, the internet is full of bro science and nonsense about expensive supplements that do nothing and ridiculous workouts. It's truly the only topic I've ever found difficult to research online. There's simply too much money to be made misleading people that the commercial interests have fully buried the simple facts.

I read through this book in about three days and went from 185 skinny-fat to 165 11% body-fat and actually looking/feeling great, in about four months. Didn't spend a dime on supplements beyond whey protein and a small bottle of creatine that lasts for 4-5 months per bottle. I have no association with the author and that isn't some type of referral link. It just worked really well for me and answered every question I had about diet and exercise with cited research. I hate woo-woo online advice about 'toxins', 'muscle confusion', or any of the abundant obvious pseudo-science blog posts and supplement forums. Check out the book.

If you're a female: there's a female version, too.

u/Jaicobb · 3 pointsr/xxfitness

Born To Run by Christopher McDougal is all about the virtues of running barefoot and some great storytelling too.

Bigger Leaner Stronger and Thinner Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews are good books that cover a lot of basics thoroughly. I would recommend only getting one of Matthews books as I've heard they are basically copies with pronouns swapped to be geared toward a different audience.

u/OsmiumZulu · 3 pointsr/askRPC

The book is Thinner Leaner Stronger by Mike Matthews. My wife and some of her friends have followed the advise there to great effect; the example transformation pictures are definitely achievable. As for the “thinner” in the title, don’t worry about it. In the book he talks about bulking, which is what you need to be focused on.

Also, when you go to lift weights and want to know what proper form looks like check out Jeff Nippard’s videos on YouTube. He breaks it down extremely well with high quality video.

u/Entity420 · 2 pointsr/Fitness

> I read an article about some famous “fat acceptance” blogger dying from a heart attack while running on a treadmill

This person either had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, some other congenital arrhythmia, or else severe coronary artery disease that was already underlying. At 20 years of age, you do not have coronary artery disease, which is the process of cholesterol build up in coronary arteries that leads to heart attack. Every primary care doctor should be screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and you can ask about it if you're concerned. It is easy to rule out.

Do not be concerned that exercise will be hard on your heart. Quite the contrary, raising your heart rate through physical activity is the best thing for your heart, hence why we call it "cardio."

> Should I keep losing best as I can tracking calories, or should I try some light exercise

Diet and exercise are synergistic. Do both.

> Any exercises y’all could recommend that are easy on my heart? Should I even be this nervous?

There are plenty of forms of cardio and resistance training that are great for you. It can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. Try jogging or biking if you just want to dip your toes in. There is no reason to be nervous about your health deteriorating from exercise. The opposite is true -- developing an exercise habit now will add years to your life, both quantitatively and in terms of the quality of those years.

A good all-inclusive book I'd recommend is this one. It has a lot of good info not just on exercise, but also on diet and the mental game. Give it a read.

PM me if you have any questions, I'm more than happy to discuss.

u/Archivista00 · 2 pointsr/AskWomenOver30

I started by seeing a trainer a few times, but this book is really good at explaining form if you want to do it on your own. Also, youtube videos!

https://www.amazon.com/Thinner-Leaner-Stronger-Building-Ultimate/dp/1938895312

u/theoldthatisstrong · 1 pointr/Fitness

If your goal is truly to gain muscle then I'll recommend you try a proven program for that like [Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1938895312/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_AMg-Ab58M256B).


You might also find /r/xxfitness better for your questions.

u/bernadine77 · 1 pointr/xxfitness

A couple that are fairly popular among the crowd at r/xxfitness are Thinner, Leaner, Stronger, or Strong Curves.

They have a list of beginner lifting programs here as well.

u/Swolliamshakeweight · 1 pointr/truerateme

Good question. There is a lot of “bro science” out there and a lot of people end up wasting loads of time on ineffective workouts.

A good one-stop-shop place to get started is the book Thinner Leaner Stronger by Mike Matthews. It isn’t exhaustive but if you read it and put it into practice you will be ahead of at least 75% of people in the gym in terms of knowing how to lift effectively. He also has a free podcast, “Muscle For Life”, that is really helpful too.

In a nutshell lifting can be put in two categories depending on your goals: cutting (losing a lot of fat while retaining as much muscle as possible) and bulking (gaining muscle while gaining as little fat as possible).

Your actual scale weight is more or less irrelevant, it’s really all about body composition (amount of fat relative to muscle, or body fat percentage).

Most women look best between 17-25% depending on their body.

Moderate to advance lifters basically have to either cut or bulk, so most bulk for awhile then cut, bulk then cut, etc. until they reach their goal. Think of it like 3 steps forward 1 step back.

Beginners who are just starting to train can do both at the same time until their body adapts to the lifting. This is an over simplification, but essentially your body is so under developed that you can gain muscle and shed fat until you reach a “normal” healthy body comp. This phenomenon is known as “newbie gains”.

There are three key components to building a great physique: lifting, recovery, and diet.

Lifting heavy weights puts unusually high stress on your muscles to the point where they are slightly damaged (catabolic). To adapt to the new level of work your muscles are being asked to do, during your recovery your body will build them back up, only stronger (anabolic). In order to recover well, your body needs a lot of protein and energy from your diet. Not only that, it needs a lot of sleep. This process is known as hypertrophy, which is a fundamental part of building a great body.

Energy balance is a very important thing to this entire process. As you go about your day doing normal activity you burn a certain amount of calories on average. This is known as your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure). Most women probably burn around 1,800+- 200 calories a day (this number goes up as activity increases, so people who exercise regularly typically have a higher TDEE than people who don’t).

Someone with perfect energy balance (2,000 calories consumed, 2,000 calories burned) will not gain or lose weight. If they consume 1,800 and burn 2,000 the body will take the remaining 200 from fat stores. If they consume 2,200 calories and burn 2,000, the 200 excess calories are stored as fat for later consumption. Or, and this is the key, if the body has damage it will use these extra calories to repair the damage. Thus, to gain muscle one has to slightly injure the muscle, then eat a caloric surplus in order for the body to have enough energy and material to repair and strengthen the muscle.

This is a big over simplification but for functional purposes it is close enough.

As far as the actual lifting goes, heavy compound (uses multiple major muscle groups) are a great place to start. The squat, deadlift, and bench press are the “big three” primary lifts most strength programs are built around. Even if your goals are purely aesthetic, you’d still benefit from learning these movements and gaining a solid strength baseline.

There is a lot more but this should be plenty to get started. Believe it or not, the entire thing becomes a lot of fun and it is extremely motivating when you see your body start to change for the better!

u/KookSlam007 · 1 pointr/Fitness

This or This is a great book that covers all the basics very well. I would suggest giving it a read.

Also, ask one of the trainers at your gym for form advice if you ever feel like you need help on something specific.