Strength Training Anatomy and Women’s Strength Training Anatomy
Strength Training Anatomy
Frederic Delavier
Human Kinetics
0-7360-4185-0
124 pages
Women’s Strength Training Anatomy
Frederic Delavier
Human Kinetics
0-7360-4813-8
135 pages
Despite a thorough grounding in theoretical anatomy, therapeutic massage therapists’ work is often based on what they ‘imagine’ the body looks like underneath the skin. Most of the time standard anatomy books contain diagrams of the human body in the anatomical position. It depicts this dynamic three-dimensional structure in a neutral and static stance. This might resemble the patients while prone or supine on a massage table but it doesn’t tell the therapist much about the patients’ posture at work or at play.
These two volumes by French journalist and author Frederic Delavier were originally written for body builders and people interested in strength-training and provides an inside view of the muscles in action during a number of exercises. The Amazon.com website compares it to “having an X-ray of each exercise”. The author graphically illustrates both the muscles and the bones. He delineates what each muscle does and how the muscles and ligaments interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. Strength Training Anatomy has been written for both male and female body builders while Women’s Strength Training Anatomy focuses on the female body in particular. Both books include slightly different foldout glossaries that cover anatomical terms from abdomen to vital capacity.
Devalier who lives in Paris, is the former editor-in-chief of the French magazine PowerMag and currently writes for the French magazine Le Monde du Muscle and is a contributor to several other muscle publications, including Men’s Health Germany. Not only is he responsible for the text but he combines his vast knowledge of the human body with his talent as an illustrator to draw more that 400 diagrams in each volume. According to the Amazon.com website he studied morphology and anatomy for five years at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied dissection for three years at the Paris Faculté de Médecine. In 1988 Delavier won the French powerlifting title and regularly presents papers on the sports applications of biomechanics at conferences in . His teaching efforts have earned him the Grand Prix de Techniques et de Pédagogie Sportive.
Both books are available from most well-known bookshops.
- Erika Kruger