Oculus Publishers The Year One Challenge for Women: Thinner, Leaner, and Stronger Than Ever in 12 Months

I love having everything planned out! A years worth of workouts! Come on! That right there is incredible! 3 different splits ( 5,4,3 days) to fit your schedule! Use this with the TLS book and change your body forever! I’m only a few months in and my results have been spectacular!!

I struggled between 4 and 5 stars.I recently purchased this book to start my one year challenge. I've already been weightlifting for a few years. I wanted to really make some better progress. I'm a total fan of Mike's books. I have both his cook books, thinner leaner stronger (on audio) and his fitness myths book.I have really attempted to use the information he provided to change the way I eat even more then I had, and to hone in my fitness routine. After two weeks I am already seeing improvements.The workouts seem easy and pointless but the next day you feel the burn.Just don't forget you have to push yourself to make the progress and be willing to challenge bumping up the weights.My only beef with the book is that it's geared to people with a gym membership. I have a home gym I've been slowly building and refuse to go back to the meat market where you can't get your hands on the good stuff (because of all the Meatheads hogging it while taking selfies)Some of the exercises I simply don't have the equipment for and there is not substitutions or modifications. I've tried to look some up but really.. there is not much I can find to be the equivalent to the leg press. But even so 90% of the exercises I CAN do!My only other beef is there isn't much on Max Rep. You need to know what that is to know where to start with his guide. It took me a little while of research outside his book to really understand that. It's not difficult or anything but kinda the key to unlock the rest of it.Otherwise I highly recommend it for people struggling on what the heck to do for a workout.It's certainly helped me fix my plan, and honestly simplify it.

I’m telling you, THIS PROGRAM WORKS!!!! I was introduced to the men’s Year One Challenge and I knew just by his physique that he was onto something because guy is absolutely ripped! So I purchased the women’s Year One Challenge along with Thinner Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews and I am just blown away by the results in just 4-6 weeks! I promise you, if you commit to the program and push yourself to do it every day you WILL see results! My picture is after only 4 weeks!!!!!!

I bought this book at the same time I bought Thinner, Leaner Stronger (TLS) and once I bounced around from chapter to chapter I dove right in to lifting heavy. I began lifting (again) in early January and I did make some progress. But once I understood lifting "heavy" I was on a roll. I am only at the end of week two of Phase 1, 5 Day Split and I feel so much better about myself. I feel stronger, healthier from eating right and I am an already down a size in jeans. Lovin it! I lift in the mornings and have found that I am ready to work out again in the evenings and there's been a time or two where I had to keep myself from doing so.If your not sure about it just take the plunge and buy the books. At 61 years old this hard work is already paying off.

I have gone through two of these books already.. I’ve done CrossFit and run but when I decided to save money and stop CrossFit and start weight training at home.. I had no idea where to start.. I didn’t know how to separate muscle groups and combine for the best result.. I was never in a class that taught this.. so.. I got this book and the thinner, leaner stronger book which helps explain this one.. and it was so easy to follow.. I didn’t even buy that first book for awhile and just googled what I didn’t know.. it says you need the other book so the neg reviews that complain about the exercises not being clear... they didn’t follow those directions and therefor aren’t even credible in my opinion.. it’s like buying something blue and wanting it red.. seriously some of these reviews are infuriating they are so useless..If you think about it.. $13 or $25 for both books for a year compared to a personal trainer.. think about it.. remember the saying.. give a man to fish and he eats for a day.. teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.. this is teaching women to workout! 😉Anyway.. if you want to weight train but don’t know how many reps or sets or at what weight or what exercises to do with let’s say bench presses.. buy this book! Start with a low weight and keep adding..