The Year One Challenge for Women: Thinner, Leaner, and Stronger Than Ever in 12 Months (The Thinner Leaner Stronger Series Book 2) Kindle Edition

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’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 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 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..

I bought the Thinner, Leaner , stronger book at the same time.This really works.I'm a 40 yro mother of 3, work full-time and part-time for family business. 200 lbs.I chose the 5 day routine. I'm doing it.I eat 40% of my daily food in protien (don't just think steak, greek yogurt counts too)I use the multivitamin and fat burner ( not pre-workout far burner).I feel great.I feel full, not binge eating. I no longer crave the sugary sodas.I can feel my muscles are stronger. It's hard to explain.I don't feel my ups and downs with me emotions like I did before, a month ago.Two things you must do:(1) do five day routine, 3 sets, 10 reps, as heavy as you can before form breaks. All the exercises listed in the 1 year challenge. Don't skip(2) calculate your calories and stick to it.If you are more determined, manic, count calories, just healthier than me, you WILL see a drastic change.I added HIIT though. I found a book that put together HIIT workouts and conclude after my weight lifting. 5 - 10 minutes HIIT workouts. I'm fat, that's a workout.Some days it's 10 minute bicycle, fastSome days, row 1 mile fastSome days alternate fast walk, jog ( have a walking app tells me when to start and stop)Give it an honest try.

Don’t get this until you’ve read the accompanying book by the same author and decided to commit to a year of frequent visits to the gym and heavy weight lifting! Would be really useful log of your workouts if you like the sound of the plan, but otherwise useless on its own. Be warned: you can’t do this at home....gym membership essential

Completely disappointed! Description is miss leading, saying they give you meal plans and nutritional information. The book gives you a website to go to where you then have to pay a hefty price for a team to make a meal plan

On page 67. Book continually talks about buying other things he offers AND makes it really tough to figure out what the goals are to get leaner stronger and fitter... As You Have To Read his first book! Feel scammed!

The emphasis is on upper body, rather than legs and glutes. For women, it won't do. I do like how he gives ideas on how to split the workout days if you can't get to the gym 5 days a week. Also, there are no reps, sets and or rest times. I suppose it makes it flexible enough for you to choose whether you will do hypertrophy or strength.

I love this book so much I daren't write in it! Seeing as I don't have a PT anymore it is good to have something that guides you in setting out your exercises for each session and ensuring the variation and all over body training . I've adapted it for lockdown as we can't go to the gym. I can definitely recommend this book!