Karen Bridson

Parts of this book were fascinating, especially the beginning part that told about what professionally skinny women actually do to maintain that artificially adolescent look long past their actual teens.
Parts of it were simply common sense (don't eat anything bigger than your head kinds of common sense). But a lot of it was foolish (eat margarine on your popcorn) and the working out with weights section of it was, to this weightlifter, enraging. It reinforces that old canard about women getting all "bulky" from lifting, and to add insult to injury, says such damnfool things as "If, for instance, you do mini bicep curls but don't bring your fist all the way up to your shoulder level, then you will be defeating your purpose and building short bulky muscles", the which is just multi-layered bullshit. The mere phrase "long lean muscles" causes steam to come out of my ears. It also suggests using 2 pound dumbbells. Presumably pink, with glittery 2s on the ends.

So. Interesting, commonsensical in parts, and ridiculous in others. I wish I'd stopped reading after the first part.… (más)