Muscle Toning "Instruction" Book

Womens Health Big Book of Exercises is outstanding.

You will absolutely love it. It has a chapter for each muscle, with basic lifts, advanced lifts, modifications, etc. It also has sample routines and even offers things like the home workout, the body weight workout, the I only have 15 minutes workout, as well as cardio plans, stretching, and information on weight loss and nutrition.

Hands down, it is one of the best comprehensive yet user friendly manuals of lifting around. It does NOT sell one single program; it is more of an encyclopedia of lifting complete with pictures for every lift.

Costco has anatomy for weight lifters and Anatomy for Yoga. They are great books that show which muscles are being used and how the weight or Yoga move tones and helps that muscle. It is a great tool and learning item as well.

There's a book called Strong Women Stay Slim by Miriam Nelson that I used as my initiation into weight lifting. It's very basic, but it's a great routine and a good place to start. It only requires basic hand weights. I know she has other books and when I searched to get her name, I see that she has quite a few web resources too and possibly some videos. Here's a link to one of her sites, just in case you're interested. Hope this helps!

http://www.strongwomen.com/stayslim/

I have Jorge Cruise's 8 Minutes in the Morning book. He targets different muscle groups each day. I haven't found the weights I need/want yet, so can't tell you how well it works, but it looks promising.

Try books by Joyce Vedral-