Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I was so excited to read this book, but as hard as I tried I couldn't come back from being really turned off right from the start (before the start? Would the endorsements/praise section and the foreward be considered the start or ... pre-start??). So...the endorsements section at the very beginning...Mike Matthews included 12 endorsement/praise blurbs from other authors, bodybuilders, etc...12 people who are ALL males. All 12...that struck me as very odd and an unwise choice for a book that's directed at women...it also felt tone deaf in a post-me too world so I initially gave Mike a pass assuming that his book must have been written sometime prior to ~2017 or so. Nope! Copyright 2019, sooooo... hmmm. But, I kept reading... Then I got to the Foreword - also written by a man -(Mark Rippetoe - who also provided the first of 12 endorsement blurbs in the section before) and he starts into how he and Mike became "buddies" and "too many abs" and "you know how golfers are" and ...all of a sudden I felt this nauseating wave of bro-ness wash over me and I had to put the book down. The next day, after forcing myself to keep an open mind and give Mike the benefit of the doubt, I started reading again... It didn't get any better. Within the first couple of pages in Chapter 1 I couldn't shake the strong condescending, mansplainy vibe this book was giving me. I'm sure that this book carries a wealth of valuable information, instruction and guidance, but I will be reading and learning it all from someone else. Mike Matthews, you need to do better.