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Summary: Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Review: Although Phillips' exercise regimen is, I think, a reasonable one, and he's clearly a good motivational speaker, I found the book infuriating for two reasons:
1) It's a prolonged advertisement for Phillips' nutritional supplements business. It IS possible to be fit and healthy without taking all that overpriced stuff!
2) His definition of "fit" is limited to those who are buffed and slender. This isn't unique to him, of course. But the idea that you have to be buffed and slender or you're not "fit" has, I think, discouraged a lot of people from pursuing exercise regimes that are more appropriate for their personal needs. The goal, after all, is not just "fitness" but HEALTH, and someone who's fat and old but takes a half-hour walk every day is probably generally healthier than someone who spends 12 weeks on Phillips' regimen and then gives it up because they don't have the time.
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Summary: The cassette is NOT the real deal.
Review: I bought the audio cassette version of the Body For Life program. The tape is a good motivational tool, but it lacks in instruction in a major way. It is not a complete fitness program, but instead, a teaser to get you to buy the book. I will be returning it for a refund, which EAS has been gracious about. I will say that I'll check out the book at the library, and if it is as good in instruction as I have heard, I'll buy it.
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Summary: Who's kidding who?
Review: Who remembers Joe Weider? The bodybuilding industry was basically his as little as 7 years ago. Weider created the Mr. Olympia contest, magazines and books. Weider also sold supplements and lifestyle. Weider became the goliath of the bodybuilding industry. Bill Phillips came along like David. Bill Phillips was the Nirvana to Weider's Warrant. The industry was starved for something real and Bill Phillips was going to change the commerciality of the body building industry. Phillips talked honestly about steroid use. Phillips didn't include the most famous of bodybuilders in the pages of his magazine. Then Bill Phillips started to promote new products such as MetRx, creatine, HMB, CLA, etc. The unbiased and honest reporting disappeared and full on product promotion took over. Bill Phillips sold out to his own greed. That in itself is not a bad thing. Bill has just taken it to the extreme and allowed the money to cloud his vision and honesty. What is left in the bodybuilding world? Eventually a new David will come to topple Bill "I'm a Goliath now, too" Phillips. Why are so many of us negative when it comes to Bill Phillips? He promised to change the industry. He started out great, a good newsletter and great magazine (at least in the begining). Bill Phillips changed. He became all that he claimed he was agaist. It's like watching the revolutionary, who was to liberate the people, move into the king's castle after the revolution. This book sums up all that is commercial and wrong with Bill Phillips.
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Summary: Great plan for someone who needs something to follow!
Review: I just stared my 12 weeks on July 5. I've been working out and "dieting" for several months, but now I feel like I have some direction. The plan seems overly simple, but I needed something structured with specific goals to accomplish. While I refuse to chant to a cadence of "I-am-building-my-body-for-life" during my weight training as suggested in the book, I find the plan to be achievable and workable for the average person who has a career, family, life, etc. I'm going to give it a try and see how it goes. FYI--myoplex is much more palatable when mixed with skim milk rather than water :)
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Summary: Only if you're lazy
Review: If you like throwing your money away, by all means purchase this book. I'm assuming that you're reading this from a web browser. Use that same browswer and look at some fitness magazines. I agree with a review made by another reader. This is not fitness for life, but building a body no matter what you put in your system. Please be warned that the author has no objective stance since he's pushing his products. Please be careful.
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Summary: Wake up
Review: People, people wake up. Bill Phillips is out to do nothing but to make money and push his supplements on you. There is NOTHING amazing in this book except the same rhetoric you'll find in his "no holds barred" sections of Muscle Media, a magazine that I do like. But this book is seriously nothing but a big advertisement with a few simple exercises in it. Don't belive the hype. You CAN lose weight WITHOUT supplements these days. Think about it, before all these supplements people still looked good and lost weight right? You DONT need supplements and you DONT need this book. All it takes is old-fashion hard work. Put in the work and the results will come.
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Summary: Good starting point, not for experienced people.
Review: If you are a regular reader of Muscle Media than you will have read a lot of the book already in the form of previews and his editorials in each issue. If you are not, and are just starting a fitness program then by all means give this book a chance. I find bill to be an extremely intelligent person and great at what he does. He is more talented in the field of motivational speaking/writing than anything else. His fitness tips are for the most part sound and the book does not overly promote his eas line of supplements as much as i had expected. If you are interested in motivational words and/or just need somewhere to start at when you want to get in shape then the book is a great choice. If you are already in good shape the book may prove useless to you.
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Summary: A physical fitness book that will make you mentally tough!!
Review: A book that has a good feel just by picking it up. Once you begin to read it, you realize that you have found a book that is comfortable to read and will change your attitude with a little effort. An inspiring book that, that makes a contribution to the reader and to Make a Wish Foundation. Buy the book, read it, live it, and you will see a different person emerge from your existing form.
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Summary: I don't need a guru
Review: Having read this book, I'm not surprised about all the positive reviews. Giving this negative review I feel like the one person in Jonestown saying "Don't drink the Kool-Aid!" Weak people need a leader, someone to tell them how to think and feel, someone to program their actions. The masses tend to search these people out and raise them to demi god status. I understand your desire to have someone make each decision for you but Bill Phillips' is not worthy of your praise. Phillips is building a small fortune on the weak. Do you need this? Would you have swallowed the Kool-Aid? Buy into fitness, not a cult.
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Summary: A wakeup call in book form...
Review: When you open this book and begin to read, it makes you feel as if you are being told all of the things that your conscience has been telling you all of your life. It opens your eyes to the power that you have within to accomplish anything you put your mind to.
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