Rating: 
Summary: NUTRITION 101 Gives it "two thumbs up"
Review: As a certified sports nutritionist, it helps me to motivate people at my sports nutrition store, NUTRITION 101 of Manchester, New Hampshire. Many of our customer compete in the "Physique Transformation Challenge" that Bill's company, EAS, puts on each year, and it seems that most people can get motivated and benefit from reading this book and doing the "challenge".
Rating:
Summary: I worked out with Bill and he deffinitely kicked my Buttttt
Review: I got the chance to meet up with Bill Phillips out in Los Angeles. We worked out at the Crunch Gym in Beverly Hills and let me tell you, he deffinitely knows his stuff! I have been working out for about 5 years, but when I did his workout with him pushing me, I was sore for days afterwards. His methods cut your gym time in half and will deffinitely have better results. (quality over quantity is what he says). I've never had a better workout in my life!
thanks :) (...)
Rating:
Summary: Just a few things you might want to know...
Review: This book is extremely motivational as well as inspiring- hat's off to the author's easy going writing style. The diet plan is about as easy and straightforward as it gets. Exercise plan is a little more complicated and requires some equipment (like free weights). All in all, its definitely worth a good look. Another book along the same lines readers may like: "The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan, A Pocket Guide To What Works" to see what the published research has to say about losing weight.
Rating:
Summary: The Best Diet Book out there...Bar None!
Review: I gave birth to my son almost six years ago and gained over 35 pounds. I thought I would lose it easily as I had been very active doing karate and going to the gym prior to my pregnancy. To my disappointment I just couldn't lose the weight! I tried every single diet out there...Atkins, Mediterannean, the Zone, Cabbage Soup, you name it and I just couldn't lose all the weight. I managed to slowly lose about 15 pounds, but that wasn't enough.
In desperation, I bought this book in April 2004 and followed it religiously, writing down EVERYTHING, eating the right foods,etc., the only thing I did differently is that I exercised every single day (I have not taken a single day off in the last 10 months), as I do karate and tap-dancing in addition to going to weight training and aerobics.
I was a bit sceptical....could I really eat on my day off and still lose weight?! Well, let me tell you, you only have to look at me today to see the results. I have lost and additional 25 pounds, am extremely cut, look and feel years younger!
I recommended this book to all my friends who were amamzed at the change, it came gradually and taking photos every four weeks really helped motivate me. If any sceptics out there would like to see my before and after pictures I will gladly send them to you.
I still stick to this diet, but not as strictly, more like maintenance, it is so eaasy to follow. By the way, I would also like to add that the EAS shakes and bars are the most delicious I have ever taken! (The people at Atkins really ought to reformulate the rubbish-tasting stuff they sell). I still have a low-carb shake for breakfast and try to stick to clean carbs.
Anyone who wants to lose weight in a healthy manner will definitely be able to do so following this diet. But in order to succeed, please follow it to the letter: TAKE PHOTOS, WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU EAT, WRITE DOWN HOW LONG YOU EXERCISED AND WHAT EXERCISES YOU DID,DON'T CHEAT....(you have one day off where you can do all the cheating you want).
Start now and I guarantee that before Summer 2005 you will have a stunning body!
Rating: 
Summary: Great Information to Jump Start a Fitness Routine!!!!
Review: This program has changed my life! I took a before photo (ouch!) and after two weeks took another photo. In just that time I've lost 6 pounds and I've lost inches around my stomach and my back!!! At present, I'm on my second day of week three. I write in my journal daily, plan my meals and workouts, and most importantly BELIEVE I can do this.
Generally speaking, diet is generally the hardest aspect of living a healthy lifestyle. I don't find that true for BFL. During the first week I couldn't wait for my first free day. I had a mental list of everything I was going to cram into my mouth during those 23 hours and 59 minutes. I just KNEW I was going to eat as many Milk Duds, pastries and as much ice cream as humanly possible. By the time my free day rolled around amazingly I didn't WANT that stuff. Don't get me wrong, I did eat unapproved food but not to the degree that I had done in the past nor did I eat gluttonous.
Overall, I give Body-for-Life two thumbs up!
Rating:
Summary: The program worked for me
Review: Before starting the program, I weighed 297 pounds. (At the time of this review I'm a 47 year-old, six-foot-two male.) About a year and a half later after beginning the "Body for Life" program, I weigh 205 pounds. I credit all of this to the motivation and information I had received from Mr. Phillips' book.
The program outlined in the book may not work for everyone. It did work for me. For the strength training, I use a very old Soloflex machine for three of my exercises. (The Soloflex had been very lightly used for the past 18 years prior to our buying the book.) In addition, I had to purchase several dumbbells to use with the strength training.
For the aerobics component, I now use a fairly inexpensive treadmill. I have placed the intensity levels as outlined in the book on the wall in front of the treadmill so that I can see what level I should be on during the entire workout. I have also placed my weight amounts and settings on an erasable board that can be easily viewed during my workout.
I basically ignored the advice for supplements, opting instead to incorporate protein in my meals as part of my eating plan. Before starting the program, I rarely ate breakfast. Now I eat the six small meals a day and am rarely hungry.
A few weeks after I had started the "Body for Life" program, my wife also started doing it. She has lost about 30 pounds in a year's time.
The workouts are not pleasant. In fact, the workout are not fun. However, there is a sense of achievement once each workout session is finished. It takes a great deal of discipline to do them. It also takes discipline to make the proper choices for meals. I found the meal portion control as stated in the book to be very sensible.
I tread fairly easily on "free days," the day of the week when the eating plan can be somewhat ignored. I keep photos of when I weighed close to 300 pounds out at all times, so a "free day" for me can mean a deviation from the way I would normally eat, but the deviation is not too great.
The program as presented in the book worked for me. However, I wanted it to work. Unless a person is ill, there should be no excuse for not exercising, especially the very reasonable amount of exercise that is recommended in "Body for Life."
"Body for Life" is not a perfect book. Stretching is not emphasized in it. However, I do find it to be a great book as the program worked for me. But ultimately, it is up to each person as to whether the program will work for him or her. As I tell myself on a regular basis, "the weights will not lift themselves."
Rating:
Summary: If you follow the Plan: IT WORKS
Review: I like a lot of people have tried a lot of diets and programs to lose weight, this one was one of the easiest and most effective that I had have, since is very simple to follow.
The plan basicly is devided in two parts: Nutrition and Weight training.
1) Nutririon.- is very a very simple idea and easy to follow, divide your meals in 6, each between 2 or 3 hours, the meals should be one portion protein (chicken, meat, salmon) and one portion carbs (brown rice, baked potato, corn), and in at least two combine them with a portion of vegetables. The portion's size should be in proportion with your body. You can use meal-replacement shakes instead of whole meals for conviniance.
2) Weight Training.- This one was the difficult part for me since I am used to train hard and this feels like not that hard but once you do it and reached intensity level 10 you really feel it. The system is divided in two parts that should be do it alternative: cardio (3 days) and weights (3 days) with one day for rest. In the cardio part you use an interval of intensity going from level 5 to 10 for 20 mins.
In the Weight Training parto you alternate upper body workouts (chest, back, shoulders, tris and biceps) with lower body workouts (quads, hams, calves and abs), with only two exercises and 6 sets per bodypart, you use and increase in weight approach based on your personal capabiity at the time, is very important to follow times for rest so you can finish in less them 45 mins.
That is basicly the plan, the book gives you personal stories, more complete description of the plan and illustration to the most basic and complete exercises per body part.
I used and help me a lot and I am planning in continue doing it, is simple and have the concept of the free day in the nutrition part, that is one day of the week you can eat whatever you want so you do not feel a slave of your dier, fanrastic isn't?
Rating: 
Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: It is clear that the main purpose of this book is to peddle more of Bill Phillips' beloved Myoplex. Phillips claims that everyone in his program who achieved amazing results used Myoplex, which was rather saddening, considering how outrageously expensive the Myoplex crap is. Whatever you do, don't buy into this stupidity.
Phillips has absolutely nothing to say about stretching.
The nutrition section lacks in that is places emphasis on "meat & potatoes" (or most importantly meat, no wait, Myoplex)and leaves fruit & vegetables out in the cold. In the book I believe there are meal plans for three days...if you want more, you'll have to buy Phillips' other book "Eating-for-LIFE". Phillips' plan follows 3 meats, 3 carbs, 3 vegetables per day interspersed with Myoplex and more Myoplex products (for anyone who knows anything about nutrition, this is quite outrageous!)
I also found the 1-10 intensity levels amuzing. I can see someone fretting in a gym somewhere now: "Was that a 9 or a 10. Was that set a 4 or 5. Hell, it may have even been a 6 for all I know...."
Yeah, don't waste your money on this book (even if Bill Phillips is rather hot). I recommend "Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee" by Rodney Yee
Rating: 
Summary: Great way to start - needs modifications
Review: For 2 entire years I lived by the priniples of this book. It is easy to read and understand. I have only one problem with it: The author assumes that every individual is the same. Don't get me wrong, I got decent results applying these principles. Though we all have the same muscles (men & women) and need to work them similarly (depending upon the results you wish) not all of us get the results which I take to mean that not all of us should be on EXACTLY the same program. I recommend Tom Venuto's e-book "Burn the Fat, Build the Muscle" in addition to BFL.
Rating:
Summary: lin
Review: just wanted everyone to know that if you workout and suffer from most back and neck pain this book will be too basic. I have had many patients come in do to injuries from trying yoga,golf and all needed alot of work to get back into shape with safe movements. Instead i would like to tell the reader to try the Backsmart Fitness Plan by Dr. Adam Weiss, this doctor has a new book out that covers all areas from core training to strecthing chapters I have never seen written before. I looked him up on the internet and found he was offering a conidtioning workshop in Chicago and I went, It was money and time well spent! If you can not go to his workshops , pick up this book! I saw a pre published verson at the workshop and was amazed at the information he had to offer to the readers who suffer from back or neck pain and trying to over come the pain and get into shape! The wall exercises were the best i have seen in my 15 years with working with people who suffer from sport injuries to back or neck pain. Dr. Weiss has used weight training and body weight exercises for the most functional and best program out there today. There are too many out dated books on this subject and i think anyone wanting to get into shape without hurting themselves would benefit greatly from the Backsmart Fitness Plan, I have put all my patients on this program from post op to young athelets wanting to get stronger and faster in thier sports. I have also used it very succesfuly with my arthirtic pain suffers and patients who wanted to lose weight. A very safe and great workout for everyone.
|
