Rating: 
Summary: Good Content but Author is Clueless on Sweeteners
Review: The workouts work! Plain and simple! However Zickerman states more than once in the book that 'manitol, sorbitol, and xylitol' sweetners are bad. He missed the fact that xylitol is a low-caloric sweetner. Other than that I enjoyed the book and am enjoying my sore muscles too. Combining Power of 10 work outs with Dr. Atkins diet is making a huge difference in my life. I can now lift as much or more in slow motion now as I could lift the old way!Highly recommended for the workout part of the book.
Rating:
Summary: Good Content but Author is Clueless on Sweeteners
Review: The workouts work! Plain and simple! However Zickerman states more than once in the book that 'manitol, sorbitol, and xylitol' sweetners are bad. He missed the fact that xylitol is a low-caloric sweetner. Other than that I enjoyed the book and am enjoying my sore muscles too. Combining Power of 10 work outs with Dr. Atkins diet is making a huge difference in my life. I can now lift as much or more in slow motion now as I could lift the old way! Highly recommended for the workout part of the book.
Rating: 
Summary: It Does Work
Review: This book was marketed towards the large market of people in the United States who have: no time. Individuals who don't have time to do--anything. And one of the many things they don't have time for is--being healthy, or maintaining their health by exercising on a regular basis. Perhaps the title should be: "The slow-motion lifestyle revolution," not the "slow-motion fitness revolution." There is plenty of helpful information to help people workout properly at home using dumbbells which can provide a full body workout. Stretching, and even the medicine ball are thrown in. Illustrations, a muscle directory, and directions of how to exercise with proper form are provided. Cheating and poor form also noted in particular. One piece of particularly helpful advice for example, is the one-legged standing calf-raise. Zickerman doesn't recommend using the Smith Bar for standing calf raises because it compacts the spinal chord. Good advice. Zickerman is qualified and experienced and his approach has produced results for me that were very positive for a period of time. The effect of eccentric or negative training, which is the slow movement of heavy weight, (on the way down) helps build endurance. Over time however, the body adapts. Going to maximum failure, which this program advocates does tap into the Central Nervous System (CNS), and this not appropriate for everyone. The ten second concentric and the 10 second eccentric movements are designed for people to achieve maximum failure as the author claims, in approximately twenty minutes, or a little more. The assertion that this can burn fat, increase metabolism, and spur LBM growth is definitely pushing it for the other six days of the week has not been corroborated by valid research studies. There are several different workout programs: HST, Power/Rep. Range/ Shock, West-side, High Intensity Training (HIT), Pyramid training, AVT, and so on. The power of 10 is one among many. For neophytes and those who only want to only put in twenty minutes of effort during a full week, this will suffice. But the results won't necessarily be sufficient. For some it will work; others it won't. The symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle which is endemic today isn't solved by a particular workout program, because it is caused by a lack of time and commitment, which is the cause of the problem in the first place. Reiterating the point and theme of this book is important because it's why it recommends what it does. "The Power of 10" was written specifically to be marketed to Americans who don't have the time, will, nor motivation to do what's necessary to achieve or maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Rating:
Summary: It Does Work
Review: This book was marketed towards the large market of people in the United States who have: no time. Individuals who don't have time to do--anything. And one of the many things they don't have time for is--being healthy, or maintaining their health by exercising on a regular basis. Perhaps the title should be: "The slow-motion lifestyle revolution," not the "slow-motion fitness revolution." There is plenty of helpful information to help people workout properly at home using dumbbells which can provide a full body workout. Stretching, and even the medicine ball are thrown in. Illustrations, a muscle directory, and directions of how to exercise with proper form are provided. Cheating and poor form also noted in particular. One piece of particularly helpful advice for example, is the one-legged standing calf-raise. Zickerman doesn't recommend using the Smith Bar for standing calf raises because it compacts the spinal chord. Good advice. Zickerman is qualified and experienced and his approach has produced results for me that were very positive for a period of time. The effect of eccentric or negative training, which is the slow movement of heavy weight, (on the way down) helps build endurance. Over time however, the body adapts. Going to maximum failure, which this program advocates does tap into the Central Nervous System (CNS), and this not appropriate for everyone. The ten second concentric and the 10 second eccentric movements are designed for people to achieve maximum failure as the author claims, in approximately twenty minutes, or a little more. The assertion that this can burn fat, increase metabolism, and spur LBM growth is definitely pushing it for the other six days of the week has not been corroborated by valid research studies. There are several different workout programs: HST, Power/Rep. Range/ Shock, West-side, High Intensity Training (HIT), Pyramid training, AVT, and so on. The power of 10 is one among many. For neophytes and those who only want to only put in twenty minutes of effort during a full week, this will suffice. But the results won't necessarily be sufficient. For some it will work; others it won't. The symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle which is endemic today isn't solved by a particular workout program, because it is caused by a lack of time and commitment, which is the cause of the problem in the first place. Reiterating the point and theme of this book is important because it's why it recommends what it does. "The Power of 10" was written specifically to be marketed to Americans who don't have the time, will, nor motivation to do what's necessary to achieve or maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Rating:
Summary: Freedom from Pain
Review: This system has really set me free -- I used to hate going to the gym
and dealing with that whole scene, it was such a pain! Now I am using
this super 10 system and my body looks and feels 100% different and
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for growth.(...)
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