Wedding Workout: Look and Feel Fabulous on Your Special Day

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Summary: I Love This Workout
Review: A friend gave me The Wedding Workout soon after I got engaged. I've been doing the workout and following the nutrition advice for 5 months now and I've lost weight and inches. I'm so excited that I'll look great at my wedding. Even though I'm getting married next month, I plan on continuing this workout long after my big day. Whether you're getting married or not, this is a great workout book.

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Summary: What a great idea!
Review: Being a woman and also a bride, I am naturally concerned with how my body looks. This book is aimed toward brides but is applicable to all women. The exercises are specific and realistic. At first I was a bit confused, but after reading through certain sections again, I began to get focused on what Effinger was saying. The basic points of feeling great and looking great are flexibility, cardio, toning, and eating right. Effinger makes it easy to understand and also easy to do, even with a busy schedule. I know that I will continue to use these exercises even after my big day.

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Summary: What a great idea!
Review: Being a woman and also a bride, I am naturally concerned with how my body looks. This book is aimed toward brides but is applicable to all women. The exercises are specific and realistic. At first I was a bit confused, but after reading through certain sections again, I began to get focused on what Effinger was saying. The basic points of feeling great and looking great are flexibility, cardio, toning, and eating right. Effinger makes it easy to understand and also easy to do, even with a busy schedule. I know that I will continue to use these exercises even after my big day.

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Summary: Totally Worthless
Review: I'm getting married in 6-months and I was hoping for a guide to help me loose the holiday pounds and tone my arms a little for my strapless gown. This book is much to "touchy feely" for my taste. There are lots of sections to write about how I feel about my body, how I feel when I stand on a scale, etc. And after this section of to make you comfortable in your body, is a chapter that asks you to fit your body type into one of four very limiting options. It wasn't until after I had read through all of this that I even got to the diet and exercise portions of the book. These sections didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know just from watching magazines or reading television. I don't need a self-help book to make me feel better about my body -- I like my body fine. I was hoping for a good 6-month plan to help me tone my body, and I didn't get that.

Don't be misled, like I was, into thinking that this book is a diet and exercise book. It's a self help book with some diet and exercise thrown in.

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Summary: The Perfect Engagement Companion
Review: Where was The Wedding Workout when I was engaged? Suzanne Rowen and Tracy Effinger have written the perfect book to give to any bride-to-be. While the excercise guidance is of course wonderful, this book is so much more than a workout manual. It gives brides the confidence they'll need to handle the many decisions they'll have to tackle during this busy and stressful time. The subjects of dress selection, honeymoon and nutrition are handled with wit, charm and sparkle. The book is a pleasure to read and the advice is useful long after the special day has come and gone.