BodyChange

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Summary: excellent book!! It helped me!!!!!
Review: I bought this book being a little weary of it, My husband told me about the woman who weighed 410 lbs and lost 300 of it using the bodychange program. I decided to give it a try and I lost 20 lbs in the first month. The only thing it needs to make it even better is more nutritional information. Give examples of what foods to eat and exactly what she means by low carbs, what is considered low? I recommend this book to anyone needing to get in shape. all thats needed is a few weights and a swiss ball. Give it a try, you'll see a difference soon.

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Summary: I can workout at home with clear instruction
Review: I love this book! I picked it up for the pictures (beautiful)--and bought it because of the trainers personal fitness story--which I read in the bookstore. It inspired me to workout that evening--as i felt she was talking to my sense of strength. The first part of the book is inspirational to anyone that wants to take control of their fitness. The second part is the program itself. I can do it at home-- I am using my son's weight set to do the program. The only thing I had to buy was the Swiss ball. The exercises are interesting--some of them I never saw before--yet they make sense--full body exercises. The instruction is clear with each exercise and the tips Wini gives make sense to remember during my workout.. So far--feeling good--looking forward to a video companion.

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Summary: not quite what I expected
Review: I really learned alot about weights from this book. I can bring the book to the gym and follow the exercises. The best part is the inspirational instructions along with the clear explanations. Waiting for the next one!

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Summary: If You Want to Get in Shape . . .
Review: If you're looking for a didactic that will inspire as well as instruct, this is the one you need to purchase. I belong to a gym and have used a trainer there for instruction, but that didn't compare to what I learned in this book. Montel Williams is an inspiration to us all as he deals with multiple sclerosis in such a positive way and his collaboration on this book with Wini Linguvic makes it one of the best fitness books I've seen. I highly recommend this one!

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Summary: An inspiring message on every page
Review: Montel Williams and his personal trainer, Wini Linguvic's fitness book is more than just a book of great photos and clear exercise descriptions. It is about focus, believing in yourself and making positive changes. It is about strength and control. It is a philosophy of living. And, mostly, it is about attitude.

Yes, you can do it. That's the inspiring message on every page of this book. Montel himself is grappling with a chronic illness, multiple sclerosis. And yet he just keeps going, understanding that as he pushes his body, he is empowering himself in every aspect of his life. Wini's been his trainer for the past five years and he attributes her approach to training as not only changing his body, but to changing his life.

Wini has lived this philosophy all her life. She's been training her body since she was a teenager and training clients for the past 15 years. As she says, "It's not just my body I've built in the gym." She's helped people achieve more results than they ever though they could achieve and now, together with Montel, she is reaching out to a larger public. Step by step, she takes you through the exercises and the clear photographs and descriptions make them especially easy to follow. They're very basic, but what is different is the philosophy behind them, the BodyChange philosophy. She guides you through the motions of the exercises and also guides you through the changes in thinking that will help you succeed. By following her program for just 21 days you will begin to form the habits that will last you a lifetime.

I'm proud and delighted to say that I'm Wini's mother. It's a joy to know how much she contributes to the world by devoting her life to helping people shape their bodies and attain their goals. She's quiet, strong and determined. There are a lot of photos of Wini in the book and she looks beautiful. But her beauty goes much deeper than that. Reading her words will help you understand. There is inspiration to gain from this book. Everyone can benefit from it. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Exercise - yuk!
Review: Of all the fitness books, I have read this rates in the top ten. Montel is his normal inspiring self and I hope we get more books by Wini. This book is motivating and tells it like it is. The "how to" information is simple, straight-forward, and easy to understand. Both Wini and Montel are obviously the real thing. These are the type of people, I want training me. The pictures are great, the text is great. The BodyChange program is a winner. See [the website] for more information and a sample of this great book.

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Summary: Wini is obsessive, Montel is hardly in book
Review: This book caught my attention with the beautiful photos of Montel and Wini, but I read thru the book in only 1/2 an hour. I was hoping to hear more from Montel on his work-out regimen since he is a normal, non-body-builder kind of person. But the bulk of this book is written by Wini Linguvic who obviously is a work-out nut. She is the kind of person who spends 5 hours a day in the gym and really doesn't have a sense of what normal people have the time to do or want to do to accomplish their training goals. This book is as good as any other advice book on training, but no better than most.