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Summary: i got my life back
Review: after 10 years dieting , now i understand and love my body and how it works . i see changes that make me happy, now i enjoy exercicing . thank you mr. bailey,for show me the way, i am in debt with you.
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Summary: Smart Exercise: An Overview
Review: An outstanding text. Covert does not deal with fad diets or gimmicks. Having first seen him on PBS, I decided to buy the text which was more informative and better than the show. He provides common sense no nonsense techniques on ways to achieve and maintain fitness with the approporiate physiological background as support. He tells you how your body burns fat and how to trick its inherint self preservation mechanisms. Easy to read, interesting, and not overly technical, it is a must read for anyone serious about becoming or maintaining overall fitness.
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Summary: Great Advice for the intermediate exerciser
Review: Bailey's style can be technical and overbearing but the man knows what he's talking about. I had been exercising for about 3 years when I found Covert's book. I had lost and kept off 30+ pounds but I wasn't really getting any closer to heavenly body I wanted to have. I could run 5+ miles, cycle about 30 and walk 20 without hurting too much. But I couldn't seem to lose that last ten or so pounds, not to mention get the definition I wanted to have in certain trouble spots like my thighs. I did killer workouts, sometimes running in the morning and cycling at night for only minute changes in my physique. It was so frustrating I wanted to give up. I wasn't a fat or out of shape person but I wasn't able to get the results I wanted though I was working very hard. It wasn't until I read Smart Exercise and began using wind sprints and longer aerobic sessions in conjunction with a small split weight-training routine that my body began to look and feel significantly different. I learned how to eat to fuel my body, how long I could work out and what the best frequency was. I learned that more is not always better and I definitely learned the value of allow my body to recover. With Bailey's help I developed a schedule and routine that allowed me to lose 10lbs in a little under eight weeks. I literally went from burning 500 calories in a 45 minute session to burning over 700 in 35 minute session because of windsprints and cross-training. With what seemed to be 70% of the effort, I was getting twice the results. If you're at plateau and you want some good advice. Or if you've been working out for a while and want to develop a more efficient routine, this is an ideal book to buy.
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Summary: Smart Book - Smart Author
Review: Covert Bailey is a master at making physiology easy to understand for the average person. If you are looking to improve your health and get into better shape, then you should have this title on your bookshelf. It does a great job of helping you to understand what works and what doesn't. Much like Bill Phillip's book Body For Life, this book stresses that exercise is the key to reducing fat and improving overall health. It explains why diet alone won't help you to lose weight permanently, and what the benefits of cardiovascular exercise are. When you finish reading this book, you will have a basic understanding of how the human body works, what makes people gain weight, how muscle is formed, how fat is formed and how to take it off permanently. Medical techno-babble is translated into terms that absolutely anyone can understand. His humor and amusing metaphors make for an enjoyable reading experience as well. ...This book is worth way more than it sells for. It is packed with useful information, good science and great advice.
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Summary: Get smart, slim and fit with Smart Exercise
Review: Get smart and fit with Covert Bailey's Smart Exercise. This well known fitness author has produced several great books over the last decade. Bailey's clear perception of excess fat as a lack-of-fitness problem is very useful. Although a few very heavy-eating fit people might be overweight, in general "being fat" is a state of not being fit. Attaining fitness will reduce and end fatness. Becoming fit, in Bailey's view, occurs at the level of the muscle cell. Aerobic exercise involving breathing heavily is the key type of exercise for allowing muscles cells to train to burn fat. Building muscle and making that muscle an efficient furnace of calories is the key to being trim. As Bailey says, use aerobic exercise to "be a better butter burner." The basic Slimming Partner movement recommendation is to move under your own power, especially walking, for at least an hour per day. Although walking is a wonderful, healthy activity for everyone, Covert Bailey would probably urge activity more demanding than walking, such as adding wind sprints to a walk. For someone quite overweight and out of shape, wind sprint would mean just a faster walking pace, maybe with some uphill. Bailey feels that the, the normal walking pace people choose is too slow to provide big fitness and weight control rewards. He advocates higher levels exertion as a way to become fitter faster, supporting his ideas with a fairly detailed view of how muscles train on the level of the cell. The book's analysis of training at the level of the muscular cell is informative and useful in creating positive mental images of the beneficial effects of aerobic exercise. Graphics are provided that help understanding of fairly complex subjects, energy metabolism with ATP and cellular enzymes. Bailey quickly and clearly states these subjects in ways most helpful to the person wanting to lose fat: Train your aerobic system, which he also calls your fat-burning system. This is easier to do if you can mentally visualize your trained muscle cells pulling fat out of your system and burning it as fuel. In general, this book is an excellent addition to the library and reading list of anyone interested in becoming less fat and more fit.
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Summary: Help at last
Review: I absolutely love this book. It is just technical enough to give you the needed information without being too difficult to read. The chapters are short and you can flip through to see what topic you are interested in at the moment and read 3 or 4 pages about it quickly. I am finding it very helpful. I even got my 75 year old mother to get one and after not moving for years she is now walking her drive and calling it her wind sprint - and it is for her!!
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Summary: Go Covert Go!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. It taught me how to get the most out of exercising for the effects I want. I have read it a couple of times and will keep referring back to it. It is definitely not a dust collecter!
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Summary: not all that
Review: I bought and read this book when it first came out and refer back to it often. As many people have suggested, Bailey does not shy away from detailing the biochemistry of exercise thought he does a pretty good job of presenting some very complex material in a simple manner (he has a PhD in chemistry or something like that from MIT and it shows). I have no science background myself so I found the book to be fascinating---particularly where he addressed the effects of low-carb diets way before they became the fad they are today (p. 35-38). On the whole, the best exercise book I've read.
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Summary: Exercise advice for the scientifically-inclined
Review: I bought and read this book when it first came out and refer back to it often. As many people have suggested, Bailey does not shy away from detailing the biochemistry of exercise thought he does a pretty good job of presenting some very complex material in a simple manner (he has a PhD in chemistry or something like that from MIT and it shows). I have no science background myself so I found the book to be fascinating---particularly where he addressed the effects of low-carb diets way before they became the fad they are today (p. 35-38). On the whole, the best exercise book I've read.
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Summary: Practical, easy to use advice that created results for me
Review: I bought this book after lots of frustration with excercise that didn't seem to create results. Hi impact activities hurt too much, lo impact activities took too long. Bailey's book does a good job of describing muscle chemistry and function, which leads to advice on how to get the most out of what you are doing. (The chemistry part was almost too much for me, I never did particularly like the subject). However, I do understand a lot more about how the body functions and now I am in a self-designed program that is quicker and more effective than ever! Thanks, Covert!
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