Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength
by Bill Phillips, Michael D'Orso
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Author: Bill Phillips, Michael D'OrsoBrand: EAS
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-06-10
ISBN: 0060193395
Number of pages: 201
Publisher: William Morrow
Product features:
- 12 week Program
- Over three million copies
- #1 New York Times bestselling author
- Tanita BC554 Ironman Glass InnerScan Body Composition Monitor Elite Series
- Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
Book Reviews of Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength
Book Review: Master Motivator-Meet Skeptikal Fitness Hater
Summary: 3 Stars
It's great that Eas/"Body of Work"/"Body for Life" contribute so much to Make-A-Wish. I think that's fantastic.However......this book is an example of Eas and "Muscle Media's" biggest weakness: Lack of commitment to keeping the customer happy. Like many reviewers have said, "Body for Life" is a complete reiteration of articles first published in "Muscle Media." For people who don't subscribe to/read "MM," this isn't a problem. For the rest of us, it stinks. Like a fool, I was excited when I heard of the book release last spring....so I ordered both the hardcover and the audio book. I should've saved my $$. Rather than commit to giving EAS & "MM" fans their money's worth, BP rehashes old info. Management at EAS and "MM" seem so driven to reach 'everyone else' that they forget about the people who put them where they are. A great example: "Muscle Media" is supposed to be published 8 times annually. Well, due to BP's hectic 'gotta be everybody's best friend' schedule, only 4 issues reached subcriber's mailboxes in '99. Oh well. The content of the book is ok. Bill Phillips knows how to motivate.....he must be given his props for that. However he also knows that we(us people)are sheep. Don't deny it, b/c it's true. I am, you are, s/he is, they are. Everybody. If we weren't sheep, how would things like Beanie Babies take off.....what about parachute pants.....Vanilla Ice.....Cabbage Patch Kids......Ricky Martin. BP knows that by creating "Blair Witch"-like hype, he can get all us sheep to buy his stuff. "Hey, Bill, Tina, and Susan all like it.....I'm going to like it too." Oh! Great example of my point: Oprah Winfrey. I like OW, but doesn't she have a bit too much power(sarcasm)when all she has to do is mention a book on her show and it becomes an overnight best seller right here on amazon? What about that "Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan program by the Heller's? That thing went huge b/c of us sheep, you shoulda' seen how many were on reserve at the local Border's. I wonder if all those people are still losing 10 lbs./week as they were when it initially aired back in late October/early November. I'm guessing they're not even on the stupid program any longer. You can't lose 10 lbs. of fat in a week anyway. Oprah knows this, she's struggled w/it. She has a responsibility there. Oh my! What if Oprah had "Body for Life" on her show! Now, I'm not saying the book pushes EAS Supplements and "Muscle Media" subcriptions on us overtly......but I think that subconciously, it does. Bill is a master at getting people to do things like this. He creates this aura of excitement and gets you buzzing......the next thing you know, you're out spending dollars. Maybe you don't need the supplements to transform your body, but you do have to buy at least one EAS supplement to be in the contest. Not to mention gym membership, travel, body-fat testing, etc....And what fun is there in not getting in the contest. I soooo believe in changing your physique to illicit a change inside, but some of this stuff.....I don't know. At what expense are we transforming ourselves?Take aspartame for example(found in almost all companies' supplements). One person hails it the greatest invention since sliced bread b/c it allows you to have the taste while sparing the waste. Another person says it's poison disguised. I don't know who to believe....the conspiracists on the internet -or- and i can't believe i'm saying this....the government and their conclusive 'human safety' studies. BP says it's safe, but he's a salesman. Why can't we trust anybody(Phen-Phen)? I'd like to ask somebody who knows to tell me the truth. I guess we'll know if, in 30 years, all these people have arms growing from their heads. Look for me. I'll be the guy with the 3rd eyeball. How important is it to beef-up? Weight training is essential for all people of all ages....I do believe that. But, do we want to look like bodybuilders? Hey, I've seen BP in person(at the premier of "Body of Work" during the weekend of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness Weekend in Columbus, Ohio). You should see him walk with those stubby, yet too-big-for-his-body legs. Not a pretty sight.Can't we get a book on how to look like Calvin Klein underwear models(see Antonio Sabato Jr.'s "No Excuses")? Also, if a person does win this contest....by signing all those papers full of agreements, are we signing our lives away to EAS. I'd like to talk to one of those champions and see if their lives are really that great. Maybe they have to do what EAS says and not speak ill of it(confidentiality agreement). Maybe not. But I would like to know. I hate to be cynical and negative....but I have a hard time believing something when someone stands to profit from my faith in her/his product. I think BP is a decent guy, but I also think that much of the stuff he does is self-serving. Where will he be if the 1 million people do transform their bodies? Will he be crowned king or something? I gave the book 3 stars b/c changing your body can change your life profoundly. I know b/c I've done it before. Don't think that your life will be perfect if you get in shape, but believe me....it will get a heck'uva'lot better. It's got some good info. People that need some motivation can be well-served by reading it. Good luck to all of you folks looking to turn your life around. I need to join you all. With or w/out the contest.....let's just do it!
Summary of Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength
Mention the name Bill Phillips to any of the people he's helped transform and you will see their faces light up with appreciation and respect. These people include:
- Hundreds of thousands of men and women who read his magazine for guidance and straightforward information about exercise, nutrition, and living with strength.
- Elite professional athletes, among them John Elway, Karl Malone, Mike Piazza, and Terrell Davis ?ho have turned to Phillips for clear?cut information to enhance their energy and performance.
- People once plagued by obesity, alcoholism, and life?threatening ailments who accepted a personal challenge from Bill Phillips and, with his help, have regained control of their bodies and their lives.
When you begin to apply the information in this book, you will be proving to yourself that astounding changes are within your grasp too. And, you will discover Body?for?LIFE is much more than a book about physical fitness ?t's a gateway to a new and better life, a life of rewarding and fulfilling moments, perhaps more spectacular than you've ever dared to dream before.
Within 12 weeks, you too are going to know ?ot believe, but know : that the transformation you've created with your body is merely an example of the power you have to transform everything else in your world.
In language that is vivid and down?to?earth, Bill Phillips guides you, step by step, through the integrated Body?for?LIFE Program, which reveals:
- How to lose fat and increase your strength by exercising less, not more;
- How to tap into an endless source of energy by living with the Power MindsetTM;
- How to create more time for everything meaningful in your life;
- How to trade hours of aerobics for minutes of weight training ?ith dramatic results;
- How to make continual progress by using the High?Point TechniqueTM;
- How to feed your muscles while starving fat with the Nutrition?for?LIFE MethodTM;
- How thousands of ordinary people have now become extraordinary and how you can, too;
- How to gain control of your body and life, once and for all.
The principles of the Body?for?LIFE Program are surprisingly simple but remarkably powerful. So allow yourself to experience the force of the information in this book, allow yourself to take your mind, your body, your life to a higher point than you may have ever dreamed you could. All in as little as 12 weeks.
Bill Phillips had been publishing bodybuilding magazines and marketing nutritional supplements for years when he had a weird revelation at a trade show: many of the most loyal and enthusiastic readers he had were totally out of shape. From that uncomfortable realization came his popular Physique Transformation Contest (top prize that first year: Phillips's own Lamborghini), now world famous, and this book.
The three-times-a-week weightlifting program in Body for Life is deceptively simple. If you've spent any time in the gym, you've already done all the exercises. But Phillips includes a couple of high-intensity sets at the end of each exercise that should compound the training effect on each muscle group. Same goes for the cardiovascular exercise he recommends: just 20 minutes, three times a week. But those 20 minutes are spent jacking the intensity up and down, accomplishing more in less time.
Phillips arranges all this into a 12-week program, along with nutritional and motivational tips. Be warned that the nutritional advice gets a little spacey. For example, he puts "carbohydrates" and "vegetables" into separate categories, and recommends three daily doses of a nutritional supplement called Myoplex, which his company manufactures. (Fortunately, he gives tips on how to make each dose taste different, such as by adding drops of peppermint extract.) Despite this strangeness, Body for Life still motivates because so many others have achieved astounding results in similar 12-week windows, and the pictures and testimonials are here as evidence. --Lou Schuler
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