Body for Life (Audio Cassette)

Body for Life (Audio Cassette)
by Bill Phillips, Phillips Bill

Body for Life (Audio Cassette)
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Author: Bill Phillips, Phillips Bill
Edition: Audio Cassette
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN: N/A

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Book Review: Great on workouts but consider something else for diet
Summary: 3 Stars

I've been using these workouts for about 3 years. The book and companion websight has saved me hundreds of dollars in personal trainers. I rate the wisdom in the weight training and running sections better than the trainers I've known. Other readers have surely benefitted more than I, staying more disciplined.... but I'm so happy with the efficient workouts. I've reaped a lot more than I could have hoped for otherwise.

Bill Phillips also has the guts to be honest and say that this workout does not fill the bill as an easy, quick fix thing. You have to stick with it; it's hard and takes discipline.

However, as other reviewers have explained much better than I could, yes, he does push his supplements in the book. This is why I don't give the book 5 stars. I recommend The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II, John Robbins, and Howard Lyman for a more researched viewpoint on what foods bring vibrant health.

Summary of Body for Life (Audio Cassette)

This guide outlines Bill Phillip's fitness programme, comprising weight training, aerobic exercise, and a careful diet. In addition, it addresses the reader's own personal goals and encourages personal transformation mentally, not just physically. The "Body for Life" programme reveals: how to lose fat and increase your strength by exercising less, not more; how to tap into an endless source of energy with Bill's "power mindset"; how to trade hours of aerobics for minutes of weight training - with dramatic results; how to feed your muscles and starve your fat with the provided eating plan; and how resistance training can significantly increase your metabolic rate allowing you to burn fat and change the shape of your body.
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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