Sculpt Your Body with Balls and Bands : Shed Pounds and Get Firm in 12 Minutes a Day (With Your 3-Week Plan for Fast, Easy Weight Loss)

Sculpt Your Body with Balls and Bands : Shed Pounds and Get Firm in 12 Minutes a Day (With Your 3-Week Plan for Fast, Easy Weight Loss)
by Denise Austin

Sculpt Your Body with Balls and Bands : Shed Pounds and Get Firm in 12 Minutes a Day (With Your 3-Week Plan for Fast, Easy Weight Loss)
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Author: Denise Austin
Edition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2004-07-28
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304

Book Reviews of Sculpt Your Body with Balls and Bands : Shed Pounds and Get Firm in 12 Minutes a Day (With Your 3-Week Plan for Fast, Easy Weight Loss)

Book Review: Good start, for the most part
Summary: 3 Stars

Overall, I like this book for many of the same reasons others did, but only for the duration of the 3-week program. I chose it because usually bands and balls are considered ideal for anyone who's just getting started exercising or who hasn't exercised in a long time, and for the most part it is - except for someone with a considerable amount of weight to lose.

Some of the positions in the exercises are difficult for someone with a lot of excess weight to achieve proper form (such as and planks and push-ups). I found one exercise - a standing quadricep stretch with your hand on the ball - impossible to do as pictured because at 5'6", apparently I'm taller then Denise and couldn't reach the ball without bending. There's no modifications for any of these except for advanced exercisers.

The recipes are good and surprisingly quick but again, no modifications if there's a food you don't like or might be allergic to (such as peanut butter), or if you live in an area where your grocery options are limited. I live in a major midwest metro area and have NO idea what "Old Bay seasoning" is, nor could I find it. (Must be a Texas thing.) As for cost, the food isn't as expensive as the South Beach Diet or Abs Diet.

Most of your eating is during the day, with two between-meal snacks(and snacking at work is a habit I'm trying to break). Many recent studies indicate that most people eat more later in the day, so it seems a light after-dinner snack would prevent late-night munchies but there's none here, despite an overall daily calorie count of about 1500.

(And...no dessert? Not even 10-calorie, sugar-free Jell-o? That's just wrong.)

Summary of Sculpt Your Body with Balls and Bands : Shed Pounds and Get Firm in 12 Minutes a Day (With Your 3-Week Plan for Fast, Easy Weight Loss)

Denise Austin-star of Lifetime Television's The Daily Workout as well as Fit & Lite, television's #1 exercise program-has always been in the vanguard of the exercise revolution. Now she has come out with another sensational breakthrough: the first book that combines two powerful, proven tools-the exercise ball and resistance band-to give you the safest, most effective method of body shaping, muscle toning, and weight loss.

Denise shares compelling new research that shows performing exercise routines on a fitness ball will help you strengthen and tone muscles while enhancing your flexibility, balance, and coordination. Best of all, the effort to hold a position on a wobbly ball is great for a lean and strong core, the key to healthier posture, improved energy and better-fitting clothes!

Denise also uses elastic workout bands of increasing levels of resistance to provide the simplest, safest, most efficient way to sculpt and reshape your body. Long a favorite of fitness professionals, these bands eliminate the problem of momentum and make it easier to get the most out of the return part of the movement than either free weights or machines.

Now you can get the benefits of both tools at the same time. Denise Austin shows the most effective best band/ball exercises that target the abs, thighs, waist, butt, and upper arms, as well as sharing rejuvenating, body-shaping, 12-minute workouts in several key disciplines: Pilates, yoga, cardio, and balance/stretching. Each day during her three-week plan, Denise will motivate readers with an inspiring before-and-after story, with photos, of a fan's success; an at-a-glance, 12-minute workout guide; a full-menu plan of delicious, less-than-12-minute meals (with 20 pages of new recipes from Denise's kitchen); and "Denise's Wisdom," an inspiring tip or thought for the day.

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