Bob Greene (1) (1958–)

From Bob Greene, bestselling author of Get With the Program!, comes a comprehensive, innovative twelve-week plan for transforming your body inside and out. With Bob Green's Total Body Makeover, you'll achieve maximum results in a minimum amount of time!

Knowing that great health and fitness begins with the right state of mine, Greene addresses the important emotional issues behind poor exercise and eating patterns and provides the motivational tools needed to acheve your fitness goals, as well as develop practical and beneficial habits for lasting results. You'll be inspired and moved by reading the compelling real-life success stories of real people who have taken the challenge and who have changed their bodies-and lives-in ways they never dreamed possible! Whether you're struggling to lose that last ten poinds or searching for a radical weight-loss solution, the twelve-week makeover challenge is the answer to your fitness goals.

After committing to the program, you'll find illustrated step-by-step workout guides for all fitness levels, combining progressive cardiovascular and intensive strength training exercises designed to revitalize your metabolism and get noticeable results fast. Each of the accelerated workouts has been created to energize and invigorate your body and mind while you have fun and trim down in the process! In addition, Greene takes a fresh approach to the question of diets by providing key nutritional guidelines that work in conjunction with any healthiy eating plan, and he explains many of the popular diets on the market today to help you choose the one that's right for you.

Finally, there is helpful advice on making the transition back to your everyday life: how to avoid regaining the weight you've lost, and how to maintain healthy exercise and eating habits for life. While any books leave you wondering what to do next, Bob Green's Total Body Makeover offers enthusiastic and informative hands-on advice and tips beyond eating and exercise, and teaches you how to make you own happiness and well-being the foundation of an active and healthy life.

Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer speciaizing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss. He has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is also a contributiong writer and editor for O. The Oprah Magazine, and writes on health and fitness for Oprah.com. Greene is the best-selling author of Get With the Program!, The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating, The Get With the Program! Daily Journal, and The Get With the Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family Restaurants.

Contents

Introduction
1 Building a sound emotional foundation
2 Ultimate fitness
3 Five simple eating rules
4 The 12-week total body makeover plan
5 Making the transition to real life
Index… (altro)

Yeah, yeah...I read Oprah's fitness book. Quite an inspiring story, actually - and refreshing that a woman with her spheric influence tells the masses that there are no tricks - it takes balanced nutrition and consistent aerobic exercise to get in, and stay in, shape.

I go back to it now and then to inspire myself - especially moments like this summer, when I realize I've strayed from my goals and need to get back on track.

Oprah and Bob make you feel like you can do it. That goes a long way for me.… (altro)