Men's Health The Body You Want in the Time You Have: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Leaner and Building Muscle with Workouts that Fit Any Schedule (Mens Health) Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a gym beginner who was looking for a solid introduction to weight training and fitness.My primary goals were learning a variety of exercises along with the proper form for each.Let's face it - for a lot of us, lifting weights is boring stuff, but I figured that more options might keep me going back to the gym.And who wants to get hurt at the gym, or spend hours without any results?

As the book explained, though, the variety of exercises presented provides other benefits - as you continue to work out, changing your routine can not only alleviate boredom but help you pass a plateau.Of course I'm not at that point yet, but I imagine that the well-illustrated 48 "anytime exercises" the book presents will be very welcome when I do.

Another thing I was looking for was an actual routine.Other books I looked at felt like they'd leave me wandering around the gym confused, wondering which exercise to perform next.But this one gives you an order in which to perform the exercises (and I like that each exercise has a couple of variations, so if the station I need next is occupied, I can do the exercise on a bench or stability ball instead.)

The book breaks workouts into the number of days you can commit to working out, and within each day, the number of minutes you can dedicate to your workout (10, 20, 30, 45, and 60 minutes.)Each time period offers 4 distinct workouts - weight loss, definition, strength, and a combination of the three.

A couple of bonus features are a good chapter on stretching, and some brief but solid nutritional advice.I distrust a lot of the "super food" talk in some of these books, but at least this one doesn't shill supplements.Despite the cover and the publisher, it also avoids the "guys in a locker room" attitude of some other books, and has a few specific tips for women and a female model demonstrating some of the exercise variations.It also has a short section on how to put a home gym together.

The book is definitely geared more toward weight training, and while there are some cardio tips, many of the shorter "complete body" workouts exclude cardio work altogether (while the shorter "lean body" workouts offer only cardio work.)One other complaint - as I suggested, there's a pretty wide variety of exercises offered, but I would have liked more tips on substituting variations into the workouts presented. Each workout is very structured, but there are no tips to replace the given exercise with another unless you move on to one of the longer workouts.

Those complaints are minor, though, and if you're looking for a solid introduction to the gym or a way to maximize the time you spend there, I'd recommend this book.

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The former fitness editor of Men's Health magazine presents the ultimate no-excuses workout book for time-pressed men and women at every fitness level

For most people, the hardest hurdle to overcome in following a fitness regimen is simply finding the time to do it. But as this book shows, it is possible to burn fat, build muscle, and stay fit-no matter how much (or little) time one has! That's the promise fitness expert Myatt Murphy makes in this fabulous new exercise guide-the first book that offers a wide range of workouts catered to any schedule.

Workouts are organized by how many days a week individuals have to exercise, and subdivided into 10-, 20-, 30-, 45-, and 60-minute exercise blocks. There are four variations on each of the above regimens-one for building lean muscle, one for weight loss, one for muscle power, and one that gives the best of all three. All in all, there are 120 workout choices, each specifically created to match the exerciser's current goals! Murphy shows how to complete any workout in a time-efficient way and how to compensate for limited time with different exercises that will keep muscles challenged. More than 250 photographs illustrate the exercises, and sound nutritional tips round out this all-new approach to fitness-destined to be the workout bible for countless busy people.

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