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(More customer reviews)Author/athlete Christopher Bergland lets it all hang out in his exhaustive and exhausting book, "The Athlete's Way."By now, everyone knows the benefits of exercise and working out, but I do not know if we need 340+ pages to deliver that message.Berglund relates in his book that his initial draft weighed in at 1,000 pages.Needless to say, he had to cut some.
He should have cut more.
I get it.We get.Exercise is good.Fitness is good.
Dude, it's just a workout though!
Bergland rhapsodizes on the experience a transcendental if not orgiastic state.His approach is for me a bit over-the-top and his use of quotations sprinkled throughout the book and almost on every page becomes an eyesore and distraction.
Your mileage may vary, but I found this book at times annoying and overreaching.The essential message is good, but it is overdone and beaten to death.
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"The Athlete's Way is amazingly informative and complete with a program to get and keep you off the couch. Bravo, for another exercising zealot who has written a book that should be read on your elliptical or stationary bike. He pushed me to go farther on a sleepy Sunday."- John J. Ratey, M.D., author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science in Exercise and the Brain, and co-author of Driven to Distraction
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