The Official Five Star Fitness Boot Camp Workout: The High-Energy Fitness Program for Men and Women

after the first book I want to keep ordering

THE BOOK HAS GIVEN ME SO MANY GREAT IDEAS. VERY PLEASED I ORDERED IT. WISH I COULD FIND MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS.

This book gives a simple but effective way to get in shape, using calisthetics, weights, running and boxing to achieve it. It offers three levels of training, all basically the same format but with different intensity levels.I have used this book several times over the last 2 years and enjoy the workouts. I break up the daily routines into 3 segments-the calisthetic part in the morning, the weights in the afternoon and the ad work in the evening. On running days, a similar pattern-running in the morning, weights at lunch and ab work in the evening. The routines don't take long that way but adds to fat-burning and muscle-building without exhaustion.There are some negative points: they show exercises that they don't use and suggest exercises that they don't show.But overall, I recommend this book to everyone who wants to get in shape without joining a gym.

This is an easy-to-follow guide to get into shape. No elaborate, expensive exercise equipment is needed; just dumbbells, an exercise mat, a pullup bar, and a local high school track for sprints & distance running.The instructors show in words and pictures the proper form for each exercise, and even lay out a daily and weekly schedule to fitness.My only suggestions for improvement would be1) an index or page reference on the workout pages back to where the exercises are shown2) any fitness manual would be greatly served by being spiral bound so that the book lies flat for easy reference while the beginner uses itIf you are serious about getting in shape this guide will get you there.

This book provides a logical progression of workouts and no gimmicks. As a previous reviewer noted, it is poorly edited--but not in a way that compromises comprehension.You need a pull-up bar and a place to run 20, 40, 60, and 100 meter sprints to complete the work-outs. Other reviewers seem to be emphasizing that you need dumbells, but only their harder workouts call for weights (and they don't have to be dumbells, for example they could be milk jugs filled with water or sand).Anyway, if you complete each of their three six-week schedules in succession, you will be very fit indeed.

The book is self-explanatory and depicts step-by-step the progress of the training. Nevertheless, it does also throw in some more variations of workouts so that the reader never gets bored with the same workout.