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| The Biggest Loser Fitness Program: Fast, Safe, and Effective Workouts to Target and Tone Your Trouble Spots--Adapted from NBC's Hit Show! | 
 enlarge | Authors: The Biggest Loser Experts And Cast, Maggie Greenwood-robinson
Creators: Jillian Michaels, Kim Lyons
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 5317
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 7.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1594866953
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9781594866951
ASIN: 1594866953
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
Thanks to The Biggest Loser, NBC's unscripted hit show, dozens of overweight contestants have improved their health with dramatic weight-loss transformations. Thousands of inspired fans of the show have undergone personal weight-loss journeys, using the tools and tips provided by the show's experts and medical professionals. Now, the workout moves used by the show's trainers to train and tone the Biggest Losers on television are available for you to use at home or in the gym. The trainers will reveal: -The most efficient and effective move for a toned belly -Time-saving workouts designed for today's busy schedules -Beginner and advanced modifications -Sensible and real-life eating advice from the show's nutrition experts Not all of us can be on television, but everyone can use this fitness program for improved health and weight loss. Complete with advice from the Biggest Losers themselves and built-in motivation from the show's trainers and experts, The Biggest Loser Fitness Program will inspire you to fight fat and beocme the biggest loser!
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 Excellent for Beginner Exercisers September 23, 2007
72 out of 82 found this review helpful
As a certified personal trainer (NASM, ACSM and AFFA), with over 2000 hours of training, I thought I'd provide an industry professional's assessment. Since I'm not a registered dietician, I will leave the comments on the nuitrition part of the progam to those more qualified than myself.
The exercise program is based on a Circuit Training format. Circuit training excels at burning calories and increasing muscle endurance. It is NOT the best program for building muscle mass. Also, be aware that according the General Law of Adaptation, the human body will adapt to the program in 6-to-8 weeks and start burning less calories. In other words, when a reader has plateaued, the reader will need to change his or her exercise program.
Also, in order to build muscle mass a person needs to ingest more calories than that person is burning off. Muscle cannot be built on negative calories!
With those observations aside, the book does an excellent job of explaining and illustrating thier fitness program. I especially liked photos of the exercises in the program section of the book. When I'm working with a new client, especially one with little or no experience in weight training, I spend a lot of time coaching and explaining exercises.
Better than all the other "Biggest Loser Books" November 11, 2007
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is great. It was much more detailed than the others. I felt like I was reading exactly how the contestants on "The Biggest Loser" was losing all that weight. The book was detailed enough that as a Gym Manager, I am going to have a biggest loser contest of our own following this book to the letter! If you are looking for a complete program, or are someone whose fitness program has stalled, this book is for you! I look forward to posting our gym results in the near future to motivate even more of you!
 Good Book - Bad Message May 11, 2008
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
Let me say from the outset that if I were evaluating just the book then I may have been inclined to give it a much better rating. Unfortunately the book is touted to be based upon the hit TV series of the same name which I find to be shockingly irresponsible in its design and message. I understand that in order for a TV series to be successful it has to generate high ratings but to promote fitness programs that risk permanent damage to the participants and implicitly suggest that this is the best route to rapid and permanent weight loss is absolutely unacceptable from where I stand as a physician. When I see massively obese people being coerced to jog at full gallop; jump on trampolines with already injured limbs: punch heavy bags that a pro-boxer would find challenging, I have to raise some serious objections to the message being conveyed.
One of the most important points for those starting out on a weight loss program is to start off slow and avoid injuries. The injuries you sustain in an effort to lose weight too quickly can rapidly derail a weight loss program and can lead to long term damage that can come back to haunt you.
Sure, anyone can lose weight in a concentration camp environment; but to lose weight, and keep it off in a normal life setting is an entirely different situation. Having personally lost almost 60 pounds in less than six months and kept it off for over nine years, I can attest to the fact that you need to integrate a good diet and exercise program into your everyday lives and begin with a safe and effective program. I implore people to ignore the "boot camp" type approach to weight loss and instead incorporate a realistic program that does not risk permanent injury to the joints, tendons, spine and heart.
That said, I do believe that this book has some very useful information, which I might add, is quite different from the message conveyed in the show. I especially like their emphasis on a combination cardio and circuit training.
Marc L. Paulsen, author, Dump Your Trainer
Some aspects are missing... October 18, 2007
11 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a good book for fitness. However, the NBC show was about loosing weight and becoming a new and healthy parson, not just about building your muscles. As a reader I was missing a number of other parts in the whole spectrum of taking care of my body. We all agree that being a couch potato while trying miraculous diets will bring us nowhere.. In my opinion the opposite is also true: focusing on "pumping irons" alone is equally fruitless. One might get better shaped body but it is not what we are looking for, are we? We need more comprehensive, holistic approach to bringing ourselves in shape. Exercise, proper food combination, external and internal body hygiene, proper breathing and relaxation methods -- these are all equally important parts of losing weight, and attaining health and fitness. I suggest checking the book titled Can We Live 150. It encompasses many of the aspects I missed in this book.
Buy together... January 1, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this book after having read the original "biggest loser" book. and i STRONGLY recommend buying them together. especially if you are just starting out. this book is as it says a "fitness book." it does not provide all the inspiring stories of the people on the show, and all the helpful information to start you out like the other one does. This book does provide you with several new exercises to add to your circuit to provide you with variety so you don't get bored. I have lost 51 pounds since september following their exercise program (not even following it exactly, but closely) and following the nutritional guidelines and suggestions they give. i feel great, and i have been able to try several new activities and been surprised by my ability to do them. These two books are the best purchases i have made for myself in years. Bob is such an inspirational trainer. and i can't wait to see what the next 12 weeks brings :o)
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