Product Description

Women are one of four body types - pear, apple, tube and hourglass. Discover which you are and work out to perfect it with personal trainer to the stars Matt Roberts. He shows you how to maximise the best parts of your body to achieve the lean, toned, sexy body you want. Includes specific resistance exercises, for home or gym, nutrition tips, and advice about which foods most benefit each shape. What are you waiting for!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #177887 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Matt Roberts is the UK's hottest personal trainer. He owns two world-class gyms in Mauritius and two in central London, and will open more gyms in the UK in 2004. He is the Boots Official Exercise Consultant and has launched an exclusive range of "Body Performance" products.

Customer Reviews

Workout that gets results
This book gets results!! You are categorized into one of 4 body types and 4 workouts are given for your body type- some that require gym equipment- some that are suitable to do at home. Each exercise is clearly demonstrated and things not to do are listed as well. My only complaint is that the book would be more user friendly if it was spiral bound!!

pros and cons
This book has a wide variety of exercises, a lot of them based around weights machines. There's a couple of home workouts which you also need some kit for. For my body shape there was only one workout that it was recommended I didn't do, all of the others were suitable for my shape, which made me wonder how specialised the workouts could be. There's no way you could remember in what order and how many exercises, you'd have to write them down, to take to the gym, or photocopy the pages, which I haven't got around to yet. Nor is there any advice on what weight to use on the weights machines, just the number of reps to do. This was good for inspiration and some guidance but I haven't followed it any where as strictly as Matt Roberts recommends just because I don't really want to take the whole book to the gym, and haven't copied the exercises out. Attracively presented, though with good illustrations and clear instructions.

Almost perfect!
This book is incredibly clear & easy to follow. The guidance on working out your body shape is simple, and the programmes which are then set are fantastic - varied, thorough, targeted and effective.

The problem - and it is a big one - is that there for each body type, he recommends you do 5 different workouts per week (or 4 if you are hourglass). In each of those workouts, there are around 20 different exercises. This means that unless you take the fairly big book with you to the gym, you will have to try and go on memory, or take notes with you. I ended up having to make four postcards with notes on each exercise I needed to do/reps/times etc, and took the relevant one with me each time to the gym. Laminated pocket-sized cards which can be carried around would have been useful with this book.

You need to be able to devote a fair amount of time to this programme - each session is lengthy (1-1.5 hours, I'd say if you follow the pace/breathing he suggests. At peak times in my gym,, when I sometimes have to wait for equipment, it is even longer.). Also, it doesn't get quicker the fitter you are - instead, you add more reps! You can't really miss one of the sessions either if you are pushed for time: each session has different goals & targets different areas, so you would get a very unbalanced workout.

You will definitely need access to a very well stocked gym - every body type has routines which involve using all kinds of various equipment. Even some gyms may not have it all. There are some routines designed to be done at home, but they also need equipment such as a gym ball and a skipping rope.

If after all that, you are willing to put in the work, then this is a fantastic programme!