Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #745351 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 188 pages

Customer Reviews

Sound Information Simple Presentation
Many exercise and diet books are full of gimmicks and assumptions but often lack any sound science to back them up. This book is different. The author is a doctor and backs his approach up with referenced medical journal articles - this is proper science.

He leads us through a discussion of what a good natural diet really is with example menus and ideas for modifying it for a less strict approach.

The second part concentrates on bodyweight exercises - a good survey of useful calisthenics each illustrated (the illustrations could be better, but are functional).

All in all this is a simple, clear and very useful book in a field that is often clogged with glossy brochures that are empty of anything of value.

Definitely recommended!

its the dogs
Price! Costs less than many 'fitness' courses out there.
And offers a lot more content than many bodyweight exercise books.
Very well written, very well thought out.
Written by a Doctor of medicine - whereas most 'fitness gurus' have no formal qualifications at all.
Backed up with a list of references from medical journals
No gym nor equipment needed.
Loads of exercises - 60!
Loads of routines covering many levels of fitness.
He is not against weight lifting - in fact he recommends it for gaining muscle mass.
Excellent argument against the 'logic' of vegetarianism.
Pragmatic approach - realises in the real world you may not be strict with your diet and makes allowances.
No calorie counting,
no pimping other products.
Funny illustrations.
Hype free.
A good, honest, and very cheap training book written by a doctor - it's like a thumb-in-the-eye for overpriced-snake-oily-fitness-guru-windbags. You should buy TBK Fitness for this reason alone.