Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #514222 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Show Up for Yourself and Improve Appearances!
Mr. Greene's book is a delightfully low-impact way to improve your health, appearance, conditioning, and weight. The book is built around his experience as a personal trainer and exercise physiologist to get your body moving in more helpful ways.

You set the pace, and you decide how much improvement to make. If you want to make more improvement, the advice is here.

Like most books about health, the "solution" reflects the author's perspective and experience. Mr. Greene knows exercise, so you get a lot of exercise. But he fleshes it out with good information on water, food, and mental preparation.

If you think you would like to exercise more, this book will please you. If you don't think you want to exercise more, then this book may not appeal to you.

In addition, the book focuses on women in the text and in the photographs. So many men won't feel like this book is aimed at them. If you are a man and want exercise advice, try Body for Life which has photographs of women and men.

Overall, I suspect that people with Type O blood will benefit the most from this book, as long as they avoid wheat products.

The book starts with working on having you drink more water, understand your mental attitudes towards making personal improvements, and make a commitment to get healthier. Before you are done, you will sign a contract with yourself. Personally, I thought that the contract would have been more appealing if it had been rewritten to be more explicit about changes in your life other than food changes. So consider rewriting it to make it more powerful for you.

Gradually, you add drinking more water, stretching, aerobic exercise, reducing your alcohol consumption, stopping emotionally driven eating, and finally adopt a better diet and do some light lifting. The whole focus is on increasing your metabolic rate so you burn fat, build some muscle, and get properly hydrated.

My prediction is that most people will at least improve their hydration and flexibility as a result of using this book. That would be a fine result. If you get further, that's great!

I really liked the way the book combined a spiral binding with a hard cover so that it lies flat. As a result, you can study a page without using your hands to hold the book down. There are also lots of logs to fill out so you can keep track of how you are doing. If you are like me, you will do better by writing down how it's going. Every time I measure my behavior, I am astonished at how much I learn about myself. With this book, there's no excuse for not learning about your behavior patterns in ways that will probably improve your habits.

Make progress, one step at a time.