Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #288717 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

Perfect for middle-aged couch potatoes
This is the book to buy if you don't know where to start with getting fit. It is clear, realistic and encouraging and the authors' obvious expertise is backed up with lots of references to studies in respectable academic journals. The tests in the book enable you to establish a baseline and discover your weak areas before you start the exercises, so you can see your own progress very easily. The exercises are all straightforward, and can cater to a wide range of ability, as well as covering oft-neglected aspects of fitness such as balance. Refreshingly, the models in the pictures are normal middle-aged folk (male and female), as are the people discussed in case studies, which reflects the authors' conviction that it is never too late to feel the benefits of exercise. Buy the book, and use it!