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The Independent on Sunday, Jan 06
a comprehensive, inspiring guide to becoming more active
Guardian Magazine, Jan 06
"a comprehensive, inspiring guide to becoming more active"
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89 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The ultimate guide to exercise for everyone!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Exercise Bible (Hardcover)
The Exercise Bible has an ambitious title and an equally ambitious promise - to be a guide for total health and wellbeing for everyone, regardless of their fitness level. A glance at the health and fitness section of any good bookshop or website is proof that there is a bewildering amount of information readily available - so where does this one fit in? The Exercise Bible is not just another fitness book, because it takes this bewildering array of knowledge and makes it easy to apply to your life - whoever you are! The book begins with the basics of why we should exercise and more importantly, how it can be incorporated into any lifestyle without taking up too much precious time. Hall emphasizes the importance of exercise meaning different things for different people; her understanding of how various lifestyles present specific problems prevails throughout. A healthy focus on exercise being fun is also a crucial feature of the book. The book provides useful ideas for a range of different fitness aims - catering for the beginner as well as the regular exerciser. Styles of exercises are broken down by origin and health benefits; specific exercises are demonstrated by photographs and step by step instructions. It also covers age and lifestyle changes that most of us will experience, explaining how to alter your diet and exercise to accommodate these changes. Nutrition is also addressed, once again with Hall's multi-skilled approach of dealing with the topic as it affects different types of people. It's easier to say that the book is intended for everyone, than it is to list those who will benefit - the list would simply be too long! Training techniques are suggested for beginners, athletes and home exercisers as well as gym bunnies. Gym users - especially relatively new ones - will find the explanations help to supplement the oft-rushed demonstrations received in the gym. There are also exercises from yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi - so if you want to try out some of these in the comfort of your own home, this book is for you too! If all this information sounds rather intimidating, don't let it put you off. Questionnaires appear throughout the book to will help pinpoint suitable exercises; these can be used for re-assessment as your fitness level change. Coupled with a very user-friendly way of setting out a vast amount of information, the book has a refreshingly interactive feel. This book will teach you how your body works, how you can stay in peak condition throughout your life - and much more. Making a wealth of information accessible and easy to apply to daily life, the Exercise Bible has a realistic, holistic and refreshing approach, making it an indispensable guide to health and wellbeing.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very good, but......,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Exercise Bible (Hardcover)
This is a very well put together book. So why 3 stars? Well, it touts itself as being for 'Everyone' and I bought it thinking it would be for everyone. I'm afraid, however, 'Everyone' does not include men. The book is firmly aimed at women, all the photos (bar just a couple) are of women and there is much talk of pregnancy, kiddies and so forth. With just a bit more effort this book really could be inclusive and then it would be worth 5 stars plus. I really feel the title and the blurbs are misleading (as for Gyles Brandreth.....)
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was looking for,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Exercise Bible (Hardcover)
I know that the only way I will actually start regularily excercising is if it's something I enjoy doing. I was looking for ideas about what to take up and this book didn't give me any. The book's answer is "go to the gym and run in the park".The book divides excercise into "cardiovascular excersise", "resistance excersise" and "flexibility" which was quite interesting for me to read about. It also argues that everyone should do all three which is probably true and not at all impossible (it does give ideas about how to fit excercise into a busy schedule). The "Cardiovascular" section was ok. It did give me some ideas, but I felt it was all covered quite generally and I could come up with a few ideas for cardiovascular excercises which weren't mentioned, which obviously means there could have been more options presented in the chapter. "Resistance excercise" must be weight training according to the author or at least she doesn't give any other options. She does explain that it is perfectly safe and doesn't mean you'll have bulky muscles, but for me that is definetely not my main concern. My main concern is that I find weight training and gyms extremely boring which is precisely why I was looking for other ideas. And I'm pretty sure weight training can't be the only option because even at Yoga classes that I took up (and then left because it took a lot of time up - well not so much the classes but the time getting to them) there were some excersises which were about buliding strength. The Flexibility section is a choice between general stretching excersises, Pilates, Yoga and Tai Chi, but apart from the general stretching excercises the topics are covered very poorly. I wanted to find out about Pilates and Tai Chi, but all I know is about as much as I did before. I'm also pretty sure that there must be some other types of stretching excercises which the author didn't mention. Flexibility is quite a wide subject, what about balley? I bet that's good flexibility and posture training and yet it wasn't mentioned in the slightest. To summarize, if gyms, weights and such are what you want to try, then in general this is a good book. But if, like me, you're looking for some alternative forms of excercise then I wouldn't recommend this book. Also, this book is aimed at women. I wouldn't recommend it to a man.
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