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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really worth buying - Excellent,
By James (james@othermedia.com) (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fighting Fit: Complete SAS Fitness Training Handbook (Paperback)
This book is a fantastic read and I recommend it to anyone seriously thinking to trying to get fit. The book is broken down into 3 sections: Background of fitness, Diet, and fitness programs. All sections go into great depth.The book is written in a friendly yet humorous way and is extremely well structured. The use of diagrams and points of interest are well highlighted. There is a lot of well explained additional information such as navigation, hiking and obviously the selection for the SAS and other Special forces. Without a doubt, worth the money and more!
64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
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Realistic military fitness advice - great, despite title,
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This review is from: Fighting Fit: Complete SAS Fitness Training Handbook (Paperback)
Despite the Waltish title and schoolboyish cover, this is a valuable book for anyone thinking of improving their fitness with a military aim in mind. It starts with general fitness and exercise routines you can do at home and outside for no (or barely any) cost and then builds up from there, all the way to truly expert level. It even covers diet in detail, an area which almost all exercise and fitness books aimed primarily at men do not cover well. And being aimed mainly at men, it (sensibly, rather than sexistly) presumes zero knowledge in this area: it provides a two weekly shopping lists from each of which you can make a week's worth of healthy food. Some of the reviews here say that this book tells you no more than what you might already know from armed forces PT training. Yeah, well, maybe. For those already in the forces, I think it does a good job of setting out a training plan of gradually increasing toughness. Plus it keeps reiterating the "no magic answer" point: you've simply got to put the time in. It's also a handy reference book. But, crucially, it is an excellent starting point for those OUTSIDE the forces (and so without access to expert PT advice) but who are thinking of joining. A sports nutritionist in my family has questioned the credentials of Mr Weale and his collaborators to give the nutritional advice in the book - but have agreed that all of the dietary advice is sound. So I'd especially recommend this to anyone considering joining the forces (particularly the reserves, as they are to a much greater degree personally responsible for ensuring that they meet the military fitness standards), provided they keep away from trying out the pre-SAS, Commando and Para selection stuff too early. But for anyone needing to ensure they are MILITARILY fit, this book is definitely worth the price.
91 of 93 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fitness Book or Guide?,
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This review is from: Fighting Fit: Complete SAS Fitness Training Handbook (Paperback)
O.K. I will tell you now, this book is good. I recently bought Chris Ryans SAS Fitness Guide and being honest I was disappointed. If you have bought the same book (Chris Ryan) and thought the same, or perhaps thought that it was good then I seriously recommend that you buy SAS Fighting Fit.Firstly as the name suggests it is geared towards getting you the reader through SAS, Para and Royal Marines Commando's selection. I myself am planning to join the latter and I honestly belief that this book, provided that I stick with it, could be the one thing that genuinely does help me. Now of course this not only a military book, there are many comparisons in it that are military associated, but that doesn't mean that it is just for people like me. It is a great beginners, intermediates and maybe even advanced guide for anyone who wants to get fit. As the first page states, it is a no bullshit guide. It does exactly what it says on the tin. However, if you are say a bodybuilder (your kind are discussed quite a lot in the book) then don't buy this. This is not a book that aims to get you looking like Arnie, afterall how many Para's, Marines or SAS guys have you seen that look like that. No, this is a muscle building, fitness building, stamina building and most importantly self-esteem building book that does not focus on any one particular thing. If you want more info. then read on, otherwise simply buy it now. This book starts you off by telling you to undertake a pulse rate fitness test, it has an easy to understand results table that puts you into a category. I was a 60-70bpm, thus fit but nothing special. Then it gives you a measure of your weight and height table which tells you whether you are under or over weight. The great thing about these is that you can't really kid yourself. If you are unfit and / or fat then you are going to find out. After all of this you enter pages upon pages of illustrated exercises that require a floor, some endurance and determination (and the occassional barbell or dumbell set). After this section there are a few chapters that explain to you how to put it all together, not a programme (yet) but simply recommendations. Then we reach the programmes / diaries of what we should be doing to get fit. I havn't started yet but I can already tell that yes it is going to hurt, yes there will be hard times ahead, but also YES this is going to work. Tied in with all of the above are map reading skills and camping techniques. Perhaps more for a military person but actually more aimed at those people that may enjoy hiking. These skills could be absolutely essential. There are also dieting tips and such. The book itself is 174 pages long, and is quite small (pocket size almost-but not quite) don't judge a book by its cover!! this is truly outstanding (I am only 17 and can make perfect sense of all of it and so on...) There you have it, if you are merely interested in getting fit buy it, if you want to lose weight buy it, if.........................................and of course if you want to join the military, say the SAS, Para's or Marines or maybe the regulars then this is ideal. The best fitness and overall better health book in years.
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