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Review Summary
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Fit Over Forty: The Winning Way to Lifetime Fitness, as the title suggests, is a weight loss book written for the baby boomer generation. The author, Sherri McMillan, is a fitness trainer. There are many books targeted at this particular age group that are available in the market because it is at this stage where the middle-age fat begins to manifest—the double chin, flabby arms, protruding paunch, just to name a few. Some people choose simply choose to let things be while others shift into fighting mode and get caught up in a weight loss frenzy. It is for the latter group that this book and hundreds like it, have been written.
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Concept
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The basic concept that the book is trying to teach is that despite the natural physical changes that come with ageing, overall health, weight and strength are a still a matter of choice and that good diet and fitness information can help individuals override the age-related health issues. The author used her own experience as a fitness trainer as the basis for this diet plan
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Design
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The book covers a multitude of relevant health topics which are thoroughly outlined in the different chapters. The topics discussed include: hormonal changes, connective tissue, cardiovascular fitness, metabolic rate, changes in posture, muscular tissue, bone density, emotional changes, general aches and pains, body fat, sexual changes and many others.
In each of the chapters, McMillan provides readers with information on how to create a good quality fitness program which includes aerobic exercise and weight training. The book addresses issues relating to muscle endurance and overall flexibility which are often left out in many diet books. The author also provides complete workout instructions with photos and a sample workout schedule to better guide the readers.
The author claims that the system can “reverse the signs of aging” thus it also includes diet and nutritional information which, according to her would enable users to avoid some of the bodily changes associated with aging. |
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Lifestyle
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The book contains health, fitness and nutrition information that a personal trainer would typically share with a client. Obviously, it cannot address more specific and relative questions. Beginners have a lot of questions that should really be answered, but with this plan, they are left to fend for themselves, so to speak. Because it is presented via the print medium, it is a very do-it-yourself plan.
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Positives
- Provides complete exercise instructions with photos
- Offers readers nutritional information
- Relatively inexpensive
Negatives
- Only one testimonial posted
- No one to answer questions
- No research to back up the concepts used in this plan is posted
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Final Thoughts
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People looking for a nutritional guide and a step-by-step instruction book on exercise would find the book Fit Over Forty: The Winning Way to Lifetime Fitness quite useful. We are wondering however why there was only one testimony posted on the website. Common sense tells us that the more successful a system is, the more testimonials there would be from satisfied customers.
This book does not offer anything new or innovative but simply makes use of standard weight loss concepts used for many years by trainers and nutritional experts. Because the plan is book-based, user questions cannot be directly answered. This may be problematic for people with needs that can best be met by a weight loss plan which includes a counseling or a peer-generated support component. Dieters may also want take a holistic supplement to get better weight loss results. The more successful formulas contain Hoodia to control hunger, and Advantra-Z® to increase metabolism and fat burning effectively and safely.
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