The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life is not the book that I would necessarily recommend for those looking to eat healthier and live healthier (my preference is Body for Life)... but, I have only heard rave reviews and success stories about The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life. While Ted Spiker provides excellent content in the Abs Diet (the meat of the book is very strong, if you will) but I am quite turned off by the approach - suggesting that healthier eating and living should be done so that readers / dieters have better looking abs is silly to me. In fact, I think its the wrong approach to entering a diet. That said, Spiker's route to achieving better abs is a good one - it suggests balance and general lifestyle healthiness. From the book synopsis: "How do you lose weight? Diet and exercise, they say. How do you lose weight and look good? By eating and by working out according to a sensible plan. The critical difference is in this book by Men's Health magazine editor Dave Zinczenko, who offers basic, rational lifestyle adjustments that are intended to make a big difference on the body. He offers a six-week plan that eliminates foods from the diet that he considers especially bad and adds things that will help, without totally eliminating fun food. His exercise workouts help build muscle and improve metabolism. Nothing extreme here, no starvation required, and he builds in a maintenance plan to use after the initial six weeks." Summary: If you like Men's Health, you'll certainly enjoy this book. Its intelligently written and suggested a permanet life and eating change - both positives in my mind. My only critique is that dieting shouldn't be started purely to achieve abs - because, if thats the motivation, diets usually aren't successful for more than a few months.Read full review
The neon orange cover aside, this is a great guide for exercises to do at the gym or at home, as well as an outline for how to eat so as to keep your metabolic rate up and continue burning calories throughout the day. There is a large assortment of exercises for you to pick from to make your own program, or use one of their routines. It would be nice if they listed the pages for how to perform each exercise in the tables for their workout plans since some exercises you may know how to do.
common sense approach
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I LOVE IT. ITS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS IVE EVER READ AND USED. ESPECIALLY THE CONCISE INFORMATION ON DIET AND EXERCISE. IVE BEEN A BIG FAN OF DAVE SO WHEN I SAW THIS I JUMPED ON IT. ITS ONE OF THE MOST ACCURATE BOOKS ON DIET AND NUTRITION AS WELL. WITH THIS BOOK YOU CANT GO WRONG! THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO ADD TO THIS REVIEW BUT TIME AND SPACE WOULDN'T PERMIT. ONCE AGAIN, I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT
Good reference to some exercises, but I wasn't impressed with the diet side of the topic. The diet side, to me, was pretty much less than I already knew reading other books on the topic.
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