Here Come the Fitness Books
O sifts through a crop of fitness manuals and finds some winners.
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The Body Fat Solution
By Tom Venuto
336 pages;
Penguin
Author
Tom Venuto is a competitive bodybuilder, a personal trainer, and a motivational coach.
The Appeal
Offering the opposite of a quick fix, Venuto is honest about the effort it takes to drop a significant number of pounds. This is the book for women ready to tackle long-term weight loss.
Standout Section
Chapter 5—"Mental Training Solution"—makes a case for changing your mental habits before you tackle the physical ones. There's good advice about getting your brain on your side.
Eye Opener
Venuto says you can still eat out at restaurants two times per week—if you take care when ordering.
Caveat
The book contains more motivation than concrete information.
Fitness Plan
Offers five warm-up moves and two alternating plans made up of strengthening exercises broken into "supersets"—two moves that you do in a row, without taking a break, to increase intensity.
— Polly Brewster
Published 02/23/2009