Smart Guide to Getting Strong and Fit

By Carole Bodger

Smart Advice on designing a surefire, step-by-step plan for making safe and effective exercise a regular part of your life

Smart Strategies for breaking old habits and replacing them with a customized, easy-to-follow fitness plan

Smart Tips on being strong, staying young, and looking terrific

An all-you-need-to-know introduction to making safe and effective exercise a regular and rewarding part of your life

Smart Strategies for achieving optimum health through a focus on cardiovascular fitness, musculoskeletal function, and body composition

Smart Tips on getting the most out of weight training, aerobic fitness, abdominal work, stretching, and more

Smart Advice on how to inject painless bits of fitness-enhancing physical activity into every part of your day-and how to make the best use of your gym workout

Smart Definitions of plyometrics, Spinning, circuit and interval training, anaerobic exercise, and much more

Quick reading and easy referencing with a comprehensive index and loads of sidebars and tables

Smart Guides take readers seriously. They satisfy even the most curious person's desire to know the essentials about any of a wide range of topics-from vitamins to mutual funds to stress relief.

It's all about good reading and expert information. The choice is yours.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047129635X
• ISBN13: 9780471296355
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Get Smart!

It's rare that you find something calling itself "smart," and then it actually turns out to be that. But this handy guide gave me a lot more than I expected for the price. It's not for the rabid tri-athlete or the hyper-pumped gym rat. It's more for people like me, who have spent a lot more time sitting at the computer in recent years than they'd care to admit but who want to get in shape. If, like me, you don't know a stepper from a spinner; a "glute" from a "delt"; or the difference between a simple carbohydrate and a complex one, this book can tell you ... and without preaching! A really common-sense, comprehensive look at health and fitness without the jargon, wacky experimental concepts, or impossible-to-maintain regimens. I'd highly recommend it.Steve Richardson