March sees some exciting new fitness books released by Price World Publishing. Celebrities Body on a Budget by Cornel Chin will be available in major book shops in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia.
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This book provides all the basic information you need to start training like a celebrity to lose weight and get fit. From basic theory on body type, nutrition, physiology and exercise to advice on buying home gym equipment and managing your exercise. There are also sections on diets as well as advice on different methods of training.
“Cornel has been a fitness professional for more than seventeen years and is credited for getting Leonardo DiCaprio into shape in double quick time for the film The Beach; Colin Firth for the film Bridget Jones’s Diary; Audrey Tautou, star of the film Da Vinci Code and Amélie; Tilda Swinton, star of The Chronicles of Narnia; and Naomie Harris, of Miami Vice and Pirates of the Caribbean fame.”
The purpose of this book is to teach you how to get fit while on a tight budget. On average gym membership costs 3% of your annual salary, so quitting the gym and getting fit at home can save you a lot of money. This book teaches you how.
The first section of the book concentrates on how the bones and muscles work together, and how you should keep them strong and healthy. It then goes on to discuss fitness nutrition and body type. Understanding your own body type is often vital to allow you to get the results that you desire.
There is then a section on idea for exercising in the office, while at home, or while commuting, with simple suggestions such as parking further from the store to pacing while on the phone. There are some statistics for calories burnt while performing household chores which makes interesting reading – did you know that washing the car burns almost twice as much energy as vacuuming the carpets?
After the section on buying home gym equipment there is an informative section on assessing and testing your personal fitness levels. There are many tests, such as the step test, push up test and abdominal test. These serve to provide you with a reference point where you start to exercise more frequently with great intensity.
The book then goes into some detail on warming up before exercising with a section on pre-workout stretches. Following this is the real meat of the book, the fitness workouts. The book describers circuit training routines to help get you fit and toned which suit all people from beginners to more advanced readers.
The Specialist Workout consists of exercises such as:
- Skipping
- Plyometric Push Ups (clap ups)
- Tuck Jumps
- Long Arm Crunches
- Shadow Boxing
- Chair Dips
- Squat Thrusts
- Vertical Reverse Curls
- Jump Lunges
- Dumbbell curls
- The Plank
- Burpees
- V-Ups
- …. and many more ……
The final sections look at motivation and exercise:
“About 95 percent of all participants in an exercise program will stop
exercising. Why? No support. It’s a fact that exercisers with some kind of
support system have a better chance of continuing exercise.”
It is vital to get support and feedback from friends and family. Also keeping a strict exercise log and diet diary really helps.
“Cornel gave me the lean look I needed. His training methods are second to none.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
“I was no great fan of exercise until I met Cornel. He has given me a way of working out that is enjoyable, sustainable and effective. I’m enormously grateful to him for converting me.” – Colin Firth
The book is lacking in some good weight training routines to help you build muscle, but has good source of advice for people looking to receive more motivational help from an experienced personal trainer to the stars. The instructions and illustrations for body weight exercises are clear and easy to follow. This is a good book to add to your fitness collections.