Workouts for working people
Subtitle: how you can get in great shape while staying employed
By: Mark Allen and Julie Moss with Bob Babbitt
Contributors: Moss, Julie; Babbitt, Bob
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Villard Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780375752704
Subjects: Exercise; Physical fitness
Description: If you have demands on your time, like a job and a family, but want to have a great body, this book is for you. In Workouts For Working People, Ironman legends Mark Allen and Julie Moss bring you the ultimate fitness program that shows you how to get, be and stay in phenomenal shape without giving up the rest of your life. In 1997, after winning six Ironman Triathlons, Mark Allen retired from his career as a professional triathlete and joined the working world. Until then, he had never understood the challenge of finding time in the day for work, family and fitness. But as he and his wife Julie, also a professional triathlete and a new mother, learned there just never seemed to be enough hours in the day. But fortunately, because their whole life had been devoted fitness, they endeavored to find a way to stay fit within the confines of this new lifestyle. Workouts For Working People is their comprehensive recipe for fitness. They will help you define your current fitness status and determine what your fitness goals are. Then they will explain how you can go out and accomplish them! Included are ways to: Maximize your workouts and workout time. Stretch effectively, efficiently, and consistently. Enjoy your exercise program so that it's something that you enjoy, not that agonizing something that you do just so that you can check it off your to do list. Workout with your partner - even if you are not at the same level. Make delicious food that works for you. Focus your energy so that your exercise invigorates you and your life Filled with inspiring anecdotes from their lives, this is not just a book filled with workout plans and nutritional schedules, although it the best ones available, it's a philosophy for living that Mark and Julie practice, and have tested on others who have all had dramatic results using it. In 1997, after winning six Ironman Triathlons, Mark Allen retired from his career as a professional triathlete and joined the working world. Until then, he had never understood the challenge of finding time in the day for work, family and fitness. But as he and his wife Julie, also a professional triathlete and a new mother, learned there just never seemed to be enough hours in the day. But fortunately, because their whole life had been devoted fitness, they endeavored to find a way to stay fit within the confines of this new lifestyle. Workouts For Working People is their comprehensive recipe for fitness. They will help you define your current fitness status and determine what your fitness goals are. Then they will explain how you can go out and accomplish them!
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Get started; title: How we began; title: Defining your fitness; title: Set a goal; title: change your life; title: Energy pie; title: creating the time; title: Get going: Time to sweat; title: Pump it up; title: weight training; title: Stretch it good; title: Programs; title: Get healthy: Nutrition; title: how to make food really work for you; title: Managing your diet; title: Kid fitness; title: Body, heart, and spirit; title: how to maintain your fitness program; title: Resources.