Ultimate Fit or Fat

Name: Ultimate Fit or Fat
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ISBN: 9780618002047

ISBN-10: 0618002049

ISBN-13: 9780618002047

Edition: 1999

Authors: Covert Bailey

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With more than three million copies of previous editions in print, this classic exercise manual has shown Americans from all walks of life the route from fatness to fitness. Now Covert Bailey has totally rewritten and revised FIT OR FAT for the first time since the book's original publication in the mid-1970s. His dramatically new approach to fitness incorporates the most recent scientific findings. Weightlifting, whose fat-burning potential is only now becoming fully understood, plays a large role in Bailey's new program, which stresses what he calls "the four food groups" of exercise: aerobics, cross-training, wind sprints, and weightlifting. He also stresses the importance of intense…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

A popular PBS television personality and a best selling author whose books have sold nearly six million copies. Covert Bailey is recognized as one of America's best-known motivational speakers and fitness teachers.



Excerpt from an Interview with Covert Bailey, August 19, 1999



Covert's Experiment



Why People Get Fat



Never Say Diet



Body Fat Percentage -- What's Normal?



How to Measure Your Body Fat



Lean Body Mass and Correct Weight



Fat Versus Lean -- What's Healthy?



How to Calculate Your Correct Weight



What Is the Cure for All This Fat?



What Kind of Exercise Is Best?



Measuring Exercise by Heart Rate



Exercise Using Common Sense



Covert Bailey's Fitness Test



How to Determine Your Pace



Choosing Your Aerobic Exercise



How Long and How Often Should I Exercise?



How to Get Started



The Fastest Way to Improve Fitness



Cross Training



Wind Sprints



How Fast Should You Do Wind Sprints?



Weightlifting



Covert's Home Weightlifting Program



The Four Food Groups of Exercise



Recovery



Warming Up



Spot Reducing



Golf and Other Subaerobic Exercises



The Body Has a Plan!


Questions about the Four Food Groups of Exercise


Thanks


Index