The Bathing Suit Workout [Paperback]

Joyce L. Vedral (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1999

YOU CAN LOOK GOOD IN A BATHING SUIT -- AND HAVE NO BULGES! NO FLAB! NO CELLULITE!

Do you go to the beach with a cover-up over your swimsuit? Wear jean cutoffs instead of a bikini bottom? Cringe at trying on an itty bitty piece of spandex? Hide no more! This easy, fast, and all-new workout will get your body in shape for summer -- and maybe the best shape of your life!

SPOT TONE TOO? YES!

Find out how to "spot tone" away the fat you hate on your tummy, thunder thighs, and butt. Joyce Vedral's Bathing Suit Workout features her exclusive "tri-set, " which tones and dramatically reduces three target areas at a time -- for super-fast results. Plus -- listen to this! -- the whole routine takes just ten minutes a day and needs no equipment (you can opt to use a set of five-pound dumbbells, but that's it!). And this is what you can get:
-- Reduced dress or pants size in three to six weeks
-- Visible reduction of fat in two weeks
-- Marked reduction of cellulite (and potentially its total elimination!)
-- Higher, rounder, tighter buttocks
-- Hard, toned thighs
-- Flat, tight, defined midsection ... the stomach of your dreams!
-- A delicious eat-till-you-drop fat-loss plan

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

"You can achieve a bathing suit body in thirty workout hours!" claims author Joyce Vedral. These workout hours are broken up into 10- or 15-minute sessions, done every day or every other day. Although Vedral doesn't calculate the math, this comes to 120 to 180 workout sessions, which may take a year at 10 minutes every other day. Vedral says that you can get your bathing suit body "in record time" because "you'll be concentrating only on the problem areas." This is problematic, because spot reducing does not work, and exercise professionals have known this for years. Though Vedral insists that you're "zapping" fat, you can't burn fat from specific areas. But this book's program will work--the catch is that you follow her low-fat "bulge-busting diet" (15 percent fat, 15 percent protein, 70 percent carbohydrates), and do three to six 20- to 40-minute aerobic sessions a week, in addition. So much for the claim on the cover: "10 minutes a day to a flat stomach, trim thighs, flab-free hips and the firmest butt you ever had."

If you get past your annoyance at being misled, the book presents a good exercise program and sound nutritional advice. The "tri-set" is three complementary muscle groups (hips/buttocks, thighs, and abdominals) exercised in sequence without stopping. Then, after a 15-second rest, you do another tri-set, and so on until you've done seven. If you're a woman or iron, steel, or titanium, Vedral offers more advanced levels by adding additional sets of new exercises for the same body parts. Weights are used optionally for the thigh exercises only. The illustrations are clear and show both beginning and ending positions of each exercise. --Joan Price

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446671088
• ISBN-13: 978-0446671088
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,010,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent workout for those problem areas -excellent results, June 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bathing Suit Workout (Paperback)

I've tried just about every method available to lose weight. The results I've achieved with this workout are better than any I've ever had. I do this workout every other day, and an upper body workout on the alternate days. I rest one day a week. I don't do any additional aerobics, and I eat just as I have always eaten. Thus, I think the claim that you can get your problem areas into shape using this workout is very accurate. I saw definite results in as little as three weeks, and I'm more than thirty pounds overweight. My cellulite and fat are disappearing, and my muscles are gaining definition and shape.

The book format is easy to read, and all illustrations and instructions are clear and easy to follow. Also, there is a tear-out wall chart which I put into a binder. I can easily flip through this as I am doing the workout. I can move through the workout quickly this way, and the workout itself is an aerobic activity.

Joyce provides instructions on how to begin using one of her workouts so that anyone at any fitness level can accomplish this workout. This particular workout uses a technique called tri-setting. Joyce explains this term in detail since understanding how the technique works the muscles is important to the most effective workout.

Overall, this is an excellent workout for those problem areas. I have seen results with this workout that I have not seen with dieting, treadmill, exercise bike, sports, other weight training programs, deep breathing programs, and walking. I'm finally getting the body I've always wanted.

Heather

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Sub-Title is misleading but the exercises get results, July 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bathing Suit Workout (Paperback)

I have tried to do this workout in the 10 minutes touted in the sub-title. There is no way, under any circumstances, that this is a 10 minute workout. The BSW video series is even split up into three twenty minute workouts. It is a 60 minute workout. BUT it is a workout that does work. I have seen the butt/thighs/hips firm up, tone up and look great. It looks like even the cellulite is beginning to disappear. Other than the misleading "in ten minutes a day" my only other complaint about this book is that the dietary information is confusing. On pg.132 her discussion of low caloric density carbs and high caloric density carbs is unclear. Most fitness experts are agreeing now that refined carbs along with a high carb diet is not the way to lose body fat and gain lean body mass/muslce. Joyce is still behind the times there. Nevertheless I am seeing amazing results from following this exercise program for just 4 weeks now. I can't wait to see what will happen in another 8 weeks. If you, like me, have had children or are carrying a lifetime of famine storage around your middle, hips, and thighs this workout will do wonders for you.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Six Hours into Joyce's Workouts, August 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bathing Suit Workout (Paperback)

I have been doing this workout in conjunction with Joyce's Bone Building Workout, and am very pleased with the results. As I wrote in my Bone Building Workout review, I have more strength and energy than I ever had doing aerobics alone. Also, despite having approximately thirty pounds to lose, I'm in higher spirits with weight training. It feels great to be firming up areas that I thought were going to be forever weak.