The Bathing Suit Workout (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Perhaps warmer weather is approaching, or maybe your planned vacation is coming up soon, but despite the promise of sunshine, you're filled with dread..." (more)
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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 Description

For many women, the thought of swimsuit season inspires panic. Hours spent shopping for a scrap of spandex capable of smoothing telltale bumps and sagging flesh does little to lessen trauma. But now, New York Times #1 bestselling author Joyce Vedral has an easy, fast, and all-new workout that can help women get in shape for the summer-and maybe the best shape of their life! In just ten minutes a day, women can learn to spot tone away the fat. A complete exercise program that focuses on the stomach, thighs, and buttocks. With 80 black-and-white photos, plus a section on dieting, this is the book that every woman wants.

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 (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #816,016 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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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

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

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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.

10 of 10 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

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.