Boot Camp: Be All You Used to Be The Sergeant's Fitness and Nutrition Program (Paperback)

by James Leath (Author), Torey Pillar (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
You have to appreciate the straightforward honesty of a book when the second chapter is titled, "Report for Duty, Fat Ass." This is a fun book to read, mostly because corporate fitness trainer Patrick Avon believes that if you don't enjoy exercising and eating well, you won't do those things. The program includes simple ways to measure your present condition (including the easiest body-fat measurement system you'll ever see), and the usual ways to improve strength, cardiovascular fitness, and flexibility. But Avon makes good, often original arguments for why you should improve each (the chapter on flexibility exhorts you to go to a nursing home and see for yourself the consequences of allowing a body's elasticity to deteriorate), and he makes sure you're entertained along the way. --Lou Schuler

Product Description

No music, no dancing, no mirrors, no machines, no spandex, no juice bars, no crybabies, no refunds!

Get down to the basics with "The Sarge"! Based on a regimen that has worked for thousands of real-life civilians, this no-nonsense exercise and nutrition plan will show you how to achieve fitness and fat reduction in as little as three weeks!

Using the techniques -- and language -- of basic training, "The Sarge" will get you off your butt and jump-start your attitude and your body with forty-five-minute sessions and no special equipment. Here's the drill:

Report for duty! Self-administered tests will help you determine where you rank on the fitness scale. Find out how fit you are and how far you have to go.

The Chow Hall: no more garbage! "The Sarge" gives you a big helping of food knowledge that will boost your desire to change how you eat.

Reveille! "The Sarge" gets you moving and teaches you warming up and proper jogging techniques, as well as some Boot Camp songs to keep you going.

Drop and give twenty! Pushups, crunches, dips, pull-ups -- before you know it, twenty won't make you sweat.

Spread 'em! Stop kvetching and start stretching! Stretching helps keep you injury free and with "The Sarge" you'll finally learn how to do it right.

IN THREE WEEKS YOU CAN "BE ALL YOU USED TO BE™"!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 47 pages
• Publisher: Leathal (January 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684848996
• ISBN-13: 978-0684848990
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #809,017 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We're ready for "Boot Camp"!, January 5, 1999

By A Customer

I'm not sure whether I enjoyed this book more for the entertainment value (it's very funny), the excersize tips, or the great "get healty" ideas (like sitting in a fast food joint's parking lot to observe who goes in and out!). The bottom line is that this is the best fitness book I have read. My wife and I both loved the book and it does a wonderful job of addressing each of our individual needs. I have recommended this book to all of my fit and less-than-fit friends and have no doubt at all that they will all enjoy the book immeasurably. Buy this book if you need to maintain your fitness, get in shape and/or want to laugh out loud!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is straightforward and no-bull, July 5, 1999

By A Customer

If you want a fitness program to let you lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks, look no further. I came down a size or two smaller after finishing with the program. Patrick Avon's words are funny and motivating at the same time. He will motivate you to work out every week. And best of all, this program does not require any type of weights or machines; all that is used in this fitness program is your own body weight which makes it sooooo good because you can do it in the privacy of your own room. It only takes 45 minutes a day, 5 days a week, and it is NOT as hard as it seems!! No one will have to know that you're doing it, just let the results speak for themselves. I hope that I've convinced you to buy this book now and start working out to Boot Camp.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's Okay for Civies, December 18, 2001

By	"waymakerjim" (Mars Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews

I have always been an advocate of military-style fitness. As a former Marine, I know being in shape helps in more ways than imaginable. This book will help but he tries to be cutsey and too friendly.
A better book is by A. Flach-Boot Fitness.
Still these books are better for us who don't want the bulging muscles of bodybuilders or the anoxeric look of strictly aerobic fanatics.
A sensible approach for those new or re-new to fitness