College Dorm Workout [Paperback]

Joyce L. Vedral (Author), Simone Marthe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1994

The average college student gains 15 pounds in the first year of school. This special workout, designed just for college students, takes only 20 minutes a day and can be performed in even the tinest dorm room. Also includes a healthy diet plan showing how to work around high-fat cafeteria menus.

Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (January 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446394777
• ISBN-13: 978-0446394772
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,338,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to Weight Lifting, February 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: College Dorm Workout (Paperback)

I bought this book a few years back just after I had left college, and even though I do a slightly different workout now, I still use most of the exercises in it. This book was a lifesaver, as I needed it to gain weight (I had starved myself for quite some time until this point), and yet I didn't want to just get up to my normal weight and be all flab (genetics gave me a natural body type of a Hungarian peasant woman. Working out is a must for me, or else!). I wasn't overly sore from working out using this book, and I got the results that I wanted in about 6 weeks.

My chief complaint is the illustration of the squats. I have since learned that Marthe bends her knees much too far in the photo; *never* bend your knees further than 90 degrees. I too, also hope that a future edition will be spiral bound so that novice exercisers can hold the book open while they work out.

The nutritional advice is good for the weeks that you're dieting, although I have found that you may have to slightly increase the amount of protein you take in daily after your reach your goal weight to keep your muscular body looking well, muscular.

Enjoy!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent!, June 2, 2002

By 

L. Richardson "velouria9" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: College Dorm Workout (Paperback)

I bought this book 7 years ago, soon after I'd graduated from college. I was repaying student loan debt and couldn't afford a gym membership. Plus, I was living in a tiny studio apartment so an at-home workout regimen capable of being done in a tiny space was important. A small area of floorspace, a chair, and two dumbbells were the only required equipment.

The best part is that this program works! I saw improvements in my body even as early as the second week... and from there it just kept getting better.

This book contains good, solid advice. As a result, I find myself occasionally pulling this book off the shelf to refresh my memory about certain exercises or fitness expectations.

The College Dorm Workout qualifies as one of the most useful books I've ever bought.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you've got the will, here's the way...., June 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: College Dorm Workout (Paperback)

I have always felt genetically doomed to be fat and was ready to resign myself to chubbiness until I found this book. Where was it when I was in college? It's packed with sensible eating tips, no-nonsense facts on nutrition, and a reasonably clear explanation of how a combination of diet and exercise will lead to a better body.

I realize that this book might be simplistic for some people, but for most of us, it's just right. It lays it to you straight. If you want to get to 'C', you've got to go through 'A' and 'B'.

The best thing about this book is that the exercises, which were designed to be done in a small space, are actually effective. I have a niece who is in college right now and has been trying to lose weight for a long time. I bought her this book and she reported that she'd lost quite a few pounds within the first few weeks of starting the exercises.

The author isn't some guru (although her mom is a fitness expert and was the person who put together the training routine), she's just another college gal who's been through the frosh fifteen. It's refreshingly uncondescending in it's voice so you won't feel like a dummy.

However, I DO have a few bones to pick with the designers of the book: Hopefully, in the next edition the pictures will be in color so that you can better visualize the correct postures for the exercises from an awkward position, especially if they don't remedy the dinky text describing the exercises which is equally difficult to peruse from two feet away. Also, it would help if the book were spiral bound or accordian bound so that the pages would stay in place without me having to set a book on top of it to keep the pages from flipping.

Until another edition is released where these nitpicky issues are addressed, I highly recommend you buy this book.