The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You'll Never Quit! [Paperback]

Suzanne Brue (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 14, 2008

The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You'll Never Quit! (Oakledge Press, 2008) The 8 Colors of Fitness is a personality-based approach to a physically active lifestyle based on 8 sets of preferences each corresponding to a Color – The 8 Colors. By identifying your Color – and each of us falls into one of the 8 Colors, readers get a snapshot of their exercise personality. Whether you’re trying to include physical activity in your basic wellness program, an exercise enthusiast, or training for peak performance--this book is for you.

The 8 Colors of Fitness begins with a short personality assessment to guide readers in discovering their Color-Coded Fitness Personality. By identifying these preferences, readers will be well on their way to achieving their fitness goals in the most enjoyable and effective way possible. Each of the 8 color chapters includes an overall description of the personality, and follows with the approach, motivation, focus, preferred environments, roadblocks, tips and favorite activities.

Through her six years of research, the author has collected fitness success stories from people around the world. The stories are delightfully sprinkled throughout the book enabling readers to meet real people describing in their own words how they maintain a physically active lifestyle in keeping with their personality.

The book also includes a separate section for personal trainers and employee fitness professionals with suggestions on how best to communicate with each personality type for maximum results.

The 8 Colors of Fitness is based on the framework of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment. The 8 Colors of Fitness program is breaking new ground in the application of the MBTI® instrument

Editorial Reviews

Review

Are you searching for a way to stay fit? Once you read Suzanne Brue’s suggestions for your personality type, you’ll say, ‘This is it! How could I have made excuses?’ Suzanne has not only researched the key motivational methods and activities for each type, but she’s framed them with the encouragement each of us needs to change fitness from something you know you need to do to something that you’ll want to do! DR. JANE KISE President of the Association for Psychological Type International (APTi), Author of LifeKeys, and Differentiated Coaching Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. In this book, Suzanne Brue offers important insights into identifying an exercise program that people will stick with—one that matches their unique personality and preferences. I recommend The 8 Colors of Fitness to athletes who need to stay in top shape for their sport, or to anyone trying to maintain—or establish—a healthy, long-lasting level of fitness. BILL RUSSELL Player and Coach for the Boston Celtics, Named The 20TH Century’s Greatest Team Player, Sports Illustrated Forget those exercise books that promise you results you’ll never see. This book works because it gets to the heart of why people resist making fitness a part of their lives. Suzanne’s sound advice, based on years of research, will help everyone get fit and stay that way. The 8 Colors of Fitness delivers on its promise. Rick Foster, consultant, co-author of How We Choose to Be Happy and Choosing Brilliant Health --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Oakledge Press (February 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979562503
• ISBN-13: 978-0979562501
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fitness & Wellness Made Easier, February 19, 2008

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Kenneth L. Adelman (Arlington,, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You'll Never Quit! (Paperback)

I was amazed at the insight this book offers, that fitness can be made more enjoyable by relatively easy changes. It's a new concept, which doesn't happen often when reading a book.

Everyone has heard of Myers-Briggs, and everyone knows that staying fit greatly increases health and thus the quality of life.

Still, though, everyone knows that fitness can be boring, making it awfully unpleasant -- hence, hard to do.

Okay, but this book helps solve that problem. You gauge your personality type and then choose the type of fitness which will be most interesting for you. And that makes it more likely that you'll do it.

So read this book and live a happier and healthier life -- thanks to this new author.

Ken Adelman

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Self-fulfilling prophecy, September 19, 2008

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I did enjoy reading this book but found it's insite unhelpful. In the past, and in the book, when I've taken a Myers-Briggs test, I've always come up as ISTJ, which would make me a "blue" efficiency. On the 8colors website, I came out as a "green". Personally, "green" efficiency is my preference for activities and style, but I could find no motivation there. "Blue" is definitely my personality, I did not find a good deal of motivation that got me over the hurdles I've encountered in the past.

It was lacking one element that I expected: a plan. Ok, these are my preferences. Now what? I did appreciate the learning experience and information gained, but as an "at-homer" I did not gain anything about how to put it to use.

I think this is probably a great book for personal trainers who are looking for insight into their clients, but found it unhelpful as an at-home motivator. However, for most will probably be a self-fulfilling prophecy in it's level of motivation: what you are looking for, you will likely get out of it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 8 Colors ..., February 22, 2008

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Was the author following me around while I was postponing my good intentions about a fitness plan? She made me realize that one-size-fits-all is no more accurate in a fitness center than in a dress shop! There is the first step..

Having been a teacher and/or a student for all my life, I have known that there are certainly different strokes for different folks. However, the way this author uses this concept to explain a fitness program is helpful to me. There is the next step...as I continue-in the author's words-to search for ways to make physical activity a more natural part of my life.

Thank you for an informative, useful, and fun read!