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

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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

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.

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!

In Younger Next Year, Chris Crowley explained very clearly WHAT I need to do in the way of exercise and Harry Lodge was just as clear WHY I need to do it. All well and good but it took Suzanne Brue in The 8 Colors of Fitness to show me HOW I could get my head around the everyday reality of exercise. I know I can use all the tools that there are in this battle. Both books are great and necessary, why don't you sell them as a package?

I thought this might be another gimmick book, but I read it because I have been asking myself for years why my wife and I have such different exercise preferences. It works like this: We agree to take a walk. I want to explore an isolated nature preserve trail, and alternate walking and running in quiet. She suggests strolling at a fast clip down Park Avenue, which is dotted with cafes, shops and nightlife. We both like the idea of walking together, but we have very diffent ideas about what our walk should look like. This clever and well-thought out book reveals the challenges and opportunities of such differences. Much to my surprise, I really liked it - it's easy to read yet substantive and practical. The book challenged me to accept the reality of "different colors" and to broaden my flexibility. Maybe if I can take a more careful look at the variations in exercise patterns in our marriage, differences across the board might become less of a big deal. It's rare for me to feel a sense of gratitude after reading a book. I did with this one.

When I finished reading my copy of this book, I purchase 14 more. So that I could distribute them to salesmen at our national sales meeting. I tied the book's personality tyep and stratgies into a motivational speech on health and fitness and overall life adn sles success. Unlike me, most of our sales force is under 40, and still searching for their "life strategies". I offered this book as a great starting place to learn how their personality traits can be used to help them determine the effective long term exercise programs that they could stay with throughout their lives. I expanded on this and used the personality trait analyses that the book defines to branch into other areas such as how to make a an effective sales presentation and how to ask for the order, i.e. the "CLOSE". I found the book well written and and extremely useful.

I suggest you take the "Personality Quiz" at the author's website at: [...] to determine your personality type and what it means in terms of exercise and strategies and lifestyles.
PS. I am"Silver Efficient".

MG, Cherry Hill,The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You'll Never Quit! NJ

The 8 Colors is the first ever book that looks at the person who is engaging in exercise and what might make the person tick, rather looking at exercise as something that is one-size fits all. I have often picked up a fitness magazine or an article on exercise, only to put it down as quickly as I picked it up, because I could not relate to the age old advice. For instance, as an ENFJ Purple Harmony, I don't do well with an exercise pal, deplore accountability as I KNOW what I have to do, and like to take a familiar path so my thoughts are free to wander. I hate tracking my progress on a spread sheet, am thrown off by "changing up" my routine and would never contemplate engaging what I see as "high risk" sports activites such as white water rafting, snow skiing or hiking in unknown terrain. Now I know why; its of course based on typology. Suzanne Brue has charted new and exciting territory in world of the MBTI(r), psychological type and exercise and fitness.

Thanks to Suzanne!

I strongly recommend The 8 Colors of Fitness.
It is a very readable book, and well researched.
If you want to exercise more,
you will see yourself in some of the excellent examples of the 8 personality types,
and be inspired to exercise.
I am the Roaring Red color and it certainly helped me.
You also become a lot more perceptive about your family and friends
personality types.

This book should be the first reference for anyone looking to start a fitness program, and is essential reading for anyone involved in improving the fitness of others.

As a personal trainer, I thought that over eight years experience working with hundreds of individuals had given me a great insight into how to motivate people and ensure that they achieve their goals. The information contained in the book has enabled me to have an even greater understanding of what makes my clients tick. The 8 colors of fitness uses Myers Briggs Type Indicator (one of the most widely used personality tests) to help determine the best approach to exercise motivation, favourite activities and preferred environments as well as identifying specific barriers to exercise for each of the personality types.

The author demonstrates an exceptional ability to simplify such an in-depth subject into an easily useable system. Whatever your current level of fitness or motivation, this book will help you to get started or achieve greater results from your current training.

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

Suzanne Brue's research has made it possible for people to finally discover an exercise program that fits their personality. Based on the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, a well-known and respected personality indicator, it clearly explained who I am, what motivates me - particularly types of exercises - and what/who I need to stick to an exercise program. After a recent 50 pound weight loss, exercise has become and must remain a daily part of my new lifestyle. The book shows me how. Anyone I talk to about the book's content is excited about learning more and then doing more! This is a winner that facilitates success!