Core Performance Women: Burn Fat and Build Lean Muscle [Hardcover]

Mark Verstegen (Author), Pete Williams (Author)

Book Description

Release date: December 24, 2009

World-renowned strength and performance coach Mark Verstegen has trained top athletes and countless workaday warriors into the best shape of their lives. He's spent years developing a proven system for a wide range of clients, and he knows the essential keys for building lean muscle, shedding excess fat, increasing strength and endurance, and breaking through plateaus. For the first time, Verstegen tailors the Core Performance System specifically for women.

Core Performance Women helps you develop the right mindset for success, while presenting a targeted nutrition and workout plan to guarantee results. Essential to Verstegen's system is his focused approach to proper recovery and muscle regeneration, which helps athletes gain full advantage of their time in the gym and prevent injury and everyday aches and pains. Verstegen offers his strategies for success, revealing his "non-diet" plan and simple rules for nutrition, even providing fast-food meal plans for women on the go. He teaches readers how to boost their "rear view" and homes in on the core movements that will whip every body into shape. The book is filled with powerful advice interwoven with inspiring vignettes of women who take charge of their health. Packed with full-color photographs detailing each exercise, along with full workout routines and integrated meal plans, Core Performance Women takes every woman to the top of her game.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"As a soccer athlete, the Core Performance System improved my speed, energy, and confidence on the field. As a mom, I love that the Core Performance training and nutrition is practical, efficient, and east to follow."
-Christie Rampone, U.S. Women's National Soccer Team

"Mark Verstegen and the entire Athletes Performance team were pioneers in sports performance for the last decade. With the release of Core Performance the mainstream fitness world was exposed to their revolutionary training system for the general population. Now with Core Performance Women, we get a great insight into their female specific training."
-Alwyn Cosgrove, coauthor of The New Rules of Lifting for Women

About the Author

An internationally renowned trainer, and speaker and the owner of Athletes' Performance Institute in Tempe, Arizona, Mark Verstegen is the author of four previous Core Performance titles, including The Core Performance and Core Performance Essentials. Pete Williams hosts The Fitness Buff radio show and is the author or coauthor of thirteen books, including the four previous Core Performance titles. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Avery (December 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583333622
• ISBN-13: 978-1583333624
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #903,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother September 18, 2010

By c

Format:Hardcover

I am a big fan of Mark Verstegen and his Core Performance System. I've read four of his books, and I've even attended a training workshop at his Athletes' Peformance facility. However, I must say that this book is a huge disappointment. For reasons I cannot understand, Verstegen decided to make the nutrition section REALLY long. The nutrition section makes up about 1/3 of the book, and he spends so much time talking about how eating habits have changed from the 70's and 80's, and how we are so dependent on sugar and caffeine. Tell us something we don't already know. This is very disappointing because, in his other books, he kept the nutrition sections short, sweet, and very user friendly.

Out of all of Verstegen's books, I'd suggest "Core Performance Essentials". I found that to be the most user-friendly book. Core Performance Women is a big flop. I'm just thankful that I borrowed this book from my public library instead of purchasing it.

26 of 30 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete information!!! February 22, 2010

By Kira Curbey

Format:Hardcover

I was very excited about the promise of this book...it is full of information and took a long time to read through all the nutrition chapters until I finally get to the exercises in Chapter 11! Then yes, I figure he was so detailed with the nutrition info that the exercise program would be spelled out in detail too--but there was absolutely no explanation at all about how to read his plan for exercise. Each individual exercise is spelled out although not with good diagrams, just one picture per exercise, which since they are dynamic is not sufficient. But then the whole program really falls apart because he doesn't give you the simplest instruction, like how long to wait between sets, if at all? Or what in the world he means by Do 1 circuit...a circuit of which exercises? The ones that were done in the warm up? And in the same order or what? So disappointing....Maybe I can figure it out by looking at the original book or looking at his website??? Do not bother buying this book, unless you already know the program by having attended one of his gyms, I guess. Blah!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars little less; little more September 9, 2010

By bigsky

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I was disappointed in this book the moment I opened it because I wanted more exercise information, and less diet information. The title made me think 'oh, core' this is going to be full of excellent exercises for the core!
Sadly mistaken, it's not. Its first 120 pages is about eating/nutrition and diet. I'm sorry, but I'm sick about reading that same old information. I thought I was buying a book about Core EXERCISES; you know, exercising the core.Sadly, less than half the book is about exercises!
Maybe his other Core Performance book is truly exercises for core stability and strength.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Most Effective Workout Plan March 31, 2010

By A. Charles

Format:Hardcover

I have been reading and using the Core Performance series for several years now, so I was excited when they came out with a Core Performance tailored to women. I am a aerial silks artist and the exercise routines presented in the series has been the most effective cross-training method I've ever used. The exercises are simple enough to do on your own without a trainer, and they can be done almost anywhere with minimal equipment. The results speak for themselves. The best thing about the Core Performance book is that it presents very advanced concepts in an easy to digest format, they give overviews and charts to follow daily, but they also present a comprehensive explanation into the theory behind the program that provides understanding and inspiration. This is a fantastic book for both serious athletes and those who are serious about losing weight and toning their core.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Advanced Learning March 25, 2010

By Jennifer Nerio

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I love this book as a trainer the program is awesome and the focus is to gain strength. I feel this book might be too advanced for beginners. If your just starting look for something less technically complicated. Other than that I love the diet advice too they address food in all ways including beverages(alcohol). Also they address when eating out what to order I believe that's an important skill to have in this culture of fast food.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book February 19, 2011

By Veronica

Format:Kindle Edition

I have been using core performance for about almost a year now. This book has very good information if you want the truth about nutrition. He pretty much spells it out for you and even gives you information about what to eat and what not to eat. This book is life long, meaning... that it is not about diets or just core workouts that you can pick out. e has a plan from beginning to end. It's about a life long change that you are willing to take. The workouts that he starts out with are a little confusing if you are a beginner, but if you take the time to do everything exactly how he says you will see results. I know this book works because I stopped doing it for a little while and felt like I was going back into my same ways "tightness" in hips and lower back. If you are looking to have a life long change, then this is a book to get.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Info February 26, 2013

By Kathy

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book is full if great information. If a person is looking at changing their lifestyle for the better this book is what you need. I have started implementing some of the program and working towards the full program. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants permanent change. This book will help you make that change.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, slow shipping June 23, 2011

By Zen Paul

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Mark Verstegen's books are full of excellent, can-do information. This one is formatted and illustrated even better than the previous ones, which makes it easier to use and follow.
One caveat: I asked for this book to be shipped by a Florida supplier to a friend who lives in Florida, because I thought it would get there sooner. On the contrary, it took about two weeks for it to get there. I was not able to contact the shipper directly to check on this or follow up. I do not plan to use this supplier again.