Customer Reviews

Gold's Gym Workout Journal

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Using the information in this book, my husband and I were able to bring both of our persentage of body fat down to a really healthy, trim level. We are active, but had never been able to lose the "slightly soft" look. We figured, "If we work out and eat decently, why are we still chubby?" Cathy Sassin showed us how we were eating incorrectly (too infrequently, without balanced nutrients), and we both lost fat and gained muscle by following her advice. We also gained a lot of energy, and lost all of our hunger pangs, headaches, late-afternoon sleepiness, etc. Now when we eat or work out, we know that we are supporting our goals of lifelong fitness by getting the best results for our efforts. Changing habits takes work, but you'll be more than willing to do it when you can SEE the results immediately! This WORKS. If you're serious, buy the book and do it.

Three years ago I got serious about eating right and getting exercise. At the time, I knew little about the subject. I picked-up this book *only* because it looked like a good log for keeping track of gym work outs. It had other info about macronutriants, body fat %'s, meal size and frequency, etc. Again, I didn't read any of that material. I thought it was all going to pertain to only per se body builders. Shortly afterwards, I lost the book.

A few years later, I had read almost everything I could get my hands on about proper diet and exercise. I managed to parse through what were fad diets to the basic / real /essential info. During a recent move I found the lost Gold Gym's book. This time I read it. I was amazed. Everything I had learned over the years was contained in this book. Moreover, it stripped down to the essential elements and presented in a very quick and easy way to understand. I should have read it the first time. Most of the book is actually space to keep a food and exercise log. The format is great, and quite helpful.

(FYI: I actually logged on to Amazon to buy another copy of this book b/c I've used all the pages up in mine. When I saw it had such few reviews, I felt compelled to write one.)

Journaling your food and exercise is very important if you are serious about your fitness, however, this book has the worst forms for doing this that I've seen. Unless you are a proficient at micro-sized handwriting, the pages will look like a mess in no time. The introduction information is ok, but not essential to the function of a journal. It was a good idea to make it spiral bound, but this can't save it from the poor form designs. You'd be better off buying a good pad of grid paper and making your own forms.

This is just a plane workout journal to fill in. Not much instructions or images at all. Disappointed.

I found this journal to be very complicated and full of information that I did not need. I wanted something simple to track my progress and this is not it.

I am a personal trainer for Gold's Gym and I would recommend this to all of my clients!