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Hit the Spot: How to Target, Tone, and Slim Your Problem Areas

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Denise Austin motivates me more then anyone.She has helped me lose 20 pounds and keep it off!If I can do it anyone can!You are worth it!

Sincerely, Michelle

Versatile, convenient, informative, and easily understood. These are the four adjectives I would use to descibe this wonderful book. We are all educated people, we know that we need 3-4 days of cardiovascular work (walking, jogging, step aerobics, what have you) at 20-30 minutes a pop to help with fat loss. However, if you are thinking that just cardiovascular exercise will do it, you're wrong. You need to strength train your muscles, and this book is the bible for it. If you want long, lean muscles, buy this book. Having lower back pain? Wait for the pain to subside, get the dr.'s okay, and then buy this book. There are back strengthening exercises in here for all of us Linda-Carter-Wannabees (a.k.a. Wonder Woman) who conquer college, career, marriage and children. You need this book to feel better, look better, and gain that confidence you had when you were 16 in the dance recital. You need this book if you are a beginner, an intermediate exerciser, or an 'ol pro. People have mentioned that this book is detailed....that's an understatement. This book gives you explicit information on breathing during exercises, proper form, and the speed at which to execute the exercises. Yes, it's that good. Just as others have mentioned, Denise Austin's heart is in the right place. However, during her videos (of which I own at least 10), she may do 16 repetitions on the left leg, and then quickly change to the right leg. On the right leg, however, she may only do 12 repetitions! That annoys me, thus, I tend to shy away from the videos these days. However, with the book, YOU control the repetitions. You don't have to pause and rewind...you don't have to wait for cues that won't come, and finally, you don't have to deal with beats and rhythms (Denise has a hard time following those, too). So, on a final note, I give this book the ultimate praise. Run to your nearest book store and purchase it, or buy it right here, right now!

Very good book and easy to read and understand. Clear information on what exercises work which muscles. A helpful diet section, exercise schedule, and weekly exercise diary.

I have been using this book off and on for over 2 years now. I keep going back to this book when I need to lose weight and tone-up. The exercises are easy to follow and can be as challenging or low-intensity as you make it. I have trouble following other exercise books/videos and really recommend this to anyone who wants to lose weight and tone-up different areas of their body. Of course to lose weight you have to add aerobic exercise (fast walking/other) as she stresses in this book. I recommend this book for any age, but I'm 40 and find this book one of the easiest to follow and the best, so far, for me.

I really like the Hit the Spot book by Denise Austin. It is short, it is simple and easy to do and to me I feel great when I do the exercises. My husband and I love the results I am having. Thank you Denise and Happy New Year!

This book is an excellent resource. It gives you many variations of exercises as well as a variety of exercises for your total body. Denise writes in a positive and motivating up-beat style. She includes photos of start and finish exercises for each exercise. My only complaint is that a start position for one exercise starts on one page of the book and the finish position is on the next page so you have to flip the page to view (but this is only for some of the exercises pictured; Denise manages to put the start-finish positions of most exercises on the same page).

This is another book of Denise Austin's that I highly recommend! There are exercises in here that I started doing shortly after I got the book and read it all the way through. The exercises that I did I started noticing results within 3 weeks from the time I first started doing the exercise. I had the increase my resistance from time to time but, the exercises still work to this day! I highly recommened!

As a mother of two young children, I often have to grab exercise opportunities when I can. It is wonderful to have my own "personal trainer on call" who is so inspiring and easy to understand! The exercises are described in easy step-by-step fashion with pictures to illustrate. Real life success stories with pics are included and Denise's style and encouragement really keep you going. A great book, I am wearing mine out!

I like her aerobics classes on TV but this book is terrible. There's nothing here you haven't read already, probably in a better source. Her writing lacks authority and is filled with pollyana-ish enthusiasm ("I overcame my difficulties and SO CAN YOU!"). The recipes are terribly basic and not very creative. There are some good photos of exercise positions but I couldn't suffer through her writing to stick with any of it. Buy something else!