39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed, November 20, 2010
This review is from: The Jennifer Nicole Lee Fitness Model Diet: JNL's Super Fitness Model Secrets To A Sexy, Strong, Sleek Physique (Hardcover)
I originally bought this book because I was looking for the next step in my healthful lifestyle. I have been looking for a comprehensive book on the world of fitness modeling, especially the diet and workout side of things. This book was thoroughly disappointing to me. I feel as though I PAID for 200 pages of advertisement. I feel as though she is doing a disservice to women of iron everywhere. In addition, this book makes her come across so self-absorbed, she goes on and on about how amazing she is and there are probably a hundred pictures of her in this book. My fiance is a personal trainer and he also thinks this book is laughable because of the lack of information on the actual diet and exercise part of fitness competition. I am saddened that she had this opportunity to make this huge impact on the fitness community and she took the opportunity to really just advertise herself and her products.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing!, November 27, 2010
This review is from: The Jennifer Nicole Lee Fitness Model Diet: JNL's Super Fitness Model Secrets To A Sexy, Strong, Sleek Physique (Hardcover)
SAVE YOUR MONEY!! This book was not helpful to me at all. I read alot of fitness books and this was the worst. Maybe if you are a beginner and don't know anything it can be helpful, but if you know even just a little this book is not for you. It was really a book for Jennifer to call herself a super fitness model over and over again! Egomaniac!! And she plugged her products and website on almost every page. Really, save your money unless you want a picture book of JNL.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Meh, December 18, 2010
This review is from: The Jennifer Nicole Lee Fitness Model Diet: JNL's Super Fitness Model Secrets To A Sexy, Strong, Sleek Physique (Hardcover)
First of all, let me say that i really like JNL. She's very inspirational as far as her story goes...being nearly 200lbs and still being a fulltime mother of two...wow. the fact that she was able to accomplish what she has when she didn't have time OR money (at that point in her life), is amazing in itself, and because of that i REALLY wanted to like this book...i mean REALLY wanted to. i waited and waited for it to become available...checking amazon daily, then when i finally got it...very disappointed. The entire first half of the book is her saying, "i'm going to show you how to do this...i'm going to show you how to do that", and you keep turning the pages and waiting for this information to come, and it doesn't. I found myself yelling at this book going "WHEN?!?! WHEN are you going to show me?!?!" Plus it IS plug after plug after plug of her website and products. I admit, i'm a subscriber to the website...which i have unfortunately been too lazy to cancel. the emails with "fitness tips" consist of "buy the ab circl pro" "subscribe to my fitness program" "buy my book"...there are NO tips, just sales pitches. But i digress, there ARE some good recipes in the book, and even some decent workouts, but they are the basic lifting type workouts that come in just about every book. Look, i KNOW a BOOK will not give me her body, i KNOW that motivation really has to come from within, but i was really hoping that this book would give me some insider fitness tips that maybe the others don't. I was also hoping that it might talk more about her struggle with trying to BECOME fit while being a full time mom, and the mental roadblocks she had to overcome on her journey, and more "before" photos too, those help me mentally A LOT, but there's just one, the same one you alway see and it's very grainy...no such luck. in all honesty, i found "Never Say Diet Again" by Chantel Hobbs to be MUCH more inspirational with workouts that are just as effective. THAT is a GREAT fitness book!
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