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No More Cellulite: A Proven 8 Week Program for a Firmer, Fitter Body

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I expected more from Wayne Wescott, Ph.D., who is often quoted by fitness magazines. His name is well-known in the area of health and fitness research. The book did not address sodium intake or give any recommendations for daily fat intake. Caffeine was also not addressed. It seems like these areas would be covered to some extent, given the book is about reducing cellulite. The weight-training program did not advocate changing one's routine every 6 or 8 weeks to avoid plateaus. I was excited to buy this book, but very disappointed at the lack of thoroughness on the part of the authors. It just didn't seem to cover everything it should have, leaving this reader with many unanswered questions.

Suffering from cellulite? Ah yes, cellulite...those stubborn
lumpy areas also known as dimples but not meant as a cute
description. There may be hope yet!

Wayne Wescott, Ph.D. along with Rita La Rosa Loud have to be
applauded for their well-written book entitled "No More
Cellulite".

The book starts with two very interesting and informative
chapters on "What is Cellulite" and "What Causes Cellulite". The
first step is to understand what you have and how it happened to
apply itself to your thighs! The writers go into explanations of
what aging does to our bodies; and muscle and metabolism - how
loss of muscle lowers our metabolic rate.

The writers give you a good starting chapter on "Understanding
Strength Training" and why strength training, along with
cardiovascular exercise, is essential for everyone. A training
program is provided along with different exercises using machines
or using free weights (dumbbells, elastic bands and body weight)
at the gym or at home (definitely my choice of exercise and could
be yours too as long as you can get yourself motivated to working
out at home). What I always found to be very helpful is when the
writers indicate the target muscles that each exercise uses;
which is what they have done for each of the exercises in this
book.

There is a wonderful chapter on stretching which enhances the
strength training program. Being a dancer, I already know the
benefits of daily stretching and how it helps your flexibility
and posture. This chapter goes into the type of stretch,
frequency, sets, posture, speed, range of motion, proper
breathing and muscle balance.

You'll love the chapter on endurance for your cardio program
along with the writers' balanced nutrition plan, a very healthy
plan consistent with the USDA Food Guide Pyramid, designed to
give you guidelines on how to change your eating habits, lose
weight if you need to, build muscle and is generally a very
healthy way of eating that everyone should follow. There are
sample menus to follow depending on the amount of calories you
need to support your present body weight or to lose weight and if
that's not all, the writers have thrown in some delicious recipes
for you to test your culinary skills with! Be sure to check out
the inspiring photos at the end.

After reading this book I would recommend it to anyone with that
"orange-peel", dimply cellulite and for anyone who wants a basic
book on weight training, cardio and healthy eating. All-in-all,
a must-have book in your diet/exercise/healthy living library.

This book is a great place to start for woman who want to start an effective weight lifting program. The book is full of illustrations and simple to follow instructions. For those who want to continue with their program, I would suggest moving on to one of his other books.