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Sculpt Your Body with Balls and Bands : Shed Pounds and Get Firm in 12 Minutes a Day (With Your 3-Week Plan for Fast, Easy Weight Loss) [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Denise Austin (Author)
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July 28, 2004
Denise Austin-star of Lifetime Television's The Daily Workout as well as Fit & Lite, television's #1 exercise program-has always been in the vanguard of the exercise revolution. Now she has come out with another sensational breakthrough: the first book that combines two powerful, proven tools-the exercise ball and resistance band-to give you the safest, most effective method of body shaping, muscle toning, and weight loss.

Denise shares compelling new research that shows performing exercise routines on a fitness ball will help you strengthen and tone muscles while enhancing your flexibility, balance, and coordination. Best of all, the effort to hold a position on a wobbly ball is great for a lean and strong core, the key to healthier posture, improved energy and better-fitting clothes!

Denise also uses elastic workout bands of increasing levels of resistance to provide the simplest, safest, most efficient way to sculpt and reshape your body. Long a favorite of fitness professionals, these bands eliminate the problem of momentum and make it easier to get the most out of the return part of the movement than either free weights or machines.

Now you can get the benefits of both tools at the same time. Denise Austin shows the most effective best band/ball exercises that target the abs, thighs, waist, butt, and upper arms, as well as sharing rejuvenating, body-shaping, 12-minute workouts in several key disciplines: Pilates, yoga, cardio, and balance/stretching. Each day during her three-week plan, Denise will motivate readers with an inspiring before-and-after story, with photos, of a fan's success; an at-a-glance, 12-minute workout guide; a full-menu plan of delicious, less-than-12-minute meals (with 20 pages of new recipes from Denise's kitchen); and "Denise's Wisdom," an inspiring tip or thought for the day.
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About the Author

Denise Austin, in addition to her enormously popular fitness programs on Lifetime TV, offers regular fitness advice to readers of America's #1 health magazine, Prevention, in her column Shape Up with Denise Austin. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1579549926
  • ASIN: B000E1KPTG
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #824,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A native of San Pedro, California, Denise started gymnastics at the age of 12 and earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Arizona, graduating in 1979 with an exercise physiology degree. She began her career teaching aerobic exercise classes in the Los Angeles area and went on to cohost the The Jack LaLanne Show, in 1981. (Denise considers Jack LaLanne one of her role models, and she is delighted to still speak regularly with the 94-year-old fitness legend.)

During more than 25 years promoting health and fitness, Denise has created 82 workout videos or DVDs. Her enormous number of sales led to her 2003 induction into the Video Hall of Fame.

Denise has been married for 25 years to Jeff Austin, a sports attorney and brother of tennis champ Tracy Austin. They share a home with their two teenage daughters, Kelly and Katie.


 

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118 of 118 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent: Efficient & effective exercising, August 5, 2004
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I've had this book for a little over a week now. I have read it from cover to cover and am one week into the three-week plan. Here's what I think are the best things about this book.

As usual, Denise's can-do attitude permeates the text. She is upbeat and encouraging in her writing.

This is a book written for busy people. Denise recognizes that many people have a legitimate struggle to fit an hour of exercise into most days and she offers here a pragmatic alternative to that.

Toning exercises with the stability ball & resistance band take up twelve minutes a day, six days a week.

Denise offers five cardio options, from twelve minutes three to four times a week to sixty minutes three to four times a week. Which one you pick is dependent on your goals. (Sixty minutes is for serious athletes who can invest that amount of time; twelve minutes is for people who want to see results from a minimum investment of time.)

I've found what's working for me is to do the twelve minutes of toning in the morning before anyone else gets up and then we take a walk in the evening after supper as a family.

As far as the toning exercises, they're great! I've worked with a stability ball before, but I've never worked with the ball & resistance band together. You can really feel your entire body working. Of course, it's too early for me to SEE results, but I do already feel like I'm walking and sitting "taller" and it's only been a week.

One tip: The exercises in the three-week program are different every day, so you're not going to be learning a routine and then repeating it. Therefore, in order for my actual toning session to last twelve minutes, I read the exercise instructions for the next morning at night before I go to bed. That keeps to a minimum my having to flip back and forth between the day's exercise program and the detailed instructions.

There is a chapter explaining how to put together a program using the exercises in the book, so once you finish the three-week program Denise gives, you're by no means limited to that.

One other terrific thing: For thirty dollars I bought a stability ball and a resistance band, so it wasn't a financial burden to buy the equipment. My wallet thanks you, Denise!

Very much worth the price of the book.
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, January 18, 2005
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This is a lot of book for the money. You get all the usual introductory information about equipment, exercises, and anatomy. Then there are separate sections for core exercises, upper body, lower body, stretching, pilates, and yoga - I felt like I was getting about 3 books in one right there. Then she goes into a do-it-yourself program that included menus for each day, words of encouragement and before-and-after photos of many women and even one man. Some exercise books that I have bought advertise that they only use certain equipment then after you buy the book you find out you need many other things. Not so with this book. Ball and band is all you need. And the exercises are really great. I highly recommend this book.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Denise does it again!, October 25, 2005
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I'll have to hand it to Denise Austin - this is one ambitious gal. She has written workout books with every possible slant - weights, yoga, pilates, and now a book clearly demonstrating how you can get in shape with balls and bands. This is a good cheap alternative for those of us who can't afford to go to a gym (or for those of us who don't have time!). All the equipment can be purchased cheaply - making this the most reasonable workout imaginable!

Did I mention that it is an intense workout? Who ever thought that you could do so many things and work so many body parts with this simple equipment?

The pictures in the book are remarkably clear. The directions are succint and to the point. And even better are the routines! There are three weeks of programs laid out for you along with eating suggestions and motivational stories from Denise and her fans. This is a book that can inspire and it does work! Good job again!
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