Six-Week Bikini Countdown: Tone your butt, abs, and thighs fast combining Pilates with select strength and cardio interval training workouts [Paperback]

Karon Karter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2008

With a minimal time commitment any woman can sculpt away her body trouble spots

There isn't a woman on the planet who doesn't dream about looking great in a bikini-until they are faced with the huge amount of time and sweat equity involved in reaching swimsuit cover model shape. Feeling intimidated and overwhelmed, they give up before they start. However, readers can get a bikini body-not by working harder, but by working smarter. Exercise guru, Karon Karter, featured on The Natural Wellness Channel's "Pilates for Real Bodies" program, takes the best Pilates moves and combines them with the most effective leg, butt, and ab firming exercises to get in bikini shape in the shortest amount of time possible. Using targeted routines, women will re-sculpt and firm muscles in key trouble areas. Built around a 6-week timeline, Karon Karter offers a specific course that gives women the shortest legitimate way to sculpt their body to bikini perfection.

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About the Author

Karon Karter (Dallas, TX) is an exercise guru featured on The Natural Wellness Channel's Pilates for Real Bodies. She is the author of The Core Strength Workout and Pilates Lite.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592332951
• ISBN-13: 978-1592332953
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #14 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Hip & Thigh Workouts
  • #53 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Pilates
  • #59 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Ab Workouts

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for Women!, June 24, 2008

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G. R. Gaulin (Palm Desert, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Six-Week Bikini Countdown: Tone your butt, abs, and thighs fast combining Pilates with select strength and cardio interval training workouts (Paperback)

Not just for Women! As a Doctor of Chiropractic I have encouraged patients of both sexes to buy the book. It is filled with great workouts that can challenge people of all fitness levels. Targeted at the muscles needed to stabilize and support your body (the "core"), not only will this help you tone, but strengthen as well.

Karon integrates exercises like Pilates (long a favorite exercise of dancers) with exercises usually only performed by elite athletes like "plyometrics" and interval training (made popular recently in an article published in The Australian Journal of Applied Physiology). Pilates was started by Joseph Pilates as a way to rehabilitate wounded soldiers during World War I. It emphasizes control, strengthening and stretching of key muscles in the body. Plyometrics uses quick short movements to help build strength, and speed. Interval training usually involves high speed workouts along with lower intensity workouts such as sprints, while performing a longer run. Interval training helps burn calories and increases cardiovascular fitness.

Karon's program is FUN! Her writing style is easy to read, follow, and is entertaining. She takes you from the basics, to more advanced exercises as your skills improve. By the time you're done you'll have a better body, not just a better "bikini body."

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW...my belly is flat!!!!, May 2, 2008

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This review is from: Six-Week Bikini Countdown: Tone your butt, abs, and thighs fast combining Pilates with select strength and cardio interval training workouts (Paperback)

I am going on a cruise in June and would love to be in a 2 piece suit, while not scaring others. So I found this book and decided to give it a try. I am on Week 4 and have lost about 50% of my belly. You will be challenged and I spent the first two weeks eating Ibuprofen, but it is totally worth it!! The exercises are deceptively easy - you feel it the next day though. Totally worth the money and time. It would be nice if there was a DVD for the Pilates portion of the workout so you learn to do them correctly.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING BOOK!, March 26, 2008

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Julie Hahn "Julie H." (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Six-Week Bikini Countdown: Tone your butt, abs, and thighs fast combining Pilates with select strength and cardio interval training workouts (Paperback)

This book is amazing! It has great pictures that clearly demonstrate each exercise. It's a combination of cardio, weights, and pilates.

I used to take Karon's pilates class in Dallas. The pilates exercises in her book are a page from Karon's classes! I've moved away from Dallas, and have not found a pilates class that even compares to hers. This book is my saving grace!

I'm a week into her program and find it very easy to follow. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to tone up with a variety of exercises. It's a great read!