TBK Fitness Program [Paperback]

Tamir Katz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 9, 2003

The TBK Fitness Program will help you lose weight, build muscle, and obtain excellent health without any exercise equipment, nutritional supplements, gym memberships or any other expenses or gimmicks of any kind. You will learn how to achieve perfect fitness through a healthy, natural hunter-gatherer type diet along with a comprehensive exercise program with over 60 different bodyweight exercises of varying difficulty targeting all of the muscles in the body.Also included is a detailed discussion of nutrition and heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and obesity based on the latest scientific research, information on stress management and preventive medicine, recommendations on vitamin and supplement use, tips on how to make your fitness program succeed where others have failed, tips on food shopping and preparation, sample meals, and much, much more.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Tamir Katz is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and received a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Cornell University. He has been exploring different diets and exercise programs since 1993, and currently provides fitness and nutrition information through his website www.tbkfitness.org. Tamir lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (May 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1403392595
• ISBN-13: 978-1403392596
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,439,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TBK Fitness, back to basics, June 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: TBK Fitness Program (Paperback)

If you want to get in shape, or in better shape, following these highly effective 20-30 minute bodyweight exercise routines will get you results. Each exercise is precisely explained and paired with quirky hand-drawn illustrations. No gym membership, no equipment, no commute, no excuses -- TBK Fitness is no nonsense bodyweight conditioning for everyone. Why do you think the military uses such routines? Because they work. Whether you're an athlete or a couch potato, there is plenty in here to challenge you.

Dr. Katz's dietary recommendations also make sense. He advocates a hunter-gatherer type diet consisting of fruits, veggies, nuts & seeds and high quality lean meats/fish. While somewhat difficult to implement if you're vegetarian, the book contains an abundance of well researched and baked-up dietary information. Much of which may surprise or even shock you, considering all the misinformation we're fed by the media.

Dr. Katz has been very forthcoming in making himself available to answer my questions and for that (and this book) I thank him.

Highly recommended.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Little Fitness Book, December 17, 2005

By 

Steven G. Jones (Landisville, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TBK Fitness Program (Paperback)

This is a wonderful little health and fitness book that I would recommend to anyone. It has more useful information packed into it than other books that are longer and more expensive.
The nutritional advise is sound and extensive though, personally as a semi-vegetarian, I believe he puts more emphasis on eating animal protein than is necessary. But there are short concise chapters on eating to loose weight, and how to better prevent chronic illnesses such as heart disease, osteoporosis and cancer. There is a section on stress management that, again, is short, too the point and very helpful.
The main weakness of the book is that there are no photos demonstrating the exercises which would be very helpful, but which probably would drive up the cost of the book. The drawings are adequate but could be better.
The exercise section is a real gold mine. The author describes many, many exercises to strengthen and tone the entire body from head to toe without the use of one single piece of equipment. He shows ways to do push-ups that I never heard of before, along with many exercises you can do while simply standing up that strengthen the entire body that are very simple to do. Exercises that I was completely unfamiliar with even though I am no stranger to fitness. And they really work too.
Especially helpful is the fact that he even gives the reader many samples of routines to use. So you've got a menu of specific workouts to choose from that use absolutely no equipment and can be done in a very small space if need be.
The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars was because of it's use of mediocre drawings instead of photos. But other than that this book is outstanding and probably the best health and fitness book I have ever read.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fitness book, October 20, 2005

By 

Tim Duncan "Tim Duncan" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TBK Fitness Program (Paperback)

I am actually writing this review in response to J. Rogers review that it was disappointing. I purchased Dr. Katz's book about a year ago and actually found it very well researched and informative. I wanted to counter Mr. Roger's claims.

1. No originality??? Although there are other "paleo" diet books around, none I have bought have had any real exercise program. Plus the "poorly designed drawings" are, in my opinion, very original, and show a sly sense of humor (those who own the book know what I mean). I am not a scientist or doctor but the list of references in the back did impress me. I believe Dr. Katz spent a lot of time researching the diet and backing it up with solid evidence instead of simply making sensational claims like many other programs do.

2. Poor design - I agree that this isn't published by Stephen King's publisher. Obviously, this is a self published book, but the text was clear, the drawings, although crude, did have a certain cartoonish wit to them, were adequate to allow me to follow any of the exercises and although many of the exercises are simple, that was a good thing. I'm your average 45 year old spare tire inactive kind of person. I would not have been able to follow a program filled with only boot camp type exercises. I thought Dr. Katz did a good job of throwing in a mix of different exercises, some easy, some hard. I have to say, although I am no Tom Cruise today, I did lose 20 pounds on this program.


3. Mr. Rogers claims that there are much better books around. Like which ones? If the purpose of a fitness book is to allow one to become healthy, lose weight, and get into shape, this book was simply amazing. I must have bought at least 20-30 other diet and exercise programs over the years, but never have I been so impressed. Not because of the production quality, because this isn't an art book, but because of the content.