The Whartons' Cardio-Fitness Book: The Step-by-Step Program for High Energy and Endurance [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Jim Wharton (Author), Phil Wharton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 16, 2001

Train Your Heart for a Brand-New Start

Professional athletes and weekend warriors alike have long looked to the father-son team of Jim and Phil Wharton for the cutting-edge advice on fitness. Now, following on the success of the bestselling The Whartons' Stretch Book and The Whartons' Strength Book, they present The Whartons' Cardio-Fitness Book, the ultimate guide to building endurance and heart health through cardiovascular training.

Give them thirty minutes three times a week, and the Whartons will give you a better body, more energy, and a stronger heart. By becoming heart-fit, you'll not only lose extra pounds and decrease stress, but also help ward off heart disease, develop stronger bones, and build a healthier future. Special features of this book include:
¸         The seven myths about endurance training and your heart
¸         An owner's manual to your heart
¸         Setting goals for fitness and weight loss--and finding the time to work out
¸         Customizing a workout for ten different cardiovascular activities--walking,                         racewalking, running, jumping rope, aerobic dancing, swimming, in-line                         skating, cross-country skiing, cycling, and rowing--with detailed six-week                         training schedules for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels
¸         Flip art to illustrate proper techniques
¸         Taking your workout to the gym
¸         Fueling your training with the right foods
¸         Special tips for children and older athletes

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Jim and Phil Wharton, fitness trainers to star athletes, will inspire the confidence of newcomer and practiced athlete alike. The Whartons' Cardio-Fitness Book: The Step-by-Step Program for High Energy and Endurance deliberately and articulately explains the cardiovascular system, debunks myths about it, addresses disease and other health issues, and presents a range of aerobic activities to sample and choose from. The father-and-son team draws on its collective decades of long-distance running experience, exploration of fitness theory and an infectious zeal for a lifelong calling. Line drawings and charts.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Inside Flap

Train Your Heart for a Brand-New Start

Professional athletes and weekend warriors alike have long looked to the father-son team of Jim and Phil Wharton for the cutting-edge advice on fitness. Now, following on the success of the bestselling The Whartons' Stretch Book and The Whartons' Strength Book, they present The Whartons' Cardio-Fitness Book, the ultimate guide to building endurance and heart health through cardiovascular training.

Give them thirty minutes three times a week, and the Whartons will give you a better body, more energy, and a stronger heart. By becoming heart-fit, you'll not only lose extra pounds and decrease stress, but also help ward off heart disease, develop stronger bones, and build a healthier future. Special features of this book include:
¸         The seven myths about endurance training and your heart
¸         An owner's manual to your heart
¸         Setting goals for fitness and weight loss--and finding the time to work out
¸         Customizing a workout for ten different cardiovascular activities--walking,                         racewalking, running, jumping rope, aerobic dancing, swimming, in-line                         skating, cross-country skiing, cycling, and rowing--with detailed six-week                         training schedules for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels
¸         Flip art to illustrate proper techniques
¸         Taking your workout to the gym
¸         Fueling your training with the right foods
¸         Special tips for children and older athletes

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; illustrated edition edition (January 16, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812931610
• ISBN-13: 978-0812931617
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,507,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Complete Reference for Cardiovascular Fitness, July 25, 2006

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David De Sousa "The Automation and Control Guy" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Whartons' Cardio-Fitness Book: The Step-by-Step Program for High Energy and Endurance (Paperback)

This book is designed to be a reference for cardiovascular fitness, with lots of information about your heart and how it functions, what can go wrong and why, and more important what you can do to get fit and healthy.

The book includes cardio-fitness programs that you can use to workout 30 minutes 3 times a week to obtain a better body, more energy, and a stronger heart.

Cardio-fitness worked out for me: Six years ago and armed with a Polar Heart Rate Monitor (the old M61) I was able to drop more than 200 lbs in about eight months, and the heart rate monitor training has helped me keep those lbs off for over six years. Not only I went from size 44 to size 32 pants, but also obtained substantial benefits that included weight control, cardiovascular improvements, lowered blood pressure, and improved muscular-skeletal strength and flexibility, but also the myriad of mental and psychological benefits derived from being in the best shape of my life.

You really can accomplish more, with less effort, than you ever imagined. The word "endurance" may conjure for you the image of someone climbing the Everest, a journey fill with pain and difficulty. But endurance in the sense of this book is related to activities that keep us moving hard enough and long enough to strengthen our hearts, and there is nothing painful or difficult above it, in fact is usually fun once you start it. When I first started training with the heart rate monitor I was unable to jog even for five uninterrupted minutes without gasping for air. After a few months I was able to go jogging for 90 uninterrupted minutes six days a week.

Absolutely a must have for anyone wanting to get in better shape, and feel strong and healthy.

4.0 out of 5 stars ssems to be the only book of it's kind, August 19, 2010

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cat "cat" (canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Whartons' Cardio-Fitness Book: The Step-by-Step Program for High Energy and Endurance (Paperback)

as an individual who reads and purchases health and fitness related books, this is the only book I have found that focuses on cardio training for a number of exercises.