Workout For A Balanced Brain [Hardcover]

Ken Russell (Author), Philip Carter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 27, 2001

A fun exercise regimen for the brain's weaker hemisphere-right or left. With quick-and-easy tests readers can discern how the brain works and where it needs improvement, and then build their own personalized brain workouts using exercises and puzzles to balance their brains.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Readers Digest; 1 edition (September 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762103310
• ISBN-13: 978-0762103317
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,054,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but be prepared to put in a few hours!, April 5, 2005

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Bec (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Workout For A Balanced Brain (Hardcover)

This book is really good. It has explanations of the brain biases (left and right) and what they mean. Then it's divided into two sections - the first is full of tests to determine if you're left or right brained. The second is to help you strengthen the weaker side of your brain.

One downside is that to work out your brain hemisphere, you have to finish all of the puzzles - and there are quite a few. If you took the maximum allocated time for each puzzle, you could be there for over 9 hours looking for patterns and the like! Once you've finally finished these tests, you may not feel like doing more of the same in the second section of the book! But then, at least it's comprehensive and thorough. I thought it was really interesting.

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic way to gauge your strengths and weaknesses, August 24, 2004

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Adam "sage" (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Workout For A Balanced Brain (Hardcover)

This book is fantastic way to gauge your mental strengths and weaknesses. The puzzles give you a very good idea of which brain hemisphere you utilize more often, then gives you puzzles designed to stimulate (and strengthen?) the hemisphere opposite the one you favor in everyday life.

11 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book i'd ever read, April 6, 2003

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"jbordsen" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Workout For A Balanced Brain (Hardcover)

This book made me like, think and stuff. when i red it i was like "wow, this book is awesome! i think that you should buy it because it was relaly good and very much makes you think about stuff. 5 stars out of 5!