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The Men's Health Big Book: Getting Abs: Get a Flat, Ripped Stomach and Your Strongest Body Ever--in Four Weeks Paperback – Illustrated, December 24, 2012

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The essential diet and fitness guide to lean, ripped abs-including a results-driven 4-week program to lose weight, strengthen your core, and chisel your entire body

Call it a spare tire, muffin top, or paunch. Men and women consistently cite their belly as their biggest problem area-and it is often the toughest final pounds to lose. Not anymore!

Whether readers' eating habits have been affected by stress, their bodies have changed with age, or they're constantly doing crunches without results, it's time to blast belly fat the right way. Using the comprehensive, week-by-week eating and exercise plan, readers can lose up to 20 pounds in 6 weeks-and keep it off, forever.

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Including a step-by-step, 4-week eating and exercise plan, easy-to-prepare recipes, and hundreds of exercises, The Men's Health Big Book of Abs by Adam Bornstein and the editors of Men's Health is the ultimate guide to a leaner, fitter, sexier body.

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ADAM BORNSTEIN is the editorial director of the Livestrong website, and former fitness editor at Men's Health. He co-authored the bestselling The IMPACT! Body Plan, The Men's Health Diet, and has been featured on Good Morning America, The Early Show, and E!'s The Daily 10. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rodale Books; NO-VALUE edition (December 24, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1609618742
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1609618742
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.01 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches

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Adam Bornstein is a New York Times best-selling author, and an award-winning fitness and nutrition journalist and editor. Named "one of the most influential people in health", Bornstein is the CEO and founder of Born Fitness. Previously, he was the editorial director for LIVESTRONG.COM and the fitness editor for Men's Health magazine. His first book, The Impact! Body Plan was a fitness bestseller, and that was followed by The Men's Health Diet (with Stephen Perrine), The Women's Health Big Book of Abs, and The Men's Health Big Book: Getting Abs.

Bornstein has articles featured in publications such as The New York TImes, ESPN the Magazine, Forbes, and Fast Company. He also has a monthly column in Men's Fitness magazine called "Learn It." Bornstein has appeared on Good Morning America, The Early Show, and E! News. He blogs at bornfitness.com to discuss all topics related to health, fitness, and nutrition. He can also be found on Twitter @BornFitness.

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Jonny

Essential Fitness Resource

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 18, 2023

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"The Men's Health Big Book: Getting ABS" is a game-changing resource for anyone striving for a chiseled midsection. This comprehensive guide offers a wealth of expert advice, proven techniques, and practical workouts specifically designed to sculpt your abs. With step-by-step instructions and engaging visuals, this book provides the roadmap to achieving a strong and defined core. Whether you're a beginner or a fitness enthusiast, "Getting ABS" is an invaluable tool for unlocking your abdominal potential. Get ready to transform your physique and unveil your six-pack with this essential fitness resource!

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gt surber

Reality approach to much more than abs

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"Men's Health Getting Abs" is a complex book addressing a complicated important topic - flat, 6 pack abds. If you are looking for a quick fix, go elsewhere. If you really want flat, sculpted abs the information in this book, if applied over months will give you flat 6 pack abds and an overall greatly improved body, health, and appearance. Though well written and well edited, this is not an easy read. The program is complicated and the route is sinuous. There are many bad habits, much bad information that need to be overcome. There are too many get fit quick schemes out there competing for the dollars. This is not one of them. Adam Bornstein does show how diet, exercise, and life style choices intertwine to either make us obese, or lean and trim. Adam Bornstein gives us the information to achieve optimal health, fitness and appearance. It just requires dedicated changes in diet, life style, and exercise habits to achieve.

Adam Bornstein spends lots of pages dispelling exercise and diet myths, and replacing them with solid information. He spends lots of time directing the reader to multiple diet approaches, even addressing the current no gluten fad with both admonitions as to dangers and advice as how to avoid gluten. The exercise pages are well written with excellent pictures. Included are numerous hints as to proper form and technique that will take months to properly digest and apply. There are many programed workout suggestions though out the book, making the application of the concepts and the exercises easier. There are even many more programed workout plans at the end of the book.

At first I was surprised to see the non core exercise sections. Then I realized Adam Bornstein is directing us to the only way to achieve and maintain flat six pack abds - total balanced life style, diet and exercise changes in our lives. This book is much more about total health and real fitness than just about abs.

My only complaint about the book is the get-fit-quick promise on the cover. There is no way the average computer jockey, couch potato is going to get a "flat, ripped, stomach" in four weeks. It's a marketing gimmick. It's an insult to the quality of the book hidden behind the cover. Adam Bornstein dispells it in the book.

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Interesting program

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When I first began this and plotted out the workouts, I looked at the volume that was required and felt it might not be enough for me, given what I had been following up to that point. However, three weeks in and I have lost some pounds but more importantly, feel tighter and leaner,even though, on paper, it amounts to less volume than my previous workouts. I will take this to the end of the six weeks and see how it has served me, but, so far, I would have to say it seems to be working--this is for a 58 year old man who was already working out 6 days er week before starting, so most of what I am feeling is not the usual "new stimulus" sort of effect. Examining the structure, these workouts are clearly designed to work your entire body each time, in a way that forces you to brace your abdominal area, therefore consistently engaging that area and having the desired affect, stated in the books title. It is worth a shot, I think, no matter what you may already be doing, and especially if you are doing nothing. The only drawback I find is that the programs make some existing fitness level assumptions that might need to be revisited, if the book is to apply to folks who may not already be at a certain level of fitness, or older folks who might not be able to crank out 25 pulse pushups after holding a 45 second plank or do 25 inverted rows. Otherwise, the structure of the workouts and the amount of info, and the dietary sections are very good.

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Love it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2022

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So much great information, well put together, simple to Follow, and have everything you need to get some abs!!! I totally recommend it

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It was sent to someone else as a gift.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2022

Was a gift.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 27, 2014

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This book is awesome and fun and has some great exercises. Be prepared to have some equipment or access to it, like exercise balls, dumbells, barbells, etc. This book also does kind of assume a certain level of fitness. You're not going to go straight from the couch to a 6 pack in 28 days unless you're already a little fit. It seems like your endurance will mostly require strength. Sets and reps are not unreasonable. Meal plan is very specific and would be very easy to follow.

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Bruno Silva

good information for starters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2013

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I like the book and the kindle version is very well done, as usual.

The book content is below my expectations since this is a book for starters, the information is good and well organized, the workouts are ok but it does not have the advanced specific abs workouts I was looking for.

I mean, if I were starting this would be a great book but for my fitness level and knowledge and my expectations the book would not be very useful if it weren't for the general body workouts.

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PAJ

A good one!

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This is a great book! If you are able to diligently follow the workouts and the diet guidelines, it does work! You can truly get into shape, may be not exactly like the guy in the picture, but close to! You just have to keep repeating the workouts!

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Joshua Naprstek

Lots of exercises in this book but it doesn't help very much when you want to workout from home.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 6, 2021

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What I like about this workout book is that it is loaded with exercises. What I don't like about it is that they assume you go to a gym and therefore cater their workouts according to gym equipment. I don't go to a gym, though there are two gyms in my town.
What I was looking for is how to get 6 pack abs without having to go to a gym everyday. This book doesn't have much in the way of solving that problem. That is why I am giving it one star out of five. So how can I get 6 pack abs without having to go to the gym. Are there any books out there that show how to get 6 pack abs from doing workouts at home.

Jorge

Practico y Util

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on November 17, 2016

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Este libro es muy practico y gráfico. Te muestra los principales ejercicios para el gimnasio, ya sea que tengas pesas, aparatos o estes en tu casa sin equipo. Adicional viene con rutinas detalladas según tu objetivo. Me funciona muy bien.

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nothing new to see here

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 15, 2013

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Have you read any of the men's health magazines?
Do you have a rough idea of what you need to do from the internet but not got round to starting?

yes to either of the above, then wouldn't rush out to buy this.
Much better heading to the gym and putting into practise what you already know. :-)

Note: It doesn't work well in a kindle, the links pointing you to different chapters become confused and checking out the exercises and sub exercises and then skipping back to the start of the main days group and it stops keeping track of you meaning you have to go back to the main menu find where you where and start again.

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C.E.

Not bad at all

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 16, 2020

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Well done. MH always has great info, but it can be very daunting to motivate yourself to sit down and plan something out alone. Follow any example program here. Pictures and descriptions are good.

Christian Mason

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 29, 2014

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Great Book I recommend it.

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