Celebrity Body on a Budget (Paperback) Review

Celebrity Body on a Budget (2010)
by Cornel Chin-Personal Trainer to the Stars

Reviewed by: Dr. Joseph S. Maresca

The work contains some very important perspectives with regard
to body building. For instance, the author distinguishes from among
the three main body types. i.e.

Ectomorphs havelong torsos,slim hips and shoulders.
The ectomorph loses weight easily and is inclined to
low levels of body fat. The goal is to increase stamina and muscle mass.

Endomorphs have bigger bones, larger thighs and hips.
The ideal training is to increase cardio training to reduce fat and
burn calories. Increasing the upper body exercises will aid in body
symmetry. Weight loss is most difficult and this is achieved with
increased cardio exercises aimed at burning calories.
Many people don't realize this aspect.
Activities which maximize calorie burning per hour are aerobic
dancing (500+), basketball (450) , football (500) ,
racquetball (588) and circuit training (756).

Mesomorphs have the ideal body shape which is robust and athletic.
Utilizing light to moderate weight training enhances muscle tone.
This body type gains muscle mass easily. They have broad
shoulders and a narrow waist. In addition, weight loss is no problem.

A series of very good exercises are presented for persons with a
sedentary lifestyle. Samples of these are the chest stretch,
arm/shoulder stretch, calves stretch, walking, leg squats and
many others.

The book provides good tips on what to look for when purchasing
treadmills, exercise bikes, the elliptical trainer, stepping machines
and small weights. Personally, I find small weights are best for
developing and maintaining muscle tone.

Lastly, the author presents some delicious meal tips for preparing
beef with cabbage, coriander beef stew, turkey burgers, garlic and
mushroom pasta and many others. Overall, the acquisition
would be perfect for the health enthusiast in your household.
The program described in this book would be extremely helpful
for lifetime weight maintenance and health.

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Product Description:
Even in times as tough as these, you can still shape up like a celebrity, and you can do it without having to earn a celebrity paycheck. With over twenty years of experience in the field of fitness, Cornel Chin has used his unique training methods to train the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Colin Firth, Audrey Tautou, and Tilda Swinton. Now, through Celebrity Body on a Budget, he unlocks the keys to low-cost or no-cost exercise solutions.
As a gym member, you will spend an average of 3% of your annual salary on the cost of your yearly membership. For many people, this is a high cost that can no longer be afforded or justified. With Celebrity Body on a Budget, you can still achieve that drop dead gorgeous celebrity body you have always admired and desired without having to break the bank.

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The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat [Paperback] Review

Let me begin by saying that I am a 100% believer in the paleo diet/ caveman diet concept.I am a national-level olympic weightlifter and have tried every combination of high/low carb/fat diet to find something that allowed me to stay in the same weight class as I got older.The only thing that has ever worked is the paleo diet.

For a good, concise description of the paleo diet, search for it on wikipedia.

Having said that, I will now be critical of this book.I found this book to be very verbose and never provided a convincing argument for the paleo diet.Very little evidence was provided that the diet described in this book was what was eaten 20,000 years ago.Most of the argument for this diet was modern research on how ingredient X (e.g. omega-3 fatty acids) is good for you.I have heard excellent evidence supporting the paleo diet during a few lectures by a scientist that studies coprolites (few thousand year old petrified excrement), unfortunately, similar evidence is not in this book.

Furthermore, there are a few technical issues I have with what is presented in this book.I have a PhD in theoretical chemistry.Having gone through graduate school, I know that just about anyone can get a PhD or become faculty if they are patient.Because of this, I'm immune to the Doctor/Professor name dropping used throughout this book.

Repeatedly, the author asserts that chloride from salt causes the body to become more acidic.Offhand, it is not at all clear to me how this could happen.Chloride ions in solution are basically inert.I have to believe that this conjecture is wrong.

The author also makes repeated comments about how bad salt is for you.A few years back, there was an article in the journal Science (one of the two highest tier scientific journals) about the politics of salt.The article describes a political agenda to show that salt caused medical problems.A few hundred million dollars and a half dozen project leaders later, the program was shut down because the researchers could not prove what the politicians wanted.I'm not suggesting that people should eat a lot of salt, since cavemen ate much less sodium and more potassium than we do today, but I am suggesting the health problems blamed on salt have sketchy research backing them up.

In spite of this book's problems, it is worth reading.The description of the paleo diet is good enough to be effective when followed.

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The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy (Hardcover) Review

This book is absolutely amazing. It's refreshing to find someone out there that truly wants to help people. Mark Sisson doesn't try to get you to buy products/gimmicky DVDs/equipment - he offers simple, honest advice that works and that anyone can follow for FREE. Every single health problem I had in the past is GONE after following his advice for only FIVE MONTHS! I've lost 35 pounds, my depression is gone, my endometriosis has cleared up and I'm pain free for the first time in years. This book (and it's companion[...]) has changed my life.

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Combining modern genetic science and evolutionary biology, The Primal Blueprint dispels a number of the myths that modern medicine and conventional wisdom have come to accept as fact. Author Mark Sisson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter-gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family - exposing potential health issues that arise from trying to do the right things living in the 21st century. Sisson offers a solution in 10 empowering 'Blueprint Lifestyle Laws' that can help us reprogram our genes away from disease and pain towards a direction of effortless weight loss, vibrant health and boundless energy. The reader learns how the right high-fat diet can actually help one lose weight; how popular low-fat, grain-based diets might trigger illness, disease, and lifelong weight gain; why doing too much cardio exercise might actually suppress the immune system and how some of today's most common medications might make a health condition even worse. The consummate book on 'Paleo' or 'Primal' health.

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