Cuts Fitness for Men: The Ultimate 30-Minute Workout - Softcover

Gennaro, John; Murphy, Myatt; Haase, Steven

9780399533419: Cuts Fitness for Men: The Ultimate 30-Minute Workout

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399533419 ISBN 13: 9780399533419

Publisher: Perigee Trade, 2007

Introduces a practical, thirty-minute fitness regimen designed specifically for men that includes a total-body circuit-training workout to help firm muscles, enhance energy and endurance, and promote the loss of body fat, accompanied by handy health, nutrition, and lifestyle tips. Original.

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From the Author:

Dr. Mehmet Oz Book Foreword:

Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is the Professor and Vice Chairman of Surgery at Columbia University and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Medical Director for the Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Oz is a widely published author; his books include the award-winning Healing from the Heart and two bestsellers, YOU: The Owner's Manual and YOU: The Smart Patient. He has written numerous articles for consumer and medical publications, including regular columns for Reader's Digest, Esquire, and O, The Oprah Magazine. He is also a host on the XM radio show "Oprah and friends."

As a heart surgeon, I spend much of my career treating the major life threatening complication of being out of shape: coronary artery disease. Many of my patients have accumulated fat around their waists that directly cause high blood pressure, out-of-control cholesterol, and dangerous levels of blood sugar. That's the problem. The cure? It's something that's completely under your control, yet it remains as elusive as a behind-the-fridge roach. It's exercise. We need to exercise.

One reason is because your capacity to exercise is a great predictor of how young (and long) you will live. But we also need to do it in order to lose weight. The trick, however, is that we need to do more than just run, cycle, or play hoops to work and strengthen our hearts. We need to move some weight to work and strengthen our muscles. Here's a fact: muscle burns 50 times more calories than fat. So to lose that dangerous belly fat around your waist, you need to build muscle in other parts of your body. So why isn't everyone squatting, pressing, and lifting?

For one, folks give more excuses than a homework-forgetting teenager.

No time, no money, no energy, no equipment, no clean Spandex. So how do we combat that mindset? With programs that are efficient and also stimulate a sense of community and obligation, so that participants sense peer pressure to continue to show up (even on days when they'd rather do crunches with their mouths than with their abdominals). We need a way to ensure that you don't skip even once. Because once turns to twice and twice turns to developing TV-induced couch sores. When you skip even one workout, you say that you'll start next month. But, as we all well know, procrastination works about as well as a one-legged bar stool. John Gennaro has found the way to break this yo-yo cycle of inactivity by designing an insightful solution. Cuts Fitness For Men is a men's-only fitness franchise-it provides men who are out of shape or just getting into shape with a quick and effective workout in a comfortable environment. It features a 30-minute circuit training workout standard that appeals to the masses of men who are not currently involved in regular exercise. In effect, Cuts is helping in the battle against obesity by building the muscle that burns through our fat stores. Through Cuts, thousands of men are being introduced to fitness, and in an affordable and supportive atmosphere that men become very passionate about. Cuts is doing for men what Curves and other women's-only fitness franchises have done for millions of women over the last decade.

Now, we have the Cuts workout program in book form. John Gennaro wrote this book to provide men of all ages and fitness levels with a succinct guide to getting started and getting results-for life. Readers will identify with John's story of personally making the switch to fitness as an average guy. The Cuts philosophy comes alive as you understand the motivation of its many members. Core topics of the book include strength and cardio training information including sample workouts. But John also delves into the physiology of health and explains the importance of knowing your target heart rate and the rejuvenating impact of sleep. He also recognizes the need for some men to see their doctor especially if their butt/waist ratio predicts significant future health issues. The book is packed with member testimonials from men representing all ages and sizes who have experienced success with the program. I applaud John Gennaro and Cuts Fitness For Men for finally being able to connect with the "Average Joe" who has typically shunned all forms of exercise. After all, when you start moving it, you'll start losing it. - Dr. Mehmet C. Oz

About the Author:

John Gennaro is President and Founder of Cuts Fitness, and has more than 25 years of experience in the health and fitness industry. He is the creator of the multi-million seller Abs on Air.

Myatt Murphy has written books with Gunnar Petersen, Men's Health, and others.

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