Get With the Program!: Getting Real About Your Health, Weight, and Emotional Well-Being - Hardcover

Greene, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743225996 ISBN 13: 9780743225991

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

The fitness guru and author of the best-selling Make the Connection introduces a four-part, step-by-step program--of diet, exercise, positive reinforcement, lifestyle change, and behavior modification--to help readers lose weight, get into shape, and live a happier, healthier, more satisfying life. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer specializing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss. He is a frequent guest on The Oprah Show. He is also the current health and fitness expert for Oprah's Lifestyle Makeover team, is a contributing writer and editor for O magazine, and writes a weekly article on health and fitness for Oprah Online. Greene is the bestselling author of Make the Connection.

Reviews

Adult/High School-Greene's offers exercise regimens, photographs, and useful training tips for beginners or experts, and concentrates on how readers can reach their physical and mental potential. The plan is divided into four phases, and there is a section on journal keeping. The author explains how to set up a good exercise-and-conditioning program, how to increase metabolism, and how to improve one's appearance with a little mental preparation. Throughout, he emphasizes the importance of attitude, eating high-quality food, understanding the connection between food and emotions, and drinking lots of water. Readers who follow his advice could learn to "live the best life possible," and become hooked on feeling good, looking good, and being good to themselves.
ayo dayo, Chinn Park Regional Library, Prince William, VA
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Exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer Greene presents a four-phase self-paced weight-loss and shape-up program that emphasizes realistic, achievable results arrived at gradually. Basic and almost homespun, this work is good for those weary of the "blow-off-a-gazillion-calories-by-eating-only-this-and-not-that" type of weight-loss book. No magic, no miracle, just one-day-at-a-time common sense reinforced with worksheets, questionnaires, and a daily journal.

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Greene, best known as Oprah's personal trainer and the author of the best-selling Make the Connection (1996), offers another inspirational self-help guide. The requisite philosophy anchoring most contemporary diet books remains in place here--the need to first change one's thinking about weight, diet, and exercise and then change behavior--but the hook this time is Greene's four-phase plan: make a commitment to exercise and diet; change emotional eating habits and raise metabolic rates; add strength and aerobic exercise; incorporate new habits into a more positive lifestyle. If that all sounds pretty familiar, despite the "four-phase" rhetoric, it is. On the other hand, Greene is a well-known name, and he does deliver practical advice along with a heavy dose of personal stories. A good part of the text is devoted to fill-in-the-blank worksheets, but librarians don't need to worry too much about patrons defacing this book: Who wants to write down such personal information as weight and dress size? The book's many photos were not available for review, but it's a safe bet they will include shots of Greene with some celebrities. Bottom line: the Oprah connection guarantees demand. Ilene Cooper
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Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743225996
• ISBN 13: 9780743225991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224