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Body: Recommended Readings
Chicken Soup for the Chiropractic Soul
by Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen, Dr. Fabrizio Mancini
This is the first Chicken Soup book I have read, but if they're anything like this one, then I would recommend them all. The premise of the Chicken Soup books are short heart-warming stories separated into different subtopics. But in this book, these particular true stories show the power and the potential of chiropractics and its role in peoples' health. My favorite story was "A Special Gift". I was very touched by this story, and yes, I have to admit that I did have tears in my eyes at the end.
Body for Life
by Bill Phillips
When I bought this book, I had such high hopes for myself. Looking at the pictures on the inside covers, it makes you motivated and want to be one of those--a success story. This fitness program is only for 12-weeks, which it has been said that if you do anything for 30 continuous days, then it becomes a habit. So doing this program for three months should be firmly ingrained into your daily routine.
This book starts in motivating you by giving personal success stories and in challenging you into improving yourself by making the decision to start and setting goals. Then the book separates fact from from myths regarding exercise and diet and shows how wrong some people's conceptions can be.
The Training-for-Life Experience starts with planning out your workouts. This plan is based on the principle of "Quality, Not Quantity". Instead of working out at a steady pace for a certain length of time, you build up to short bursts of intense workouts at your maximum level. Then each week you climb to the next higher level. Bill also has a 20-Minute Aerobics plan where you workout for twenty minutes in a wave-pattern. You start out at a lower intensity then build up to a peak, your "high point", then back down to a moderate pace and then back up to your peak. Bill believes that this high intensity workouts are best in burning fat more effectively and speeding up your metabolism than in working out at a steady pace for longer time. In this 12-week program each day is a workout day, whether you do aerobics or upper body weight training or lower body weight training. Sundays are days of rest.
The Eating-for-Life Method is very basic. There are "authorized" foods to eat in each category for Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Vegetables. For each meal, a Protein and Carbohydrates should be chosen with Vegetables added to atleast two meals. This applies for every day, except for Sundays, when you can eat anything. While reading about the meals and what to eat, Bill shamelessly promotes Myoplex, a nutrition shake that his company designed. Out of the entire Eating-for Life section, he writes more about his Myoplex than anything.
This Body-for-Life program sounds easier than it is but for anyone who can stay with the program, great results can be found. In my case, I could not stay with it. The eating plan did not work because the authorized foods list was too strict and I couldn't imagine myself following it for the rest of my life. The exercises were okay once I started but very hard to do once I got to the end ranges or high points. The only problems I had was when I was doing the weight training. I would go to the gym to do those, but other gym athletes would get mad/frustrated with me or vice versa because I would need 5-6 different dumbell weights to do my workouts and I would either be "hogging" the weights or I would be waiting for someone else to be finished with the certain weights that I would need. The only thing I did not do was use any ofthe Myoplex supplements. I feel that if you are doing what you should be doing and eating what you should be eating, you shouldn't need any supplements. Even if they are pushed onto you by the creator.
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