5-Factor Fitness
The Diet and Fitness Secret of Hollywood's A-List
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3.4 • 5 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A comprehensive and practical guide for achieving your fitness goals, 5-Factor Fitness by Harley Pasternak, M.Sc. is a game-changer in the world of health and wellness. Harley's plan works for Hollywood stars, professional sports figures, and countless others—and the very same program can work for you!
With a focus on diet and exercise, this book offers a simple yet effective 5-Factor regimen that can transform your body in just five weeks. Harley, a certified exercise physiologist and nutritionist, shares his expertise to debunk common misconceptions and create motivation.
Discover the power of his program, which includes daily exercises and meal plans designed to promote optimal health and fitness. With 5-Factor Fitness, you'll embark on a transformative journey towards a healthier and stronger you.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Actors Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt, pro basketball player Rick Fox and rapper Eve all work out 25 minutes a day, five days a week. They eat five meals a day, and each meal takes five minutes to prepare. And they look like a million bucks. Although this sounds too good to be true, Pasternak, who trains the above-mentioned stars and others, insists it isn't. This easy-to-follow lifestyle guide explains Pasternak's program. Intensity and variety are the keystones of the exercise portion, which simply requires dumbbells and a bench (the plan does include a suspiciously scant five minutes of cardiovascular activity, which readers can complete by power walking or jogging outside, or using a cardio machine at home or at the gym). The diet portion of the plan seems sensible enough; Pasternak urges readers to eat foods that include low-fat, quality protein; moderate carbs; fiber and healthy fat; and to drink sugar-free beverages (he allows one day a week to be a "cheat day"). "Real results" sidebars profile non-famous people who've benefited from Pasternak's approach, including a 74-year-old professor, a 45-year-old film producer and a 37-year-old real estate agent. Backed up with scientific research and including recipes, this book is a refreshingly simple addition to the current diet and health offerings.
Customer Reviews
Great content, lousy format
Recently bought our first iBook format book from iTunes, and while the general and specific information in 5-Factor Fitness is excellent, the iBook format is absolutely awful.
Aside from extremely poor editing and layout - numerous spelling errors, like leaving the first letter off of numerous words and regularly orphaning a title at the bottom of one page from the paragraph on the next, there are NO photos of the recipes. Lots of empty spaces where the photos should go but nothing in those spaces.
Aside from that, there is no method in iBooks to email or print a paragraph or highlighted section - like the recipes or exercise/meal-plans that anybody trying out the system would want to avoid having to laboriously copy out by hand.
At least with a hard-copy traditional book one could photocopy a section to post on the fridge. Which is why I'm now avoiding iBook format for any important book I may want to buy. Seems stupid to have all the advantages of digital format without any of the advantages of hard-copy format - like spelling, photos, decent layout and easy reproduction of selected passages. Given the crummy quality it's also pretty expensive compared to a hard-copy version.
Very disappointing reading experience for such well-conceived subject matter!