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Book: 8 Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Shed up to 2 Pounds a Week Guaranteed :: Zig Ziglar|Books :: Book
Date: Wednesday, 03 December, 2008 :: 20:50
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8 Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Shed up to 2 Pounds a Week Guaranteed
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Manufacturer: Collins Living
Release Date: 2002-12-24
Studio: Collins Living
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Summary: A solid concept with a poor plan of execution.
Date: 2008-11-07 - 
Comment: Let me first state that the central idea of 8 Minutes In The Morning, raising metabolism through daily strength training, is a very solid concept, though certainly not original to this author. Basically, you start every day with two rapid pace strength training exercises (push ups, dips, lateral raises, squats, etc) with the intention of firing up your metabolism for extra calorie burning throughout the day. I personally think this is a great idea...but it is not the Holy Grail of weight loss quick fixes the author advertises.
There are two hidden catches with Jorge's plan that are not suggested by the title and initial information, power-walking and diet. The author advises incorporating a walking plan into your regiment to burn extra calories, thus raising total time spent exercising to around...oh... thirty-eight minutes a day...which of course is more realistic. Throw in the very calorie restrictive diet essential to success, and you quickly find that it is a little more taxing of a plan than a breezy eight minutes lifting a dumbbell before work.
This book is not about "burning" fat, in the way cardio exercise does. Rather, this book is about raising metabolism, which is of course a good thing. Strength training exercises are picked because they raise metabolism for longer periods than cardio. However, the author is misleading, as many cardio exercises, particularly running, cycling and heavy bag boxing, have strength training aspects to them which will have the same effect on your metabolism.
The book includes a vaguely complicated eating system that has since been abandoned by the author in favor of his 3-Hour Diet book, and thus should be considered relatively worthless. In the 3-Hour Diet, the author suggests incorporating the 8 Minutes in the Morning plan in the diet...thus if you really want to follow Jorge, you should also read that book, which has a much better explained and comprehensive diet plan.
However, the diet in this book and the 3 Hour Diet are both seemingly for people around 150lbs or less and do not take into consideration the extra nutritional needs of larger people.
That being said, with power walking included, the exercise plan detailed in the book, while simplistic, probably is a good plan for a number of people with limited experience with exercise, or for whatever reason simply hate to exercise. If you have any experience with sports or exercise in the past, or are currently active, you will probably find nothing of value in the exercise plan.
Two other notes: I found the author's personal history to be extremely annoying. The author portrays himself as having nearly eaten himself to death as a child, showing a vaguely chubby childhood picture and providing anecdotal evidence of having two grandmothers who frequently fed him while he avoided exercise and was never picked first for sports at school. It is a lame attempt to portray his in-shape self as "one of us" in the battle of the bulge.
Finally...I am not entirely sure the author's claims that you can build muscle mass on this exercise and diet plan are feasible. First, some exercises are repeated only once a month in the plan, or 12 times a year. Nearly all strength training programs recommend doing exercises 2-3 times a week to build muscle. With the very low calorie (I'd estimate at around 1400 per day) diet plan, it simply isn't possible to build muscle. Building muscle requires extra calories to rebuild tissue. If you are feeding your body less calories than its resting metabolic rate AND power walking and lifting weights...there simply isn't the calories available to build muscle. It's a shaky claim that most muscle building experts would refute.
So there you have it. If you are looking for a means to get your body doing at least some kind of exercise and looking for the minimum....well this is the minimum, but you'll be better off doing much more if you can.
Summary: Practical Advice
Date: 2008-10-09 - 
Comment: Practical advice, easy to follow thru strength training routine. I am a weight consultant & I recommend this book to all my client! I don't agree 100% with Jorge when it comes to nutrition advice, nevertheless this is a great book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: The Best Look at How to Loose Weight
Date: 2008-07-02 - 
Comment: I'm not going to rave completely about this book, but it is simply the best and most complete method of how to loose weight and keep it off. It is aimed at women more than men, but the things in the book are effective for men as well. He explains how the body works, which gives you better insight on why we eat what we eat in order to loose weight. It explains that carbs are just as important as protein, and that (certain) fats are just as important as vegetables. I was surprised to learn how fruit is healthy but does not help weight loss at all. Many books cover just excercise and others just food. This book gives you a solid routine for both. The food plan & excercise plans are very realistic even for the worst coach potato. I was dieting/excercising on my own and plateaued after a month - no weight loss for two weeks. I forgot I had this book, opened it up again, followed the plan, and BAM after two days I started loosing weight again. It works.
Summary: Great!!
Date: 2008-06-14 -
Comment: I do the at home exercises. Nice explanation. Very practical examples. Haven't done the diet part.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Good book
Date: 2008-04-07 -
Comment: This was a good book with exercises that you can do in the comfort of your own home, or on the road (traveling).
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