Ellington Darden PhD - Tighten Your Tummy in 2 Weeks: Lose up to 14 inches & 14 pounds of fat in 14 days!

Other Books by Ellington Darden, PhD

Nutrition and Athletic Performance

How to Lose Body Fat

Especially for Women

Strength-Training Principles

The Athletes Guide to Sports Medicine

The Nautilus Book

The Nautilus Bodybuilding Book

The Nautilus Diet

The Six-Week Fat-to-Muscle Makeover

Hot Hips and Fabulous Thighs

High-Intensity Bodybuilding

High-Intensity Home Training

Soft Steps to a Hard Body

Living Longer Stronger

Body Defining

A Flat Stomach ASAP

The Bowflex Body Plan

The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results

The New High Intensity Training

The Body Fat Breakthrough

This book is intended as a reference volume only, not as a medical manual. The information given here is designed to help you make informed decisions about your health. It is not intended as a substitute for any treatment that may have been prescribed by your doctor. If you suspect that you have a medical problem, we urge you to seek competent medical help.

The information in this book is meant to supplement, not replace, proper exercise training. All forms of exercise pose some inherent risks. The editors and publisher advise readers to take full responsibility for their safety and know their limits. Before practicing the exercises in this book, be sure that your equipment is well-maintained, and do not take risks beyond your level of experience, aptitude, training, and fitness. The exercise and dietary programs in this book are not intended as a substitute for any exercise routine or dietary regimen that may have been prescribed by your doctor. As with all exercise and dietary programs, you should get your doctors approval before beginning.

Mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities in this book does not imply endorsement by the author or publisher, nor does mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities imply that they endorse this book, its author, or the publisher.

Internet addresses and telephone numbers given in this book were accurate at the time it went to press.

2015 by Ellington Darden, PhD

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Book design by Carol Angstadt

Exercise photographs by Mitch Mandel

Other photos by Ellington Darden, except for , which is by William Boyd.

Illustration on by Karen Kuchar

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the publisher.

ISBN-13: 9781623365714 hardcover
ISBN: 9781623365721 ebook

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Success Stories

What Women Say after Completing the Tighten Your Tummy Program

25 inches! My waist hasnt been this small since I was in the sixth grade.

Brianna Kramer, 23, artist, lost 20 pounds of fat in 6 weeks

For 27 years, I weighed more than 200 pounds. Thanks to the Tighten Your Tummy program, I now weigh 152 pounds. It truly has been a life-changing experience.

Katie Smith, 60, mother of 4, lost 62 pounds of fat in 18 weeks

I could never do a single pushup, not ever in my entire life. Now I can do 10 consecutive ones. Is it a miracle? No. Its due to Ellington Dardens negative-accentuated style of exercise.

Joan Cortez, 62, retired teacher, lost 26 pounds in 12 weeks

I believe Ellington Darden must understand the science of losing fat and tightening the tummy better than anyone in the world.

Roxanne Dybevick, 54, artist, lost 15 pounds of fat in 2 weeks

Now I have a curve in my lower back, right above my jeans, that makes me look so much more shapely. Plus, I have found my cheek and collarbones.

Jennifer MacCallum, 34, mother of 4, lost 34 pounds in 12 weeks

With the stress of everyday life, I so often do not feel in control. Completing the Tighten Your Tummy program has made me feel very much in control of my life and happy.

Julie Hill, 64, executive director, lost 18 pounds of fat in 6 weeks

I am fitting into jeans I never thought I would again. My husband tells me how slender I look. I am very pleased.

Joyce Dorval, 61, real estate broker, lost 20 pounds of fat in 6 weeks

I feel amazing. I love the person I now see in the mirror.

Laura Morrow, 30, attorney, mother of 2, lost 21 pounds of fat in 6 weeks

As a vegetarian, I had no trouble adapting the Tighten Your Tummy plan. My waistline got smaller with each passing week and my stomach muscles got stronger.

Sara Smith, 64, monkey caregiver at primate sanctuary, lost 14 total inches from her waist in 2 weeks

Comments are from participants in Ellington Dardens Tighten Your Tummy test program at Gainesville Health & Fitness in 2014.

Now, How About YOU?

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A Life Saved A Body Transformed

How You Too Can Lose and Rebuild

My middle is a mess. From the side, my body looks like a barrel.

Thats what my wife said to me one morning in the fall of 2013 as she saw her reflection in our full-length mirror. Please help me NOW, Jeanenne pleaded.

I had been trying to convince her to do my basic diet and exercise program, which she knew by heart, especially since shed started and stopped it three or four times in the last year. But on that day, I knew she was at the end of her rope, that she was absolutely serious.

Over the last two years, Jeanenne had gone through a series of life-threatening experiences. In March 2011, while vacationing in Aruba, she nearly drowned. She was swimming in the ocean with our 6-year-old daughter riding on her back. Jeanenne is a strong swimmer, but she suddenly started gasping for air and going under. Luckily, our friend Gregg Godlewski, a former lifeguard, spotted her struggling and was able to rescue her.

Something, however, wasnt right in her chest. She flew back home to Orlando the next morning, where doctors told her she was in congestive heart failure; blood was regurgitating back into her upper heart chamber. She needed to be operated on immediately.

Two days later, Jeanenne had open-heart surgery to repair a mitral valve that wouldnt close. For the second time in a week, her life had been saved.

Saved but Not Better

The recovery was slow and fraught with complications, like a grapefruitsize blood clot that required more surgery and caused extreme pain for 2 weeks. She stopped all exercise. She then started a medication that caused her to gain weight. Over the next 6 months, she put on 40 pounds, making her the heaviest shed ever been, at 184.5 pounds.

My wife has always been lean and athletic. She had natural childbirths at ages 42 and 45. Even during pregnancy, her friends would say, Gosh, Jeanenne, your arms and shoulders look amazing. Exercise and active living are an integral part of her life. We have a full gym in our home, but Jeanenne could no longer bring herself to use it. I was so depressed thinking Id never be the same, she remembered. I love clothes and dressing, but none of them fit anymore. I started to hate myself.