Pete Cerqua - The 90-Second Fitness Solution. The Most Time-Efficient Workout Ever for a Healthier, Stronger, Younger You

Crunched for time but still want to tighten, tone, and get back into that too-tight dress? Try this full-body strength workout . Youll shrink a size in a month.

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This strength training plan uses only the most efficient exercises . As a personal trainer, I use Petes program among my routines, and my clients have left feeling energized, revitalized, and powerful.

Stefan Pinto, Miami Fitness Examiner

Brilliant . Bright, clean, and breezy . This is the trend-setting fitness guide for the rest of us.

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The 90-Second Fitness Solution presents an innovative strength training program that is right on target in terms of exercise intensity (high) and training duration (brief). Based on many years of research, this is an excellent workout protocol for increasing muscle, metabolism, and strength, and for decreasing body fat. You will find the short exercise sessions unexpectedly productive for improving your physical fitness.

Wayne L. Westcott, Ph.D., author of Get Stronger, Feel Younger and Building Strength and Stamina

Pete Cerquas real food diet is sensible and doable. Combine this with his innovative and effective strength training program and youve got a cant-fail plan for total body health.

Liz Applegate, Ph.D., nutrition columnist of Runners World and director of sports nutrition, UC Davis

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The 90-Second Fitness Solution is a great way to keep it up. Anyone can do it. Its easy, and it works!

Denise Austin, bestselling author and star of Denise Austin: Get Fit Daily Dozen

I have been telling my clients for years that less is more. The 90-Second Fitness Solution drives it home once and for all. If there is a more effective and efficient way to get people to start exercising, I havent seen it. What a thrill to have a fitness book that I can recommend to absolutely everyone!

Alycea Ungaro, owner of Real Pilates NYC and author of 15 Minute Everyday Pilates

The Most Time-Efficient Workout Ever for a Healthier, Stronger, Younger You

PETE CERQUA

with

ALISA BOWMAN

This publication contains the opinions and ideas of its author. It is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication. It is sold with the understanding that the author and publisher are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any other kind of personal professional services in the book. The reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other competent professional before adopting any of the suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it.

The author and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Cerqua, Pete.
The 90-second fitness solution: the most time-efficient workout ever for a healthier, stronger, younger you / Pete Cerqua with Alisa Bowman. 1st ed.
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For my sons, Nicholas and Jack.
Youre my proudest achievements.

Why this book? Ill tell you why. Your life is already too complicated. On top of shuttling your kids to soccer, working ten-plus hours a day, caring for aging parents, and everything else, you dont need a complicated and time-consuming fitness and nutrition plan. On this plan, you eliminate complication. You save time. You get results by doing less rather than more. By doing my unique 90-second sets, youll be able to shrink your workout from the usual forty to sixty minutes to just three. Thats right. Thats not a typo. My shortest workout lasts just three minutes. Do it five times a weekfor a total of fifteen weekly minutes of exerciseand youll drop a dress size in eight weeks! Interested? I thought so.

Most diet and exercise programs do the opposite. You start something and get no results, so a trainer tells you to add more. That doesnt work, so a popular diet tells you to cut out a food group. The next thing you know, a third of your week is devoted to starving and sweating. Who has time for that?

Id like you to spend a third of your week getting and having a life. I dont want you to spend it in the gym, and I dont want you to spend it dreaming about the foods you cant eat. Thats why youre going to buy this book. You will because you want that third of your week back too.

Youll get it back by eliminating everything you dont need. In its place, youll add an efficient program that makes sense, one that will simplify not only your diet and exercise program but also your life. This program answers the questions, How much can I get away with? and How little do I have to do? Im going to give you advice like:

This is all you need.
Dont do more than you have to.
If you can do the job in one rep, then why do two?
If you dont want to sweat or change your clothes, then dont do either.

My program is backed by second, third, and fourth concurring opinions. I have hundreds of reputable studies to support my recommendations. The proof, however, isnt in my background as a trainer and its not really in the studies. Its in the program. You can prove to yourself right now in the bookstore that this program works. Look for the home workout on page 38 and check out the Wall Sit. Do it right here in the store. Pretty challenging, right? How much time did it just take you to fry your legs? Ninety seconds. Now buy the book, go home, and do the other half of the workout (the other 90 seconds) and youre done! Really. Im not joking. In three minutes, youll make over your workout, your body, and your life.

I want to hear from you about your success with this program. E-mail me at info@90secondfitnesssolution.com and tell me your story. Id love to include your story of success on my Web site.