Chris Freytag - Prevention’s Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss Slim Your Belly, Butt, and Thighs-And Get Fit Twice as Fast

Chris Freytag shares an easy process to turn things you do every day without thinking (these are called habits) into your very own highly effective fitness routines. By making only slight changes in your current habits, you create new, positive habits that help you become healthier, more energetic, and more confident.

Larry Wilson, author of Play to Win: Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and Life

Solid advice for anyone who wants to be lean and strongfor life. Chris Freytag motivates, educates, and provides simple, medically sound, easy-to-follow programs that will transform your body.

Nicholas A. DiNubile, MD, author of FrameWork: Your 7-Step Program for Healthy Muscles, Bones,and Joints; orthopedic consultant, Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ballet

Chris Freytag has assembed an extraordinary resource for a practical personal program for weight loss that is based on sound research from the exercise and nutrition sciences. All who adhere to a plan incorporating the great variety of exercises, the principles for exercising, and the nutrition information included can maintain their most appropriate body weight and will be more physically fit.

Ash Hayes, EdD, ACSM emeritus; former executive director, Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; and board member, American Council on Exercise

Chris Freytags book Preventions Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss does an excellent job translating current research findings in exercise science and human nutrition into an easy-to-understand and compassionate guide to physical activity and healthy eating that will resonate with most readers. This book works as well for the committed jock as it does for the couch potato. Ms. Freytag identifies simple but effective strategies to help people change their behavior and combine sensible physical activity with realistic nutritional goals.

Wojtek J. Chodzko-Zajko, PhD, professor and head of the department of kinesiology and community health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This book strips away all of the nonsense and pseudoscience usually associated with weight loss programs, so all thats left is what really works. Its a must-read for anyone who is serious about losing weight and keeping it off.

Liz Neporent, author of The Fat-Free Truth and Fitness for Dummies

Notice

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.

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Recipes in this book have previously appeared in Prevention magazine.

Direct edition first published in 2007. Trade edition published in 2008.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Freytag, Chris.

Preventions shortcuts to big weight loss : slim your belly, butt, and thighsand get fit twice as fast / Chris Freytag.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13 9781594865411 hardcover

ISBN-10 1594865418 hardcover

ISBN-13 9781594865404 paperback

ISBN-10 159486540X paperback

ISBN-13 9781605297712 ebook

1. Reducing exercises. 2. Weight loss. 3. Abdominal exercises. I. Title.

RA781.6.F74 2007 613.7dc22 2007007159

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