Product Description

The TBK Fitness Program will help you lose weight, build muscle, and obtain excellent health without any exercise equipment, nutritional supplements, gym memberships or any other expenses or gimmicks of any kind. You will learn how to achieve perfect fitness through a healthy, natural hunter-gatherer type diet along with a comprehensive exercise program with over 60 different bodyweight exercises of varying difficulty targeting all of the muscles in the body.Also included is a detailed discussion of nutrition and heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and obesity based on the latest scientific research, information on stress management and preventive medicine, recommendations on vitamin and supplement use, tips on how to make your fitness program succeed where others have failed, tips on food shopping and preparation, sample meals, and much, much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #703879 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 188 pages

About the Author
Tamir Katz is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and received a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Cornell University. He has been exploring different diets and exercise programs since 1993, and currently provides fitness and nutrition information through his website www.tbkfitness.org. Tamir lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Customer Reviews

TBK Fitness, back to basics
If you want to get in shape, or in better shape, following these highly effective 20-30 minute bodyweight exercise routines will get you results. Each exercise is precisely explained and paired with quirky hand-drawn illustrations. No gym membership, no equipment, no commute, no excuses -- TBK Fitness is no nonsense bodyweight conditioning for everyone. Why do you think the military uses such routines? Because they work. Whether you're an athlete or a couch potato, there is plenty in here to challenge you.

Dr. Katz's dietary recommendations also make sense. He advocates a hunter-gatherer type diet consisting of fruits, veggies, nuts & seeds and high quality lean meats/fish. While somewhat difficult to implement if you're vegetarian, the book contains an abundance of well researched and baked-up dietary information. Much of which may surprise or even shock you, considering all the misinformation we're fed by the media.

Dr. Katz has been very forthcoming in making himself available to answer my questions and for that (and this book) I thank him.

Highly recommended.

Wonderful Little Fitness Book
This is a wonderful little health and fitness book that I would recommend to anyone. It has more useful information packed into it than other books that are longer and more expensive.
The nutritional advise is sound and extensive though, personally as a semi-vegetarian, I believe he puts more emphasis on eating animal protein than is necessary. But there are short concise chapters on eating to loose weight, and how to better prevent chronic illnesses such as heart disease, osteoporosis and cancer. There is a section on stress management that, again, is short, too the point and very helpful.
The main weakness of the book is that there are no photos demonstrating the exercises which would be very helpful, but which probably would drive up the cost of the book. The drawings are adequate but could be better.
The exercise section is a real gold mine. The author describes many, many exercises to strengthen and tone the entire body from head to toe without the use of one single piece of equipment. He shows ways to do push-ups that I never heard of before, along with many exercises you can do while simply standing up that strengthen the entire body that are very simple to do. Exercises that I was completely unfamiliar with even though I am no stranger to fitness. And they really work too.
Especially helpful is the fact that he even gives the reader many samples of routines to use. So you've got a menu of specific workouts to choose from that use absolutely no equipment and can be done in a very small space if need be.
The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars was because of it's use of mediocre drawings instead of photos. But other than that this book is outstanding and probably the best health and fitness book I have ever read.

BEST FITNESS INFORMATION AVAILABLE
The doctor/author is clearly knowledgeable and brilliant with regard to fitness and health. I read his book before it became so incredibly popular and have been more than pleased with the results I have obtained by following his simple yet well-reasoned principles. I feel younger and more fit and have gained insight into preventative care of myself and my loved ones. I highly recommend this wonderful book. And thank you, Dr. Katz.