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Harvey Walden's No Excuses! Fitness Workout

Harvey Walden's No Excuses! Fitness Workout
By Harvey Walden IV

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Get into the fight—the fight against fat!      The U.S. Marine drill instructor who has inspired millions through the massively popular TV show, Celebrity Fit Club, reveals his star-studded formula for lifelong health and fitness.      Countless marines have trained with Drill Instructor Walden—and now you can too.      Harvey offers a workout so simple, you can do it watching your favorite TV show, and so effective, it will change your life. In Harvey Walden's NO EXCUSES! Fitness Workout, he becomes your personal drill instructor for a platoon of one—YOU!      All he asks is that you give him half an hour a day, four days a week, to develop a new body, a new attitude—and a new you.      The tough marine from Chicago’s South Side tells of his own personal challenges and the lessons he’s learned. He will teach you how to get beyond your excuses and meet the challenge of getting fit. Harvey knows all about excuses—from rookie marines to Hollywood celebrities, he’s seen every trick in the book. He knows just how hard people will try to AVOID getting fit.      But he also knows that if you get off your butt, leave behind that sugary, salty, snacky food you’ve been chewing on, and follow his recipe for exercise success, you’ll turn your life around.      He knows because he’s done it. And you can do it too!      In this book, he sets out a complete three-stage fitness plan for YOU:      Stage One: Get OFF Your Butt.      Stage Two: Now You Are in the Fight.      Stage Three: OOH RAH! You’re a Stud (or Studette)!      With thirty-minute workouts for each level of fitness that keep you in motion while taking you through warm-up, cardio, strength training, and cool-down, each stage will hone and tone your body, introducing new challenges as you get fitter.      A bonus gym section can take you further still. And Harvey gives his very own personal advice at every stage.      So—No Excuses! It’s time to get in the fight.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #176331 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-09-18
  • Released on: 2007-09-18
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 288 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I wish everyone had a Harvey in their lives. Harvey represents dedication, honesty, motivation, and strength. Harvey taught me to not give up. He taught me how to push myself to places I didn't think I could go. The day he came to my house to work me ou in my gym, I thought I was going to pass out. I didn't get upset with him...It only motivated me to work out harder the next time and know that I could DO IT. He's a cool guy and I am grateful we met. I am lucky." -Carnie Wilson

About the Author

HARVEY WALDEN IV, who joined the U.S. Marines at age 17, is an expert marksman, weapons authority, martial arts expert, and health and fitness guru. He is best known in the U.K. and U.S. for his role as the fitness instructor on VH1’s and ITV’s prime-time shows Fat Club and Celebrity Fit Club.

Customer Reviews

It is what it says it is5
The title says "fitness workout" and that's exactly what you get in this book. You get a big serving of motivation, a little bit of bio, followed by a boot-camp style workout. There's only a small number of pages devoted to diet or offer recipes, but Harvey readily acknowledges he's not a nutritionist or dietitian. Fitness is his expertise. A fitness workout is what the book offers and you get a very effective one.

What makes this fitness book different is:
1. No equipment needed (except a stopwatch or watch with a second hand).
2. Can do anywhere. Enough floor space to do push-ups and leg lifts is all you need.
3. No 'reps.' Everything is timed by stopwatch, so you might do scissor jacks for one minute, push-ups for one minute, jog in place 3 minutes, etc.
4. It's a total-body workout that combines cardio and strength training, so there's no separate days for cardio or for a split routine.

The workout is presented in 3 stages, depending on your fitness level, and he recommends working out for 30 minutes a day, 4 days a week. I remember some of these exercises from USMC boot camp and they were tough then. And Harvey uses a lot of them: mountain climbers, variations of push-ups, variations of jumping jacks, squats, variations on leg lifts, and so on. These aren't easy, but they get results. The workout includes stretches and mixes in bursts of cardio. Harvey also offers up a gym workout for those gym rats who want to focus on specific muscle groups.

When Marines and SEALS write fitness books, it's often a mixed bag. Some of them seem to think that standard suburban patio furniture includes a full obstacle course. And then there was the Marine workout book where the author called the reader "cupcake" - put me off the book completely. Harvey's style in this book is realistic, straighforward, open, and less confrontational than he appears on "Celebrity Fit Club," so if you've been put off by that on the show, check this book out anyway.

Even if a boot camp style experience isn't for you, at the very least, you may find this workout useful as a backup plan. It works well for when the gym is closed, when you're on the road, or when you're at home and just feel like burning some excess energy and calories.

Excellent Workout Book 5
This excellent workout book returns to the basics.

You don't need any fancy equipment in order to work out, you just need motivation. And Harvey does his best to motivate!

I own a really fancy elliptical running machine and a large home-gym type weight machine. But I'm selling both of them. Why? Because when you use machines to work out it puts you in an assisted groove. Your muscles are not working completely because the machine holds you on a mechanically preset course.

Much better to just use your body, the floor and maybe a few dumbbells. Return to the basics and make progress. Depend on trips to the gym and expensive machines and likely you will bog down.

Excellent book.

Good variety of exercises, could use a wall chart4
This is a good, no-nonsense book with clear explanations and pictures of each exercise. Also contains a few healthy recipes in the back, and a brief description of what a low GI diet is.

My only quibble with this book is that there is no accompanying wall chart, or cheat sheets with smaller pictures/lists of the exercises for cues when you're learning the exercises (Minna Lessig's Tank Top Arms, Bikini Belly and Boy Shorts Bottom book has these in the back). It would be great to have cheat sheets to take with you while traveling, so you can leave the book at home.

Hopefully the next edition will correct this oversight, and then it will definitely be a 5-star book.