Shed unwanted pounds and keep them off ONCE AND FOR ALL with Run YourButt Off!, a back-to-basics, test panel-approved weight-loss plan and beginners' running program that yields sustainable, healthy results. The Run Your Butt Off! program is founded on the simple concept that in order to lose weight, calories burned must exceed calories consumed. No gimmicks, no shortcuts, no silver bullets can circumvent that reality. With this program, you'll learn to burn fat from both sides of the weight-loss equation—the calories in and the calories out—at the same time. Run Your Butt Off! will make you fitter, stronger , and leaner .
My thoughts:
I wish I had found this book when I took up running this summer. I had my own plan and I think having had these ideas to follow through on might have helped make it look more achievable. The plan takes you for 12 weeks, or longer if you want to spend more than one week at a level and running plan, and you go from walking for 30 minutes to running for 30 minutes. Each chapter also has some ideas to help you adapt your life to more healthy sustainable approaches like eating more fruits, vegetables and protein and reading food labels. Actual people who participated in the program are featured with achievable goals. No one lost absurd amounts of weight in the 12 weeks, but everyone made progress toward their own goals. A mother at my daughter's Brownie meeting was telling me how this book was written by someone in our area and she has applied to be one of the walkers in the next book, about Walking Your Butt Off! She encouraged me to apply, but as I have already been running I don't qualify for the the new book and I don't want to give up running to go back to walking anyway. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking to get started with running. I checked it out of the local library, and need to get it returned as it was due today, which would be a great way to see if it what you are looking for before buying it. I loved the calculator online to find out your BMI and the logs at the back. Personally I've been using Dailymile for logging my exercise and I like that more than a paper pencil method, but I can see the merits of both.
Details
•Pub. Date: March 2011
•Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc.
•Format: Paperback , 304pp
•ISBN-13: 9781605294049
•ISBN: 1605294047
I think I need this one! There's another running book that I remember hearing about but the name escapes me. I have a love/hate relationship with running but since having the baby I haven't been able to get back into it. Having a plan sounds good!
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