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 The A-List Workout: Top Hollywood Trainers Reveal the Body Shaping Secrets of Their Celebrity Clients $24.95 Yes, there's a lot of solid info, tips and exercises in this book. But here's why it's not worth the money: Pretty much all the useful info about cardiovascular fitness, the benefits of strength and flexibility training, human anatomy and diet can be found for free online on any creditable fitness website. I've seen all this info online, including the non-customized, middle-of-the-road, low glycemic diet regime, on various sites. If you want this kind of info in book form, you're better off getting Dr Oz's You on a Diet, because you'll get this info and then some in a better layout, plus the emphasis there is on educating you about your health needs, and not looking like some celebrity. Now, about the layout: Ugh. This is what's really rendered this book useless for me (thankfully, it was a gift!). After the intro about health and the benefits of exercise and a moderately useful "fitness baseline" test to determine just how out of shape you are, the book gives you various 12 week-long workout plans, for different fitness levels and then for different target areas. More about those in a second. In the second half of the book, there's separate workouts designed by different experts for different target areas, plus interval training and stretching, which in theory could be done independently of the workout plans in the front, but would give you a very limited workout, or a rather overwhelming one if you attempted to do them back to back. You could instead just follow these 12 week-long workout plans in the first part of the book, which obviously attempt to incorporate bits and pieces all these experts' routines in a more comprehensive way. But the problem is, you end up flipping throughout the book to find the exercises you need to do on a particular day (except on rest days). For example, the beginner's workout starts out on Monday with an exercise series on pg 84, then sends you to pg 94, then to pg 104, and then 114, and so on. I suppose after a while you could memorize the routine - that is, unless you just give up and go get some workout DVDs or join a gym (I did try copying the pages to make a little handy packet, but the book's page size was too wide for my copier/printer). As for the expert routines: the exercises and routines in this book are not exactly new or innovative. You could find these exercises - or ones comparable - online as well. The only thing that makes them at all special is that some celebrity's done them too. The exercises are good, and if done properly, will get you results. But some routines are less practical for the average person than others. For example, I think most people could do Jeanette Jenkins' interval cardio workouts, as the first one requires no equipment and the other requires only one pair of light weights. Ashley Borden's stretching too only requires a mat. But from there things get more complicated. Most of the target area workouts require more than one piece of equip - at least a stability ball, and there's several exercises that call for a medicine ball and/or resistance bands as well. For the "Alluring Arms" workout alone, you'll also need two sturdy chairs and a sturdy bar that can support your weight, plus *all* the other equip I've already mentioned, as well as a partner. Good luck with all that. I don't see how this book could be that beneficial for anyone: advanced exercisers should be familiar with all this already, while beginners would likely just feel overwhelmed, confused and discouraged. I don't mind the idea of using celebrities as motivation for fitness. But you still have to set realistic goals for yourself, and I don't think this book helps you do that. 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