Comments on: Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week

By: A New Method of Torture… « Little bits of life…

A New Method of Torture… « Little bits of life… — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:55:21 +0000

[...] calories, because it just kills me to obsess over that, and because my friend has given me an improved method where I’m still conscious of what I eat, but not so much that I’m obsessing over [...]

By: David Vallance

David Vallance — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:00:19 +0000

I bought he book in 1975, started swimming 5 times every two weeks for 15 – 18 minutes a time. After 6 weeks I found I could swim 30 mnutes with no problem and stopped at that point because I was bored. After two serious bouts of pneumonia I can no longer swim – I can’t get my lungs back so now I row. Not as good but the 30 minutes a week still holds.

By: tensai

tensai — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

That has some similarities to Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink. He proposes a way of losing weight be eliminating the calorie deficit. If you eat 100 calories less per day, you’ll lose 10 pounds in one year but the awesome part of that is that your body can’t perceive the difference between a 2000 calorie diet and a 2100 or 1900 calorie diet, so you won’t even notice. And finding ways to trip 100-200 calories per day is actually easier than you’d think. Read the book to find out. (no this was not a paid endorsement)

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hi bought “Total Fitness in 30 Minutes” back in the late70’s when I was a teenager. Now at 46 I’ve rediscovered this marvelous book. It is simple to follow and combined with what we know today about the superiority of interval training it was way ahead of its time. I was just reading an article today that advocated weighing yourself everyday to monitor your progress which was also the recommendation of Dr, Morehouse in 1975! Another exercise making a comeback is calisthenics for building up core muscles which have some dramatic effects such as increasing Testosterone production (necessary for both males & females) as well as an increase in HSL (Hormone Sensitive Lipase) which causes fat burning. Again Dr. Morehouse was right on the money! I’ve begun following this program (which I only read for interest as a youth) and look forward to getting into the best shape I’ve been in for some time.