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Title: The Ultimate Fit or Fat by Covert Bailey ISBN: 0-618-00204-9 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (17 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: His heart's in the right place but some wrong information
Comment: Covert Bailey remains a strong proponent of the fitness-health connection, and is an entertaining writer. Overall this book is pretty good. There are several pieces of misinformation though:
1. He makes the common "low intensity exercise" mistake of depicting fat-burning vs sugar-burning as a black and white issue. At higher exercise intensity levels, you don't suddenly switch to burning sugar instead of fat, you just burn a higher percentage of calories from sugar. But since you are also burning more total calories, you'll burn more fat than when exercising at lower intensities, AND burn more sugar. Further, higher intensity exercise leaves the metabolism higher so continues to burn calories after exercise (he mentioned this effect for weight lifting but missed it for other types of anaerobic exercise).
2. In addition to his incorrect prejudice against swimming (mentioned by another reviewer), he also incorrectly states that bicycling burns little fat. At slow speeds bicycling is comparable to walking in rate of calorie (and fat) burning, at higher speeds it is comparable to running. Just check any of the calorie calculators on the web to confirm this.
3. I think he is still missing one of the main points of the value of weight lifting, which is to reverse the continual muscle loss that occurs with aging in sedentary people.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Ultimate Guide To Exercise and Getting Fit
Comment: This is the greatest book ever written on exercise and fitness. Covert teaches you,in laymans term, how to get fit, how to burn fat, how to enjoy exercise and make it fun. I highly recommend is book to everyone. Because as Covert says exercise is for everyone and everybody.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very readable, helpful guide to burning fat through exercise
Comment: This is a highly readable guidebook to burning fat through exercise. Bailey uses just enough science to back up his suggestions, but not so much that an unscientific minded reader (such as myself) gets bogged down.
Bailey is very adamant that burning fat comes through exercise, and that trying to burn (lose) fat through diet alone is not nearly as effective. The best fat-burning combination includes 4 components: aerobic exercise, cross-training, weight training, and sprints.
Bailey does a great job of explaining how each of these exercise components works to help retrain the body and muscles to burn fat. There are very helpful tables and graphs throughout the book.
My one disappointment with this book concerns his formula to measure percent body fat. Although he claims this formula is "nearly" as precise as expensive medical alternatives (especially floatation methods), it has a 2 percent margin of error. That means your final calculation is correct *plus or minus 2 percent.* That means you have a range of 4 percentage points. That does not sound very precise or helpful to me.
Nonetheless, I found the book overall to be very instructive, and it will help me design my exercise workouts for no doubt much better fat burning results.
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Title: Smart Exercise : Burning Fat, Getting Fit by Covert Bailey ISBN: 0395661145 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 05 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Fit or Fat Target Diet by Covert Bailey ISBN: 0395510821 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Smart Eating by Ronda Gates, Covert Bailey ISBN: 039585492X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Fit or Fat Woman by Lea Bishop, Covert Bailey ISBN: 0395510104 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 27 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Smart Talk on Health & Fitness by Covert Bailey ISBN: 1572700319 Publisher: The Audio Partners Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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