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The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week |  | Authors: Fredrick Hahn, Mary Dan Eades, Michael R. Eades
Publisher: Crown Archetype
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0767913868
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Publication Date: December 24, 2002
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Product Description
Join the Slow Burn Fitness Revolution!
In The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, authors of the three-million-copy bestseller Protein Power team up with leading fitness expert Fred Hahn to revolutionize the way America gets strong, lean, and healthy. The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution lays out the accumulating body of scientific evidence that shows the spend-hours-in-the-gym approach to exercise is over. The Slow Burn exercise routine gives great results in just 30 minutes a week. With Slow Burn, you will:
*Get strong fast
*Increase bone density and ward off osteoporosis
*Improve cardiovascular health
*Enhance flexibility
*Say goodbye to lower back pain
*Increase your metabolism, and
*Make your body a powerful fat-burning machine
Slow Burn promises a leaner, fitter, stronger you with a realistic workout that lets you have a great body and a life!
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 I love this work out June 20, 2005
B. Gray (San Francisco, CA)
82 out of 85 found this review helpful
I'm female, 55 and was not fit, though I used to be in my 20's. After two kids and 30 lbs of slow slide into middle age I was ready to find a way out but nothing had worked much. I'd done most of the standard recommended programs. It helped some. I wasn't a couch potato but hardly what I'd consider fit.
2 years ago I ran across Slowburn Fitness and started doing it. I was SO grateful for something short, simple and effective. 2 years later I'm as strong (or perhaps stronger) than I was in my 20's. I have endurance and stamina. I also have lost 30 lbs and am down to a very good body mass figure. And ALL of this with two 15 or 20 minute sessions a week. I couldn't believe they meant it but they did.
The people who write negatively about this program say that its hard to do or it "hurts" and so people wont want to do it. I found just the opposite. I was SO glad I could do it at home, virtually for free, and not have to be at a gym (though later I've come to use gyms sometimes.) I was SO grateful that it was working they way the authors promised. And I can't believe that it really delivered what it promised, but it did.
So get it and do it! It is the least dangerous, safest and most effective program --especially for us older types for whom injury during exercise is an issue. Just be aware that you do not have to HURT to do this, just work out till your muscle fatigues. The exercises are designed to fatigue muscles fast, in only a few repetitions. If you are not used to the feelings you might consider them unpleasant but. . .just remember, its ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTES. (twice a week at that) and you get as much fitness or more than if you were spending hours doing other programs.
For me that is exactly what I needed.
The Best Workout for Those People Who HATE to Work Out May 30, 2005
David Kramer (New York, NY)
65 out of 67 found this review helpful
I read this book over a weekend a few years ago. Since I lived in New York City, I decided to call Fred and sign up for four months of lessons (twice a week). After that, due to monetary constraints, I went back to my gym knowing that I completely understood how to do the exercises.
I recommend this method ONE-THOUSAND percent to those people (like myself) who always hated working out the traditional 3 times a week (and usually gave it up after 3 months). After each workout, you will REALLY feel that you have worked out and achieved something.
I must warn people that the first 3 or 4 times you try Fred's method, you will HATE it. It is torture. But after about the fourth time, you "get" it and realize that this is the ONLY way to work out for people who hate working out. I know this sounds like a contradiction, but what happens is you begin to "realize" that you are getting so much more out of doing an exercise for just one set (and just 2 or 3 reps per set) for a minute than you are by doing the typical 3-set/10 reps routine that most people do. Psychologically, you will actually start to LOVE working out this way and look forward to your once-a-week at the gym. I have been at this for a few years and it definitely shows improvement in my body form (and I am 50 years old.) I will do this method for the rest of my life.
By the way, you will also notice that after doing your 30-minute routine, you will be sweating as if you just got off of a treadmill (check out all the big muscle guys around you and see if they are sweating after their weight-lifting routines). That alone will tell you that you are getting much more out of your 30-minute routine then they are. (But since those guys love going to the gym, they would never consider doing slow burn unless they had time constraints.)
I strongly suggest that after reading the book, you find a trainer in your area who can show you how to do the slow burn routine properly. There are subtleties that you will NOT learn unless a professional trainer is watching you in order to correct the mistakes you will make at the beginning.
Better than Pilates for losing inches when incorporated into a more traditional workout schedule. March 1, 2008
Lisa M. Mims (Austin, TX United States)
50 out of 51 found this review helpful
I have waited years to review this book: I bought it five years ago with "The Power of Ten" when I was a professional Pilates instructor. At the time, I was 33, and working as a Pilates teacher in the busiest Pilates studio in the city--of which I was the owner. I did this program for three months without following the dietary recommendations other than cutting out bread and pasta. Clients who hadn't seen me in a few months looked dumbstruck when they saw me: "WHAT are you doing? Your hips are gone!"
Some people are foodies: I'm an exercise-ie. I like trying new ways to work out, and one of the things that made me a good Pilates teacher is that I made a point of trying to figure out which exercises worked best for certain body types. One of my students who took from me for years came to me one day, and said, "I love this stuff for the meditation, but I've gone back to the gym. Heavy weight training is the only thing that makes me physically smaller."
I had a hard time believing her: weight training with light reps and little weight had always made me bulk up--one of the things I loved about Pilates is that it didn't make me bigger.
However, I was frustrated with the fact that although Pilates had done incredible things for my coordination, flexibility, strength and overall appearance, and it had made me lot thinner than I would be without it, I had never been able to make my legs much smaller. (Prussian ancestors. Enough said.)
So, I started reading about heavy weight lifting, including another book like this called the "Power of Ten". I chose the routine in this book over the "Power of Ten" because it seemed safer. The exercises in this book use a very limited range of motion--they specifically avoid challenging your balance or using your rotator cuff with your arms out to the side, movements which I had seen injure clients when done with a heavier weight, both in my own practice and from people who had shown up to my studio with black eyes. (Stability ball and heavy hand weights. Hmm...that will end well.)
Anyway, from following this program, I became the thinnest I have been in my adult life, with the exception of the years I went to strict Iyengar yoga classes three days a week. (I love yoga, but to really get the muscles activated you have to concentrate in ways that feel like work. Now that I work for a living, some weeks I'm not up for that.)
Aside from the fact that this takes less time and less mental effort than some other kinds of strength training, I never felt like I was about to get hurt while doing this routine. Traditional weight training programs use movements that might injure some people precisely because of the large range of motion required; the number of repetitions required by standard weight training can cause overuse injuries or injuries because of poor form when you have to do so many of them.
All in all, I highly recommend this workout. But, I disagree entirely with the idea that this is all you need. I found that I had much better results in terms of lack of pain and tightness when I did this workout and then did the Pilates matwork for thirty minutes afterward: we've all seen those guys at the gym who are bound up by their arm muscles. That's what happens when you use a muscle to the point that it has to repair and then don't re-set the resting muscle tone to its normal length--the muscle heals shorter. Not good.
Also, I found that it was really helpful to do a Pilates machine workout on the third day to work out the lactic acid and to remind myself not to start hunching over with my newfound, but still-not-entirely healed-and-slightly-painful strength.
Finally, you will have to do more exercise than this workout if you are expecting to lose fat: both authors are from cities where people walk. I think that fact causes an error in the thought process used by both authors to evaluate how exercise effects the human body; their test populations were doing this with another form of exercise before they started weight training. Furthermore, most of the people featured in both the "Power of Ten" and this book have active jobs like teaching and modeling. So, the experience of both authors had to be that doing just this workout once a week will make you thin--but, the results are actually from walking with this workout.
Truly, without some extra activity, it doesn't work: I found that when I stopped being a Pilates teacher and got a more sedentary job, this was not enough exercise to keep me from gaining weight, even though I was actively dieting. There is a, 'calories-in, calories-out' truthism here. Also, both human growth hormone and metabolism are stimulated by intermittent activity, which would require more than once a week exercise. (See the book, "The Spark." by Gaesser.)
In addition, you need to walk or run or jump or dance for other reasons--there is a lot of evidence that even very mild cardiovascular exercise improves brain function dramatically in a way that strength training does not. If part of your goal as you get older is to keep your marbles, weight training is not enough.
That's not to say you can do this and keep up a heavy workout schedule: it wouldn't work--it would just be overtraining. However, when combined with some kind of Pilates, yoga, or stretching, and even a little bit of walking, um, well, yeah, this is the magic bullet.
Finally a truthful and sensible exercise book! January 4, 2003
44 out of 46 found this review helpful
With all the bogus and non-sensical exercise books and programs out there it's refreshing to see an honest, straight forward, and sensible exercise book and program. The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution is one of the best exercise books I've ever read. As an exercise specialist with over 20 years of experience I'm very well versed in virtually all the exercise methods currently promoted. I can say without hestitation that Slow Burn is the safest and most effective method to exercise.In the book, Hahn and his co-authors do an excellent job educating the reader on important concepts such as the differences between fitness and health, dispelling the myth that "aerobic" exercise or "cardio" exercise is the key to fitness, and why strength training is so valuable and important and why strength training should be the cornerstone of every exercise program. The second half of the book details exactly how to perform Slow Burn properly. About the only negative I can say is that the authors should have -- for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the Slow Burn concept -- begun the book with a clear introduction and explanation to what Slow Burn is and why it's so "revolutionary". Overall though, I highly recommend this book and hope that it gets the recognition it deserves. Everyone should be exercising like this!
Back pain gone! November 10, 2003
Stephen Wills (Orlando, fl United States)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
Note I sent to Fred Hanh. This stuff works!
I am a 52 year old man who has suffered from low back pain for about 10 years. I could just lay down for a few minutes and my back would seize up on me. The pain was so severe that some mornings I could hardly get out of bed. I remember one time having to roll out of bed and land on the floor the pain was so powerful. Usually after being awake a while the pain would ease up. Every activity I planned was effected by my back pain. Depending on how strong the pain was that day. I have tried everything short of surgery to solve this problem. First I tried chiropractors for several years. I can remember one session where I screamed in pain so loud they heard me in the waiting room. But the pain never went away. Then I read various books on exercises for back pain. All these different exercises and positions, but the pain still persisted. Then I tried Yoga for 2 years I suffered through all the various positions that I could do when my back wasn't hurting me too much. One session I noticed we had a substitute Yoga instructor. Later I found out our regular instructor was having low back pain and couldn't teach that week. I thought: here is a teacher of Yoga, teaching 5 or so classes a day, and even she has low back pain. Maybe yoga doesn't work? DUH! Nothing I did, even OTC pain pills stopped the pain. I had heard surgery was too dangerous, so I had pretty much resigned myself to living with this the rest of my life, since I didn't want to get hooked on pain killers.One day in a Barnes and Noble book store I saw your book and remembered seeing you on a morning talk show. At the time I had looked for your information but could find none and soon forgot. I tried the work out method from what I learned on the talk show but didn't stick with it. So I decided to try your book. As I read what you said made sense. When I got to the part about the back machine, I knew from your description the one I was using at the Y was set up wrong. It wasn't working out the right part of my muscles in my lower back. I brought in your book and discussed it with the staff at (...). They I'm pretty sure, thought I was crazy. But I set the machine to work with stops more like you display in the book. Rather than exercising the butt muscles I was now working the lower back. Immediately I felt that burn you mentioned in a different part of my back. My first thought was, 'this might be my answer'. Within about 2 weeks the pain was virtually gone. Well now it's November and I started in June. No more pain. None. How is this possible? In the past, I've had a few weeks where the pain diminished and was moderate (...)I am 52 and now feel 22. Thank you so much.
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