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5-Factor Fitness: The Diet and Fitness Secret of Hollywood's A-List |  | Authors: Harley Pasternak, Ethan Boldt
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
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Publication Date: December 6, 2005
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Product Description
The personal trainer to such celebrities as Halle Berry, Christian Slater, and Angela Bassett presents his amazing five-week program for achieving a celebrity body by working out less and eating more.
If you're eating three meals a day, exercising an hour or more a day at the gym, and not getting results, you're eating too little and working out too much.
Harley Pasternak's Five Factor Fitness shows the five moves for the five/five-minute workout cycles (totaling twenty-five minutes) five days a week. Pasternak explains how to do this at home or at the gym through detailed instructions and illustrations. He includes recipes and a five-week meal plan for the five meals a day, and each meal takes just five minutes to prepare. Nothing in the recipes requires a trip to a specialty or health food store.
In five weeks, you'll have the celebrity body you've always dreamed of, and it won't have taken much of your time.
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 Give Me 5! August 2, 2005
Wisconsin Dad (Wisconsin United States)
55 out of 57 found this review helpful
I have long been a 5-er. In my early 20's as a weightlifter, I would eat 5 smaller meals a day, and spent half the time in the gym than the gym rats did, and it worked wonders. So when I saw Harley Pasternak's book, 5-Factor Fitness, I knew he had put together a helpful book, and not just another piece of firewood for the health, weight loss and fitness industry.
In 5-Factor Fitness encourages you to work out less and eat more. Yes, you heard me correctly. Work out less and eat more. Eating 5 meals a day raises you metabolism and provides a steady stream of vital nutrients, including protein, that help you body maximize a tone, fit, physique. And working out less? Well, most people who are gym rats over train. It is a myth that you need to live in the gym. "Overtraining" is very common and can tax your body. The rest in between training, and proper nutrition, are actually just as important in keeping your body rested, healthy, fit and running the way you want it to.
From Harley Pasternak's website:
"5-FACTOR FITNESS is based on the simple premise that less is more, especially when it comes to exercise and planning meals. There is no magic, no hidden secret. Instead, this plan taps solid scientific research as well as the author's vast experience as a personal trainer and as a consultant to military organizations on two continents. With a master's degree in exercise physiology and nutritional science as well as an honors degree in kinesiology, Pasternak is an expert on how the body works. Here he pulls together his best advice for training and fueling it efficiently.
5-FACTOR FITNESS calls for five workouts per week and each workout lasting just 25 minutes. Combining strength training and aerobics in five five-minute intervals, these short, intense workouts are designed so that people stick with the program over the long haul. No need to join a gym or buy expensive equipment; the program calls for only a workout bench and a few dumbbells."
Try this program and drop you overtraining routine and dietary obsessions. Great book.
I am in love!!! April 12, 2005
"Self-Proclaimed Girl" (Virginia)
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
As an ex-dancer, ex-anorexic, and a student of nutrition, I have done everything and known everything. While living on 1,000 calories a day and working out for 2 hours every day- I thought this plan would make me gain weight.....boy, was I wrong! I could write a novel on how much I love this plan- but I'll spare you. Overall, I am converted for life to this wonderful plan- you can sustain it forever, actually eat, it doesnt provoke those pesky "eating disorder" obsessions or habits, and I get a cheat day to eat my beloved ice cream!
I've done this plan for a month now- and already the muscle tone in my arms, shoulders, and stomach speaks wonders. I actually LOVED being soar, because I knew this plan was working. Best of all, it keeps challening my body- so I continue to be soar in new ways. I can't wait to give this another month to see where my results take me- and I love reading other people's success and progress with this plan. Please feel free to contact me at va_monroe@yahoo.com. Thanks!
It really works!!! January 12, 2007
Nicole Wake
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
I have tried billions of diet plans. 12 months ago I weighed nearly 200 pounds. I picked up this book at a local library one day, sat down and read it, as I have read plenty of diet books, and once I put it down after finishing it I started my diet. The first thing I did was go to the pantry and ate a donut! I started on the cheat day. Then the next day I started with the 25 minute workouts and the eating plan. In ten months I lost 66 pounds and I'm still losing. Without the cheat day I don't think this would have worked for me. I love to eat, and I love my junk food, and my cheat days allow me to eat just that, while fitting into a size 6 for the first time in my life!!
GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT fitness book March 28, 2005
Trina Jones (nj)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
Before harvey's fitness book i was working out three hours a day six days a week burning 1500 calories a day (according to the elliptical machine) and was getting no results i was gaining weight. I had no idea how to eat, when i got harley's book it was wonderful i learned how to eat and incorporated my own strategy for maintaining weight loss i cut sugar out of my daily life when once i couldn't live without it i started watching how much i ate and brougt plates that where small such as large saucers which is enough food (we as americans eat to darn much for our bodies to digest at one time turning the left overs into fat) I started making my own recipes like for a snack i'll have---FAT FREE SUGARLESS PLAIN YOGURT, w/alittle splenda and a apple cut up in wedges (to give the illusion of much more on a saucer) started putting my salads in a child bowl or a little larger for lunch --CREAM OF WHEAT w/ a turkey sausage or two and lots of water, for dinner a half of a salmon steak a small portion like a 1/2 a cup or less of mashed sweet potatoes w/ splenda and some asparagus or other green vegetable and my weight has stayed off. My arms are toning i do 15 minutes of high intensity cardio a day like up hill power walking-or the elliptical on high intensity or power jumproping their are web sites on that. I am extremely happy as far as life time use i think i will incorporate different intensity, reps and rest times as I get stronger and definitely keep the eating habits which account for 80% of my success. I LOOOOVVVE YOU harvey if anyone wants any more ideas please feel free to contact me at Tjonesnewark@aol.com GOOD LUCK>
This program REALLY works October 4, 2005
Dee (Boston, MA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I've been on the program for 2 weeks and have already lost 5 pounds and seen a huge change in my body shape. Five pounds may not seem like much, but I'm not overweight and was merely looking to lose a few pounds (who doesn't) and tone up and flatten the stomach a bit.
I used to spend lots of time in the gym which helped me keep my weight down, but with Harley's program I've FINALLY toned-up with MUCH less effort! And I have much more energy now too.
It really can be done in less than 30 minutes a day (which I was very skeptical about at first). AND you don't have to spend lots of money at a fitness center. But I must admit, three days a week I usually put in a good 15 minutes of high intensity cardio at the end (instead of 5 minutes), which according to his plan is okay. So my workout can go to 40 minutes.
This plan is so EASY to follow. No more spending hours at the gym and buying fancy products to eat. This book is practical and simply THE BEST....and IT WORKS! I can't urge you enough to try it and see the results yourself.
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