The RealAge(R) Workout: Maximum Health, Minimum Work
by Michael F. Roizen, Tracy Hafen
Book Summary Information
Author: Michael F. Roizen, Tracy HafenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-01
ISBN: 0060009373
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: William Morrow
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780060009373
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Book Reviews of The RealAge(R) Workout: Maximum Health, Minimum Work
Book Review: A Little Removed from the "Real" World of Real Adults
Summary: 3 Stars
As a longtime exerciser and believer in careful diet, I've been following the Roizen books for some time. This one has a little good advice, but is quite thin on how to get into physical fitness for the sedentary. He has only one mention each on bursitis and tendonitis -- just the advice that you should go slow to avoid them -- nothing on pulled muscles or injured tendons. Nor does he show alternate forms of various exercises for those who have an injury. He never mentions Pilates or Tai Chi. Yoga is mentioned once, a throwaway line about it as a form of stretching.
In a lifetime of exercising, I have learned that even when I maintain pretty good fitness -- 15,000 steps a day, stretching daily, weights twice a week -- I often encounter challenges such as hip and shoulder bursitis. An Achilles tendon injury took 18 months to heal, even following the advice and rehab program of an excellent orthopedist. And what are you supposed to do if you get a six-week long sinus infection? Some exercise books address these common issues, but you won't find much help here.
He does say if you have arthritis you have to keep moving. That advice is golden, but it doesn't help with the type of injury, as of a tendon, for which you should stop moving and try a different workout until you heal.
His almost total emphasis seems to be on building muscle, preferably by going to the gym. The book is padded with multiple versions of the same exercise. He doesn't say what we're supposed to do when we inevitably encounter speed-bumps such as Achilles tendonitis or rotator cuff injuries. Maybe it would be better titled You, Bulking Up.
As to endurance, walking is recommended, but he doesn't give much advice about what to do if you have an injury that prevents walking. A broken leg is supposed to be the only reason to avoid your daily 30-minute walk. How about pneumonia?
I think his emphasis on muscle-building is fine, but he gives short shrift to endurance and stretching, which are just as important to everybody, especially older adults.
And speaking of older adults, what's with these photos of cute 30-something models illustrating the moves? Where are the 50, 60, and 70-year olds who might have bought this book to get some advice? (At least he's avoided the annoying little elf-guy in the You books.)
But you got to give it to the guy, he does preach the good word on exercise, and I do get his message that muscle mass burns fat.
Borrow it from the library or buy it used.
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