The Men's Health Big Book: Getting Abs: Get a Flat, Ripped Stomach and Your Strongest Body Ever--in Four Weeks

"Men's Health Getting Abs" is a complex book addressing a complicated important topic - flat, 6 pack abds. If you are looking for a quick fix, go elsewhere. If you really want flat, sculpted abs the information in this book, if applied over months will give you flat 6 pack abds and an overall greatly improved body, health, and appearance. Though well written and well edited, this is not an easy read. The program is complicated and the route is sinuous. There are many bad habits, much bad information that need to be overcome. There are too many get fit quick schemes out there competing for the dollars. This is not one of them. Adam Bornstein does show how diet, exercise, and life style choices intertwine to either make us obese, or lean and trim. Adam Bornstein gives us the information to achieve optimal health, fitness and appearance. It just requires dedicated changes in diet, life style, and exercise habits to achieve.Adam Bornstein spends lots of pages dispelling exercise and diet myths, and replacing them with solid information. He spends lots of time directing the reader to multiple diet approaches, even addressing the current no gluten fad with both admonitions as to dangers and advice as how to avoid gluten. The exercise pages are well written with excellent pictures. Included are numerous hints as to proper form and technique that will take months to properly digest and apply. There are many programed workout suggestions though out the book, making the application of the concepts and the exercises easier. There are even many more programed workout plans at the end of the book.At first I was surprised to see the non core exercise sections. Then I realized Adam Bornstein is directing us to the only way to achieve and maintain flat six pack abds - total balanced life style, diet and exercise changes in our lives. This book is much more about total health and real fitness than just about abs.My only complaint about the book is the get-fit-quick promise on the cover. There is no way the average computer jockey, couch potato is going to get a "flat, ripped, stomach" in four weeks. It's a marketing gimmick. It's an insult to the quality of the book hidden behind the cover. Adam Bornstein dispells it in the book.

"The Men's Health Big Book: Getting ABS" is a game-changing resource for anyone striving for a chiseled midsection. This comprehensive guide offers a wealth of expert advice, proven techniques, and practical workouts specifically designed to sculpt your abs. With step-by-step instructions and engaging visuals, this book provides the roadmap to achieving a strong and defined core. Whether you're a beginner or a fitness enthusiast, "Getting ABS" is an invaluable tool for unlocking your abdominal potential. Get ready to transform your physique and unveil your six-pack with this essential fitness resource!

When I first began this and plotted out the workouts, I looked at the volume that was required and felt it might not be enough for me, given what I had been following up to that point. However, three weeks in and I have lost some pounds but more importantly, feel tighter and leaner,even though, on paper, it amounts to less volume than my previous workouts. I will take this to the end of the six weeks and see how it has served me, but, so far, I would have to say it seems to be working--this is for a 58 year old man who was already working out 6 days er week before starting, so most of what I am feeling is not the usual "new stimulus" sort of effect. Examining the structure, these workouts are clearly designed to work your entire body each time, in a way that forces you to brace your abdominal area, therefore consistently engaging that area and having the desired affect, stated in the books title. It is worth a shot, I think, no matter what you may already be doing, and especially if you are doing nothing. The only drawback I find is that the programs make some existing fitness level assumptions that might need to be revisited, if the book is to apply to folks who may not already be at a certain level of fitness, or older folks who might not be able to crank out 25 pulse pushups after holding a 45 second plank or do 25 inverted rows. Otherwise, the structure of the workouts and the amount of info, and the dietary sections are very good.

So much great information, well put together, simple to Follow, and have everything you need to get some abs!!! I totally recommend it

Well written a lot of things that I didn't know that was very interesting to know most of the exercises are done at the gym a lot you can do at home but it really lacks the point of the book abs, Dave D

This book is awesome and fun and has some great exercises. Be prepared to have some equipment or access to it, like exercise balls, dumbells, barbells, etc. This book also does kind of assume a certain level of fitness. You're not going to go straight from the couch to a 6 pack in 28 days unless you're already a little fit. It seems like your endurance will mostly require strength. Sets and reps are not unreasonable. Meal plan is very specific and would be very easy to follow.

I picked up this book thinking it would just be some quick exercises, I was pleasantly surprised it is a full length guide on how to live a healthy, stress-free, fun, active life!Good for guys 16-66Comes with recipes, what to eat, what work-outs to do, how often to do themthis book is great, i love it!

Hired a personal trainer at a local gym to help get me started. I bought this for the nutritional guide; however, everything in the book is what the trainer also showed me. If you follow the book or even close, you'll see results.

Este libro es muy practico y gráfico. Te muestra los principales ejercicios para el gimnasio, ya sea que tengas pesas, aparatos o estes en tu casa sin equipo. Adicional viene con rutinas detalladas según tu objetivo. Me funciona muy bien.

Very good book

Great Book I recommend it.

What I like about this workout book is that it is loaded with exercises. What I don't like about it is that they assume you go to a gym and therefore cater their workouts according to gym equipment. I don't go to a gym, though there are two gyms in my town.What I was looking for is how to get 6 pack abs without having to go to a gym everyday. This book doesn't have much in the way of solving that problem. That is why I am giving it one star out of five. So how can I get 6 pack abs without having to go to the gym. Are there any books out there that show how to get 6 pack abs from doing workouts at home.

Very good informative book a must have