The 10-Week Intelligent Fitness Challenge (with a foreword by Tom Hiddleston): The Ultimate Workout Programme from Hollywood’s Most In-demand Trainer

such a great book with an excellent program to get into shape!

Bin überzeugt von dem Buch. Obwohl ich selbst Trainer bin kannte ich viele seiner Übungen noch nicht und es ist auch nochmal deutlich informativer als die Onlinekurse die es von Simon gibt.

On my 3rd week and still keen. Great book. Straightforward exercises. But needed to invest in some equipment to be able to follow the program at home.

THE GOOD: This is a very good fitness book, filled with sensible advice and well thought out work outs that escalate gradually over the ten week span to get you into a much improved fitness level. All the exercises can be done at home, or anywhere really. But the work outs do in many cases require a few pieces of equipment, that you will have to buy if you don't already have them: a low to medium high step bench, light dumbbells, stretch resistance bands, a barbell bar and some light to medium weight discs, a floor roller, a BOSU style balance trainer, a Swiss ball, etc. If you're using a gym that has all that stuff then you're set, but home work outs may require a few purchases. THE THING TO KEEP IN MIND: You can't start from total couch potato and do this. You have to be what might be called "fit adjacent" and hoping to improve and upgrade yourself to "fitter" and eventually awesome. It helps to be under forty also. Although a casual glance at the exercises in the book may cause some people to think "That looks easy, that's not very hard at all, what's the big deal about that?", it's important to understand that the 10-Week Intelligent Fitness program is sort of the inverse, the opposite of HITT programs where you quickly do high intensity max effort exercises for a brief period. The 10-Week Intelligent Fitness workouts do not utilize heavy weights or back breaking lifts or gut ripping contortions or a race to beat the clock. The 10-Week Intelligent Fitness workouts are done in a pattern, repetitively, interspersed with cardio. The training effect is meant to be cumulative. The program uses what Waterson calls his "5-2" method. Each workout consists of five exercises, done on a schedule, with two minutes of cardio (on a treadmill or bike or other) in between. The pattern repeats for all the workouts throughout the ten week program. So, for example, the workout process for a single session is: Exercise 1 Cardio Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Cardio Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Cardio Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Cardio Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Cardio Even if you think the weights involved are light, or that the movements are easy, by the time you finish one of the workouts you will know you have been put through the paces, and you may even be wrung out. Although the program is styled as a "ten week program", based on the work that Waterson does getting movie actors into shape with only a limited amount of lead time, right before a film production begins, so that the actors can play action heroes or villains, your own timeline may stretch longer to finish the entire program before you can confidently and consistently do everything a week demands in the sequence required to declare victory and go on to the next week's set of workouts. BOTTOM LINE: Good advice and a solid program, but aspirational. It's for increasing fitness, not starting from zero. It can be done, will power will get you there. It's filled with good advice and routines. But this is not an easy walk in the park.

Have had a flick through the book and makes fitness feel that little bit easier, and can definitely do things at you leisure and time