Regaining Youthfulness
World weightlifting champions show how to be your own fitness coach and achieve a 20-year-old’s body.
What’s the one thing people are looking for when they set out to get fit? The surprising answer: youthfulness. And even more surprising, the way to attain it may be to get off the treadmill, stop squeezing a trip to the gym into an already overbooked day, hold off buying the latest exercise equipment, quit counting calories (or carbs, or points, or fat grams), forgo frozen diet dinners, and stop working so hard.
Professional trainers ANIELA and JERZY GREGOREK have developed a proven way to help people lose weight, reverse serious health conditions, and slow down the aging process. In their comprehensive new book, The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation, with a foreword by Stanford University School of Medicine’s Eric Weiss MD, this dynamic husband and wife team introduce readers to the successful and innovative fitness program they’ve become famous for among the hundreds of athletes, celebrities, and ordinary people whose bodies, lives, and health they’ve transformed.
Based on standards and goals established over the course of three decades of practice, and backed by sound scientific study, The Happy Body program features structured exercise sequences (simple weightlifting and floor exercises), relaxation techniques, and nutrition guidelines. The program slows down the aging process by restoring six qualities of youthfulness— flexibility, strength, speed, leanness, ideal body weight, and good posture—making you feel as youthful as you were at 20.
Using detailed step-by-step photographs, easy-to-follow charts and formulas, and concise written instructions, the Gregoreks show how to design a personalized fitness plan consisting of 18 exercises you can do in your own home with a set of inexpensive hand weights. They demonstrate how to do each exercise the right way so as to avoid injury, and include guidelines that enable you to customize a routine for your own body type, fitness and health goals, and progress.
There’s no guesswork. The Gregoreks demonstrate how to precisely calculate how much fat you will lose, muscle you will gain, what you can expect your body to look like, and exactly how long it will take you to reach your ideal body size and shape using their Happy Body fitness, relaxation, and nutrition guidelines.
Along the way, you will learn to:
Assess your current fitness level and track your weekly progress in six keycategories of youthfulness.
Establish your Ideal Body Proportions based on 13 possible body types—and see visible changes every week.
Set achievable goals and develop the ideal exercise profile and nutrition plan for your specific body type.
Learn eating and exercise techniques that maximize your proportion of muscle to fat.
Get and keep your body in perfect condition doing as little as 30 minutes of exercise a day.
Become adept at executing and pacing the essential resistance exercises.
Save money and decrease waste by making smart food choices and having fun in the kitchen (mouthwatering recipes included!).
Look and feel dramatically younger and reverse many serious health conditions.
Start meditating to relax, stimulate weight loss, and feel happier.
There is also a spiritual component to The Happy Body program that is essential to slowing down the aging process. As people perform the exercises on a daily basis, their lives develop a rhythm that helps them become calmer, more meditative, more relaxed, and more mindful. As documented in the book by many Happy Body practitioners, people who previously hated exercise begin to look forward to it. The key is knowing that fitness and well-being are possible—and totally within your control. This book is ideal for anyone who wishes they had a personal trainer and nutrition coach. With The Happy Body, the Gregoreks coach you every step of the way.
World weightlifting champions show how to be your own fitness coach and achieve a 20-year-old’s body.
What’s the one thing people are looking for when they set out to get fit? The surprising answer: youthfulness. And even more surprising, the way to attain it may be to get off the treadmill, stop squeezing a trip to the gym into an already overbooked day, hold off buying the latest exercise equipment, quit counting calories (or carbs, or points, or fat grams), forgo frozen diet dinners, and stop working so hard.
Professional trainers ANIELA and JERZY GREGOREK have developed a proven way to help people lose weight, reverse serious health conditions, and slow down the aging process. In their comprehensive new book, The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation, with a foreword by Stanford University School of Medicine’s Eric Weiss MD, this dynamic husband and wife team introduce readers to the successful and innovative fitness program they’ve become famous for among the hundreds of athletes, celebrities, and ordinary people whose bodies, lives, and health they’ve transformed.
Based on standards and goals established over the course of three decades of practice, and backed by sound scientific study, The Happy Body program features structured exercise sequences (simple weightlifting and floor exercises), relaxation techniques, and nutrition guidelines. The program slows down the aging process by restoring six qualities of youthfulness— flexibility, strength, speed, leanness, ideal body weight, and good posture—making you feel as youthful as you were at 20.
Using detailed step-by-step photographs, easy-to-follow charts and formulas, and concise written instructions, the Gregoreks show how to design a personalized fitness plan consisting of 18 exercises you can do in your own home with a set of inexpensive hand weights. They demonstrate how to do each exercise the right way so as to avoid injury, and include guidelines that enable you to customize a routine for your own body type, fitness and health goals, and progress.
There’s no guesswork. The Gregoreks demonstrate how to precisely calculate how much fat you will lose, muscle you will gain, what you can expect your body to look like, and exactly how long it will take you to reach your ideal body size and shape using their Happy Body fitness, relaxation, and nutrition guidelines.
Along the way, you will learn to:
Assess your current fitness level and track your weekly progress in six keycategories of youthfulness.
Establish your Ideal Body Proportions based on 13 possible body types—and see visible changes every week.
Set achievable goals and develop the ideal exercise profile and nutrition plan for your specific body type.
Learn eating and exercise techniques that maximize your proportion of muscle to fat.
Get and keep your body in perfect condition doing as little as 30 minutes of exercise a day.
Become adept at executing and pacing the essential resistance exercises.
Save money and decrease waste by making smart food choices and having fun in the kitchen (mouthwatering recipes included!).
Look and feel dramatically younger and reverse many serious health conditions.
Start meditating to relax, stimulate weight loss, and feel happier.
There is also a spiritual component to The Happy Body program that is essential to slowing down the aging process. As people perform the exercises on a daily basis, their lives develop a rhythm that helps them become calmer, more meditative, more relaxed, and more mindful. As documented in the book by many Happy Body practitioners, people who previously hated exercise begin to look forward to it. The key is knowing that fitness and well-being are possible—and totally within your control. This book is ideal for anyone who wishes they had a personal trainer and nutrition coach. With The Happy Body, the Gregoreks coach you every step of the way.
