Hot
Point Fitness Review
Hot
Point Fitness author Steve Zim is a personal trainer/gym
owner who
has "a small army" of personal trainers that uses his method. Zim
personally
trains mostly celebrities and professional athletes, especially Olympic
figure skaters and professional baseball players. His clients aim for
optimal
physical appearance as well as physical performance. Their sports
depend
on strength, agility, flexibility, and speed. According to Zim, you can
achieve your own best personal fitness level by using the Hot Point
Fitness
program. The goal: to transform your body into the best shape ever.
The main difference
between Hot Point Fitness and most fitness
books
is intensity and structure. Zim leads you through each workout, much
like
your own personal trainer would. "Hot Point Weight Training is designed
to work each muscle to 100 percent of its capacity, and consequently
completely
transform the way the muscles in your body look," writes Zim. "The
point
of Hot Point Nutrition is to speed the metabolism and make it burn
calories
at a white-hot pace. Hot Point Aerobics will super-heat your muscles,
and
burn fat from your body quickly, safely, and forever," he says.
Zim's program is
precisely structured and divided into three
28-day
phases. During phase 1, you become a regular exerciser by spending one
hour at the gym, three days per week. Phase 2 keeps you in the gym for
90 minutes, four days per week, and gets you to the point of "needing"
to exercise. Phase 3--up to two hours a day at the gym, five days per
week--brings
you to an athlete's level of fitness (strength, flexibility, and
endurance).
Zim developed his
weight-training exercises by using MRI
technology
and infrared imaging to examine which muscles work during which
exercises,
and how hard. He was amazed to learn that traditional weight-training
exercises
only work 20 to 30 percent of the targeted muscles. He altered
exercises
and perfected techniques to build muscle density (not necessarily
muscle
mass), optimally by working muscles to exhaustion.
Zim describes the
exercises clearly, with plenty of attention
to technique.
Each is illustrated by several photographs, which vary in quality
(sometimes
the lighting or clothing color doesn't provide enough contrast between
model and background). Experienced exercisers will find almost all the
exercises familiar, but will learn much from the technique
recommendations
that make the difference between a humdrum workout and an effective,
muscle-blasting
one. --Joan Price
Book Description
A scientifically
proven plan for turning traditional weight and aerobic
exercises into super-exercises, helping muscles reach their "hot point"
for faster and better results. By studying the body in motion through
advanced
MRI technology, trainer-to-the-stars Steve Zim has determined that most
of us use only 20 to 40 percent of our muscle capability when we work
out.
Hot Point Fitness introduces readers to over one hundred of Zim's
unique
super-exercises, demonstrating routines that will exact 100 percent
output
for leaner and denser muscle in a fraction of the time standard weight
training and aerobic exercise take to get results. A complete plan for
total body transformation, Hot Point Fitness also advises on the right
foods to fuel the body and manipulate metabolism and it instructs on
the
most efficient way burn stubborn fat and calories. Focusing on
precision
in movement and on exercise and diet variation, Steve Zim encourages
readers
throughout with instructive photographs and day-by-day beginner,
intermediate,
and advanced workout routines. A revolutionary program that has worked
wonders for professional and Olympic athletes and Hollywood actors
alike,
Hot Point Fitness will help readers of all shapes, sizes and ages
realize
a dramatic physical transformation in far less time than has been
possible
before.
About the
Author
Personal trainer Steve Zim has worked with Hollywood stars,
professional
baseball players and boxers, and Olympic athletes. Founder and owner of
Los Angeles' hottest gym, "A Tighter U," he is the trainer most often
called
upon by high-powered sports agents on behalf of their clients. Mark
Laska
is a professoinal writer and publicist and co-author of The Pilates
Powerhouse
and Body-Fat Breakthru! Both Steve and Mark live in Los Angeles.
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