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Simple, Not Easy: A No-Nonsense Guide to Fitness, Nutrition and Weight Loss
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A SIMPLE, NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO ALL THINGS FITNESS.
Is strength training necessary?
Which diet is the best for weight loss?
How much protein do you really need?
Do you really need eight hours of sleep every night?
Is it OK to eat carbs for dinner?
Why do some people lose weight faster than others?
In a world where social media is the information hub for health and fitness, there’s just too much advice floating around. Some of this helps with clarity, but a lot of it causes anxiety. As a result, fitness feels complicated, confusing and intimidating when it is, in fact, quite simple and intuitive.
So, let’s skip the specifics and zoom out for a second. Let’s understand concepts instead of memorising facts. Let’s learn to reason instead of blindly believing. Let’s make fitness approachable and attainable. Let’s simplify, and simplify ruthlessly.
In a hundred short chapters, fitness and nutrition coach Raj Ganpath clears the haze around fitness, offering focused and actionable advice to get you going on your fitness journey.
Simple, Not Easy is the ideal guide to fitness in this digital age.
About the Author
Raj Ganpath is a certified coach and mentor with more than fifteen years of experience in the field of nutrition and fitness. He is a specialist in nutrition, strength training, biomechanics, women’s fitness, functional training, kettlebell training and core conditioning, in addition to being certified in senior fitness and Olympic lifting. He has enabled tens of thousands of Indians around the world to change their lives for the better by helping them get fit, lose weight and improve their health.
He is widely recognised for his work in simplifying complex fitness and nutrition concepts and helping apply them practically. Every day, he teaches people how they can simplify their lives by taking the mystery out of fitness and nutrition, and helping them make better choices for a stronger life.
Raj is also an entrepreneur and one of the founders of Quad Fitness, where his team of passionate coaches work with thousands of everyday people from around the world and help them look, feel and function better in life.
When he addresses an audience, coaches a class, posts on social media, teaches a workshop or mentors his team, Raj strives to do the one thing—simplify fitness in order to make it accessible, approachable and attainable by anyone.
A SIMPLE, NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO ALL THINGS FITNESS.
Is strength training necessary?
Which diet is the best for weight loss?
How much protein do you really need?
Do you really need eight hours of sleep every night?
Is it OK to eat carbs for dinner?
Why do some people lose weight faster than others?
In a world where social media is the information hub for health and fitness, there’s just too much advice floating around. Some of this helps with clarity, but a lot of it causes anxiety. As a result, fitness feels complicated, confusing and intimidating when it is, in fact, quite simple and intuitive.
So, let’s skip the specifics and zoom out for a second. Let’s understand concepts instead of memorising facts. Let’s learn to reason instead of blindly believing. Let’s make fitness approachable and attainable. Let’s simplify, and simplify ruthlessly.
In a hundred short chapters, fitness and nutrition coach Raj Ganpath clears the haze around fitness, offering focused and actionable advice to get you going on your fitness journey.
Simple, Not Easy is the ideal guide to fitness in this digital age.
About the Author
Raj Ganpath is a certified coach and mentor with more than fifteen years of experience in the field of nutrition and fitness. He is a specialist in nutrition, strength training, biomechanics, women’s fitness, functional training, kettlebell training and core conditioning, in addition to being certified in senior fitness and Olympic lifting. He has enabled tens of thousands of Indians around the world to change their lives for the better by helping them get fit, lose weight and improve their health.
He is widely recognised for his work in simplifying complex fitness and nutrition concepts and helping apply them practically. Every day, he teaches people how they can simplify their lives by taking the mystery out of fitness and nutrition, and helping them make better choices for a stronger life.
Raj is also an entrepreneur and one of the founders of Quad Fitness, where his team of passionate coaches work with thousands of everyday people from around the world and help them look, feel and function better in life.
When he addresses an audience, coaches a class, posts on social media, teaches a workshop or mentors his team, Raj strives to do the one thing—simplify fitness in order to make it accessible, approachable and attainable by anyone.
289 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 27, 2025
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May 11, 2025
In a world flooded with fad diets, endless workout routines, and conflicting advice, this book stands out as a refreshing and straightforward guide. The author emphasizes a strong foundation, focusing on the core principles essential for achieving a healthy body.
What makes this book especially useful is its accessibility—you can revisit any chapter when feeling overwhelmed, using it both as a reference and a source of motivation. While much of the content may feel familiar, the author’s clarity and thoughtful articulation make it resonate in a new way.
I highly recommend this book to anyone beginning their fitness journey. Its focus on the Indian context is a particularly welcome and much-needed perspective.
What makes this book especially useful is its accessibility—you can revisit any chapter when feeling overwhelmed, using it both as a reference and a source of motivation. While much of the content may feel familiar, the author’s clarity and thoughtful articulation make it resonate in a new way.
I highly recommend this book to anyone beginning their fitness journey. Its focus on the Indian context is a particularly welcome and much-needed perspective.
February 5, 2025
Its a wonderful book on fitness. It is simple yet it is in depth across a broad range of topics. Having read numerous books on nutrition, diet, fitness, sleep, stress, etc., yet I could find many new things (written in simple terms) which shows that the author has brought in so much of his own experience and the work experience with this clients. Author has made it quite simple - i.e, to keep it simple, start small and take it to 'just right' and be consistent rather than fancy tracking, numbers though a simple metrics might make it little scientific. Again, when we do the 'just right' consistently, our body says it all than numbers.
Only thing I felt missing as part of diet is gut health (such as probiotics) though vegetables would take care of it (I understand to expect in a book all things in our head). Also, I expected little bit more on resilience especially when there is consistency inconsistency popping due to illness/travel etc.
Otherwise the book is quite comprehensive and simplified.
Only thing I felt missing as part of diet is gut health (such as probiotics) though vegetables would take care of it (I understand to expect in a book all things in our head). Also, I expected little bit more on resilience especially when there is consistency inconsistency popping due to illness/travel etc.
Otherwise the book is quite comprehensive and simplified.
May 1, 2025
Full of simple, easy to comprehend suggestions. This not a comprehensive exercise or nutrition book full of details that need to be followed closely. As the man says, these are simple suggestions though not easy. Eat well (proteins and veggies take top priority. Starch, fat much lesser so), move regularly, exercise consistently and sleep well. It’s as simple as that. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. That being said - if you already follow Raj on Instagram, you probably have very little use for this book since he covers most of these on a regular basis via reels and posts. For others - this will be quite useful.
September 17, 2025
Simple, clear, and positive guidance to fitness. But could have been covered in maybe 70 chapters, instead of dragging it to a magical, but unnecessary, 100. So does get repetitive and a drag at some stage.
October 26, 2025
Good book, simply explained guide to fitness,nutrition and weight loss. Explained in simple terms, the key guiding factors are easy to understand,follow and practice.
June 3, 2025
Embrace Holistic Wellness: A Review of Simple Not Easy
Simple Not Easy is a self-help guide for your fitness journey. I know, I know—another boring, same-old motivational book, right? I thought so too, but this one is different.
It’s not some perfectly structured, hot-topic read designed for fitness freaks. As someone who is a part of the anti-fitness club, I resented the book—until I read the preface. And boy, did it change my mind! This book might just be the first step in my fitness journey.
The author has done a great job of breaking the book into a hundred short chapters covering nutrition, activity, lifestyle, and health. It gives you the parameters in understanding the dynamics of leading a healthy lifestyle. You won’t feel like you’re reading a book; it’s more like talking to a caring friend—the kind of friend who guides you, wishes you well, and wants the best for you.
read my full review here- https://booksandbrew3.wordpress.com/2...
Simple Not Easy is a self-help guide for your fitness journey. I know, I know—another boring, same-old motivational book, right? I thought so too, but this one is different.
It’s not some perfectly structured, hot-topic read designed for fitness freaks. As someone who is a part of the anti-fitness club, I resented the book—until I read the preface. And boy, did it change my mind! This book might just be the first step in my fitness journey.
The author has done a great job of breaking the book into a hundred short chapters covering nutrition, activity, lifestyle, and health. It gives you the parameters in understanding the dynamics of leading a healthy lifestyle. You won’t feel like you’re reading a book; it’s more like talking to a caring friend—the kind of friend who guides you, wishes you well, and wants the best for you.
read my full review here- https://booksandbrew3.wordpress.com/2...
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