Bone Building Body Shaping Workout: Strength Health Beauty In Just 16 Minutes A Day

by Joyce L. Vedral

Women need extra-strong bones at every age -- from adolescence, through pregnancy, and especially after menopause. All you need is 8 minutes a day four days a week, or 16 minutes a day two days a week -- to achieve a strong, sexy, shapely body while you build protective muscles and denser bones.
Vedral's groundbreaking program includes:
* Easy-to-follow strengthening exercises for the most vulnerable body parts
* Safe and simple body-shaping exercises to tone, slim, and beautify your entire body
* Targeted muscle- and bone-strengthening exercises to guard against injury for dozens of sports -- including tennis, skiing, running, bicycling, dancing, and golf
* Mother-daughter secrets of putting BONE-IN-THE-BANK -- creating extra reserves of calcium to draw upon as you grow older
* Nutritional information for jump-starting your weight-loss, healthy-body program
* Handy 6-page cutout wall chart to make exercising even easier!

Genres: Fitness, Health

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 2, 1998

About the author

Joyce L. Vedral, PhD, is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a trailblazer in women’s fitness. She also holds a PhD in English literature from New York University. With over a million copies of her books and DVDs sold worldwide, she has inspired generations to take charge of their health through strength training and self-belief. Known for her no-nonsense style and warm encouragement, Joyce became a trusted voice not only in fitness, but in personal transformation.
Now, Joyce brings that same passion and conviction to her deepest calling yet: helping people build a direct, personal relationship with God. Unapologetic in her faith and bold in her message, she believes that anyone—no matter where they are in life—can talk to God and get answers. Her mission is simple: to show people they are never alone and that divine guidance is always within reach.
Joyce lives in Florida, still trains every day, talks to God all day, and doesn’t plan on slowing down until He says so.

Reviews

[Missmath144 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really looked like an old-lady workout book, but since I'm an old lady and the book emphasizes bone-building exercises which we old ladies need, I decided to look at it. The exercises looked easy, compared to the weight lifting I had been doing. I tried them out. Whew! It really gave me a workout, and I felt it. Although my regular routines work the same muscles, these exercises obviously work them in different ways, because I could feel it. So I will alternate this routine with my other two.

I do modify it, with heavier weights and active rests (ball crunches, side touches, leg lifts, etc.)instead of a breather between sets.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's basically a work out consisting of hand weights that you can do at home. It has a lot of good advice about bone building and the importance of working out. The exercises are very well spread out in your different body parts so you don't end up with big arms and little legs, or great pecs and a horrible back. I really like the information about bone density too.

[Walter Adamson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book as a guide to exercise for those 50+ because Joyce Vedral talks so much common sense about strength training to improve your daily life. The key focus of the book is how to build bone and muscle in specific areas for strength, health and energy. I know what she says is correct and will work because I've been doing related exercises myself for the last 17 years, with great results. it is an exercise focus which is sadly missing from most 50+ routines, and especially from women's because they all fear that they will build huge bulky muscles. As a result they focus on exercises as gym which actually erode their bone and muscle mass and make them more likely to succumb to osteoporosis. Her strength-building exercises build muscle and stress bones which in turn builds bone mass. The exercises in the book will not merely preserve the bone and muscle you have but will increase your bone density and replace lost muscle and replace it with better shaped, defined and tighter muscle. This is one of the most useful books you could read about exercise after 50.