Champions Body for LIfe, by Art Carey

The weight loss program I share with my clients, and have shared on this blog, is one in which you lose weight very gradually. This makes it easier for your body to get used to your new weight - when you achieve it - and it makes it easier for you to maintain that weight.

But if you don't want the easy approach, if you want an approach that is going to give you a hard body in just 12 weeks (3 months), give the regimen outlined in this book a try. (I use it for the weight training exercises in the rear of the book, meself, and that's the main reason why I'm posting info about it here.)

And remember that as with any program, once you have achieved your target weight, you can't - BAM - immediately go back to the way you used to eat before. You must wean yourself off it gradually, again to give your body time to adjust to the new you, otherwise it's going to strive to regain all the weight it didn't want to lose in the first place!


Champions Body for Life: 12 weeks to mental and physical strength, by Art Carey. Collins, 2008.

If you like to have role models on which to base your activities, I think you'll find Champions Body for Life: 12 weeks to mental and physical strength, by Art Carey of interest.

On the flyleafs of the book are photos of the people in "before" and "after" poses. And those are quite inspirational. (Although you can tell that one key to lose weight is to get a nice tan!)

Anyway, this book provides you with a 12 week program to lose weight and sculpt your body. (The first two thirds of the book are inspirational stories, the last third provides photos of weight training exercises)

Here's the Table of Contents
intro. Crossing the Abyss - the decisive moment
1. 1. The story of body-for-life
2. Starting the body-for-life challenge
3. Think like a champion
4. Planning your challenge
5. The 46 minute or less weight training solution
6. Week 6, you're halfway there
7. The 20-minute Aerobic solution
8. Eat like a champion (remember, the food advice they give here is for body sculpting, not losing weight per se, so they ban food except on one day, that as far as I'm concerned you can eat, in moderation, any day. Make up your own mind.) (On the other hand, with their diet plan you can eat every 3 hours! Bye bye hunger pains!)
9. The Champions Supplemt Solution (Body for Life is sponsored by a supplement company called Myoplex - but supplements are only needed for those trying to body-build, not body sculpt!)
10. A week i the Body for Life Challenge
11. Owning Yor Transformation
12. Week 12 - It's Personal
Day 85 - the New You
Body for Life Tools (recipes)
Body for Life Community