Getting Better All the Time: Shape Up, Eat Smart, Feel Great!

by Kathy Smith

Book Overview

From America's Leading Fitness Expert comes a refreshingly practical and inspirational new health and fitness guide that challenges readers to reverse destructive patterns by educating themselves on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446518484
• ISBN13: 9780446518482
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Feeling Fine!!!

I absolutely love this book! I keep it handy at home & refer back to it when I feel I need a boost. The exercises in the back of the book are great & you can feel the results right away. This book has kept me on track for over a year now. I refer to it as my own exercise bible. Kathy Smith has been a big inspiration to me! Give it a try!

Sifting through diet gimmicks and presenting the facts!

Kathy Smith is certianly one of my favorites when it comes to handing out common sense advice on an often perplexing subject. I have read two of her books and I am not disappointed by this one in the least. She is clear and concise on how different foods work to fuel the body. It is discussed in detail why certain people may not have success on a particular diet. You must find the one that your body responds to the best. I enjoy her positive approach on getting healthy and stayingin shape. While some may call it syrupy sweet at times, I think that they're just jealous. When she wrote this book she was 45, she looks great and she works at it! She mentions frequently that she has down falls like the rest of us. It humanizes her and makes her much easier to relate to. Great job on this one, keep up the good work Kathy!

The most motivating fitness and nutrition book I've read!

Kathy Smith is definitely my role model! I borrowed this book from the library and HAD to buy it! She offers common sense advice on becoming a healthy and fit person. This book motivated me to exercise not just for weight loss, but for all of the other benefits that exercising gives you in ALL aspects of life! I have more energy, confidence, and am a much happier person. I'm proud to say I LOOK FORWARD TO EXERCISING every day after work! I will never crash diet again. WE HAVE TO EAT to keep our metabolisms high and to give our bodies the nutrients it needs. Buy this book - you'll be glad you did!

Kathy Smith Guides and Motivates us Toward Excellent health!

Kathy Smith guides and motivates us toward excellent health once again in this great new book, "Getting Better All the Time: Shape Up, Eat Smart, Feel Great". She not only shows us how to achieve good health by eating smart and exercising, she also tells us why it is important. She discusses excuses and has solutions for them. She gives us a basic eating plan for the type of eaters we are. There are fitness walking tips as well as strength training exercises toward the end of the book. We also gain insight into a process she calls "Periodization" which helps avoid the plateaus that make us feel as if we're not achieving results from our hard work at exercise. Reading this book will steer you in the right direction, then motivate and catipult you into healthy action! No major figure in the fitness industry provides us with as much comprehensive information as Kathy does. She is down to earth and makes us feel like she is right there alongside to guide and support us as we reach our personal maintenance goals. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about improving their lives. The power of choice is strong -- from which activities to participate in, to what foods to eat. It's all up to you. With Kathy Smith's help we will meet our fitness and health goals.--Amanda Briles

Kathy Smith can relate to the average normal woman

I enjoyed the book and the caring that Kathy Smith brings across in her writing. She understands from a woman's perspective, obviously because she is a woman. The nutritional information is sound and the recipes are quick and wonderful. She inspires me as does Denise Austin. I use the Kathy Smith aerobic fat burning video. It is challenging, but worth it. I am getting better all the time. There is no quick fix to health and weight loss, but following this book will have permanent and lasting results because it is a life time change. Thank you Kathy for saying it is okay to enjoy your food. Granted you have to eat right, but I can enjoy a piece of chocolate or cake once in a while and not feel as if I killed someone. Other diets place unrealistic demands and if you cannot follow them, guilt. I want to enjoy the life God has given me without worrying if I broken a cardinal rule of dieting.Thank you Kathy for opening my eyes that food is not my enemy and that exercise is not a bane.