The World's Fittest You

by Joe Decker and Eric Neuhaus

Book Overview

The most extraordinary and inspiring fitness hero of modern times shares the secrets to becoming totally fit in just four weeks. Decker is an experienced personal trainer and trusted fitness expert. Once out of shape, Decker shares his own compelling personal journey of body transformation, from fat to fit.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525947590
• ISBN13: 9780525947592
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Say! It is So, Joe!

Joe Decker has authored the best fitness book you'll ever need. It is grounded in reality, not deception and myth making. If you are attracted to promises like "rock hard abs in 30 seconds," don't bother with this book. Joe is a realist about what it takes to get and stay in shape: it requires time, commitment, and effort, six days a week. You're fooling yourself if you think 20 minutes a day three times a week is enough. Decker outlines a well-balanced approach, including cardio, strength training, and flexibility. Other books I've consulted emphasize one of these areas over the other, focusing only on weight training, or cardio activities like running or biking. But Decker's approach is comprehensive and sound in every respect. And within each of these three areas (cardio, strength, flexibility), Decker provides challenging guidelines on workout frequency, intensity, and technique. Joe's program is all about variety, a key to avoiding boredom, a killer if you want to persevere. The illustrations are helpful, and the workout plans can be tailored to any level, beginner through advanced. I like his suggestion that you should add an "out of the box" fitness activity each week, as well as a yearly "mega-event" like a triathlon or some other fitness competition. This book has really helped me put together a realistic, motivating, and effective fitness program, and got me off a stagnating plateau.

Better than Liposuction !!! - Great motivator

This book is the best and so is the author - Joe Decker.This book is a total package. This is not another lose weight, get fit gimmick. Joe Decker has truly put together a great tool for improving ourselves, not just physically but also mentally. I am a single mom in my mid 20's. I have gone through struggles I don't think anyone can imagine. At times, I felt so depressed that I thought I would never get out of the hole I was in. About three weeks ago I was listening to the radio on my way into work and Joe Decker was being interviewed. Immediately, I liked him and decided to buy his book. Now, I am not a book reader, I don't buy books and if I do I usually return them to the book store. I decided to give this book a try. I love it. Through healthy eating and exercising I have started to lose weight. I feel so good. I exercise an hour 5x a week. I have never kept to it for three weeks in a row.I am so glad that Joe Decker after his personal success he has given back to all of us the tools of survival and health through his book. Through e-mail he also helps you by answering any questions and he motivates you. By the way HE RESPONDS!! not someone working for him. This book has been the best thing I have ever invested money in.Also, I did try liposuction 5 years ago, It doesn't keep you thin or fit. I gained 60 lbs. after it. It was a waste of money!

Only In My First Week, But This Plan RULES!!!

Here for a change is a complete wellness book that pulls no punches from an everyday man who has paid his dues and come out in tip-top shape! Mr. Decker's powerful story of overcoming addiction and weight-gain begins this book as he travels the world trying to find himself. What he finds instead is the party-boy lifestyle that lands him fat, addicted and out of shape on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. His comeback includes an epiphany that reveals, like many of us have, a fierce determination to overcome his personal history and his personal demons. By erring in the opposite direction, Joe triumphs over many of the most bizarre fitness challenges I have ever read about, becoming an inspiration to countless people on the journey. This program is real and honest and makes no false promises. In fact, its only real promise is that there are no promises to be made. By analyzing your past and your goals, you are encouraged to develop a new program tailor-made to suit you. What is so excellent here is that it is so all-encompassing. I have learned about cholesterol, both good and bad, blood pressure, heart rates, and blood sugar levels to name a few. The eating section finally explains carbs and fats, protein and diet myths in a way that is easily understandable and applicable to me. He even includes his ten 'fittest foods' for consideration.Next comes the extensive four week 'Shock Your Body' section, which is what I started this week. It is so complete and easy to follow...not necessarily easy, but incredibly rewarding! And like I said, this book is about REAL change, and Joe makes it clear that it is a lifestyle change. There are great recipes that actually work and a great section on fitness workouts that is easy to follow and easy to tailor to suit your own level of fitness. Along the way he debunks many myths about diet and exercise. He even gives you a web address so you can talk to him directly and he answers your questions personally via email! I am so happy to have been turned on to this guy, and feel like there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. I cannot recommend this program enough!

World's Best Kept Secret

Where did this guy come from? Why haven't we all heard of him before?!? I got this book for Christmas and can't believe how much sense he makes and how well thought out this plan is. Joe is a man after my heart: clearly he doesn't wnat to promise more than he can deliver, but what he can deliver is amazing. After only a few days I really feel like I have started on a lifetime solution to my weight problem rather than a limited time quick- fix--and I wouldn't have done it without the common sense and encouragement that Joe provides in this book of exercises, tips, and recipes. This book isn't just a complete plan, it's also the memoir of a guy who has been worse off than I was and who totally turned it around. Like he says, if he can do it, so can I, and he gives great tools to back that up.

Excellent Motivator to Get in Shape in 2004

I couldn't have asked for a better gift to start out the new-year than Joe Decker and Eric Neuhaus's The World's Fittest You. The book's approach is straightforward and easy to follow. From recipes to work out tips, Joe's book is really inspiring me to make major changes in my life this year.The thing that works best for me in the book is the fact that it emphasizes that it is geared towards working on yourself regardless of where you are on the fitness spectrum. The title is perfect because the book truly is centered on ?you?. It is all about becoming the fittest you can become. It never makes any phony claims about quick fixes like so many of the fitness and health books out there today. And, it understands that we are all in different places on the fitness and health scale. I also find the book?s exercise photos to be really clear and user friendly. I highly recommend this book.