Ultrafit: Challenging Workouts -- Amazing Results [With DVD]

by Cindy Whitmarsh

Book Overview

If you're already fit, now is the time to get ULTRAFIT Cindy Whitmarsh, fitness expert and president of Ultrafit, Inc., has developed high-intensity workouts that keep your muscles (and your determination) challenged. This book is for people who eschew gimmicks in favor of elite exercise programs that push their bodies to the limit. Perfect for athletes, fitness trainers, and workout enthusiasts, Ultrafit will take your workout to the next level...and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592331750
• ISBN13: 9781592331758
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press (MA)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Personal training at home for very little money!

Great book. The first one good too. Correct positioning. My trainer costs at least $50 per hour and teaches the same forms. Trainer's are great for motivation and helping push your harder and further, as well as show you the most recently correct form, as fitness science changes over time when we realize what harms and what helps the body. Be healthy, be happy!

Not for beginners

So many weight training books that I've run across are for beginners and include things like stationary lunges or other very tired excercises. Also, a lot of books include models who do not look anything like what I would expect a 'fit' person to look like. I love this book because the author is the model, and she doesn't have breast implants, collagen injected lips, or look like an anorexic teenager. Whitmarsh manages to take several essential excercises, and updates them by adding balance balls or making them plyometric. All I can say is that these work outs are definitely a challenge! Another excellent feature of this book is that there are absolutely no excercises using machines. Everything in this book you can do at home with a simple set of weights and a balance ball, which is convenient. For me, I prefer the free weights to machines because free weights are more challenging and you see more results. The addition of balance balls just means your core muscles are going to be utilized unlike with machines where you do not have to stabilize yourself. In short, I wouldn't recommend this book for beginners because I think they would easily get discouraged. It's also worth noting that this book could be used for either a man or a woman, and that there is a male model in the book, too.

Thank You Cindy

The Ultrafit Challenge book changed my life! I am 36 years old, a mother of one, and have been physically active since I was 13 years old. My weight has always fluctuated, and in the last 6 years I started running. I absolutely love it! It has been great for keeping my weight down, but I was never satisfied with the look of my body. Outside of running, I would spend 3 - 4 days at the gym doing the same old weight routine I learned from a workout video 10 years ago! (How pathetic!) My diet was always about low fat, low protein, and high carbs. I considered myself well educated in the diet field, since I've been doing it since I was a teen. Four months ago, I was fed up with not seeing any results! My fiancée suggested I hire a personal trainer, but it really wasn't in my budget. I headed to the book store in search of some inspiration, and thank goodness I was drawn to the Ultrafit Challenge Workout book! When I read the introduction, I felt an instant bond with Cindy! I started the next day. I'm sorry to say I did not take before and after pictures, nor did I weigh or measure myself. (I have a phobia!) BUT my clothes are huge on me and everywhere I go people notice how my body has changed! Personal trainers at my gyms have asked about my workouts, and they have all bought the book to use for themselves and their clients! Friends couldn't wait to run out and buy the book, and now all their friends are also using Cindy's amazing workouts! Every day someone notices how fit I am and I finally have the body I wanted my whole life! PS: My fiancée also went on the program with me and has lost 20 lbs and looks amazing!

Are you ready for a REAL challenge?

This is not for the faint of heart or begginner exerciser. It is for a person who is in shape and ready for the next step up. If you are already very fit but ready for perfection, this workout will get you there as long as you do it move for move. I feel like a celebrity when I do this workout because I know that is what it takes to get the body of a celeb.

Great book, learn how to get ULTRAFIT for life!

I've been fortunate enough to go through Cindy's program in San Diego, CA and meet her in person. She's just like her video! Full of energy, positive and in phenomenal shape! Not only did I lose nearly 20 pounds and 9% body fat in 6 weeks, I actually LEARNED HOW TO EAT PROPERLY! I had never been taught how to eat for health and weight control before... I felt as if I had been given THE KEY to staying in shape. Its a magical book because you're learning from somebody who has been there, done that! Cindy was 40 pounds heavier when she first moved to California and she knows exactly how to turn it around. No shortcuts here, just good solid advice and encouragement! One thing that is really important, and Cindy mentions it in her book & her video, is that nutrition is 70% of getting in shape, working out is 30%. Make sure to follow the program for 6 weeks and you will be amazed the change as weight melts off. Little things she's learned over the years have a huge impact on getting fit like drinking more water, eating smaller portions more often, and working out regularly. You can commit to anything for 6 weeks - go for it!