Bob Harper: Are You Ready!
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Famous from his many public appearances, and best known as one of the trainers on NBC’s weight loss reality show, “The Biggest Loser,” Bob Harper combines physical fitness and inner wellness strategies to help individuals successfully lose weight. His latest book, Are You Ready! provides dieters with insights and tips for healthy and long-term weight loss.
How does it Work?
Harper focuses on a philosophy of helping dieters create a stronger inner well being; to achieve this, he provides readers with questions, writing opportunities, thoughts for reflection, and so forth. Alongside these elements for inner-guidance, Harper also provides readers with easy to follow diet instructions, such as how much one should consume each day, exercise plans and schedules, eating plans, and other diet information.
Inner Well Being
Harper poses questions for readers throughout his text, specifically asking dieters to list things they like about themselves, as he believes that a healthy body must foremost begin from a healthy inner self. Harper encourages readers to feel better about where they are now, while motivating dieters to become happy in the present as they move towards a healthier future.
Menus
Harper encourages readers to view food as beneficial for the body, as he promotes a diet of balanced foods from all of the essential food groups. Harper asserts that one of the keys to weight loss success involves looking beyond traditional stereotypes of “dieting,” as he provides readers with 20 menus that incorporate fresh, balanced, and fulfilling foods.
Although Harper’s book does not include recipes, the menus help guide readers as they are easy to follow and easy to incorporate into one’s regular schedule. Sample menu items include foods for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks. Potential food items include:
- Breakfast – Oatmeal, egg whites or one whole egg, fruit
- Lunch – Sandwich with whole wheat bread and a low-fat protein, fruit
- Dinner – A healthy portion of fish, a whole grain carbohydrate, such as brown rice sweet potato, and vegetables
- Snacks – Peanut butter, low-fat cheese and crackers, one of the no-sugar added packaged snack options
Physical Exercise
As Harper promotes inner-wellness and a healthy diet, he simultaneously advocates for a consistent exercise regimen. To help guide readers, Harper includes over 100 pages of easy-to-follow exercise instructions, and asserts that dieters can do these activities at home, and do not need to join a gym or hire a personal trainer. Harper provides tips to help readers develop their own exercise schedule that incorporates activities for the lower body, upper body, and cardio. To work out from home, dieters may benefit from implementing some of Harper’s recommended equipment options, such as:
- Jump Rope
- Hand Weights
- Medicine Ball
- Elliptical Machine
Pros of Are You Ready
- Easy to follow exercises
- Easy to follow menu options
- Menus incorporate all food groups and are aimed at preventing deprivation and feelings of hunger
- Harper provides motivational tips and insights
- The book is designed for both experienced and novice dieters
Promotes non-fad and long-term weight loss and inner health.
