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Mackie Shilstone's Body Plan for Kids
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Mackie Shilstone is famous for helping world-class athletes achieve the body, drive, stamina, and performance they need to win. Now, with four decades of health-and-fitness expertise, he focuses on providing solutions to the problem of childhood obesity. Today, 25 million children (that's 1 in 3) are overweight. If no intervention is made, 80 percent of them will stay overweight as adults, which can put them at risk for medical problems (for example, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and asthma) and make them more susceptible to low self-esteem and depression.

Mackie Shilstone's Body Plan for Kids is a comprehensive guide for parents to gain control of their child's weight. It is the first book of its kind to offer specific strategies for eating healthily, getting fit, and increasing self-esteem targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds. The plan shows parents how to:

• Take height and weight measurements and determine body-fat percentage;
• Work with their child's doctor to determine an ideal target weight;
• Involve kids in making better food choices
• Increase daily physical activity with more than two dozen games and activities;
• Track eating, exercise, and weight loss electronically.

Complete with age-specific advice from a pediatrician, nutritionist, clinical psychologist, and other specialists, as well as recipes and more than 100 online and print resources, Mackie Shilstone's Body Plan for Kids gives parents the solutions and tools to bring about effective weight loss in their children (and themselves).

Lean and Hard: The Body You've Always Wanted in Just 24 Workouts

Fitness guru Mackie Shilstone is an expert at getting world-class professional athletes, top-level business figures, and other celebrities - as well as ordinary people like us - into peak shape in record time. In Lean and Hard, Mackie shares his proven, all-new strategies for building lean muscle. Mackie’s “work out smarter, not harder” plan - four high-intensity workouts per week combined with a high-performance nutrition program and expert recommendations for state-of-the-art supplements - will help you build a new body in just 24 workouts.

Whether you’re a pro or an amateur about working out, Mackie’s program is so clear and accessible that anyone can follow it with success. In this book, Mackie provides you with a simple and safe plan that will really make a difference to your workout and your health. Mackie answers all your questions about effective nutrition for high performance, such as concerns about how much protein you really need and how many calories you should consume with a high-performance workout to make sure you are building muscle, not losing it, as well as describing the benefits of performance-enhancing nutritional supplements. He also reveals key information about:

• Proper hydration before, during, and after high intensity exercise
  
• The importance of rest to make your body stronger
  
• How to efficiently manage your energy systems to achieve the greatest gains
  
• Your body’s energy and hormonal systems and how to make them more efficient
  
• Which supplements to take - and when - to maximize your muscle-building program
  
• How to use your diet to enhance your workout
  
• High-performance nutrition beverages and the most beneficial times to take them

If you’re willing to make a commitment to just 24 high-intensity workouts, you too can achieve what you once thought was unachievable: a buff, lean, and chiseled body. Lean and Hard is the ultimate strength-building workout to build the powerful muscular physique you always dreamed of having.

The Fat Burning Bible
28 Days of Foods, Supplements, and Workouts that Help You Lose Weight

Mackie Shilstone is famous for helping world-class athletes and business titans take their bodies to the next level, look great, and achieve peak performance. Now, drawing on his program, which has helped thousands of ordinary women and men lose excess body fat and shed inches and pounds, Shilstone has written the definitive guide to metabolic weight loss–the first book to offer gender-specific strategies for eating and exercising effectively. He starts by showing readers how to assess how over-fat they are and to identify their specific health problems. Then, drawing on leading-edge research, he gives them the lowdown on how hormones control metabolism–and how his prescription of nutritional recommendations, seven highly targeted fat-burning supplements, and customized exercises can boost metabolic efficiency to the max.

The book includes six levels of meal plans and 75 recipes featuring low-glycemic, high-flavor foods; Mackie’s all-new gender-specific fat-burning, cardio, circuit, interval, and core body-training routines; and 64 step-by-step photographs illustrating Mackie’s exercises. For any woman or man who wants to lose excess body fat and inches, balance hormones, and have a dramatically improved health profile in as little as four weeks, this book is truly a godsend.