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    No Ifs, Ands or Butts: How to Turn the Top 10 Exercise Excuses into Fitness Triumphs
    No Ifs, Ands or Butts: How to Turn the Top 10 Exercise Excuses into Fitness Triumphs
    No Ifs, Ands or Butts: How to Turn the Top 10 Exercise Excuses into Fitness Triumphs
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    No Ifs, Ands or Butts: How to Turn the Top 10 Exercise Excuses into Fitness Triumphs

    By Linda T. Gottlieb

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    Overcome the Top 10 Exercise Excuses and claim the healthy, fit body you deserve. Learn practical, easy tips to get and stay fit. Create your personal road map to a more energized, healthier YOU. Develop your customized journal to stay on track. Discover how to have fun fitting fitness into your life. I am a busy mom of two kids and truly believe that the best thing I did for myself was to work with Linda as my personal trainer! With her instructions and support, I have seen results in just a few months that I have wanted for more than 10 years. Thank you for helping me become passionate about an active lifestyle and learning to put myself first.

    -Priya R. in CT

    Shortly after being diagnosed (with MS) I began to feel extremely exhausted after working out, so I did it less and less. Now I feel absolutely terrific after our workout. In one sentence, I feel like Jill again, not Jill with MS. Thank you!

    - Jill S. in CT

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 31, 2011
    ISBN9781450284981
    No Ifs, Ands or Butts: How to Turn the Top 10 Exercise Excuses into Fitness Triumphs
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    Linda T. Gottlieb

    Linda Gottlieb, MA, is a personal and cancer exercise trainer, wellness educator and active lifestyle coach, with an extensive fitness career including fitness consultant for luxury hotels and past director of a 30,000 square foot gym. Along with traditional personal training, she specializes in telephone/email coaching, helping her medically challenged clients improve their health and life with exercise. Ms. Gottliebs comprehensive training and education (BA in Psychology and Masters in Instructional Design) prepared her to motivate clients to maneuver through roadblocks and stages of behavioral change. Linda received the Presidential Sports Award in 1988 and 2003, numerous industry certifications from IDEA, ACE, and AFAA, and is a member of The American Institute of Fitness Educators, The Association of Fitness by Phone Coaches and Reebok Instructor Alliance. Her credentials include ACE Certified Personal Trainer, ACSM Certified Cancer Exercise Trainer, and Master Fitness Motivator. One of the first nationally certified Cancer Exercise Trainers sanctioned by the American Council of Sports Medicine and the American Cancer Society, Gottlieb is currently on staff at Yale University as a cancer exercise trainer and is the first certified Cooper Institute Active Living Every Day facilitator in Connecticut. As a frequent speaker, she champions daily activity and founded FITChicks in 2007, a monthly sisterhood meeting in CT. Linda is also a writer, blogger, author, and her first book, No Ifs Ands or Butts -Turning the Top 10 Exercise Excuses into Fitness Triumphs is receiving praise by people who are looking for simple fitness solutions.

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      No Ifs, Ands or Butts - Linda T. Gottlieb

      Contents

      Introduction

      Let’s Warm Up!

      Exercise Excuse #10: I can’t afford an expensive gym membership/equipment/gear.

      Exercise Excuse #9: I get enough exercise in my day.

      Exercise Excuse #8: I’m healthy, so I don’t need to exercise.

      Exercise Excuse #7: I’m too old to start now.

      Exercise Excuse #6: I tried and I failed in the past.

      Exercise Excuse #5: Exercise is boring. It’s too hard. I hate it.

      Exercise Excuse #4: I have health problems/old injuries.

      Exercise Excuse #3: I’m too fat and out of shape.

      Exercise Excuse #2: I’m just too tired, period.

      Exercise Excuse #1: I simply don’t have the time.

      Final Thoughts

      How to Choose a Personal Trainer

      Forward

      By Melinda Irwin, PhD, MPH

      Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

      Yale School of Medicine

      For over twenty years, I have conducted research on the benefits of exercise to promote health and prevent disease. My background in exercise physiology and cancer epidemiology has allowed me to examine first hand, the immediate (well, perhaps within three months) benefits of starting and maintaining an exercise program. Having conducted research for men and women with various diseases (diabetes, heart disease, breast and ovarian cancer), what I have noticed is that exercise not only improves the quality of life, but also the quantity of life!

      Another important outcome is that study participants felt empowered by taking charge of their life. Their exercise routine allowed them to prioritize what is important to them and to live a fuller, happier life. But, most of them also experienced roadblocks or difficulties in the beginning and throughout their exercise journey. They all dug deep to find different strategies that helped them make it through the tough days and keep going.

      This informative book by Linda Gottlieb focuses on a variety of simple strategies to help you stick with your exercise program; how to first recognize your excuses and then move past them. Her book is easy to follow, entertaining and works for both the beginner and advanced exerciser.

      Linda has an extensive exercise background and experience coaching regular, every day people like you. She has led exercise trials and motivated men and women who have some of the most difficult barriers to overcome (e.g., surgery and treatment for cancer). Linda is an avid exerciser herself, yet acknowledges that she too has difficult days.

      If you feel ready for a lifestyle change or need motivation and suggestions to get you back into your exercise program, then this book is for you!

      Best wishes,

      Melinda Irwin, PhD, MPH

      Associate Professor

      Yale School of Medicine

      Introduction

      I never set out to be a fitness professional. Loving movement, my early years were spent taking dance classes and losing myself in the beat of all kinds of music. In the early 1980s, I decided to become an aerobic dance instructor. If anyone had told me then that I would be in my 50s and still having fun with fitness, I would have laughed! However, through the decades I continued to learn about the awesome power of exercise, committed to living a fit life, and helped others do the same. The best part is watching people, maybe like you, be their personal best. That is my wish for you.

      There you are sitting and reading a book about increased movement and personal energy! That’s a funny contradiction, isn’t it? But my friends and colleagues didn’t think so, and their encouragement, along with decades of listening to my personal training clients, class participants, and workshop attendees, has resulted in this book.

      As a student of behavior, I have always wondered what makes people do what they do. One day, becoming more fit will make it to the top of your to do list. That’s great news! For most Americans, getting and staying fit requires only a slight change in daily actions: small, realistic steps that anyone can accomplish.

      This is your day! My intention is that you will use this book to challenge your exercise excuses and get started on your road to improved fitness and health. You’ll find lots of ideas about how to begin from where you are today, without judgment. I promise to offer nurturing support, encouraging cheerleading, and the occasional tough love hug.

      I have included research, assessments, and exercises to help you get to know yourself, along with some of my client’s stories demonstrating how they have dramatically changed their lives by increasing physical activity. The aim of this book is to help you create your own roadmap to a fitter, healthier, and more joyful

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