Core Performance: The Revolutionary Workout Program to Transform Your Body and Your Life

Core Performance: The Revolutionary Workout Program to Transform Your Body and Your Life by Verstegen, Mark. hardcover edition. ISBN: 0783324851953.

You probably look at elite athletes and think they have something you dont. Certainly, they can do things the rest of us cant, but they have the same muscles and require the same food. They have to strike a balance between exercise and recovery, or theyll wear down. They need to get leaner and stronger without compromising their endurance or flexibility. And if they dont train intelligently and cautiously, theyll get hurt. Same as you. Of course, athletes have hours a day to train, and youre probably lucky if you can squeeze in 60 minutes. So its no wonder that you focus on one or two types of exercise--aerobics, bodybuilding, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, or Tae-Bo--and assume you dont have time to work on all the other aspects of fitness. Core Performance is the first program that delivers strength and muscle mass, endurance and a lean body, balance and flexibility, athletic quickness and power--all in less than an hour a day. How? By giving you a personal coach who has worked with some of the most famous and successful athletes in the world today. Mark Verstegen, owner of Athletes Performance in Tempe, Arizona, and Carson, California, has trained the best of the best: Nomar Garciaparra. Mia Hamm. Roberto Alomar. Mary Pierce. When Verstegen trains an athlete, millions of dollars in salary and signing bonuses are at stake. Bottom line: If he didnt deliver, hed be out of business. And hes busier than ever. What works for these gifted athletes will work for you. Sure, you cant do as much exercise as they do, but you dont need to. It takes less than an hour a day to build the type of fitness that improves your life in almost every way. You can straighten your posture, eliminate aches and pains, sleep better, and approach everything you do with more vigor and a better attitude. Sure, you will get bigger muscles, a tighter waist, and more strength and power. But the biggest benefits come from the inside. The intense focus on the muscles of your core--abdominals, lower back, hips, and thighs--will help you stand taller and prevent the back pain from which most people eventually suffer. The detailed nutrition section guarantees that youll feed your muscles, starve your fat, and get boundless energy when you need it most. And the attention youll pay to recovery from your workouts will give you a straight path to the results you want. li0The potential is within you, and the power to unleash that potential is within Core Performance.