The Fitness Instinct: The Revolutionary New Approach to Healthy Exercise That is Fun, Natural, and No Sweat

by Peg Jordan

Book Overview

After two decades of research, a fitness expert "USA Today" calls "a health trend-spotter" has written a revolutionary fitness manual that abandons the high-science approach in favor of an instinctive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579540058
• ISBN13: 9781579540050
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Needed Change of Pace

Many people struggle to sort through conflicting opinions and studies relating to physical activity. These conditioned perceptions of how we MUST treat exercise obviously haven't influenced behavior. Peg Jordan's, The Fitness Instinct, removes barriers that stand in the way of an effective and natural lifestyle change. I rarely read books cover-to-cover in the same day, yet I couldn't put Peg's book down. This is an approach that actually teaches readers to tune into their own unique personalities and preferences to create exercise solutions for the long haul. Peg debunks the myth that exercise has to be painful, boring, or embarrassing. This book is a philosophy of east meets west that has the potential of truly helping people. We all want to feel good and make positive changes in life. The Fitness Instinct helps us do just that. We can all learn from Peg. I encourage people to purchase this book and see the other side of physical activity.Daryl Moore, Director, the Colorado Governor's Council for Physical Fitness

REAL fitness for REAL people...I loved it!

Thank you, Peg Jordan, for ending my years of self-punishment. At last, here is a voice that speaks not only to my yearning for greater health and vitality...but to my soul. As I read this book, I felt that there was more as stake here than target heart rates and killer abs‹‹there was coming home to the wisdom of my own body. No wonder I have dropped out of one fitness regime after another. I was following someone else¹s fitness answer instead of finding my own. The insight I gained from this book has provided me with incredible value. You will never again find me counting the seconds until a step class is over. You will never again find me buying a ridiculous exercise contraption. You will find me having a great time, moving my body, having fun, getting fit.With humor and razor-sharp insight, The Fitness Instinct examines what has gone wrong in our celebrity-as-expert culture. Ms. Jordan speaks with the knowledge and expertise that can only come from all her years as a fitness expert and researcher. Finally, here is a NEW way to get fit. It¹s not hype. It¹s not empty promises. It is a message that resonates deep in the heart and soul of everyone out there who wants to love living in their body.

The Fitness Instinct: The Revolutionary New Approach to Heal

Peg Jordan does a phenomenal job in The Fitness Instinct: The Revolutionary New Approach to Healthy Exercise that is Fun, Natural and No-Sweat. The book is fabulous for all levels of exercisers from pre-contemplators to avid fitness enthusiasts. The information and tips in the book can help anyone become "fitness friendly" due to Peg's new approaches that delete the intimidation, fear, and boredom factors that many people face in exercise programs. Statistics show that 60@ of Americans do not engage in physical activity on a regular basis. This revolutionary book has the capacity to make positive changes in people's lives and show them that physical activity truly is for every body, not just the elite athletes. As a health professional myself, I know the challenges of helping people start and maintain fitness programs, and I am very familiar with exercise recidivism rates. I believe all health and fitness professionals, as well as the lay public, should incorporate Ms. Jordan's new approach and new way of thinking into any and all fitness programs. I give the book a 5 star rating. Melissa Johnson,M.S. Executive Director, California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

Finally! A voice of reason & a plan for the rest of my life

Finally somebody with credibility tells us what many of us have suspected! Jordan washes away all the exercise and fitness hype and takes a risk to talk about what many of us have instictively known. The time has come to listen to ourselves. Jordan hones in on the real me and what I need to keep a healthy attitude about how I move, how I feel and how I look. Perhaps others in the world of fitness-for-sale will follow her lead, but you know many celebs Jordan exposes in this book will keep on selling us the "newest" get fit quick scheme. Maybe the fitness industry will eventually catch up with the insight Peg Jordan has, but maybe not. In the meantime I'll continue on with my Fitness Instinct. Already I feel liberated! Now when I say I'm gaining a much healthier body, a clearer head and an enriched spirit I am using my own voice. I can hear the truth in my words and I feel great.