"You can achieve a bathing suit body in thirty workout hours!" claims author Joyce Vedral. These workout hours are broken up into 10- or 15-minute sessions, done every day or every other day. Although Vedral doesn't calculate the math, this comes to 120 to 180 workout sessions, which may take a year at 10 minutes every other day. Vedral says that you can get your bathing suit body "in record time" because "you'll be concentrating only on the problem areas." This is problematic, because spot reducing does not work, and exercise professionals have known this for years. Though Vedral insists that you're "zapping" fat, you can't burn fat from specific areas. But this book's program will work--the catch is that you follow her low-fat "bulge-busting diet" (15 percent fat, 15 percent protein, 70 percent carbohydrates), and do three to six 20- to 40-minute aerobic sessions a week, in addition. So much for the claim on the cover: "10 minutes a day to a flat stomach, trim thighs, flab-free hips and the firmest butt you ever had."

If you get past your annoyance at being misled, the book presents a good exercise program and sound nutritional advice. The "tri-set" is three complementary muscle groups (hips/buttocks, thighs, and abdominals) exercised in sequence without stopping. Then, after a 15-second rest, you do another tri-set, and so on until you've done seven. If you're a woman or iron, steel, or titanium, Vedral offers more advanced levels by adding additional sets of new exercises for the same body parts. Weights are used optionally for the thigh exercises only. The illustrations are clear and show both beginning and ending positions of each exercise. --Joan Price

FROM THE PUBLISHER

From the Author

Beat the bathing suit blues, and do it in 10-30 minutes a day, depending upon how desperate you are! Get a flat stomach, tight, toned thighs, flab-free hips and the firmest butt you've ever had. Work out at home with no equipment or optional dumbbells, and never be ashamed of yourself in a bathing suit again. I almost called this "The Circle of Fat Workout" because this new system, the "tri-set" method zooms around your circle of fat (the bathing suit area) and zaps it!

plain Who knows? You may even dare to show off your body in a thong (see p.40 for a view of me in one, and I'm pushing 56!) Also see the many before and after women in the book who did it in six to thirty workout hours!

Joyce L. Vedral, Ph.D at jvbody@aol.com Will Answer any Questions Regarding The Bathing Suit Workout.

SYNOPSIS

Beat the bathing suit blues-and do it in 10-30 minutes a day, depending upon how desperate you are! Get a flat stomach, tight, toned thighs, flab-free hips and the firmest butt you've ever had. Work out at home with no equipment or optional dumbbells, and never be ashamed of yourself in a bathing suit again.

I almost called this "The Circle of Fat Workout" because this new system, the"tri-set" method zooms around your circle of fat (the bathing suit area) andzaps it!