Author:  Charla McMillian

Publisher:  Fair Winds Press

ISBN:  1-59233-125-4

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Is your gut flat or flabby?  Are your love handles quickly morphing into spare tires?  You need a little discipline in your life!  Who better to dish out that discipline than a Marine?

Meet former Marine captain, Charla McMillian, personal trainer and owner of FitBoot – Basic Training for Professionals.  McMillian is a certified National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) specialist and combines her NSCA credentials with her boot camp experience to bring a total body fitness idea to the page.  The result, BOOT CAMP ABS: Get Rock-Hard Abs.

McMillian’s approach to losing those extra pounds and firming your soft abs is an all-encompassing change of diet and exercise routine that, while rigorous enough to require conscious commitment, can hardly be classified as “fad.”  McMillian reminds us of age-old diet and exercise requirements that will produce the desired body we’re all striving for, without following recent trends of dangerously removing necessary dietary needs, tough on the body and impossible to maintain for a lifetime.

BOOT CAMP ABS starts with a detailed “orientation,” where each new “recruit” is given the skinny on the biology behind the enviable six-pack, has all her questions about abs answered, and receives strict orders to “report to medical” to get an all-clear on the program.  Finally, the orientation takes the new recruit through a series of assessments, including body mass index measurements and a couple of practice exercises, to create a baseline of health for monitoring growth and achievement down the road.

As for the workouts themselves, McMillian has designed three levels of workouts for varying levels of fitness.  She then guides the reader by specifically laying out what exercises to perform each day of the new regimen, according to which category the new recruit falls under.  This specific guideline of daily exercise is the book’s strength.  Rather than simply tell the reader to perform certain exercises, McMillian tells him exactly which exercises to perform, including how many and how often.

After beginning the exercise portion of the new routine, the recruit is instructed to work slowly and methodically through the latter portion of the book, which details diet recommendations and restrictions to go along with the exercises for best results.  McMillian painstakingly explains the biology behind what we put in our mouths and how it turns into fat or fuel.  This section of the book is incredibly informative, but if her orders are not followed and the reader attempts to “ingest” all of the information at once, she might find herself overwhelmed and bored by the complexity.

BOOT CAMP ABS follows a strict exercise routine and not quite as strict diet to create the perfect abs for the reader.  With the detail and science behind the book, along with the many charts, logs, and worksheets to begin and monitor performance, it is difficult to imagine failure at this program.  Worth its weight in functionality, BOOT CAMP ABS will likely be a staple on any fitness conscious reader’s shelf.

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The above review was contributed by Jennifer Brown.

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