Official Review: Make Fitness A Priority
Posted: 31 Jul 2020, 18:11
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Make Fitness A Priority" by Chad Austin & Jesse Kepka.]
In 2014, two personal trainers established a group that is now called Make Fitness a Priority, a community to help people reach their fitness goals. Through the trainers’ Priority Fit Camp on Saturday mornings, they came up with fitness tips to discuss with the members of their community. These tips are compiled into a health and fitness guide called Make Fitness A Priority: 30 Tips to Elevate Your Life Through Fitness by personal trainers and co-authors Chad Austin and Jesse Kepka.
In this guide, Austin and Kepka address a common problem in a society where many people want to obtain fast fitness results without putting forth much effort. The authors explain that fitness products and programs that promise quick and easy results often give people only temporary success, if they are successful at all. Using a direct and upbeat approach infused with humor, Austin and Kepka lay out the fairly brief tips in this book designed to help people gradually create a consistent lifestyle of fitness. While encouraging readers toward a path of long-term success in healthful living, the authors stress that the information they provide is not meant to be used as a substitute for the medical advice of doctors. This guide is intended to supplement proper fitness training without replacing it.
Accordingly, the guide reflects that it is not meant to be taken as comprehensive instruction. While the book indicates that it is useful for beginners, the authors seem to take for granted at times that readers will already have some prior knowledge of fitness and nutrition. Readers who have never had a formal workout before may not have a frame of reference for everything the authors discuss or mention. For instance, Kepka uses the terms “self-myofascial release” and “musculoskeletal imbalances” in one chapter without explaining what those terms mean. Readers who are new to the topic of fitness may have to look up further information to better understand some of the tips in this guide. For the most part, however, the tips in the book are rather straightforward.
Now, the book has a moderate number of errors in grammar and punctuation. The authors use terms such as “everyday” and “workout” at times when they mean “every day” and “work out.” There are several inconsistencies in capitalization as well as missing or incorrectly used apostrophes, hyphens, and commas. Even so, the errors do not significantly damage the book’s readability or detract from its message.
Overall, this is a positive and fairly uncomplicated fitness guide that can help people to make constructive, healthy changes to their lifestyles. While the book could have used clearer explanations in a few places as well as more thorough editing for the technical errors, those issues are relatively minor in light of the book’s general quality. Therefore, I give Make Fitness A Priority: 30 Tips to Elevate Your Life Through Fitness a rating of 3 out of 4 stars. I’d recommend it to readers in need of a guide to complement their fitness training and their basic or intermediate knowledge of health and wellness. Readers with no prior workout experience should be prepared to use this book in conjunction with further research.
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Make Fitness A Priority
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In 2014, two personal trainers established a group that is now called Make Fitness a Priority, a community to help people reach their fitness goals. Through the trainers’ Priority Fit Camp on Saturday mornings, they came up with fitness tips to discuss with the members of their community. These tips are compiled into a health and fitness guide called Make Fitness A Priority: 30 Tips to Elevate Your Life Through Fitness by personal trainers and co-authors Chad Austin and Jesse Kepka.
In this guide, Austin and Kepka address a common problem in a society where many people want to obtain fast fitness results without putting forth much effort. The authors explain that fitness products and programs that promise quick and easy results often give people only temporary success, if they are successful at all. Using a direct and upbeat approach infused with humor, Austin and Kepka lay out the fairly brief tips in this book designed to help people gradually create a consistent lifestyle of fitness. While encouraging readers toward a path of long-term success in healthful living, the authors stress that the information they provide is not meant to be used as a substitute for the medical advice of doctors. This guide is intended to supplement proper fitness training without replacing it.
Accordingly, the guide reflects that it is not meant to be taken as comprehensive instruction. While the book indicates that it is useful for beginners, the authors seem to take for granted at times that readers will already have some prior knowledge of fitness and nutrition. Readers who have never had a formal workout before may not have a frame of reference for everything the authors discuss or mention. For instance, Kepka uses the terms “self-myofascial release” and “musculoskeletal imbalances” in one chapter without explaining what those terms mean. Readers who are new to the topic of fitness may have to look up further information to better understand some of the tips in this guide. For the most part, however, the tips in the book are rather straightforward.
Now, the book has a moderate number of errors in grammar and punctuation. The authors use terms such as “everyday” and “workout” at times when they mean “every day” and “work out.” There are several inconsistencies in capitalization as well as missing or incorrectly used apostrophes, hyphens, and commas. Even so, the errors do not significantly damage the book’s readability or detract from its message.
Overall, this is a positive and fairly uncomplicated fitness guide that can help people to make constructive, healthy changes to their lifestyles. While the book could have used clearer explanations in a few places as well as more thorough editing for the technical errors, those issues are relatively minor in light of the book’s general quality. Therefore, I give Make Fitness A Priority: 30 Tips to Elevate Your Life Through Fitness a rating of 3 out of 4 stars. I’d recommend it to readers in need of a guide to complement their fitness training and their basic or intermediate knowledge of health and wellness. Readers with no prior workout experience should be prepared to use this book in conjunction with further research.
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Make Fitness A Priority
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I think this guide does a pretty good job of getting its message of consistency across in brief tips so that people can make gradual efforts toward success, at their own pace. Trying to get totally-fit-all-at-once can make any real effort seem too exhausting. 