The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation - Hardcover

Aniela Gregorek; Jerzy Gregorek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 098240381X ISBN 13: 9780982403815

Publisher: Jurania Press, 2010

Synopsis

Youthfulness. It's an ideal that many people seek to capture, or recapture, whether they are young or old. Now the complex formula has been discovered, half a millennium after Ponce de León, by Jerzy and Aniela Gregorek, gold-medal weightlifting champions, weightlifting coaches and founders/head coaches of the UCLA weightlifting team. They have rolled their wisdom into an innovative new guidebook, The Happy Body TM: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise and Relaxation. During the last twenty years, Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek have been approached to help many different people achieve an attractive, strong body, free of pain and medications. Clients wanted a plan that was simple, structured and effective, one that would develop a new lifestyle and prevent them from returning to their old habits. From this experience, the Gregoreks discovered six essential elements required for people to achieve their desirable goals. They needed to get stronger, become more flexible, lose weight, gai

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From the Back Cover:

Becoming lean and fit is not a matter of training for a few weeks, like Rocky, to become a world champion. That only happens in Hollywood movies that portray professional athletes exercising for hours every day until they re exhausted. Real athletes never do that. They train only to the point that they can recover for the next day s training. Their progress comes in small increments, not heroic triumphs. Unfortunately, movies have persuaded people that they can become lean and fit virtually overnight. Even the weight loss and fitness industry bought into this distortion and began pushing people to become like Rocky. When that approach failed, because people were injuring themselves or burning out or jumping from one program to another, trainers began to entertain their clients instead of finding solutions to their problems. If you want to become truly lean and fit, you must work at it like an athlete, following a structured routine and that is easier and more pleasant than you may expect. The principles that work for athletes also work for ordinary people of all ages. Athletes, of course, have coaches. The Happy Body program, on the other hand, will teach you everything you need to know to be your own coach. This innovative program establishes, for the first time, exact scientific and testable methods and goals to engineer your own weight loss and fitness within precise time periods. That empowers you to self-correct your progress at every step. The Happy Body is a total health program, not just an exercise or diet plan. It will teach you to safely lose 1.0 to 2.5 pounds every week, and keep them off, without getting stuck at plateaus. You will have full control over the process, right down to the ounce. In addition to teaching you how to lose weight, the program will also help you to restore the flexibility and posture you had as a young child, and to be leaner, stronger, and faster than you have ever been. In essence, The Happy Body program will not only make you as youthful as you were at twenty, but twenty as you would have been if you had followed the program at that age.

About the Author:

Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek came to the United States from Poland in 1986 as political refugees during the Solidarity Movement. As a professional athlete, Aniela has won five World Weightlifting Championships and established six world records. Jerzy has won four World Weightlifting Championships and established one world record. They have also been professional coaches and personal trainers since coming to this country. In 2000, they founded the UCLA weightlifting team and became its head coaches. Over the years, they have transformed hundreds of people, from housewives and physicians to athletes and celebrities, who came to them with every conceivable body shape and desire. Some wanted to improve their athletic performance; others had never trained before and wanted to lose weight and be attractive; still others just wanted to be able to get down on the floor and play with their grandchildren. But regardless of the words they used to explain why they wanted coaching, there was a clear pattern in their motivations: Everyone wanted to be youthful. Aniela and Jerzy have devoted the last three decades of their lives to finding solutions to this universal goal. In the course of this search, they invented The Happy Body program. They have both earned MFA degrees in Creative Writing from Norwich University, in Vermont. In their free time, Aniela and Jerzy write poetry and translate poetry both from Polish to English and from English to Polish. Their poetry and translations have appeared in major poetry magazines. Their translation of Josef Baran s In a Flash was a finalist for the PEN USA West Literary Award in 2001. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Jerzy the Literature Fellowship in 2003 to support the translation of selected poems by Maurycy Szymel. In 2004, after twenty-five years of marriage, Aniela and Jerzy were blessed with the arrival of their precious daughter, Natalie.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jurania Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 098240381X
• ISBN 13: 9780982403815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310