Product Description

Marty’s Top Ten Diet & Fitness Strategies

Overcome the challenges in your life with a little help from Marty Copeland, America’s Personal Trainer for the Soul.

If you are trapped in a dieting cycle or simply want to improve the quality of your life and reshape your body, Marty’s Top Ten will propel you toward victory.

Take an honest look at your life, your health, and your body. Then, ask yourself three questions:

Am I at peace with where I am?
Am I fighting the same battles year after year?
Have past failures made it hard for me to try again, or have I simply given up?

Marty’s Top Ten Diet and Fitness Strategies will show you the connection between spiritual and emotional growth and your ability to make positive changes in both your eating and exercise habits. It is this understanding combined with excellent nutritional tips, healthy meal and snack ideas, and five powerful body-shaping workouts that will help you transform-–spirit, soul, and body.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #764163 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

About the Author
Marty Copeland is a personal trainer, nutritional guidance counselor, fitness instructor, wife, and mother of three. Marty’s Higher Fitness program was born out of her years of struggling to lose weight and keep it off and finally discovering the keys to transforming her lifestyle through the power of God. She has experienced firsthand that God not only desires to help us reach our fitness goals, but He has a plan that will elevate us from a lifestyle of dieting to a lifestyle of freedom and self-control. This program is both progressive and powerful in not only changing the shape of your body, but in changing the quality of your life!

Customer Reviews

You have to get this book!
This is a must read!!
As a former fitness instructor, I found this book to be full of very practical and useful information. In fact, I keep my copy in my gym bag so I always have it with me when I'm working out. There are so many great ideas to help each reader achieve the best workout every time you hit the gym. I think Marty Copeland has done a tremendous job explaining the concept of Higher Fitness, as well as offering many tips and truths to help each reader achieve success--physically and spiritually. It's also an easy read. You'll want to finish the whole book in one day. I did! I am recommending it to all of my friends. It's a winner!!

Astonishing!
This is an astonishing book. It is a great book for men and women to develop spiritual fitness.

Not the best book, but practical and inspirational
I'm not overly impressed with the general layout of this book. It's not extrememly well organized, though not horrible. The author is very sincere, but I think the editors could have done far more to smooth out the writing. At times, the authors thoughts and ideas seem somewhat random. I've read many fitness books, including ones by Christian authors that were better stated and easier to follow HOWEVER, Marty still gets her message across. She makes some similar recommendations as you would see in virutally any general market book, though hers are more practical. She doesn't give lists of single meals that take 45 minutes of preparation for one person to eat. She gives some wonderful, practical advice on starting where you are and getting to where you want to be. She is the first author I've seen who gives great ideas on how to incorporate fitness with your family. She also, unlike some contemporary authors, seems to understand what it's like getting on this path while juggling children. She, herself struggled with the "post pregnancy blah" and getting back all she had lost, so her attitude is not a condemning one. She's been there, and it shows. This isn't hokus pokus and it isn't counting calories/carbs, etc. Marty addresses some of the heart issues that cause us to reach for food instead of God, and even gives solid scriptural advice on how to grow spiritually in the areas of discipline and caring for oneself. Despite having read many so called "Fitness" books, I still got a good bit out of this and will probably read it again. Again, the book isn't stunning in presentation, but Marty is sincere, she truly has "been there" and she doesn't carry the snooty, "I did it so you can to" that we all get tired of hearing. If you are struggling with issues of self-discipline and cannot stick to a diet, read Marty's book AND apply the suggestions. It will change you.