Making the Cut

Making the Cut: The 30-Day Diet and Fitness Plan for the Strongest, Sexiest You is a Paperback book written by Jillian Michaels and published by Three Rivers Press. The “Complete Woman” magazine says this about the 288 pages book – “Making the Cut by fitness trainer Jillian Michaels is the perfect book to get you in the best shape of your life.” Jillian has been a team trainer in The Biggest Loser and talks of the following changes (in you) through his book – (1) drop the last stubborn 10 to 20 pounds once & for all, (2) stop the show at your special event – wedding, renunion, vacation, or prom and (3) Be confident enough to wear a bikini – anywhere, anytime!

The New York Times Bestseller book starts with taking some goodbye photos, doing the body fat analysis, taking & scheduling body measurements and doing self fitness tests to ensure the lead in future. ‘Making the Cut’ asks you to follow seven simple rules which are:

1. Stick to your magic number
2. Eat for your metabolic type
3. Eat every four hours, and No skipping meals
4. No processed or Junk Foods
5. Increase Sodium & Water consumption
6. Don’t booze
7. Getting them written & followed

Apart from the rules, the book then stresses on three routines such as The Slow Oxidizer, The Balanced Oxidizer and The Fast Oxidizer apart from recipes for breakfast, lunch & dinner alongwith sauces, snacks & sides. While the things talked yet is the eating regime, the book asks you to follow the following more rules to sweat out the present fat:

1. Intensifying the workouts
2. Mixing up the exercies
3. Sticking to the rules
4. Sticking with Quality over Quantity
5. Pacing yourself up
6. Knowing when to hold & when to fold
7. Knowing some exercising tecniques such as split routine, circuit training, interval training, supersets, combo lifting, pyramids & phyometrics

An excerpt from ‘Making the Cut’ – weight loss book by Jillian Michaels:

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