The 5-Factor Fitness is a high-profile diet book from renowned trainer Harley Pasternak. Known as the official trainer to stars like Halle Barry, Orlando Bloom and Eva Mendes, he condenses his years of experience into this book, which aims to retool dieters into the proper ways of achieving and maintaining a healthy body.
Dieting Is Hard
The book works on the premise that people leave diets and revert to their unhealthy lifestyles due to the unrealistic restrictions most diets require. With stringent requirements on fat, carbs and other common food choices, keeping up a diet while trying to balance your social and work life can turn into a complicated exercise in diplomacy and self-restraint. As a result, most dieters look forward to ending the diet and resuming their normal lives instead of staying healthy.
An Easier Way
Pasternak offers an easier way on 5-Factor Fitness, with a fitness regime that takes only 25 minutes a day and a diet plan that entails frequent meals to help you maintain a consistent blood sugar level. The eventual goal is to have a diet and exercise plan that you can fit into your day without causing strain to any other part of your life.
The diet consists of small but healthy meal choices that focus on high fiber food choices, complex carbs, lean protein, good fats and whole grains.Recipes featured in the book are all easy to make, with most requiring no more than a 5-minute prep time.
Where the book really sets itself apart are the sections on how to maintain your diet even in difficult situations. Everything from how to choose meals when dining out to emotional eating situations to enjoying yourself during parties get discussed, with sensible advice on the exact things you need to do to keep your diet in order.
All in all, 5-Factor Fitness offers a sensible diet and exercise program, along with very useful advice that you can use even when you decide to follow a different diet or fitness regime.
