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A Flat Stomach ASAP | 
 enlarge | Author: Ellington Darden
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 52519
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0671014080
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7
EAN: 9780671014087
ASIN: 0671014080
Publication Date: January 1, 1998
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Ellington Darden tells the truth about his subject: you can't get a tight, muscular waistline from doing just a few minutes of abdominal exercise a day. (This from a guy who has actually hawked an ab-training device on infomercials.) In Darden's book, ASAP stands for "awareness, science, application, and persistence," and his program promises that, if you work really hard, you'll see results in six weeks. That doesn't sound like much of a promise, but considering how many people work out for months--if not years--and don't see any results, Darden's book is a dash of welcome hope and reality.
Product Description
A GREAT BODY BEGINS WITH A FLAT STOMACHThe secret to losing waistline pounds and inches quickly is ASAP, an acronym for Awareness, Science, Application, and Persistence. This successful method for achieving a lean body and a flat stomach includes a powerful new concept called superhydration. It's a fact: drinking large amounts of water daily synergizes your eating and exercising, accelerating fat loss and stomach flattening. Now nationally renowned fitness expert Ellington Darden brings you the program that tells you how to reshape, tighten, and shrink your stomach the way top competitors do -- and to do it faster than you dreamed possible. With step-by-step instructions, Dr. Darden details a method that can help you lose from 7 to 11 pounds of fat and 2 1/2 inches from your midsection in as little as two weeks -- and see even more dramatic results in six weeks. Discover: - The no-fad eating plan based around five daily "minimeals"
- Exactly how to superhydrate to accelerate weight loss
- The super-slow style of strength training that brings super-fast results -- in less than thirty minutes a session.
Designed specifically for busy people, A FLAT STOMACH ASAP is your daily plan of action -- whether at the gym or at home, with or without equipment -- to get the look you want as soon as possible.
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 By comparing over 10 abs books, I concluded... January 31, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased about 10 books from Amazon on abs in order to compare them. This one wisely smuggles in an over-all weight-loss plan under the guise of an ab book. However, like Men's Health publications, it promises you something in a "six-week program," which isn't really long enough to get great results. Also, its dietary and nutrition recommendations are screwy, convoluted, and out of date. The bottom line is that when you look at the before and after pictures in this book of people who successfully completed the program, they don't look that great and nowhere near having great abs. If you want a good book to help you with your abs, here's my conclusion from comparing books...
If You Want to Trim Your Waistline: You can't trim your waistline without losing fat, and you can't lose fat around your waist without losing it everywhere (focusing on a muscle group like the abdominal muscles doesn't burn fat in that location, just a little bit of fat from everywhere on the body). So, if you want to trim your waistline, skip the ab workout books and go with a good, proven overall weight loss and fitness book like Bill Phillips' Body for Life. The Abs Diet is a similar program, but like all the Men's Health publications, it advertises a 6-week transformation, which is just a little unrealistic. Plan on more like 12-24 weeks to see really noticeable changes if you are fat.
If You Want Sculpted Six-Pack Abs: If you are overweight at all, see above--you can't get a six pack while you're overweight, and you can't lose abdominal fat by doing an ab workout, so go for overall fitness. However, if you are already lean, see below.
If You Want to Strengthen or Build Your Ab Muscles: If you're trying to improve for work, play, or rehab, you might consider the following books: The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs Deluxe DVD Edition contains decently up-to-date information and tells you exactly what to do and when to do it, based on a six-week fitness course. If you're looking for a similar book with more information, you can choose from The Complete Book of Abs or The Complete Book of Core Training. The Complete Book of Abs (1998) is a little out of date in terms of its dietary/nutritional recommendations, but it focuses more on exercises that develop the external abdominal muscles (the ones you see in a six-pack), including lots of variations on leg lifts, bicycle motion, and sit-ups. It will also give you more resources for creating your own program, and, if that's what you want to do, go with this one instead of The Body Sculpting Bible. The Complete Book of Core Training (2006) focuses more on the functional body core, including internal abdominal muscles, legs, etc., and includes more trendy exercises using medicine balls, exercise balls, yoga, etc. A different sort of book is Stronger Abs and Back (1997), which was written before the current fad of selling "core training," but contains the elements of core training because it gives good functional sports-focused advice. Its dietary recommendations are out of date, but it recommends a 24-week workout plan, which is much more realistic than the 6-week plans advocated by many of the other books.
If You Have Back Pain: See your doctor, and if he prescribes abdominal/core strengthening, see above.
My one-book recommendation: Body for Life.
My two-book recommendation: Body for Life + Stronger Abs and Back.
My three-book recommendation: Body for Life + Stronger Abs and Back + The Complete Book of Abs.
My four-book recommendation: Body for Life + Stronger Abs and Back + The Complete Book of Abs + The Abs Diet.
Hope this helps!!
 Junk science November 4, 2006
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
After all these years, Darden still preaches slow motion resistance training, a system proven to demonstrate mediocre results.
 The Best Diet Book on the Market July 20, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A Flat Stomach ASAP is the best diet book on the market. I lost 25 pounds in 6 weeks on the program and it was not difficult for me. The superhydration for me was a snap and I personally thrived on that aspect of the program. Dr Darden is a genius with diet and exercise and you will learn a lot from his books. There is so much misinformation in the diet and exercise market today that you need to read Dr Darden books to set yourself straight. There is no magic pill or lies in his book and you will be healthier at the end. A great book.
Not a good book. Not at all. March 26, 2006
21 out of 31 found this review helpful
"A flat stomach asap" is a scam. Nevertheless, it works if you want to shed some weight. You can even get some muscle under your belt, which is not bad. So, why is it a scam?
The first two parts of the book comprise a cauldron of well-known facts spiced with some mystification. The author puts them under the titles "Awareness" and "Science". After putting forth a string of truisms about the relationships between exercise and muscle, health and hydration, sleep and stress he pirouettes up in a leap of faith stating that gulping down gallons of cold water every day is good for you and helps you to lose fat. He even advances some arguments to "prove it". Buy into that if you can.
Let's leave truisms and unproved allegations behind us. Let's jump to chapter 11 where the author describes the exercises you should do. If you paid US $ 17.00 for the book you might be happy to find that for that price you'll learn half a dozen or so curls that will make your midsection stronger. As to myself, I agree they are all good exercises and may very well deliver part of the promise: give you one pound or so of muscle in your tummies.
I'll save you the tiresome details. Let's skip back to the page where a table displays a "calories per day" recommendation. The author recommends a man to eat from 1.200 to 1.500 calories per day. Averaged for the whole "program" it means 1,333 calories per day.
Now you can see where the mystification is: 1.333 calories per day for an adult male puts him on the verge of starvation. Any person that starves for (say) 45 days WILL LOSE WEIGHT, NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES. This is simple math: if his healthy, regular diet should contain, say, 2,500 calories per day, 1,333 put him in a daily deficit of 1.666.67. This means in 6 weeks he will miss 49,000 calories that represent 13 pounds (6,125 kilos).
Good old physics still holds true: if you burn faster than you replenish... you'll end up with less.
The author states that on the average (p. 35) 41 men lost 23 pounds of fat after having been "through one or more of the phases of the A Flat Stomach ASAP course". As the author does not allow us to know for sure what he means by "one or more of the phases", let's assume it to be 9 weeks (one and a half "course") even though we know some took it more than twice (more than 12 weeks).
23 pounds in 62 days (9 weeks), gives us 1,324 calories/day. This represents the deficit for a diet containing only 1,333 calories/day. It has nothing to do with exercise but with hunger. That is, it has to do with our old friend, the low calorie diet.
Do some curls if you like. Cut 1,300 calories in your diet if you can survive starvation. After 6 weeks you will have lost something around 14 pounds. It does not matter you if you read or does not read "A flat stomach ASAP".
So, save your hard-earned money because I'll summarize the book for you: eating makes you fat, starving makes you lean.
I know, I know: few people resist a scam, especially a sting in a glossy cover with some mystifying, incredible promises.
But, if you think perhaps I am wrong, go ahead. And don't forget to read the "special letter from Ellington Darden", when he closes the book trying to sell you some snake oil he names "Perfect Score". Good for him.
 Keep The Following In Mind September 13, 2004
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The Darden books are typically aimed at people with a significant amount of exercise experience so there is an underlying assumption that the reader is not a novice or dilletante relative to workout programs. The point is that the program described in the book WILL work though its not often that a beginner to exercise could stick to it during the six weeks and maintain the restricted diet described in the book.
On the other hand once you get the hang of eating 4-5 smaller meals a day then you can carry this habit with you for a long time and get a lot of mileage out of it whether or not you stay on the exercise regime.
If you are a new to exercise and dieting then you probably want a more introductory program and work your way up to more targeted
forms of exercise. Newcomers to exercise need to focus on a holistic approach which will yield results though in a longer time frame than six weeks. Unfortunately in our quick fix society lots of people bail out of their regimes long before they
have had the chance to realize the better results. Thats a shame since exercise combined with a reasonable diet WILL ALWAYS yield results. People who claim that it doesn't "Work for them" usually
aren't complying with their program.
In any case I think this book is probably good for the person
with experience in exercise especially those who might have been
out of they gym for extended periods of time and are looking to get back into their personal zone so to speak. For those who haven't exercised in years then perhaps you might want to just get back in the gym for a few months before attempting the program described in this book. I think lots of people want a six-pak without really working for it but with discipline you can
get there
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