Average Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Total Number of Reviews: 76
Editorial Review: 'This program has transformed me from a skinny college baseball player with little power into one of the best-conditioned players in Major League Baseball.'-Nomar Garciaparra, shortstop, Chicago Cubs 'This is the best decision I have ever made with regard to improving and educating myself as an athlete. I just wish I had made it sooner.'-Mia Hamm, Olympic and world-champion soccer player Core Performance, the breakthrough fitness program that has already shipped more than 50,000 copies in hardcover, is the first program that delivers strength and muscle mass, endurance and a lean body, balance and flexibility, athletic quickness and power-all in less than an hour a day. How? By giving you a personal coach who has worked with some of the most famous and successful athletes in the world today.
THIS JUST IN... 4 out of 5
Just received the book, thumbed through it, found it should be a good guide for getting back in shape after a long rest. Includes diet and inspirational commentary. There is also a recommended CD I'm considering for re-enforcement. It appears to be aimed at pro athletes, but simple enough for anyone willing.
This guy knows what he is talking about! 5 out of 5
I was instructed by my Chiropractor to get this book, we then went over it, and she showed me the best stretches to do to help keep my back loose - this book also has some pretty hardcore workouts in it!
If you are jsut getting back into working out, or have been doing it for a while and are Stagnant?? TRY this book!
Excellent workout 5 out of 5
Sometimes you see guys at the gym doing a particular workout and you think to yourself, "Wow, they really know what they're doing." Core Performance is their workout.
Can't say it works if you can't make heads or tails of the workouts 1 out of 5
Somebody take note for the next edition. Scrap the entire Worksheet section and try again. There's no way to make sense of this bizarre confusion of grids and lists.
Take this for example:
Monday, it says, Regeneration: Foam, Movement Prep, Regeneration: AIS, Strength (odd week)/Prehap (even week), ESD 1 (odd week)/ESD 2 (even week). No, I don't have any idea what that means either, and I read the book.
The concepts of core conditioning may be exactly what you want & need, but given that most of the exercises are are very different from the Squat-Bench-Row-Crunch workout you learned as a young athlete, you need more help here. Unless you take this book with you to the gym (and you won't) or recreate the very elaborate workouts on your own worksheets there's no way to keep these workouts straight. The workouts provided aren't even xeroxable--they don't make sense without flipping back and forth through the book. What are quadruped circles again? And how do I know if I'm doing the glute bridge w/adduction right? I tried taking written notes with me to the gym to follow along, but it's a real drag to squint at sweaty pages when you're trying to figure out what to do next & frankly, you just need pictures.
Other books do this waay better. All you need is a clear list with graphics showing you what each workout at each level consists of.
Going to the website is no help either, and worse it leaves you with the sense that this whole program is an endless up-sell. Want worksheets? Sure, for an additional $$$. Want to see tailored workouts for your sport? Just sign up for our monthly subscription.
Maybe this stuff is great, and if so I wouldn't even mind plowing through all the self-help blather and no-brainer nutrition filler that takes up too much space in the book. But until I get up the gumption to recreate every workout in some format I can actually follow & stick in my gym bag, this book will probably go unused.
Great In Concept, Exceptionally Difficult To Actually Use 2 out of 5
This is a great book in concept, but next to impossible to actually use unless you bring the entire book in with you and/or memorize all the workouts, routines, and exercises (which there are a huge amount). The workouts and routines are great, but it basically requires you to buy the cd that creates workout sheets for you. Unless you have a photographic memory, this is very tough.
Also, like all other good workout books, the routines are mostly based on a 5 day a week in the gym for 1+ hours a day. You'll also have to eat healthy. Not really sure this is so revolutionary. Overall, good book. Really tough to use.
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