Functional Cross Training: The Revolutionary, Routine-Busting Approach to Total Body Fitness

by Brett Stewart, Jason Warner

Revolutionize your workouts by incorporating HIIT, plyometrics, weights, and calisthenics into one single body-fat busting, muscle building plan from bestselling fitness authors Brett Stewart and Jason Warner.

It's time to upgrade your workout. Combining plyometrics, intense circuit training, weight lifting and bodyweight exercises, this book’s revolutionary programs guarantee to help you achieve a fit, toned body and peak overall fitness.

The step-by-step workouts produce astounding

•Dramatically increased power
•Incredible endurance
•Packed-on lean muscle
•Reduced body fat

Whether your goal is to drop extra weight, shave minutes off a race time or finally get ripped abs, this book is the workout partner that will push you to your full potential.

200 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 2013

About the author

Fitness geek & guinea pig (swim, bike, run, ski, OCRs, etc.)
My goal in life is to have fun while getting fit - and facilitate others to do the same.
Having over a dozen fitness books published worldwide gives me the opportunity to chat with youths in India about the importance of at least 20 minutes a day of activity and be a guest speaker at elementary schools or business academies here in the United States.

Reviews

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

modular format, giving very specific day-by-day suggestions for fairly brief (some longer stuff in the endurance module, but lots and lots of 20-min routines) but intense workouts aimed at building all-around fitness, along with nutrition advice. Does a good job of acknowledging that even within a generalist program it makes a difference what your goal is and what your starting point is.

Not crazy about the layout or communication aspect -- they go heavily into a "points" translation that doesn't seem to matter -- it's not like weight watchers or something where you're subbing in something else you might prefer that has same number of points. Instead, they're telling you exactly what to do but just also converting it to points.

Also, there are scads of programs with partial, verbal, poorly illustrated descriptions of exercises, followed in the back by a general compendium of more detailed descriptions with clear photos. could have integrated this better.

and finally some unclarity even in describing pretty straightforward workouts -- for instance on day 1 of week 2 of the FXT: SXP [typical example of the non-felicitous use of abbreviations in this guidebook] module, the "advanced" option is a 1-mile run modified as "moderate run, repeat 3x" -- does that mean a 3-mile run at moderate pace? or 3 X 1-mile? if the latter, with what recovery between repeats?

no studies cited anywhere. The program sounds reasonable to me, and the authors appear to be jacked, and one of them is said to be a distance runner and triathlete, but other than that no real evidence is brought forward for their recommendations vs. any other reasonable approach.

[Charlie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent primer for building accessible, functional workouts, especially when (for experienced athletes) combined in a two-a-day routine.

For beginners, I'd call this fantastic! Again, it's accessible, and easy to understand, follow, and execute upon.

I'd say: go get this and start your personal transformation today!