Ready, Set, Go! Synergy Fitness for Time-Crunched Adults

by Phil Campbell

Discover how to release your fitness hormone and tap into the most powerful body fat cutting, muscle toning, energy creating, anti-aging substance known in science. Your body makes it--releasing it has been the secret--until now.

Discover how to optimize the two-hour, post exercise window of opportunity to accelerate body fat reduction through Synergy Fitness techniques. There are five levels of fitness programs for beginners to advanced athletes.





About the Author

Phil Campbell- authored his first fitness training manual over 30 years ago.

While in college, he managed health clubs and performed personal training 20 years before it was called personal training.

Two masters degrees later, and a 20-year career as a healthcare executive that included serving as a Division President with eight hospitals under his command, he returned to writing about fitness, improving athletic performance, anti-aging, and anti Middle-aging. He s been nicknamed the "anti Middle-aging guy" by a national fitness writer.



Age 50

Phil Campbell is age 50. He shares his unique experience of how a 20-year career healthcare executive and a father of three can achieve optimum fitness improvement as a time-crunched adult.

With years of experience in taking complex medical subjects and making them understandable and practical, he has written a complete guide based on the latest discoveries by medical researchers that show readers step-by-step how to improve fitness, energy, and appearance.

Phil Campbell's inspiration to help improve the health status of large populations was sparked by his Health Services masters degree advisor, Dr. Ed Cavanaugh, a former division administrator with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Mainstream biomedical research is the base for all of Phil Campbell s writing and over 160 research studies are cited in his book.

Phil Campbell is the creator of Synergy Fitness a comprehensive fitness training approach targeted at five major areas of fitness flexibility, endurance, strength, power, and anaerobic conditioning.

As a masters athlete, Phil Campbell holds several USA Track and Field Masters titles including first place in the 100-meter sprint, Southeastern U.S. Championships for his age group in 2000. In 2001, he placed third nationally in USA Track and Field Masters Nationals in his age group in the javelin throw, fifth in discus, and he won medals in several 100 and 200 meter sprint competitions. In 2003, he will compete in the National Seniors Games in the 100 meter and 200 meter sprints, discus and javelin.

In his late 40 s, he won a 40-yard dash competition in 4.69 seconds. Also, he has a black belt in Isshinryu Karate, and has competed and won first place in martial arts and weightlifting competitions. Phil Campbell will show you how to have the most successful and lasting fitness improvement experience of your life.

Genres: Health

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2003

Reviews

[Absinthia]

An entirely doable exercise program. Two weeks in and I notice a difference already. References to reliable, scientific research that backs everything up.

[Alain Burrese]

I enjoyed “Ready, Set, Go! Synergy Fitness for Time Crunched Adults” by Phil Campbell. It was easy to read, motivating, and contained some great information on how to synergize your metabolism, cut body fat, and tone and build muscle. Campbell, 50 years old when he wrote the book, aims the text at the aging population. Being 45 now, I wanted to see what he was writing about, and I'm very glad I did. While I include a lot of what Campbell teaches in my own workouts, I'm modifying what I do a little to try his “Strategic Fitness Plans.”

I think the information and workouts in this book compliment martial art workouts very well, and in fact Campbell has a martial art background. I would encourage any athlete, recreational, competitive, martial art or otherwise to think about incorporating the ideas and training methodologies and routines that Campbell writes about into their own fitness program.

The book is divided into three main parts: 1. Ready. 2. Set. 3. Go. The first part, Ready, contains chapters that focus on your fitness hormone (Human Growth Hormone or HGH), maximizing fitness hormone release, redefining age, and target zone training. This part explains the “Why” behind the workouts Campbell teaches. The goal being to design workouts and a fitness plan that maximizes natural HGH production in your body to help cut fat, build muscle and increase performance.

Part 2, Set, includes chapters on building your fitness strategy, flexibility fundamentals, energizing endurance. Accelerating HGH release with anaerobics, plyo-power, and tactical weight training. These chapters explain the different kinds of exercises Campbell suggests you implement into you overall fitness strategy. They explain the five elements that you need to incorporate: Flexibility training, Endurance training, Anaerobic training, Power training, and Strength training. Sample exercises are illustrated and explained for each category. I will note here that one of the keys to HGH release is the Anaerobic training, or “Sprint” training. I do like that Campbell has you start slowly and build up with this kind of training if you are new to it. The “sprints” a couple time s a week are key to HGH release, but all five elements are important to your overall fitness strategy.

The final part, Go, contains sample strategic fitness plans depending on your level of fitness. There are five phases, and once you determine where to start, you can build up through the more advanced plans. I also really like how he includes the small section on commitment near the end, and encourages you to sign an 8 week commitment to get started. It really is your commitment to fitness and your consistency of working out that will make a difference in your fitness and health.

Overall, I feel this is a good fitness book for those in their 40s, 50s, or older. Incorporating the fitness plans outlined here will undoubtedly help a person lose fat, gain muscle, and perform better. All you need to do is get Ready, Set, Go!

[Christie]

This book is great for trainers or anyone wanting to learn more about how your body works and how to train.

This guy trained Lance Armstrong for his racing and really gives some great workout pointers.

[Dave]

Best book on personal fitness I have read. Provides an roadmap on why and how to effectively workout.

[Omid]

I got some good knowledge from reading this book

[Markus Eder]

Phil Campbell`s Sprint eight workout approach has proved a mixed blessing for me. I have bought and read his book "Ready, Set, Go" and many of the background information provided in this publication were valuable to me. What has, however, not turned out to be effective with me was the sprint eight workout itself. Living in Bavaria, Southern Germany, my impression increasingly has been, that under the colder temperatures of my area the sprint eight workout does not release the Human Growth hormones properly. I am also of the opinion, that Campbell`s Sprint eight workout does not result in adequate weight loss and results too much in increase of muscle mass. Therefore, I award only two stars for this publication.