The Model Method: Recipes, HIIT and Pilates Exercises for Lifelong, Balanced Wellness

by Hollie Grant

' The Model Method 's effective combination of recipes and workouts will leave you feeling stronger, healthier and happier. Hollie is one of the best task-masters on the fitness scene, with a refreshing, balanced approach' Sweaty Betty

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Nourish, sweat and strengthen your way to lifelong wellness with award-winning Pilates instructor and chef Hollie Grant's balanced recipes and workouts.

Hollie started The Model Method online plan after years of teaching her private clients so anyone can carry out the plan, anywhere. This beautiful book will follow on from the plan, showing the reader how to Nourish, Sweat and Strengthen for a healthier, stronger lifestyle.

Nourish will provide readers with delicious and balanced recipes with easy-to-source ingredients to encourage readers to eat from all the food groups unless medically advised not to. As a former chef Hollie is strongly against 'diets' and feels that we should eat to nourish our bodies, not starve them. The Sweat part of the plan will be split into three key areas of the body so that the workout can be personalised to the readers' goals or weaknesses. All the workouts will include elements of both Pilates and HIIT. Pilates is amazing at toning and fixing postural issues but does not address the incredible health benefits you tend to only get from HIIT (including reduced risk of diabetes, heart disease and obesity). Strengthen provides Pilates exercises and descriptions of technique, progressions and regressions, muscles activated and why you would carry out that exercise. The book is designed to be personalised so will also teach the reader about their body, posture types and muscle imbalances, and which Pilates technique would be best for them.

Above all, The Model Method is about how our bodies function and perform, rather than how they look, in order to encourage a healthy relationship with food and exercise.

Genres: Cookbooks

256 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 2019

Reviews

[Sandra G · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant book, fantastic down to earth approach to health and fitness. So refreshing to read a non-body size related book that encourages healthful behaviours and dosen't push diet nonsense. Science based and useful nutrition advice (ideal for those embarking on the gentle nutrition part of intuitive eating). The Resipes are delishous and the hot coco is incredible! 🤗 I love the combination of streach and HIIT as someone with a health condition that makes my abilities fluctuate on a day to day basis the options of this type of fitness is so helpful. I love it!

[Catherine Dix · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of clear, helpful information about healthy eating, mindfulness, posture, and exercise this author emphasises strength and health over nonsense diets. I'm particularly interested in the strengthening exercises as I carry a lot of tension in my neck and shoulders and I've been neglecting my yoga recently. A cheerful, non-judgemental, sensible book that can be used as an ongoing reference tool.

[Eleanor · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I did enjoy about this book is the strengthen section which is lovely. The book doesn’t advocate the need to be skinny. I found the recipes to be ok but the ingredients that are suggested can be expensive. But you don’t need to follow the recipes to lose weight, just eat and exercise in moderation.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Print is tiny in this book! but not a bad read some good information on diet and what food you should be eating