A challenging yet inspiring regimen to get and stay healthy in midlife and beyond.
A 50-something fitness expert details her kick-start diet and exercise plan especially designed for aging women in this debut guide.
Even Roemer, an award-winning bodybuilder and personal trainer who created and then sold her own chain of health clubs, wasn’t immune from the effects of aging. “My body had changed irrevocably after 30, and especially after 50,” she notes, with a hysterectomy in her early 50s contributing to being “bloated for the first time in my life.” In this guide, Roemer, 54, outlines an action plan to help others regain vibrancy, drawing on “what has worked for me” to “still stay in shape and take pride in who I am naked—in body, mind and spirit.” She spreads out 1,400 calories over six meals daily within a high-protein, low-carb, and vegetable-focused diet with little to no wheat or gluten and very little added sugar. Her exercise regimen consists of three days of one-hour cardio sessions, three days of targeted weight training (upper body, legs/glutes, and chest, back, and shoulders) with ab/core exercises accompanying all workouts, and one rest day per week. Roemer also sprinkles “Mind/Spirit” tips within her day-by-day chapters, advising readers to grieve, relax, volunteer, and meditate. She often references her own life challenges, including the death of her 19-year-old son in a car accident. The author recommends consulting with a doctor, offers an introduction from her own physician (part of her consulting team for this book), and provides a form to chart one’s progress and a brief reading list. Texas-based Roemer currently works out at Sparta Fitness (its co-owners are credited as consultants), and the term “spartan” certainly applies to this volume. The author’s meal plans are disciplined (only salmon and a small side salad, for example, is one suggestion for dinner) and her weightlifting exercises, which would have benefitted by accompanying illustrations, quite comprehensive. Roemer remains living proof of the strong, beautiful results to be achieved, with a photo of the proudly naked, 5-foot-9-inch, 155-pound author (who dropped nearly 20 pounds on this plan) featured in this manual.
A challenging yet inspiring regimen to get and stay healthy in midlife and beyond.Pub Date: March 5, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-62601-253-0
Page Count: 250
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books, LLC
Review Posted Online: June 15, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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