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8 Minutes in the Morning A Simple Way to Shed up to 2 Pounds a Week Guaranteed

8 Minutes in the Morning A Simple Way to Shed up to 2 Pounds a Week Guaranteed

Fitness trainer Jorge Cruise has helped 3 million cyberspace clients lose weight, and now he’s headed for your bookshelf with the same goal in mind. In just eight minutes a day, says Cruise, you can drop two pounds of fat per week, change your shape, and gain muscle and energy. His secret formula: an inspirational “wake-up talk,” followed by strength training two muscle groups per day, eating according to his “eating card” program, and keeping a journal. For exercise, Cruise presents a varied, 28-day program of illustrated exercises using dumbbells. Why the emphasis on strength training? While aerobics burns calories while you’re exercising, adding muscle revs up fat burning at rest by increasing your metabolic rate. Every pound of muscle you gain burns an extra 50 calories per day. You’ll look better and feel younger and more energetic, resulting in more activity, burning more calories, he says. Cruise’s eating plan emphasizes “good” (omega) fats, complex carbohydrates, high-quality protein (low in saturated fat), and vegetables, with dairy, fruits, and “treats and cravings” in moderation. His “Eating Card System” gives you an allotment of portions from each of the food groups. If you’re the kind who likes the regimentation of following a specific program every day, Cruise will get you moving, eating better, and losing weight. –Joan Price

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4 Stars Great for beginners!
I first discovered 8 Minutes in the Morning about 7 or 8 years ago. I was overweight, unhealthy, and did little to no exercise. I found an article on the internet that described the basic philosophy and provided a week’s worth of exercises. I started out by doing this for several weeks. It was simple and very doable for me. I’m not a morning person so it was nice that it only took 8 minutes. I also started noticing that I felt stronger and more toned. This plan helped me get into the habit of working out and helped me get more physically fit so that I could take on more strenuous exercise. I soon added aerobics and started eating healthier. Eventually, I started doing aerobics 3 days a week and full body strength training twice a week. I think this book is an excellent way for people to get started in fitness but after a while I think you would have to make a change or you may reach a plateau. Over the course of the past couple of years, I unfortunately gained the weight back (totally my fault) so I’m trying to lose it again. I have always gone back to this workout so this time I bought the book. The book provides some motivational tips and encourages journaling which I think is good for some people but it also seemed like an advertisement for Jorge’s other products and services. It seemed there were references to his website on almost every page which got old. But, overall, I do like this book and I’m glad I purchased it. It is helping me get back on track again!

5 Stars AWESOME!
This is a practical GET IT DONE motivating tool. It is an easy step by step process in which it not only works your body but your thinking as well. I used the book as a workbook, journal in it everyday and followed the process. I lost over 10 pounds the first month and more importantly felt that I had changed my thinking in regard to exercise and food.

2 Stars A solid concept with a poor plan of execution.
Let me first state that the central idea of 8 Minutes In The Morning, raising metabolism through daily strength training, is a very solid concept, though certainly not original to this author. Basically, you start every day with two rapid pace strength training exercises (push ups, dips, lateral raises, squats, etc) with the intention of firing up your metabolism for extra calorie burning throughout the day. I personally think this is a great idea…but it is not the Holy Grail of weight loss quick fixes the author advertises.

There are two hidden catches with Jorge’s plan that are not suggested by the title and initial information, power-walking and diet. The author advises incorporating a walking plan into your regiment to burn extra calories, thus raising total time spent exercising to around…oh… thirty-eight minutes a day…which of course is more realistic. Throw in the very calorie restrictive diet essential to success, and you quickly find that it is a little more taxing of a plan than a breezy eight minutes lifting a dumbbell before work.

This book is not about “burning” fat, in the way cardio exercise does. Rather, this book is about raising metabolism, which is of course a good thing. Strength training exercises are picked because they raise metabolism for longer periods than cardio. However, the author is misleading, as many cardio exercises, particularly running, cycling and heavy bag boxing, have strength training aspects to them which will have the same effect on your metabolism.

The book includes a vaguely complicated eating system that has since been abandoned by the author in favor of his 3-Hour Diet book, and thus should be considered relatively worthless. In the 3-Hour Diet, the author suggests incorporating the 8 Minutes in the Morning plan in the diet…thus if you really want to follow Jorge, you should also read that book, which has a much better explained and comprehensive diet plan.

However, the diet in this book and the 3 Hour Diet are both seemingly for people around 150lbs or less and do not take into consideration the extra nutritional needs of larger people.

That being said, with power walking included, the exercise plan detailed in the book, while simplistic, probably is a good plan for a number of people with limited experience with exercise, or for whatever reason simply hate to exercise. If you have any experience with sports or exercise in the past, or are currently active, you will probably find nothing of value in the exercise plan.

Two other notes: I found the author’s personal history to be extremely annoying. The author portrays himself as having nearly eaten himself to death as a child, showing a vaguely chubby childhood picture and providing anecdotal evidence of having two grandmothers who frequently fed him while he avoided exercise and was never picked first for sports at school. It is a lame attempt to portray his in-shape self as “one of us” in the battle of the bulge.

Finally…I am not entirely sure the author’s claims that you can build muscle mass on this exercise and diet plan are feasible. First, some exercises are repeated only once a month in the plan, or 12 times a year. Nearly all strength training programs recommend doing exercises 2-3 times a week to build muscle. With the very low calorie (I’d estimate at around 1400 per day) diet plan, it simply isn’t possible to build muscle. Building muscle requires extra calories to rebuild tissue. If you are feeding your body less calories than its resting metabolic rate AND power walking and lifting weights…there simply isn’t the calories available to build muscle. It’s a shaky claim that most muscle building experts would refute.

So there you have it. If you are looking for a means to get your body doing at least some kind of exercise and looking for the minimum….well this is the minimum, but you’ll be better off doing much more if you can.

4 Stars Practical Advice
Practical advice, easy to follow thru strength training routine. I am a weight consultant & I recommend this book to all my client! I don’t agree 100% with Jorge when it comes to nutrition advice, nevertheless this is a great book.

5 Stars The Best Look at How to Loose Weight
I’m not going to rave completely about this book, but it is simply the best and most complete method of how to loose weight and keep it off. It is aimed at women more than men, but the things in the book are effective for men as well. He explains how the body works, which gives you better insight on why we eat what we eat in order to loose weight. It explains that carbs are just as important as protein, and that (certain) fats are just as important as vegetables. I was surprised to learn how fruit is healthy but does not help weight loss at all. Many books cover just excercise and others just food. This book gives you a solid routine for both. The food plan & excercise plans are very realistic even for the worst coach potato. I was dieting/excercising on my own and plateaued after a month - no weight loss for two weeks. I forgot I had this book, opened it up again, followed the plan, and BAM after two days I started loosing weight again. It works.

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Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he’s really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself?

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4 Stars a good movie
A good Tom Cruise movie before he got so weird and became the “superstar” celebrity of Scientology. DVD quality is much better on blu-ray than on the pervious DVD versions.

5 Stars Heart Warming Film For All To Enjoy
After playing a vampire and a spy succesfully , Tom Cruise took on the role of a sports agent and succeeded. Jerry Maguire is one of the movie that after watching you feel good inside. Cuba Gooding Jr. won a well desreved Oscar for his role as Rod Tidwell. Regina King and Renne Zwellger are good as the female leads and Johnathen Lipnicki steals almost every scene. I love this movie.

5 Stars Heart-Warming and Thoughtful
Jerry Maguire is one of my favorite movies, because it’s a modern movie with a heart and soul. Not very many modern comedy/drama/romances actually have one, but that is what this movie is all about: relationships. Although there are some cliched moments where it seems like the typical comedy/romance, the romance part actually explores issues about true love, intimacy, marriage, and commitment that most movies are afraid to, even though these are very timely issues. The questions of why we marry, why we are we afraid of commitment and intimacy, and what true love is are all explored by the film, as well as deeper questions about what is important in our lives, through the lives of Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger), Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) and his family, and various other characters throughout the film. In addition to the excellent script however, the acting is also great. Cruise, Gooding, and Zellweger are all wonderful, and Bonnie Hunt shines as Laurel, Dorothy’s protective older sister. It’s not the best movie of all time, but is in my top 10, and I laugh and cry every time I see it. I recommend it highly.

4 Stars You are hanging on by a very thin thread and I dig that about you!

1996’s acclaimed Jerry Maguire is the tale of a sports agent who stumbles upon his morals; therefore he finds himself jobless and fighting for his clients.

Jerry(Tom Cruise) finds himself with only one partner Dorothy Boyd(Renee Zellweger) in his attempts to build back his business; and only one client football player, Rod Tidwell(Cuba Gooding Jr.: in his oscar winning performance)

Jerry and Dorothy start to fall for each other, but how can they not let it get in the way of working together? Meanwhile Rod’s still waiting on Jerry for any kind of endorsement or contract and Jerry hasn’t quite been pulling through for him.

The rest of the story is not so imperative, it’s cliche, mostly predictable, but not terrible. Cuba is fantastic, Zellweger is adorable, and the child talents of Jonathan Lipnicki and Jeremy Suarez are amazing, and honestly they were my favorite part of the entire film. And Cruise, well… it was only a little painful, although I can’t blame him entirely, part of it’s the character, I know.

Personally I’d give the film 3 stars, but those kids crack me up and therefore deserve their own star.

It’s a fine film, I just don’t see what all the fuss is about. I prefer Sleepless in Seattle.

I will admit I still like to yell “SHOW ME THE MONEY!”

4 Stars Jerry Maguire (1996) - Blu-ray Info
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Protection: AACS

BD-Java: Yes

MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / High Profile 4.1

Running time: 2:18:33

Movie size: 42,645,934,080 bytes

Disc size: 47,363,142,488 bytes

Average video bit rate: 28.96 Mbps

Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1521 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1521kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)

Dolby TrueHD Audio French 1490 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1490kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)

Dolby TrueHD Audio Portuguese 1399 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1399kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)

Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps

Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps

Subtitles: English / English SDH / Arabic / Chinese / Dutch / French / Indonesian / Korean / Portuguese / Spanish

Number of chapters: 16

#Audio Commentary with Director Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr.

#Deleted scenes with Director and Editor’s Commentary

#Rehearsal Footage with Director and Editor’s Commentary

#’My First Commercial’ with Rod Tidwell

#Drew Rosenhaus: How to be a Sports Agent

#Music Video ‘Secret Garden’ by Bruce Springsteen

#Making of Featurette

#Jerry’s Mission Statement

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