Time Is Prime: Just Give Me 12 Days!

12-Day Body Shaping Miracle: Change Your Shape, Transform Problem Areas, and Beat Fat for Good
by Michael Thurmond

TV's number one diet and fitness expert, Michael Thurmond has helped thousands of people transform their bodies in just days. Now in this groundbreaking new book, Thurmond presents an easy-to-follow, effective workout program that will help you burn fat quickly and change your shape for the better-forever!

The truth is that all exercise is not created equal and the key is not to train harder, but to train smarter! People often struggle to lose weight because they are not doing the right exercise. Everyone is built differently, so a one-workout-fits-all approach won't make the grade.

In this innovative new program, Thurmond uses his exclusive "blueprinting" system to help you identify your unique body type. He then presents a customized regimen for each of the five types to re-sculpt your trouble areas and get rapid results. You'll also learn how to recharge your metabolism with the proper foods for your body type. Whether you want to lose five pounds or thirty, with 12-Day Body Shaping Miracle you may begin to see results in as little as one workout!

Complete with customized nutrition plans and diet tips, this book will help you:

• Shed fat and increase energy
• Boost your metabolism
• Create more lean muscle
• Lose pounds and inches
• Sculpt your abs and target problem spots
• Understand why women gain weight differently than men.

Discover how to exercise smart with the most effective workout plan for you. Reshape, tone, and strengthen your way to a perfect body in just twelve days!

I've got less than two weeks to get in shape for a commercial. I look terrible right now. Can you help me . . . please?"

The panic in the model's voice was real. So was the desperation.

Calmly, I responded, "Sure. Meet me at the office at ten o'clock, and we'll formulate a plan."

What I had in this client was someone who had let herself get soft. Extra pounds had piled on, and now remedial work was needed to give her body back its sexy curves, in a very short span of time-less than two weeks. I get calls like hers all the time.

Models, actresses, and others want their legs, buttocks, abs, arms, and other parts of their figures to look as firm and lean as they can be on the set. And why wouldn't they? After all, looking great is their livelihood. Which brings me to you. There's no reason why you can't look picture-perfect, too-and get there rapidly.

How rapidly? Let's just say that if you play your cards right, there could be 5 to 12 pounds less of you in 12 days, with a whole new shape emerging to boot.

I don't blame you if you're skeptical at this point. How can someone get back her gorgeous shape or even reshape her body in 12 days-or, at the very best, see visible changes?

What I will tell you right now is: This is what I do.

I get people back in shape fast. I do it for desperate models who have impending assignments. I do it for actors and actresses who must be in top form for upcoming roles. I did it for people on ABC's Extreme Makeover who had to be at a healthier weight prior to, or after, having plastic surgery. I do it for guests of my Spa Body Makeover, who come to California to trim down in just a week or two. I do it for clients in my business, Body Makeover Systems, Inc., who want to fast-track their way to shapelier, more defined bodies. This is what I do. And I have been doing it for more than 25 years.

If you give me just 12 days, I'll do it for you, too.

The 12-Day Body Shaping Miracle is a program of special exercise techniques, coupled with diet, that is designed to alter your body shape so that it gets closer to that ideal of feminine attractiveness: slim waist, streamlined hips and thighs, firm butt, and a lifted bustline. If that's what you want, if that moment has finally come for you, if you're tired of fooling around with exercise programs that don't produce results, then this is the book for you. The program you are about to read will change the shape of your body. You'll learn how to shape and define every area of your body so that you can almost literally sculpt it to achieve a predictable outcome. By predictable outcome, I mean the exact way you want your body to look. If you've tried other workout methods in the past but they haven't done the trick, and you have become discouraged in the process, you can now succeed.

The secret: targeted exercise, performed with special movements and employed in a workout that you create and customize for your trouble spots and your unique body type. In addition, you'll be introduced to a totally different approach to cardiovascular exercise that will accelerate your fat loss, but without the drudgery of high-intensity workouts or hours doing cardio. By moving at an acceptable pace and using a special form of breathing-what I call Abdominal Breathing-to oxygenate your body, you'll become trimmer and more fit, plus feel more energetic and invigorated than you have in years. Diet-wise, you'll learn how to recharge your metabolism with food so that you begin to shed fat efficiently, revealing your firm curves.

You'll learn more about these techniques as you and I get further into this book. For now, though, I need something from you: a commitment to unlearn just about everything you've ever been taught about exercise. And I need you to be a willing spirit. Give up your couch time and prepare to become more active. Release what you've been taught or what you've read and be prepared to relearn an entirely new way of exercising. Be open, be willing. Look at it this way: a fresh approach to exercise may be just what you need to get out of a workout or weight-loss rut.

In particular, if you've never done resistance training before, count yourself among the fortunate. You're a blank slate upon which the most effective ways to do it can be written!

Or maybe you have exercised in the past, but without seeing much improvement in your shape. It's one thing to get fit by working out-and that's a great benefit-but exercising without seeing your body become shapelier, trimmer, and younger looking can be a waste of time, like saving money but getting no return on your investment. That's crazy!

Undeniably, the reason you haven't been able to drop those unsightly, unhealthy pounds and resculpt your figure is that you've been exercising incorrectly for your body type. Everyone is built differently; everyone comes in a different size and shape-which is why cookie-cutter or one-workout-fits-all approaches to exercising don't make the grade. How your best friend exercises may work for her but do little for you. By contrast, this program completely customizes your workout to your own body type, trouble spots, and metabolism so that you can see dramatic and rather rapid results.

Copyright © 2007 by Michael Thurmond and Provida Publishing, LLC

About the Author

Michael Thurmond, a renowned weight loss and fitness expert, is a member of the Extreme Team on ABC's Extreme Makeover. He also manages the popular body makeover program featured within the luxury spa at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, and his company, Body Makeover Systems, employs more than 100 trainers in over 30 locations throughout Southern California.