Listen at the Gym and Become Slimmer, Fitter, Healthier, Pain-Free, More Sexually Vital, and Achieve Sleek, Toned Abs in Just 6 Weeks

The New York Times Bestselling Better Body, Better Sex, Better Life Diet Now Available on Audio CD, Inspiring Men and Women Everywhere to Rediscover Their Abs and Reap All the Benefits. THE ABS DIET Is Not Merely a Phenomenon, It Really Works.

(PRWEB) February 1, 2006 -- The blockbuster New York Times bestseller, THE ABS DIET is now available on audio CD. Exercise photo gallery and meal plans on enhanced CD.

Abs -- they’re the contemporary badge of fitness; the ultimate predictor of a person’s health; the one part of the body that boosts sex appeal in both men and women; and, they’re not just for athletes, bodybuilders, models, or the Governor of California anymore! You could spend (or may have already spent) years searching for those elusive stomach muscles, moving from one failed weight-loss attempt to the next. Or, you could follow David Zinczenko’s proven plan which has already helped thousands achieve a lean waistline in record time.

In THE ABS DIET: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (Gildan Audio; 4 CDs/approx. 4 hours; January 2006; $19.98 US; $26.98 Canada), Zinczenko details how you can strip away up to 20 pounds of fat from your body (starting with your belly) and gain abs, muscle tone, better health, and a great sex life – significantly changing the shape of your body in the process. And, because study after study shows that people with the largest waist sizes are at the most risk for such killers as heart disease and diabetes, this breakthrough plan will do something more than enhance your life; it’s going to help save it.

As the editor in chief of Men’s Health magazine, David Zinczenko analyzes health and fitness information the way brokers analyze the market. In THE ABS DIET, he draws on that knowledge to outline a sensible, sacrifice-free program for losing your gut and packing on muscle. Using the most cutting-edge nutrition and exercise research, it is designed to help you lose weight in the easiest possible ways: by recalibrating your body’s internal fat-burning furnace, focusing on the foods that trigger your body to start shedding flab, and rebuilding you into a lean, mean, fat-burning machine.

THE ABS DIET revolves around – but doesn’t restrict you to – 12 “Powerfoods” that are among the best sources for protein, fiber, and all the other ingredients that help fight fat by boosting your body’s metabolism. By constantly keeping your body’s natural calorie-burning fires stoked – three meals and three snacks a day – with lots and lots of the right foods, you’ll soon be burning additional calories 24/7. Imagine that: Every time you eat, you help your body lose weight and turn flab into abs!

THE ABS DIET also includes a convenient exercise plan that doesn’t kick-in until the third week of the program. This simple, 20-minute workout, based on strength and interval training performed three times a week, maximizes weight loss, helps burn fat long after you’ve left the gym, and builds lean muscle tissue. The more lean muscle mass you have, the more energy it takes to fuel it – meaning that calories go to sustaining your muscles rather than converting to an inner tube of fat around your middle. It’s amazing: For every pound of muscle you gain, your resting metabolic rate goes up as much as 50 calories a day.

Also included in this entertaining, straightforward audiobook are:

•    Why low-carb diets make you fat, as well as an analysis of some of today’s most popular diets, from Atkins to the Zone, and why they invite failure;

•    The Abs Diet Cheat Sheet: An at-a-glance summary to help you stick to the six-week plan;

•    The Abs Diet Start-Up Kit: A simple shopping list for stocking your pantry with the foods you’ll need to dive right into this life- and body-changing program;

•    The Six Guidelines for following the Abs Diet;

•    An in-depth discussion of the 12 Abs Diet “Powerfoods”;

•    The 7-Day Abs Diet Meal Plan: A week’s worth of daily menus that can be mixed and matched to create a variety of meal choices;

•    A sample schedule for your weekly Abs Diet Workout, plus a 50-“6-pack” of exercises that target your abs, both complete with instructions and illustrations;

•    Suggestions for ways to keep the two calorie hoodlums – high-fructose corn syrup and trans fats – from robbing you of all the progress you’ve made;

•    Quick and easy recipes that utilize the “Powerfoods”;

•    Informative sidebars on important health topics such as cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes;

•    Useful tips on everything from selecting produce and choosing a multivitamin to what to eat when you’re out;

•    Motivational success stories from men and women who credit the Abs Diet with changing their bodies and their lives - not to mention the size of their pants;

•    A chart of the vitamin and mineral values of a variety of foods, from almonds to yogurt, as well as a glycemic index list for selected foods;

•    The Abs Diet Maintenance Plan: A primer for maintaining the fabulous body you’ve built.

With THE ABS DIET audiobook, David Zinczenko makes it easy for men and women to become slimmer, fitter, healthier, pain-free, more sexually vital, and to achieve the sleek, toned abs they’ve always wanted in just 6 weeks. The enhanced-CD features photos and descriptions of every exercise in the bestselling book—including a comprehensive abs workout for a hard, flat six-pack—as well as recipes and complete diet and food plan information.

Gildan Audio is a division of Gildan Media Corporation, a multimedia publisher of books, audiobooks and software. Gildan Audio titles are distributed to the trade by Time Warner Book Group, a division of Time Warner, Inc. More about Gildan Media can be found at www.GildanMedia.com.

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