No need to spend hours each day exercising to lose weight and reach your fitness goals. Now you can train smart and get lasting results! This new guide is aimed at the busy, modern female who values her social life and doesn’t want to spend every spare moment exercising. This extensive, high quality 132-page fully illustrated publication will explain why short workouts work and is packed with time-saving workouts and exercise guidelines for sessions that can be done in just 15 minutes to help you lose weight and tone up in just eight weeks. It also has a vast range of recipes and easy to prepare meals that will fill you up and help to prevent cravings and hunger pangs. It really is the ultimate busy girl’s guide to getting fit and losing weight!

‘Short and sweet gets results’ • Fitness writer, editor and personal trainer, Christina Macdonald

‘Give all you can!’ • Personal trainer, Anne-Marie Lategan

OUR EXPERTS

IT STARTS WITH YOUR HEAD

Busy life? That’s no excuse! • If you’re busy, it can be tempting to skip a workout because you have too much on your plate. But exercise can actually help you cope with pressure and solve problems. Here’s how to get yourself motivated…

Run the numbers • Exercise won’t just help you slim down – it will help you live for longer and reduce the risk of disease. Read on and we defy you to not be inspired to pull on your trainers and get moving…

The health benefits of exercise • Live longer, reduce your risk of disease – what’s not to love about regular cardiovascular exercise? Here’s how it can help keep you healthy for longer…

Be consistent, get results! • Missing the odd workout here or there is not an excuse to give up altogether. If you can broadly stick to an exercise routine, even if you miss the odd day, you’ll still reap the rewards and get fitter

‘I lost more than 4 stone with running’ • Kelly Wood is a 32-year-old primary school teacher and mum of two from Hertfordshire, who lost 54lbs by taking up running, and has since completed her first half marathon

‘Intense sessions burn loads of fat’ • 39-year-old Julia Buckley is a fitness trainer and author of Ignite: 4 Weeks To A Leaner, Faster, Power-Packed Body. She lost 10lbs of fat when she switched to short exercise sessions

SHORT, SWEET AND EFFECTIVE

Why short workouts work • When it comes to working out, short and sweet is the way forward. You’ll be less likely to waste time and you’ll feel more focused…

The best fitness classes • Burn fat, tone up and work up a sweat, with our guide to the best exercise classes for helping you get the body shape you want

How hard, how long? • How often should you exercise and how hard should you work? You’ll have to work harder during those shorter sessions…

10 easy ways to make exercise more fun! • If you get bored, you’ll be tempted to give up. Instead, keep your workouts fun and varied, by following our top 10 tips that will make exercise seem like a breath of fresh air, instead of yet another chore…

Your new body starts here! • Get ready to make your workouts short and effective. Here’s how to get the most from the training sessions you’ll be doing for the next eight weeks

WORKOUTS THAT GET RESULTS

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Boost your metabolism!

Don’t resist it!

Stability Ball - the benefits

Stay on track! • You’re halfway through your eight-week training plan and progress should be noticeable by now. Stay motivated and don’t give up!

Core conditioning

Increase the intensity

Super-charge your sessions!

Healthy habits

Short worksouts work! • You’ve lost the weight, now keep it off by continuing to make your future exercise sessions challenging

EAT SMART, LOOK GREAT!

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