The Portable Personal Trainer: 100 Ways to Energize Your Workouts and Bring Out the Athlete in You

I absolutely adore this book. It's motivating, instructional, inspiring and to-the-point. The author succeeds in getting me excited about workouts and shows me exactly how to achieve results. It offers new information I haven't heard before and it is written in easy-to-understand language (none of this fitness-babble so many authors seem keen to churn out).I give this book an unequivocal "A" grade.

This is an absolutely lovely, lovely book. I exercise three times a week with a group of about nine women and have been doing so for six years. We have "book club" meetings every Sunday. We discuss books that have had the most impact on our lives -- an "Oprah's Book Club of Fitness" if you will. We've reviewed hundreds of books together and this ranks as one of our top three books of all time.- Perhaps the most valuable part of this book was that it helped us clear up so much confusion surrounding exercise, nutrition and weight loss. So often these days, fitness, diet or health books are more confusing than they are helpful. The Portable Personal Trainer cuts right through the clutter with 300-500 word strategies that get right to the point and offer great instruction, humor, passion and inspiration.- The insights are from an author who obviously spends every ounce of his being on fitness and shares it so eloquently with his readers. How many fitness authors are the "real deal?" This guy- The strategies are fresh. Harr's book is so wonderfully fresh offering concepts I simply have not heard before.- The 100 strategies contain a lovely mix of mental, physical and spiritual. They range from nutrition basics (he tells you everything you need to know about nutrition in 12 words!) to exercise tips to motivational secrets to empowering yourself through exercise.This is a very special book and I believe it's destined for greatness, just as we imagine the author is. So, a heartfelt thanks, Eric Harr, from a group of women in Phoenix, Arizona who just think you and your book are about the best things to happen to the fitness world in the last five years.

I've read countless fitness books trying to reach my goals. I had a baby last year and I could not, for the life of me, get back to a respectable weight. Time, motivation and lack of enjoyment for exercise were killing my efforts. I'd try the Adkins diet or aerobic tapes. They'd work for three weeks, then I'd go right back. Then my husband bought me Eric Harr's book. I am not kidding: I read it for about an hour and got more excited about my exercise than I have ever been. It motivated me and got me out the door every morning for the past three weeks. I have lost 8 pounds in three weeks and I've had fun the whole way. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Eric Harr for writing this book. It's a gem! I will tell all my friends.

This book contains 100 strategies about how to bring passion and delight to any personal training program and into one's life. Each "tip" is followed by an action item that provides specific recommendations about how to incorporate it into one's fitness program and life. My personal favorite strategy is # 89, "exercise with a dog". This tip talks about how dogs can lift our spirits and keep us living in the moment.The action item suggests you watch your dog closely during the excercise and notice how focused they are on the "thrill of movement"."Passion and performance"; what a wonderful connection! A motivational book that actually has great advice! I highly recommend this "trainer".