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Title: You Don't Have to Be Thin to Win: The Official Chub Club Coach's Workout Program by Judy Molnar, Bob Babbitt ISBN: 0-375-50414-1 Publisher: Villard Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (19 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Totally motivating!
Comment: Judy offers a wonderful non-intensive approach to getting fit, whether you are overweight or not. This book does not hit you upside the head with a training regimine that is unrealistic. It's motivating because it offers those of us who have strayed a course correction. It confirms good eating habits and corrects bad ones. It redefines the need for good nutrition and excercise; meaning it's not just for weight loss - it's for a healthy lifestyle. It talks about the physical and emotional reasons why we eat - and overeat. For many, eating is a comfort, not a necessity. Judy points this out with sensitivity and offers suggestions for alternative sources for comfort that won't add weight. Judy's guts and determination to compete in a world of chiseled, hard-body athletes is very inspirational. She made me want to go for a swim because her of section how refreshing a good swim is. She makes it sound like a splash in the pool, rather than a workout. I just love her attitude and can't wait for the audio (books-on-tape) version. Worth reading and worth buying, for sure.

Rating: 3
Summary: Motivational!
Comment: The author is certainly an inspiration and a role model. I absolutely love how she promotes simply moving your body despite your size. In this thin-obsessed society, it is incredible to find somebody who promotes health over thinness. That alone is worth the price of the book and worth keeping it on your shelf after you're done reading it. How we women HATE our bodies. How USELESS is that emotion. Molnar is telling us something wonderful, not new maybe, but wonderful -- love what you got and do all you can with it.

For somebody like me who is overweight, middleaged , and has a few chronic but not horrible health issues, it was absolutely motivational to read about this. If I want to dance my heart out or run a marathon or run around with my dogs, the only person really stopping myself is me. Molnar's common sense solutions to some of her own issues plus her allowing herself to be important enough to have coaches and trainers helped me to realize that any obstacle I may encounter can be addressed.

My big criticism with this book is that the author WAS a lifelong athlete before her weight gain. So returning to hard exercise may have been a challenge but it was also something she had a real passion for under all that weight. For a born and bred couch potato who would rather read than walk ANYWHERE, I had trouble identifying with her reawakening. In addition, Molnar is still very young and her advice is really geared to 20 or 30 somethings. Us middleaged folk are sort of left in the dust.

For those reasons, I wasn't overjoyed with this book. But kudos to the author. You go girl!

Rating: 5
Summary: Motivation for the Completely Unmotivated!
Comment: I'm a big woman, and I do mean big. Even as a kid, I didn't like to excercise, and it didn't change when I got to adulthood. But, about a year ago, I went to the Dr's and got the shock of my life when I stepped on the scale. I was about 30 lbs. heavier than I'd ever been before, and I'd been pretty darn heavy to begin with! I was upset and rather scared, because I didn't have a clue how to change the situation.

I work part time in a bookstore for a little extra money (I teach high school), and one night came across this book. I was fascinated from the minute I saw it. For the first time, somebody was telling me that I could truly be physically fit without weighing 120 lbs! Judy's book helped me get started on a physical activity regimen that I have been shocked to discover I actually enjoy. Using some of her techniques gave me the guidelines and the oomph to get started, the hardest part of any change in lifestyle. I went from having going from my classroom to the office as the high point of my daily activity to spending approximately 1.5 to 2.5 hours at the gym about 6 days a week. It feels wonderful. I've lost some weight, although not as much as I might like, but I'm healthier than I've been in ages. I've gotten control of some long time back problems, my blood pressure is the best it's been since I was in college, and in spite of a multitude of allergies and asthma, I'm breathing better than I have in years. Without Judy's book for inspiration, I'd never have started. She truly can make you believe that *anyone* is capable of setting a fitness goal and acheiving it.