An appealing, clearly written and informative approach to health and fitness. The strength is really in the workouts. She gives you 30 days of workouts that can be done in 15 minutes anywhere, no equipment necessary. There are photos of how to complete all the moves, although it may be helpful to access her YouTube channel to master the moves.

It takes great courage to admit what she admits in the first few pages.

I didn't get this to lose weight. I saw that the co-author was made popular by her Youtube videos and so I was intrigued. I haven't heard of Zuzka Light before and I use Youtube quite frequently. She seems to have accomplished alot. The style of the book is minimal and simple. I liked the parts where she talked about what made her interested in exercise, debunking why you might not lose weight even if you exercise and how to calculate your calorie intake based on your weight and level of activity. Esepcially because she included the column for those who want to gain weight. I feel most health books focus on losing it.

But I felt that the writing was rather fake at times. I read the sentence "my workouts are effective" numerous times. I wanted to roll my eyes because it felt like preaching. Some parts of the book are dry so I skipped them. You should know that I watched Freelee's view on the video Zuzka did on what she eats. It was surprising and definitely affected my perception. While Zuzka encourages consuming healthy food like fruits and vegetables. I find that hard to connect with her video. I don't agree that coffee is healthy too. Zuzka is positive but her plan does not work for everyone.

A well written and informative book that goes well beyond just telling you, "here is your meal plan, here is your work out schedule". Honestly one of the best fitness books I've read in recent years!

Admittedly I skimmed through this book. I picked this up from my local library after hearing about it from multiple book blogs I follow. I have seen a few of Zuzka Light's YouTube videos prior to picking up her book because my trainer would use some of her burpee exercises for our bootcamp, but I had no idea it was the same person until I started reading her book.

One of the reasons I ended up skimming through this book is because I wasn't able to connect with Zuzka's voice and tone. Many of the things discussed in this book seemed superficial and she came across a bit condescending. The perfectly placed and staged pictures of her throughout the chapters didn't help with this. I felt like she was writing a book because she doesn't quite understand why people wouldn't like working out and eating right. So she gives us her plan because obviously it works for her and she loves it so we must all be doing something wrong. She does try to tackle this in her book and admits she is one of the few that loves working out, but even after this admission the condescending tone never quite went away for me. It could just be I was looking for a more motivating and less "well, why aren't you already doing this because you could look as good as me" attitude.

Some of the things I did enjoy about the book were an easy guideline for daily caloric intake based on your weight and goals (pg 85), an easy portion size guide using your palms/hands (pg 87), an explanation about the main 3 food groups to focus on to maintain health, a few of the recipes that I'll probably copy and save for later (it does help when you notice that the same dressing is used in multiple recipes), and of course the actual workout plans and examples of the exercises. I do think that some of the exercises might be much more intense than people are expecting when they pick up this book simply based on the title, but if you have watched her YouTube videos then hopefully most will understand why these 15 minute workouts work so well. I also liked the idea of her "21-item grocery list" (pg 68) until I realized that it's not really 21 items as much as it is 21 categories, but it is a good starting point.

I look forward to implementing her 15 minute workouts and also focusing on a calorie deficit with some help from her portion guidelines and 4 hour eating schedule. But other than the workouts, I did not gain much additional health information from Zuzka's book that I didn't already know. Nothing in her book made me want to get up and start making changes immediately.