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Library of Congress Control Number: 99-66421 ISBN: 0-7645-5192-2 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 1B/RX/QS/QU/IN About the Author Liz Neporent is a certified trainer and president of Plus One Health Management, a fitness consulting company in New York City. Her job is to make sure that fitness center members at more than a dozen centers in hotels and corporations throughout New York are happy, motivated, and exercising on a regular basis. Liz holds a master’s degree in exercise physiology and is certified by the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She is coauthor of the Buns of Steel: Total Body Workout and Abs of Steel videos and Weight Training For Dummies. She is also the coauthor of Fitness For Dummies. Additionally, she is the gear editor for Shape and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She appears regularly on TV and radio as an authority on fitness and exercise. Liz is an avid runner, hiker, and walker. She has competed in more than two dozen marathons and ultra-marathons and once power walked over 40 miles. She is also devoted to sports climbing, Pilates, and weight training. She lives in New York City, where she walks to work and takes daily walks with her husband, Jay Shafran, and her greyhound, Zoomer. Dedication This book is dedicated to my husband, Jay Shafran, and in loving memory of Donna Marie McGovern. Author’s Acknowledgments Many thanks to my Plus One partners, Jay Shafran, Mike Motta, and Bill Horne. Thanks also to the entire Plus One staff with special thanks to Grace De Simone, Holly Byrne, Baze Amiri, Lemont Platt, Bob Welter, Jamie Macdonald, and Tom Maraday. And, as always, thanks to the individual site managers for making my job so easy and giving me the time to do all of my extracurricular projects: John Buzzerio, Shel Bibbey, Kathleen Troy, Jason Ferrara, Terry Certain, Nancy Ngai, Nancy Belli, Mary Franz, Laura Girodano, Tom McCann, and Carrie Wujick. I am indebted to Mitchel Gray, my photographer, and all the models depicted throughout this book: Nancy Ngai, Shel Bibbey, Terry Certain, Aja Certain, Annemarie Scarammucia, Melody Fadness, Yvonne Mitchell, Chris Stothard, Stacy Collins, Val Towne, James Jankiewicz, Jay Shafran, Doris Shafran, Melissa Saxon, Patty Buttenheim, Sunshine Hopkins, and Jane Scott. To my parents, sister, brothers, nieces, nephews, and all my in-laws — thanks for your encouragement. Ditto to my good friends Patty Buttenheim, Gina Allchin, Norman Zinker, Mary Duffy, and Suzanne Schlosberg. Thanks to Frank Tirelli, Lucy McGovern, Pam DiPietro, and David Wildstein for helping out with organization and proofreading. Thanks also to Jennifer Kries, my Method instructor and good friend, and my climbing gurus and best buds, Stephen Harris and Ivan Greene. My undying gratitude to Eli Jacobson for teaching me everything he knows about tax law and exercise. A very special thanks to my husband, Jay Shafran, who is without a doubt the most supportive person on the face of the earth. (Can you please take the dog for a walk while I finish this up?) Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments through our online registration form located at www.dummies.com/register Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media Development Editors: Andrea Boucher, Tina Sims Acquisitions Editor: Stacy S. 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