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Best Shape - Shortest Time
I have worked out with weights, heavy sets, low reps, high reps, swam, ran and even been to Gold's Gym in LA. Following the workouts in The Miracle Seven has helped me increase my functional strength and improved my overall physical appearance at least as well, if not better than when I took expensive supplements and did weightlifting. I'm naturally thin, and I think that as I have grown and matured, I realize that getting great results over time without injury is much better than straining my joints with heavy weights. Honestly, I look different now than I did when I was a weightlifter. My physique is better. To sum things up, I get a great workout in less time than when I lifted heavy, and I feel healthier, too. Thank you, John Peterson!

Highly Recommended!
I have been recommending this book to all of my friends. It offers some quick exercise routines that can be done anywhere and really do work!
I did not do a weigh in, but I am able to put on some old clothes that have not fit in a while. I don't even workout like they recommend. I do the exercises about 2 or 3 times a week and still getting fantastic results. I will now increase my workouts to about 4 or 5 times a week. I am 46 and not in the best of shape and I have never gotten sore from doing these routines and I add a few exercises from other parts of the book.
My next step is to start doing pull ups(which is the only apparatus you'll need)EZ UP - Over The Door, Chin UP Bar, Push UP Bar And Sit UP Bar. A Complete Power Gym.
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What I Found From This System
I don't know the correct way to write a book review, but I like The Miracle Seven by John e. Peterson and Wendie Pett. The Miracle Seven are also called the seven tiger moves, and, according to these authors, were the invention of a fitness expert of the past named John McSweeney. McSweeney discovered them by observing how animals exercise. From the start posistion of each of the exercises you powerfully flex certain muscles, and then, while maintaining tension, you move the particular body parts through their natural full range of motion. You stop at either end and increase the level of flexing while holding it for the count of one, tiger, one. Then, maintaining tension, you retrace the movement to the start posistion, stop and flex again. You do this ten times for each of the exercises. They are more strenuous than they sound. After awhile of trying them a few times I found my muscles feeling like they wanted to do them again, because they liked them and benefited from them. They require no equipment, take about twenty minutes to do, can be done anywhere conveniently, and leave the muscles with a pleasant "afterburn" effect. The rest of the book talks about nutrition and other exercises you can add as you progress. I'm glad I bought this book.

The Miracle 7
My husband and I used to dread going to the Y; and it took 1 1/2 hours between travel time and exercising. We use the exercises in this book along with intervals of jump-roping, lunges, burpees, etc. We spend no more than 40 minutes and both feel that it's a better workout than the treadmill/weight-lifting routine. I wish the book was a spiral bound, though, as we are still learning the different exercises and it would be nice to be able to leave it open to a page. I can definitely feel the difference in my upper body strength after 4 weeks, and my posture is much better. We also got John Peterson's other book, Pushing Yourself to Power, which has more of a variety of exercises.

Excellent instruction for excercise
I found the Miracle Seven to be an excellent book for promoting isometric type exercises.

Surprisingly, the exercises were very effective, even on the first day. I also found that my children easily jumped in and started doing the poses with me. I was sore the next day, but not too sore to keep exercising.

The time savings is great, but even better is the muscle strength that I am quickly regaining without weights or going to a gym to exercise.