Fitness for Dummies

Suzanne Schlosberg is a magazine writer known for her humorous approach to health and fitness. She is a contributing editor to Shape and Health magazines and coauthor of Weight Training For Dummies and Kathy Smith's Fitness Makeover. She is also the author of The Ultimate Workout Log, Second Edition, and an instructor in UCLA Extension's Certificate in Journalism Program. Suzanne writes frequently about her fitness adventures - from her failed tryout for The American Gladiators to her record-setting victory in Nevada's Great American Sack Race, a quadrennial event in which competitors run 5 miles while carrying a 50-pound sack of chicken feed on their shoulders. Suzanne also has chronicled her two bicycle treks across the United States. She never travels without her weight-lifting gloves and has put them to good use at gyms in Zimbabwe, Morocco, Guam, and the Micronesian island of Yap. A Los Angeles native, Suzanne refuses to walk anywhere, including the Starbucks 0.4 miles from her house - to which she commutes daily in her SUV. 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 the members of more than a dozen fitness 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 Abs of Steel, Buns of Steel: Total Body Workout, and Weight Training For Dummies. She also wrote Fitness Walking For Dummies. Additionally, she is the Gear Editor for Shape magazine 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 and has competed in more than two dozen marathons and ultra-marathons. She's also a devoted sports climber, walker, hiker, and weight trainer. She lives in New York City with her husband, Jay Shafran, and her greyhound, Zoomer. Tere Stouffer Drenth is a fitness writer and retired professional runner who now spends her days hiking, walking, and snowshoeing with her workout partner, a chocolate Lab named Maxine. She is the author of Marathon Training For Dummies and coauthor of Fit Pregnancy For Dummies.Schlosberg, Suzanne is the author of 'Fitness for Dummies', published 2005 under ISBN 9780764578519 and ISBN 0764578510.