People need to realize that research has always indicated low to moderate levels of exercise - performed properly and regularly - can provide benefits that improve and extend life and provides preventative health benefits. What's happened is that too many people involved in the fitness business have decided to sell people a bill of goods, in that you need to pound yourself into a pulp for health's sake.

This is not to say that high intensity exercise isn't beneficial. But high intensity exercise should be a choice that people make, not a necessity. Unfortunately, too many people - both fitness pros and fitness fanatics alike - have made high intensity exercise de rigueur.

This book should be required reading for fitness professionals and fitness fanatics. As someone who has worked in the field for almost 20 years I can say this with 100% certainty. Too many of "us" have told too many of "you" that you have to turn into exercise-obsessed zombies in order to achieve health and wellness. Too many fitness nuts out there have become obsessed with exercise - and the pursuit of exercise - to the point where they measure their self-worth by how much they do and how often that they do it. I have lost a fair share of clients over the years that insisted that they needed to kill themselves in order to get into shape, to be healthy. I don't believe in that and I never have. The No Sweat Exercise Plan will act as a much-needed slap in the face to the exercise obsessed.

So go out and by this book; you'll be happy you did, and so will Dr. Simon.

Eight and a half stars out of ten.

Sal Marinello is a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach and Certified Personal Trainer, a U.S.A. Weightlifting Certified Coach, a full-time, private Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach, an assistant football coach and a Head Strength Coach for a suburban New Jersey High School. He has no free time and writes a lot.