Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life

by Carrie Underwood, Carrie Underwood (Read by), Eve Overland (Read by), Cara Clark (Read by)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

It's always wonderful to see celebrities let their hair down and open up their lives in an attempt to communicate a positive message. Whatever you think of the celebrity, they often have a large fan base, eager to listen. It's an important platform that people like Carrie Underwood understands and treats seriously. Here, she provides a program for a healthy lifestyle which also gives readers, and fans especially, a small look into her own life while encouraging everyone to be their best self.

"I want to be healthy and fit 52 weeks of the year, but that doesn't mean I have to be perfect every day. This philosophy is a year-round common-sense approach to health and fitness that involves doing your best most of the time—and by that I don't mean being naughty for three days and good for four. I mean doing your absolute best most of the time during every week, 52 weeks of the year."—Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood believes that fitness is a lifelong journey. She wasn’t born with the toned arms and strong legs that fans know her for. Like all of us, she has to work hard every day to look the way that she does! In FIND YOUR PATH she shares her secrets with readers, with the ultimate goal of being the strongest version of themselves, and looking as good as they feel. Carrie’s book will share secrets for fitting diet and exercise into a packed routine—she’s not only a multi-Platinum singer, she’s a businesswoman and busy mom with two young children. Based on her own active lifestyle, diet, and workouts, FIND YOUR PATH is packed with meal plans, recipes, weekly workout programs, and guidelines for keeping a weekly food and workout journal. It also introduces readers to Carrie's signature Fit52 workout, which involves a deck of cards and exercises that can be done at home—and it sets her fans on a path to sustainable health and fitness for life. Fit52 begins with embracing the "Pleasure Principle" in eating, making healthy swaps in your favorite recipes, and embracing a long view approach to health—so that a cheat a day won't derail you.

Throughout the book, Carrie shares her personal journey towards optimal health, from her passion for sports as a kid, to the pressure to look perfect and fit the mold as she launched her career after winning American Idol, to eventually discovering the importance of balance and the meaning of true health. For Carrie, being fit isn't about crash diets or a workout routine that you're going to dread. It’s about healthy choices and simple meals that you can put together from the ingredients in your local grocery store, and making the time, every day, to move, to love your body, and to be the best version of yourself.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062798039
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/03/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	771,993
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Carrie Underwood is a multi-Platinum award-winning singer, songwriter, and actress. Since rising to fame as winner of the fourth season of American Idol, Underwood has become one of the most successful artists in any musical genre. She has sold over 64 million records worldwide and recorded 27 No. 1 singles, 14 of which she co-wrote, and she has gone on to win 7 Grammys, 11 Billboard Music Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music Awards, 20 CMT Music Awards, 7 CMA Awards, 13 American Music Awards, and countless other awards and honors. She has been recognized by Rolling Stone magazine as “the female vocalist of her generation in any genre,” by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People, and by Billboard as "Country Music’s Reigning Queen." She has hosted the CMA Awards for 12 consecutive years, and has just been nominated for three awards, including Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year and Entertainer of the Year. She returned last Fall for her seventh season as the voice of primetime television’s #1 program, NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Originally from Checotah, Oklahoma, she lives in Nashville with her husband and sons.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Fitness Should be Simple ix

Part 1 The Girl You Think I Am: Healthy Lessons from the Softball Field to the Stadium Stage

1 Thank God for Hometowns: Growing Up and Growing Roots 3

2 I Ain't in Checotah Anymore: How American Idol (and a Few Extra Pounds) Happened 23

3 Love Wins: Getting Strong, Finding Balance, and Prioritizing Body Love 35

Part 2 Who Are You? Push Yourself (a Little) to Know Yourself (a Lot)

4 Change: My Fitness Philosophy 57

5 Play On: The Fit52 Workout 85

6 Legs: How I Got 'Em and What You Can Do for Yours 141

7 The Champion: Extracurricular Fitness for Wherever You Are 167

Part 3 Undo It: Balancing Food Indulgence and Food Sense

8 Unapologize: The Pleasure Principle 187

9 Forever Changed: How to Love Food and Stay Healthy (with Recipes!) 223

10 Before You Cheat: Vice Management and Derailers 289

Epilogue: See You Again 309

Appendix 1 My Journal Accountability Template for Tracking 313

Appendix 2 Modifications for the Fit52 Workout: Modify Up or Modify Down 315

Acknowledgments 331