College Basic Training: Strengthen Your Mind and Body to Leap Any College Hurdle

College Basic Training is a be-good-to-your-body guide for young women in college or going off to college. The colorfully whimsical and easy-to-read chapters offer life-changing wellness tips in a lighthearted and casual narrative. Written by a personal trainer and health coach, College Basic Training gets straight to the point when it comes to exercise, nutrition, body image, media distraction, substance abuse, sex, mental health, safety, and more. Included are eye-opening personal stories of trial and tribulation, illustrating the tools needed to avoid or overcome adversity and pressures that come with college life. Sprinkled with humor, this book will easily guide you, your daughter, or your granddaughter toward a healthy lifestyle and a positive future. It might even save a life!

"...an informed and informative instruction guide that is thoroughly "user friendly" from beginning to end. More than just another exercise manual, College Basic Training covers such aspects of personal health and well-being as sleep, nutrition, eating disorders, alcohol and drugs, media distraction, and time management. Of special note is the chapter devoted to sexual assault... College Basic Training is very highly recommended..."
-Midwest Book Review, Small Press Bookwatch, December 2014

"...By directing advice to college women, this book goes where few others attempt, creating the kind of training program that fits easily into a college student's life. It should be on the reading lists of any heading off to school or moving away from home for the first time."
-California Bookwatch, December 2014