cover image Jonny Bowden's Shape Up!: The Eight-Week Plan to Transform Your Body, Your Health and Your Life

Jonny Bowden's Shape Up!: The Eight-Week Plan to Transform Your Body, Your Health and Your Life

Jonny Bowden. Da Capo Press, $25 (242pp) ISBN 978-0-7382-0401-7

In a previous life, Jonny Bowden was, like Eartha Kitt, a professional musician, touring with Herbie Hancock and Carly Simon. However, for the past three years, he has come to be known as the hugely popular weight-loss coach on iVillage.com. With Jonny Bowden's Shape Up!: The 8-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Your Health, and Your Life, he expands beyond the Web to reach fitness fanatics who want to own a copy of his program, which, he maintains, focuses on the individual, and not just her weight-loss or exercise goal. Confident, informative and direct, Bowden has a voice that commands attention. ( May)