Living the Good Life: Your Guide to Health and Success

C.E. (Kit) Lefroy is the director of the School of Sports Administration
at Laurentian University.

This book outlines strategies for achieving a state of mind conducive to
achieving and maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle. The author,
who takes great care to avoid hard-and-fast prescriptions and standards,
makes a number of sensible points: everyone can be fit; functional
fitness is easy to attain; and it does not take a great deal of
sophisticated equipment to become and stay fit.

Living the Good Life is easy to read and makes a good deal of sense.
Readers who are looking for information on physical-fitness strategies
will be disappointed: this book is all about preparing the mind, not the
body, for an active and healthy life. The book’s major weakness is the
considerable space devoted to testimonials for the GoodLife chain of
fitness clubs. Approximately 30 GoodLife clients testify to the benefits
of the care and attention they received from their participation in the
GoodLife experience. The number and repetitious nature of these
testimonials detracts from what is otherwise a sound, readable overview
of the process of becoming and staying fit. That said, the book is a
good starting point for those who wish to attain an active and healthy
lifestyle.