Authors’ Acknowledgments
The authors are indebted to Mitchel Gray, our photographer, and all the
models depicted throughout this book: Nancy Ngai, Shel Bibbey, Terry Certain,
Aja Certain, Annemarie Scarammucia, Melody Fadness, Yvonne Mitchell, Chris
Stothard, Stacy Collins, Val Towne, James Jankiewicz, Jay Shafran, Doris
Shafran, Melissa Saxon, Patty Buttenheim, Sunshine Hopkins, and Jane Scott.Thanks, also, to our agent, Felicia Eth, for staying on the ball. At Wiley, we’d
also like to thank Acquisitions Editor Tracy Boggier, whose vision guided this
project, and Project Editor Elizabeth Kuball, who managed our book project
with grace, humor, and exceptional skill. Technical Editor Randall Broderdorf
added tremendous value to the book with his spot-on recommendations and
additions.From Suzanne:I’m grateful for input from Sarah Bowen Shea, Mary Duffy, Daryn Eller, Daniel
Hernandez, Jim Kraft, John Lehr, Wendy Niemi Kremer, Jennifer Schlosberg,
and Dana Sullivan. Nancy Gottesman performed her usual function of allow-
ing me to kvetch whenever I felt like it.Special thanks to my family — particularly my parents, my grandparents, and
my sister — for understanding my absence from various events while I worked
to meet my deadline. And thanks Mom, Dad, Espy, Jen, and John for helping
me move in the middle of all of this!Finally, I couldn’t have a better coauthor than Liz Neporent, a good friend, a
great wit, and the supreme maven of all things fitness.From Liz:Many thanks to my Plus One partners, Jay Shafran, Mike Motta, and Bill Horne.Thanks also to the entire Plus One staff, with special gratitude to Grace De
Simone, Holly Byrne, Baze Amiri, Lemont Platt, Bob Welter, Jamie Macdonald,
and Tom Maraday. And, as always, I’m grateful to the individual site managers
for making my job so easy and giving me the time to do all my extracurricular
projects: John Buzzerio, Shel Bibbey, Kathleen Troy, Jason Ferrara, Terry
Certain, Nancy Ngai, Nancy Belli, Mary Franz, Laura Girodano, Tom McCann,
and Carrie Wujick.