Description
Book SynopsisTwelve minutes is all it takes to maximize muscle size and strength, shed fat, and dramatically reduce your risk of heart attack, cancer, and diabetes
Body by Science challenges everything you thought you knew about exercise and takes you deep inside your body's inner workings--all the way down to the single cell--to explain what science now knows about the role of exercise in human health.With the help of medical diagrams and step-by-step photos, exercise scientist Doug McGuff, M.D., and weight-training pioneer John Little present a revolutionary new workout protocol that fully leverages the positive effects of high-intensity, low-frequency weight training, while avoiding the negative effects of traditional aerobic-centric exercise.
In as little as 12 minutes a week, you'll:
- Build muscle size and strength, fast
- Optimize cardiovascular health
- Ramp up your metabolism
- Lower cholesterol
- Increase insulin sensitivity
- Improve flexibility
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1: Exercise: Who Can You Trust?
2: Conservation of Energy: The Enemy of Progress
3: "I Can't (Or Don't Want to) Get Bigger": the Genetic Factor
4: The Dose-Response Relationship of Exercise
5: The Ideal Exercise Stimulus (What Type and How Much)
6: The Optimal Training Frequency
7: Enhancing the Body's Response to Exercise
8: Nutrition for Peak Performance
9: What Exercise Can - and Can't - Give You
10: The Ideal Exercise Prescription for Weight Loss
11: The Ideal Exercise Prescription for Athletes (Golf, Hockey, Football, Baseball, BMX
12: Tweaking the Stimulus: Advanced Exercise Techniques
13: A Rational Approach to Rehabilitating Injuries(Back, Knee, Shoulder, Neck, Elbows)
14: Creating the Perfect Workout Environment
15: Strength Training and the Heart (Global Metabloic Conditioning)
16: Long Term Fitness (Safety Considerations)
17: The Degradation of the Fitness Industry
18: Exercise for Seniors
19: Questions and Answers
