BODY BY SCIENCE

Product Description Twelve minutes is all it takes to maximize muscle size and strength shed fat and dramatically reduce your risk of heart attack cancer and diabetesBody 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 as little as 12 minutes a week you''ll:Build muscle size and strength fastOptimize cardiovascular healthRamp up your metabolismLower cholesterolIncrease insulin sensitivityImprove flexibilityManage arthritis and chronic back painBuild bone densityReduce your risk for diabetes cancer heart attack and more About the Author John Little is known and respected in martial arts and film circles as the worlds foremost authority on the life and philosophy of Bruce Lee. He is the author of The Warrior Within which offered the first formal presentation of Lees philosophy. In 1998 Little produced directed and wrote the score for Bruce Lee: In His Own Words which won the prestigious Toronto World-Wide Short Film Festival award for Best Documentary. Littles shooting script for this film resides in the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills California a branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Body by ScienceA RESEARCH-BASED PROGRAM FOR STRENGTH TRAINING BODY BUILDING AND COMPLETE FITNESS IN 12 MINUTES A WEEKBy DOUG McGUFF JOHN LITTLEMcGraw-HillCopyright © 2009Doug McGuff and Northern River Productions Inc.All right reserved.ISBN: 978-0-07-159717-3ContentsChapter OneDefining Health Fitness and Exercise Strange as it may sound fitness is a state that lacks a precise definition. Most of us use the term without really knowing what it is we''re talking about. The fitness industry offers no definitions nor does the medical industry. A similar problem arises when one attempts to obtain a valid definition of health. In preparing to write this book we looked extensively into the scientific literature including many medical textbooks to seek out a definition. We were surprised to discover that the terms health and fitness-while bandied about liberally within the fields of medicine health care and physical training-have never been given a universally agreed-upon definition. When examining his textbook from medical school The Pathologic Basis of Disease Doug discovered that while this book had no difficulty defining pathology it never once presented a definition of health. The balance of catabolism and anabolism People routinely refer to health and fitness as if the two concepts were cojoined. The popular assumption is that as one''s level of physical fitness rises the level of health rises along with it. Unfortunately no direct scientific link between these two conditions exists. The human body you see is never static; it is a dynamic organism that carries on a perpetual balancing act between breaking down (catabolism) and building up (anabolism). This is how your blood-clotting system functions for example. It is continually breaking down and building up clots keeping a balance between your blood viscosity and coagulability to ensure a smooth flow and still stem any bleeding that should occur (but not so aggressively as to produce clogged arteries and infarcts). Your pH balance blood gases hormone levels electrolytes fluid levels and innumerable other complex processes are constantly shifting and changing as well within t