Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week
Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Consequences You Want in 12 Minutes a Week Books
- ISBN13: 9780071597173
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Building muscle has never been quicker or simpler than with this revolutionary once-a-week training program
In Body By Science, bodybuilding powerhouse John Small teams up with fitness medicine expert Dr. Doug McGuff to bestow a scientifically proven formula for maximizing muscle development in just 12 minutes a week. Backed by rigorous research, the authors prescribe a weekly high-intensity program for increasing strength, revving metabolism, and building muscle for a total fitness experience.
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I found this to be an utter embarassment to the field of exercise science. So full of contradictions I wouldn’t even know where to start. Leads people to judge that minimal investment is needed to remain fit for life. So far away from reality!!! I wouldn’t urge this to anyone interested in improving their fitness level. There isn’t an athletic populace that I have ever worked with at any level from recreational to professional who would follow a program like this.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book claims to be dead on scientific. Unfortunately this is not the case. One example is at the beginning when the writers claim that walking a mile and running that same mile will burn the same number of calories. This may possibly not be further from the truth.
The book itself is well written but some of the arguments have too many flaws. It was a excellent read in the sense of learning another top of view in the lifting world but there are much better HIT books out there that fundamentally make more sense. I suggest Ellington Darden’s The New HIT.
I also reckon it is ridiculous that John Small is using this book (Body by Science) to use his entirely non scientific and non physiological based styles of training such as max contraction. Anything excellent in this book has been ruined by all the mythical garbage placed in it. Your much better off going and reading a physiology text book.
Rating: 2 / 5
Dr. McGuff and John Small do a fantastic job on this new book which is a VG combo of many high intensity books that have come down the pike but done in a more thorough and scientific make.
I don’t agree that one strength training session a week is optimal (in my experience 2 weekly sessions work better than one) nor do I agree that a calorie is just a calorie (stay the Nutrition and Metabolism Society website[...] for more info on this theme), but for the most part, the in rank in Body by Science is rock solid and I highly urge it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Body by Science has some fantastic chapters on somatypes, insulin metabolism, aerobic and cardio myths,stout loss, genetics, epigenetics, romanticizing our ancestors, assuming causal relationships when looking at fit people, and training adaptation. As with any book, it’s vital to keep checking on updates to the in rank presented.
This book states that omega-6 fats are harmful. Here is some new research from Webmd:
[...]
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Jan. 26, 2009 — The American Heart Association (AHA) has come to the defense of omega-6 fatty acids, the fats found in many grains and most vegetable oils that some have linked to heart disease.
In a scientific advisory released today, an AHA panel noted that there is small credible evidence that omega-6 fatty acids promote inflammation and increase cardiovascular risk.
The experts concluded that reducing omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) from their current levels would be more likely to increase the typical American’s risk for heart disease than fall it.
“Our goal was simply to let Americans know that foods containing omega-6 fatty acids can be part of a healthy diet, and can even help improve your cardiovascular risk profile,” researcher and panel chairman William S. Harris, PhD, notes in a news release.”
So now I question other claims in the book, since authors ordinarily get their in rank from others who get their in rank from an original-but-not-so-credible source, and since it has been repeated so often we often don’t question the origin. We just judge it because we are bamboozled by chemical terms and processes that we accept on faith because we cannot “see” the microscopic biological processes ourselves.
From the Clarence Bass site:
“The Washington Post also reported a small-known upshot of Wayne Westcott’s slow lift studies. “The terrible news,” Westcott told The Post, “is that when I finished both studies (of slow lifting vs. standard lifting), only one of the 147 people caught up… sought after to continue the training. We feel it’s a small too tedious, too tough for the average person.”
The written description of how to do right squats is right, yet the accompanying photo shows one of the authors doing a sit on your heels with rear to heels and heels up with consequence on the balls of the feet and knees in front of the toes. I’ve been taught that this position (in the photo) is harmful to the knees.
The authors urge going to positive failure once a week, preferably on the Nautilus-type machines (which they have at their facilities) since going to positive failure with free-weights may possibly be perilous. The exercises they urge are done on the machines in a sitting position, which is not functional for everyday life, in case that is vital to you. Their free-consequence version of the seated row is a standing, bent-over row, which puts a lot of leverage on the low back.
Even with these problems the book is very excellent about reducing training anxiety, setting realistic goals, pointing out that sports aren’t necessarily healthy, and encourages healthy eating. I urge reading the articles on Doug McGuff’s two websites and watching his online videos.
Rating: 4 / 5
Hi,
This is a fantastic book! Highly not compulsory.
If you’re interested in strengthening to help make yourself as healthy as you can be, you must do so only in accordance with your joint and muscle function, and do so in a slow and safe manner directly targeting your muscles with minimum momentum to induce maximum stress to trigger changes, using the most safe and well-organized tools for the job.
Anything else (thwart-training, cardio, consequence lifting/throwing, recreation, barbells, strongman competitions, etc.) is inefficient, but you may get fit in spite of such methods.
The thought boils down to doing strength training in a slow manner, using strength training machines. This is where strength training is heading anyway, despite a few groups hanging on, frequently because of traditions. Historically, strength training went from lifting rocks, to shot-filled barbells, to plate biased barbells, and then pulley and plate biased machines. Then Science entered the picture, and we were blessed with machines with cams, and now the field is quickly tender towards computerized machines and all of their benefits.
This book has an absolutely fantastic discussion of the difference between fitness and health. Fitness would be a powerlifter who can sit on your heels 500 lbs. Health, or lack of in this example, would be that same powerlifter has arthritis and a huge gut…So who really cares if he can sit on your heels 500 lbs, as his own methods are slowly making him less functional by many measures.
Nowadays, it is simple to be impressed by the glitz of videos showing impressive accomplishments in sporting events, frequently by the genetically blessed, or by videos of people being tired, lying sweaty on the floor after some cardio thwart-training, perhaps indicating how ‘terrible a$$’ and macho their exercise methods are. Don’t be. Laugh it off. Exercise your muscles rationally for best consequences. Really THINK about how you are exercising.
Rating: 5 / 5