Brilliant little book on diet and exercise with simple do-able steps to dramatically improve your health. The rating is as much for the idea as for the book. Lots of good, specific information about incorporating a do-able regime into your life. One to re-read. ( )

Interesting. Didn't find it as inspiring as the Fast Diet. Exercise is not my thing but it gave me something to think about and try out. I walk as exercise so perhaps the 30 seconds of very fast walking is worth a try and a few more hills. ( )

I bought this book shortly after reading "The Fast Diet: The Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer" by Michael Mosley & Mimi Spencer. I have recently started applying the 5:2 diet principles suggested in "The Fast Diet" (restricting calorie intake to 600 calories for two days a week) with impressive results.

I also watched the Horizon programme made by Michael Mosley on High Intensity Training (HIT). If you've seen the programme you probably don't need to buy the book. The basic messages are very simple:

- A diet combined with exercise is more effective than either done alone
- People with good levels of aerobic fitness are much less likely to get heart disease, cancer, diabetes or become demented
- Maximum benefit from exercise is via short bursts of high intensity activity followed by recovery periods (three bursts is sufficient to get a dramatic benefit)
- Build in strength exercises to an HIT programme
- Fast exercise will be fully effective only if you lead an otherwise active life

As with "The Fast Diet" book, Michael Mosley details various research studies to explain how and why this regime is beneficial, and co-author Peta Bee adds specific exercise routines.

The book provides simple, easily achievable exercise routines, supported by persuasive arguments that encourage the reader to get active, and all achievable in a very time-efficient way.

As Michael Mosley states at the end of the book, "We were born to move. Some of us more reluctantly than others. So let's find ways to do it more. Fast." ( )