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Bezig met laden... Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercisedoor Gina Kolata
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fat burning zone, target heart rate, spot reducing, runner’s high, and supplements--these are just a handful of the topics New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata tackles in her book Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health. Using her analytical research skills, Kolata sets the record straight about some of the most common exercise myths and searches for the truth about how to get fit and healthy. This book also covers the history and evolution of fitness and body-building. Whether you are a fitness guru or novice, Ultimate Fitness will have you reevaluating your notions of fitness. In Ultimate Fitness, Gina Lolata examines the various "truthes" about exercise by taking the reading on a journey through exercise in modern times, as well as intermingling her own avid love of spinning, the exercise bike experience on steroids. Kolata looks at theories of training regimes, the myth (?) of the maximum heart rate, body building, and even the concept of the "runner's high." Like her later book, Rethinking Thin, Kolata ultimately rejects the "one size fits all" notion of exercise: the idea that every body, trained the same way, will react in the same way. I agree with others who have complained that the book drags a bit in the middle, which concentrates on her preparation for a super-spinning event called Mount Everest. It feels less like a researched expose of fitness and more like an extended magazine article, but it's still an entertaining read of you speed through the spinning. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: The bestselling science reporter from The New York Times tells us what works and what doesn't when we work out Ultimate Fitness is Gina Kolata's compelling journey into the world of American physical fitness over the past thirty years. It is a funny, eye-opening, brow-sweating investigation into fads, fiction, and the science and hucksterism of fitness training. From the early days of jogging, championed by Jim Fixxâ??who later died of a heart attackâ??to stretching, cycling, aerobics, and Spinning, Kolata questions such popular notions as the "fat burning zone," "spot reducing," the effects of food on performance, how much exercise helps build fitness, and the difference between exercise to help the heart and exercise to change the body. She explains the science of physical fitness and the objective evidence behind commonly accepted prescriptions. Along the way she profiles researchers and mavericks who have challenged conventional wisdom, marketed their inventions, and sometimes bucked criticism only to back down from their original claims. Ultimate Fitness spotlights the machines and machinations of the fitness industry, exposes the charlatans and gurus, and cuts through the marketing and hype not only to assess what is healthy, but also to understand what our obsession with staying healthy says about American culture today Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The things that I want to remember from this book is that A) to be fit does not take much activity - only about 20 minutes a day of light movement. B) To change my looks or my performance will take intensity. I want to focus my intensity on both my strength training and dance. C) It is often a surprise to people that they enjoy intense physical effort and it may take some time to find the activities that one person may enjoy. As Gretchen Rubin points out "What makes you happy may not make me happy. What makes me happy may not make you happy." It took me many years to find how much dancing makes me feel happy. ( )