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Tom Venuto: Burn the Fat, Feed the MuscleDetailed info on healthy nutrition, goal-setting and motivation, the basics of weight-training, and cardio for fat loss. If you could have just one volume on getting lean, this is it.  Ian King, Lou Schuler: Men's Health The Book of Muscle Terrific guide to weight training for both sexes. High-quality photos, innovative exercises as well as standard fare, good background in laymen's language.  Lou Schuler: The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess Tells women what they need to know about lifting weights: their workouts should be heavy and intense, just like a guy’s.  Barbara J. Rolls: The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan : Feel Full on Fewer Calories The science of satiety. This book teaches real-world portion control and how to make healthful, filling choices.  |
Don’t you love it when your views are vindicated by an objective third party? I’m feeling smugly content because sciencedaily.com (love that site–because I’m all about scientific verification) posted a report today confirming that people who keep track of their food intake lose twice as much "weight" than those who don’t. (By "weight," I’m presuming the [...] This is on my mind because of a recent conversation between myself and a good friend and training partner. I announced that I’d like to tighten up a bit by the time I reach 50 this September. My goal—a somewhat scary one—is to get back to 125 or thereabouts. It’s scary because 130 is such a [...] I’m keeping a food journal again–primarily because I really needed to figure out how many calories I’m taking in so I could tweak, if need be, to keep burning the fat. I resist calorie counting, probably because I was so obsessively weird about it in my youth. I could’ve rattled off a calorie count for just [...] |
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