Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week. The book starts with their definitions of three main words: There is more high-quality scientific knowledge about the body available today than ever before, but it lives in many different fields and is often inaccessible without rigorous scientific training. Recommended to people with open mind for weight lifting and recovery. We understand that proper exercise is a stimulus which acts on your body to demand an adaptive change. Well written and thoroughly researched. This book has been a life changer for me. In Body By Science, bodybuilding powerhouse John Little teams up with fitness medicine expert Dr. Doug McGuff to present a scientifically proven formula for maximizing muscle development in just 12 minutes a week. This guy, Dr. Doug McGuff, at least from a layman's perspective, has his ducks in a row. It was my exercise book for when I'm too tired to read much else. The authors believe they have developed the maximally efficient workout regimen for the average individual in a 10-minute workout once per week. While short and hard "to-failure" workouts seem fine according to the theory, I'm doubtful that I could build up the overall strength that a system like Starting Strength has given me. Building muscle has never been faster or easier than with this revolutionary once-a-week training program In Body By Science, bodybuilding powerhouse John Little teams up with fitness medicine expert Dr. Doug McGuff to present a scientifically proven formula for maximizing muscle development in just 12 minutes a week. The authors believe they have developed the maximally efficient workout regimen for the average individual in a 10-minute workout once per week. I tell people this is like doing Taijiquan with weights. This is one hefty book on information going off of real world results and science based studies. Lift heavy-ass weights super-slow until you’re bankrupt? It calls slow resistance training. page 10 | location 145-151 | Added on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:14:46 People will see a group of champion swimmers and observe a certain appearance, or they’ll see a group of professional bodybuilders and observe another appearance, and it seems logical to assume that there is something about what these athletes are doing in their training that has created the way they appear. It is a book that gets technical yet, you don't need to understand the details on the first read, you only need to get the intuition, once you have the intuition you will understand why this is somethi. Third it covers a huge range of benefits for become healthy by training this way. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I've also recommended this book to a lot of my patients. Doug McGuff is an emergency physician motivated in large part by seeing the end consequences of our collective poor health in his ER and utilized his scientific training to attempt to identify a solution. Welcome back. Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2017. It also tracks with my own training experience. Part 1 of this review will concentrate on my overall impression(s) of Body by Science, by Dr. Doug McGuff and John Little. I've read it before, so nothing new. The book argues for working out maybe once a week, but really really hard. I've been doing this for a while and not only has my strength improved but so has my flexibility. First thing to consider is intensity, which is the main focus of the book, the higher the intensity the better. Machine circuit is preferable to free weights because bodybuilding magazines are controlled by Big Free Weights conglomerates. I highly recommend and endorse this method! They make the argument that the training stimulus must be powerful enough to shock your body into survival mode, citing several studies in scientific journals that showed elevated growth in response to the superslow method (or HIIT bike training). To ensure quality, it emulated McDonald's. It's possible that with enough qualifications it would not contradict other books and studies, but they don't tend to give those qualifications. They were both referred to me by trusted friends. Refresh and try again. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2015. They also quote large improvements from new recruits (I don't have the book to hand, but it was in the order of "50% improvement over 12 weeks! Last year, Buzzfeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen struck a chord with her viral article “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.”... To see what your friends thought of this book. Highly recommend this book. Not against "'cardio' exercises" as some think, rather the authors explain (very well, and repeatedly) that taking each rep to its extreme forces one to use deeper, fast twitch muscle fibers which is in turn much more productive to your cardiovascular system. Well written and thoroughly researched. This book came out in 2009. I’ve tried many different workout programs, INSANITY, CrossFit, Strongfirst, many others. If you should ever attend a national AAU swim meet and sit through the whole day’s competition, from the initial qualifiers to the finals, you would see these “swimmer’s bodies” change dramatically over the course of the day. As a health care practitioner I understand the importance of resistance training. Built By Science begins with six body-part-specific video courses on muscular anatomy, skeletal anatomy, muscle function, and exercise application.