Body of Knowledge: The Reference for Building Muscle, Staying Fit, and Living Healthy

Take charge of your well-being, improve your health and fitness, eat better, feel younger, and live longer Body of Knowledge offers you a compendium of time-tested information for building muscle, performing aerobic training, improving your nutritional eating habits, improving your flexibility and mobility as you age, optimizing your sleep and recovery, and testing everything to make sure you are improving. Build more muscle. Train your heart. Stay mobile. Eat better. Live longer. Learn over a dozen different weight training systems Discover the scientifically-proven best exercises for each area of your body for building muscle Increase your exercise effectiveness with over 40 intensity methods Learn how to avoid and deal with injuries Determine how to use various cardiovascular training modalities to improve fat loss and heart health Stay mobile as you age with various methods of stretching and measurement of normal ranges of joint motion Learn how to identify over-training and optimize rest and recovery Improve every aspect of your diet, including nutritional analysis of foods, various dietary systems, how to eat healthy at restaurants, and optimal use of nutritional supplements Stay in tune with your fitness levels by using dozens of easy, at-home assessment tests