Body by Science
A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week

Five Stars out of Five. Highest recommendation. STOP. Read this book before you do one more exercise routine. McGuff is an Emergency physician with an avocation for fitness and John Little is a professional fitness trainer. Body by Science is subtitled “A research-based program for strength training,......more

Body by Science does an excellent job at explaining the science of fat metabolism. It advocates a once a week, superslow, high intensity training regimen with emphasis on getting sufficient rest for optimal muscle growth. They make the argument that the training stimulus must be powerful enough to s......more

What can I say? It worked for me. This is not a book for sport-specific athletes or aspiring Olympic lifters. This is a book for people who want to build and/or maintain muscle mass without spending very much time. In other worlds, this is a book for most people, especially older people. I'll stay spe......more

Loses a star because while most of it seems to be backed up by pretty decent science (I'm basing this judgment on descriptions of studies, not on looking up the studies myself, because I'm far too lazy), it has some unsupported claims sprinkled in. The gist (and what does seem well supported) is that......more

BY FAR the best single book for getting on the right path toward exercise. This is one hefty book on information going off of real world results and science based studies. I personally have searched high in low for a lot of information that is present in this book and ending mostly looking at studie......more