Anatomy of Exercise for Longevity: A Trainer's Guide to a Long and Healthy Life

by Hollis Liebman

A recent study by Brigham and Women's Hospital and the National Cancer Institute found a direct relationship between levels of physical activity and increased longevity, regardless of body weight. The results revealed that walking briskly for just 11 minutes per day was associated with a gain of 1.8 years of life expectancy, compared with doing no such activity. Walking briskly for 43 minutes a day was associated with a gain of 4.5 years! Facts like this make it hard for almost anyone resisting exercise to find a reasonable excuse. Anatomy of Exercise for A Trainer's Guide to a Long and Healthy Life is the latest addition to a best-selling series and the ideal guide to approaching and maintaining physical activity beginning at any age. The Anatomy of... books are revolutionary for their accessibility and insight into how different muscles of the body actually work during exercise. As such, they meet a variety of amateur and professional needs. In all, the series' ten titles have sold more than 250,000 copies in North America. This new book will perhaps be the most enthusiastically received. After all, everyone wants to live longer. The features No other exercise book provides such rich detail tailored to the general reader. Approachable, non-judgmental and accessible, it is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to live a long, healthy and active life-- and don't we all?

Genres: Fitness

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2015

About the author

See also Hollis Lance Liebman

Reviews

[Meg]

Listen, why? None of these workouts really make sense. I'm mean I'm sure they are fine to do but it looks like you just put all the exercises in a bag and picked them out randomly. Now you have long stretches followed by random weight exercises. Also a number of your cardio exercises you tell people not to go too fast. There might be good reason for why the authors choose the things they did but I really don't understand. ALSO - I thought with the expected readership there would have been more modification suggestions, easier for those who aren't strong enough yet and harder for when they get better - if you do the same workouts w/o any kind of progression you won't get the same value over time. Anyway. Blah.