The Minimum Method: The Least You Can Do to Be a Stronger, Healthier, Happier You

by Joey Thurman

When it comes to looking and feeling your best, less really can be more. Discover how to maximize your sleeping, eating, exercising--even thinking and breathing--with minimum effort. The truth is that most people don't actually need grueling, extreme workouts or aggressively limited diets to lose weight and feel proud to flaunt their bodies in bathing suits. What they need is a plan that is focused on efficiency--the best results for the least amount of time and effort--and one that is actually designed to be maintained for more than thirty days. In The Minimum Method by nutrition expert and celebrity fitness trainer Joey Thurman, you will learn a wealth of practical advice, simple nutrition truths, minimal-effort recipes, and how to exercise smarter, not harder. Instead of unrealistic workouts and time-consuming meal plans, Thurman's science-backed method is based on getting the maximum benefit out of things like quick and simple "exercise snacks" and sleep hygiene hacks. Thurman doesn't shy away from the shortcomings of the mainstream health-fitness-diet industry--in fact, he acknowledges and apologizes for his own past experience in perpetuating the harmful myth that everyone should be pushing their bodies to the limit in order to improve. Now, he is on a mission to help others prioritize genuine health instead of some imaginary and unattainable standard of perfection. Ultimately, The Minimum Method teaches how to adopt a healthier mindset and feeling your best when you don't get enough sleep, working fitness into your busiest days, getting back on track when you slip up, and celebrating your progress.  With The Minimum Method , you'll have the key to better health, using small, easy changes that add up to huge, life-altering results. 

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Published December 27, 2022

Reviews

[Joseph Hamilton · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are an awful lot of books in this space. Many writers have opinions about health and if you confine your reading to published books, as I do, rather than to blogs and Youtube videos, you may find that they mostly say the same things. I have tabbed this book quite a bit and will probably keep it as a handy reference until with the passage of time newer research renders it out of date. From the fly leaf bio I can see that Joey Thurman is certainly a well qualified trainer. In the chapter on stretching he doesn’t mention that stretching isn’t necessary for everyone. Keep in mind that I say that without having given this book a close cover-to-cover reading.

[Tory Guy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Strong and persuasive start but the content didn’t hold up. I can imagine this is better as a physics book as there are a lot of lists, and the way he presents the three levels of options to do is probably easier to read and visualise than to listen. Not really life-changing or much new information. But perhaps that’s the point.