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Smart Exercise: Burning Fat, Getting Fit
by
Covert Bailey,
Bailey
Best-selling author Covert Bailey has revolutionized thinking about health and fitness. Smart Exercise is a comprehensive guide to exercise and a lucid explanation of how our bodies stay fit or fat. Most important, Smart Exercise reveals the world's best-kept secret about fitness: keep your muscles in peak form and everything else will follow. Using his famous sense of hum...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
January 5th 1996
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published May 30th 1994)
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It's getting a bit dated, but this is still one of the best "exercise" books I've found.
Bailey (my former phys ed prof at Missoula in 1978!) is well qualified, reliable, and funny. He's not afraid to say what he thinks, and what people really need to know. After this book, most things on exercise are just fluff ("eat this not that"). Covert goes into the biology and tells you Why. I keep rereading this book every few months.
Bailey (my former phys ed prof at Missoula in 1978!) is well qualified, reliable, and funny. He's not afraid to say what he thinks, and what people really need to know. After this book, most things on exercise are just fluff ("eat this not that"). Covert goes into the biology and tells you Why. I keep rereading this book every few months.
Besides getting an easy education in the many chemical reactions that go into our metabolism, I came away with a resolution to warm up.
I am far from being a fitness fanatic, I just love to get out and move whenever I can.
This book was on Debbie's shelf and piqued my curiosity.
I am far from being a fitness fanatic, I just love to get out and move whenever I can.
This book was on Debbie's shelf and piqued my curiosity.
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It's a bit out of date ... but Covert does a great job of explaining what's happening in your body when you exercise. Very accessible.
Covert Bailey can relate exercise physiology like nobody else. He dispells exercise myths and clarifies the best ways to get the most out of your physical activity. How to be a 'better butter burner.' Forget all the fad stuff, go with Bailey.
I re-read this book whenever I am about to start an exercise program. It has a lot of great information about fitness and is very motivating.
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Jeff sent this to me and has been so excited for me to finish it....but I have been browsing through it for almost 2 years now!
Most thorough book on exercise out there.
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