Exercise for Your Muscle Type: The Smart Way to Get Fit

Front Cover
Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2004 - Health & Fitness - 294 pages
People are often dissatisfied with the success of their exercise programmes or activities, but they may simply have been the wrong programmes for their muscular structure. Exercise For Your Muscle Type eliminates this frustration by showing readers how they are built and by helping them put together an appropriate personalised comprehensive exercise programme. With a better understanding of ones own body, anyone can achieve his or her fitness goals more quickly.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Muscle Types and Your Exercise Plan
7
The SixWeek Base Level Fitness Plan
19
Determining Your Muscle Type
29
Choosing an Exercise Plan
41
Nutrition and Exercise
187
Conclusion
233
Exercise Instructions
237
Calculating Your Body Mass Index BMI
274
Muscle Determination Graphs
275
Endnotes
278
Index
280
About the Authors
288
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 15 - BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by your height in meters squared or multiplying 703 by your weight in pounds divided by your height in inches.
Page 14 - Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate at which you burn calories when you are doing nothing at all.

About the author (2004)

Lovitt is a graduate of California State University, Fresno, earned a Bachelor's degree in Sports Nutrition and a Master's degree in Exercise Physiology. She has worked as a strength and conditioning coach with Olympic athletes. Speraw is the Head Men's Volleyball Coach at the University of California, Irvine.

Bibliographic information