Fitness Science Explained: A Practical Guide to Using Science to Optimize Your Health, Fitness, and Lifestyle - Softcover

Matthews, Michael; Krieger, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938895460 ISBN 13: 9781938895463

Publisher: Oculus Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

Want to know how to read, understand, and use scientific research to optimize your health, fitness, and happiness?

This book is the shortcut.
Have you ever wondered why science can appear so contradictory and confusing?

Why it seems like there’s a study to “prove” or “disprove” just about any claim about diet, exercise, and lifestyle?

And what it really takes to protect yourself from bad science and benefit from good science?

If so, then Fitness Science Explained is for you.

It’s a crash course in reading, understanding, and applying scientific research to get fitter, healthier, and happier, and it’ll get you up to speed quickly regardless of your educational background.

Whether you want to discover and use evidence-based methods for building muscle or losing fat faster, reducing your risk of disease and dysfunction, or maximizing some other aspect of your body, mind, or life, this book will show you the way.

Here are just a few of the things you’ll discover inside:

• The 9 little-known reasons fitness science only appears to be so conflicting and convoluted (but isn’t when you have the inside baseball).


• How to quickly and easily determine the quality of scientific evidence and how much “weight” to give it.


• Precise and layperson-friendly definitions for each of the key terms you must understand to speak the “language” of science.


• A quick-and-dirty breakdown of the anatomy and operations of a scientific study, including methods, statistical analysis, results, funding and competing interests, and more.


• A paint-by-numbers simple checklist for rapidly and accurately assessing whether research passes the sniff test.


• How to find and access high-quality scientific research without spending a fortune.


• And more.

The bottom line is you can quickly and painlessly learn how to unlock the power of science and upgrade your fitness, health, and happiness.

Fitness Science Explained will show you how.
So, scroll up, click the "Buy" button now, and get ready to learn how science can help you level up your life.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Matthews is a bestselling fitness author of Bigger Leaner Stronger, Thinner Leaner Stronger, and The Shredded Chef, as well as the founder of the sports nutrition company Legion.

His simple and science-based approach to building muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy has sold nearly two million books and helped thousands of people build their best body ever, and his work has been featured in many popular outlets including Esquire, Men's Health, Elle, Women's Health, Muscle & Strength, and more, as well as on FOX and ABC.

James Krieger is a published scientist with over twenty scientific papers published in journals such as the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Sports Medicine, and the European Journal of Sports Science, as well as a frequent speaker at academic conferences on advances in health and fitness research.

James also runs the popular Weightology research review, where he analyzes the latest scientific research on building muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy and shows you how to turn it into immediately actionable tactics and techniques.

From the Back Cover

James and I want to make sure you receive as much value from this book as possible, so we've put together several additional free resources to help you, including:

• A reference guide to save, share, and print, with all of this book's key takeaways, checklists, and action items.

• High-quality exercise and nutrition studies for you to analyze and interpret using the information and methods you'll learn in this book.

• "Best of" issues of the most popular fitness science research reviews, including Monthly Applications in Strength Sport (MASS), Alan Aragon's Research Review (AARR), and Weightology.

• An entire year's worth of evidence-based workouts for men and women, neatly laid out and provided in several formats, including PDF, Excel, and Google Sheets.

• And more.

To get instant access to all of those free bonuses (plus a few additional surprise gifts), go here now:

⇒ fitnesssciencebook.com/bonus

Also, if you have questions or run into difficulties, just shoot us an email at mikem@legionsupplements.com or james@weightology.net, and we'll do our best to help.

From the Inside Flap

In this book, you'll learn everything you need to know to read, understand, and apply scientific research to optimize your health, fitness, and lifestyle, and also how to protect yourself against misguided, misleading, and even menacing advice supposedly supported by research.

This book can't deliver the depth of understanding provided by a formal education, but it'll give you a crash course in identifying good and bad science and credible experts and fake gurus.

Furthermore, this book doesn't require that you have any higher learning or background in science or health and fitness. We designed it from the outset to teach you in simple terms what most people will never know about how to understand and evaluate scientific research.

We won't skimp on details, either. We'll cover all of the big moving parts, including the basics of the scientific method to the differences between randomized trials and observational studies, the placebo effect, "blinding," statistical analysis, and more.

In the first section, you'll learn why diet and exercise science seems so confusing and contradictory.

You'll discover how the media sometimes accidentally and sometimes intentionally misinterprets research, how people "cherry pick" data to support conclusions, why quality research is so scarce, and more.

The second section is all about the heart of science: the scientific method.

You'll learn what the scientific method is and what its limitations are, including external validity, sample sizes, animal vs. human research, and more.

In the third section, you'll learn about the different types of studies that can be conducted and why some carry more weight than others.

The fourth section of the book is the meat and potatoes: how to read and understand scientific research.

Here you'll learn the precise definitions of key terminology used in all research, the anatomy of a scientific study and statistical analysis, and how to put it all together and assess the validity of studies, including two sample analyses for you to sink your teeth into.

You'll also get a "cheat sheet" checklist that'll help you quickly and accurately estimate the quality of research you want to review.

In the fifth and last section, you'll learn about scientific journals, including why some are more reliable than others, how to get access to full-text studies (without spending a fortune), and the most popular journals for exercise, nutrition, and supplementation.

You'll also find out how to locate studies on topics you're interested in, whether it's something we've covered or not.

That'll wrap up the book, but it won't be the end of the line for us.

It'll be the beginning, because you'll be ready to take everything you've learned and use science to enhance your health, body composition, physical performance, and any other aspect of your body and life you want to improve.

So, would you like our help?

If you answered "Yes!" then you've taken a leap, not a step, toward the new you who can wield the power of science of get fitter, leaner, stronger, and happier.

Your journey begins as soon as you order your copy of this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oculus Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938895460
• ISBN 13: 9781938895463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180