SMART EXERCISE: Burning Fat, Getting Fit

Covert Bailey

ISBN 10: 0395661145 / ISBN 13: 9780395661147

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1994, Boston, MA, 1994

About this Item

BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. NY Times Bestseller. Excellent discourse on the role of exercise in health from Covert Bailey (1931-), author, TV personality, and celebrated for his book, Fit or Fat (1978) in which emphasized exercise in promoting weight-loss. This volume in 292 pgs, 12 chapters: 1, Fitness Equals Health; 2, How Muscle Works; 3, Metabolism; 4, Exercise Basics; 5, Training; 6; Swimming & Walking; 7, Before Exercise & After; 8, Measuring Your Own Fat & Fitness; 9, Diet Tricks for Performance; 10, Sweating & Dehydration; 11, How to Make More Muscle; and 12, The Payoff.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SMART EXERCISE: Burning Fat, Getting Fit
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1994, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395661145
• ISBN 13: 9780395661147
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Lynn Garnica (Cartoonist)
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued

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Synopsis

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 humor to great effect, Bailey explains how muscles function, describes the multiple benefits of a good workout, and shows why muscle efficiency is the key to lowering body fat and improving general health. Take Covert's Home Fitness Test, make this book your exercise bible, and enjoy the benefits of being in the best shape of your life.

About the Author

Covert Bailey is a popular PBS personality and best-selling author on fitness and nutrition, whose Fit or Fat series of books has sold nearly 6 million copies. One of the first to emphasize body fat and body fat testing, he has taught millions of people about low-fat eating and adopting flexible exercise programs that are both fun and healthy. Covert Bailey earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard and received a M.S. degree in biochemistry from MIT. He likes to say that his training in graduate school was spent with fit rats and fat rats.