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Thinner this year, a younger next year book, Chris Crowley & Jen Sacheck

eng

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Thinner this year

794032584

Chris Crowley & Jen Sacheck

a younger next year book

A guide to weight loss that challenges today's "quick-fix" methods draws on up-to-date science to outline strategic methods that explain specifically how to eat and exercise for permanent results

The third act -- The mountain of slop and despair -- Where I'm coming from and where you're going -- Going deep -- The good stuff: what happens inside when you eat the right "mix" -- A day in the life: bish bash falls -- The bad stuff: what happens when you eat junk -- A day in the life: a new relationship with vegetables -- The thinner this year eating plan -- What do you say we drop a couple of pounds? -- Nutrients: they make the body work -- A day in the life: in the land of dreamy dreams -- Exercise: the magic bullet -- A day in the life: intervals, "periodization," and kedges -- Sports nutrition -- Aerobic exercise: the secret of the good life -- The how-to of aerobic exercise -- Muscle as the grand negotiator of body signals -- The astonishing importance of strength training -- Train movements, not muscles: whole-body movement and the three little pigs -- The warm-up, or "preparation for movement" -- A day in the life: a cold day in hell -- The twenty-five sacred exercises -- The third element in the third act: General Grant, Scott Fitzgerald, and the need to "care, connect, and commit" -- A day in the life: victory lap