Book Spotlight: Total Fitness in Thirty Minutes a Week

TAKU • May 3, 2023
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Anyone who is a regular visitor to the TNT Strength blog knows that I am always on a quest to find the most efficient and effective ways to attain and maintain fitness. For many years I have been an advocate of brief, intense strength training, as well as a strong proponent for the merits of interval training, and other methods of less protracted “CARDIO” exercise.
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With this in mind I highly recommend you seek out the book:
by Laurence Englemohr Morehouse, and Leonard Gross.
Dr. Lawrence Morehouse
founded
UCLA´s
performance laboratory and wrote sections on exercise and physical conditioning for the Encyclopedia Britannica. He designed
NASA’s
fitness program for the astronauts. Most notably, he discovered that a combination of exercises for short periods of time daily can provide all the muscle developing, stretching, aerobic stimulation and cardiovascular conditioning most people need.
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Dr. Morehouse’s
findings revealed that we need very little exercise each day-if it´s the right kind of exercise.
Morehouse
, advocates vigorous exercise as monitored by your pulse rate, for its beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system. Among some of his unconventional ideas,
Dr. Morehouse
, suggests that 10 minutes of vigorous exercise, three times a week, is all that is needed for complete cardiovascular conditioning. (Something I have been advocating since 1989).
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Total Fitness in Thirty Minutes a Week Exposes myths about physical fitness, intense exercise and strict diet plans and proposes a targeted approach to conditioning based on individual lifestyles and the regulating of metabolic systems.

TAKU’s NOTE: Although this book was originally published 1976, it is well worth finding a copy and giving it a thorough read through.

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