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Paperback Astrofit: The Astronaut Program for Anti-Aging Book

ISBN: 0743216822

ISBN13: 9780743216821

Astrofit: The Astronaut Program for Anti-Aging

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Turn your body's clock back by up to thirty years with a revolutionary anti-aging, slow-motion muscle-building fitness regimen developed for astronauts
At the heart of AstroFit is a new, slow-motion E-Centric resistance-training regimen based on Dr. William J. Evans' breakthrough muscle-building research for NASA. Evans, one of the country's foremost advocates of slow resistance training, details his innovative strength-training regime centered on raising and lowering weights slowly to build more muscle. In just 30 minutes per workout -- and without any special equipment -- AstroFit helps you to shed extra pounds and retain a powerful, youthful body for the rest of your life. Dr. Evans also provides menus for two weeks of protein-rich meals that fuel your muscles, leave you energized, and allow you to eat for optimum health without hunger. And because it may sound too good to be true, first-person before and after accounts from his test subjects attest to incredible successes achieved in just ninety days
The AstroFit program grew out of extensive scientific research. On long space journeys, accelerated "aging" occurs as a result of prolonged weightlessness, causing crippling muscle and bone loss, as well as balance problems. The dramatic need for a program of age reversal for astronauts became a call to action for Dr. Evans, an expert adviser to NASA. As a result of his remarkable initiatives, astronauts now in training for an eventual mission to Mars will return in good health. Better still, readers of AstroFit can achieve the same age-reversal benefits right here on earth.
With AstroFit you will: Prevent muscle loss and increase muscle growth, while trimming and sculpting your body - Stop bone loss and osteoporosis - Improve balance while enhancing muscle "memory" - Ensure permanent loss of body fat - Reset your metabolism level - Boost your immune system to maximum levels

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AstroFit down to earth

The introduction to AstroFit is a one page interview with one of Dr. Evans most famous subjects, an American hero, John Glen, a very good endorsement to any book. The book takes NASA research, million of dollars worth of experiments and analysis and applies it to ideas and a fitness program for the earth bound human. The book and Dr. Evan fulfils a NASA promise to make NASA research results accessible and applicable to the people who pay for NASA. I hope more NASA experts follow Dr. Evans example of bring NASA expertise to the public.

I've lifted weights my entire life and this is the best

I've lifted weights since I was 11 ( I'm now 48)but I have never had results like this before! Using the e-centric method of lifting produces incredible strength gains and also results in getting thoroughly "ripped"--producing increases in muscle mass that then boost metabolism so that you no longer have to diet--instead your hunger seems to get reset to a set point that maintains your new ripped body. I have lost 15 lbs. over six months, have reduced body fat from 21% to 17%, and find it easy to maintain my new weight. The only "down side" is that it sometimes still shocks me when I touch myself and I'm so hard. After years of being strong (college rugby player) but soft, it is weird to no longer have a layer of fat. But I think I can get used to it!!

For all of us-not just astronauts.

A very good book that looks at what type of resistance training, cardio-vascular exercise, stretching, and the newest element of fitness--balance work is needed to combat the loss of fitness due to aging, which is similiar to the atrophy the astronauts experience in space. I found the recommended tempo for resistance training--two seconds up and six seconds down very useful and the balance training extremly beneficial. I think that someone who is looking for fitness and not big biceps will benefit from this book. In short, it's cutting edge research translated into a everyday program for us who spend too much time sitting in office chairs.
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