Smart Exercise: Burning Fat, Getting Fit

by Covert Bailey

Paper Book, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

613.71

Genres

Collection

Medical, Health

Publication

Houghton Mifflin (1994), Hardcover, 292 pages

Description

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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member fduniho

One of the most intelligent books I've read on how to exercise properly.

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LibraryThing member RandyR

This is the BEST book on exercise you can get, and it should be required reading as part of a physical fitness program. It gives extremely valuable information about how to exercise to lose weight. The amazing part is that Mr Bailey explains a lot of technical information that you can understand,

and appreciate the relevance. Key ideas are "aerobic exercise", "cross training", "wind sprints", "anaerobic exercise".
His Fit or Fat books are important to read as well.

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LibraryThing member lauriebrown54

My doctor recommended this book to me, because I’m having problems with too much visceral fat. Written 30 years ago, I suspect it was cutting edge back then, but today much is fairly common knowledge. Still, for someone who has not paid attention to health information, it is a pretty solid book.

He gives you everything about how your metabolism works, from the Kreb’s cycle to what types of exercise burns carbs vs. fats. The chapters are short and to the point; if you find yourself wondering about something you’ve read, it’s dead easy to go back and find where it is and refresh yourself. And it’s got a lot of detail to it; when I first started reading it I thought “oh, this is so boring; I read all this stuff years ago” but found myself learning new things- things that, at this age and physical shape, I needed to know. I have to say I was rather horrified to find that running is the best exercise for losing weight and getting fit, because of the muscles used. Yes, different muscle groups burn things differently.

The book is fast and easy to read, even for something with zero knowledge about metabolism and exercise. You’re guaranteed to learn something about how your body works when faced with exercise, and how to make it more efficient.

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