Everywhere you turn today aspirational fitness is being marketed and sold with a glossy perma-tan sheen. In The Time-Saver’s Workout, Little contends that much of the blame for the public’s perception of exercise lies with the hucksterism of the blossoming $60 billion a year health and fitness industry. Pointing the finger at the health and fitness industry The prizedraw ends on Friday 26th of April 2019. For an elaboration on this, check out our interviews with James Steele and James Fisher.ĮNTER OUR PRIZE DRAW TO WIN A COPY OF THE TIME SAVER’S WORKOUT Simply fill in the form at the end of this article with your name and email. Today there is more research that shows that once a week training consisting of a handful of multi-joint exercises taken to muscular failure is all that is required. The Time Saver’s Workout pulls in the other direction and this is timely. A vacuum must be filled, “if in doubt do more” appears to be the default psychological position. And of course when it comes to exercise outside of the HIT niche, volume and frequency tend to expand further still. Serving as a pertinent reminder, Little quotes Aeschylus the ancient Greek Playwright, “Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.”Įven in the microcosm of the HIT world, it is noticeable that the more distant the death of Mentzer and the publication of Body By Science become, the more there is trend toward doing more exercise, more often. The conversation neatly sets up the premise of the rest of the book: not enough people engage in meaningful exercise and those that do often don’t understand what they are doing and end up frustrated and wasting valuable time. Fittingly, chapter one of The Time-Saver’s Workout kicks off with a recollection of a conversation with Mentzer.
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