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The bestselling science reporter from The NY Times tells us what works and what doesn’t when we work out
Ultimate Fitness is Gina Kolata’s compelling journey in to the world of American physical fitness over the past thirty years. It is a funny, eye-opening, brow-sweating investigation into fads, fiction, and the science and hucksterism of fitness training.
From the first days of jogging, championed by Jim Fixx--who later died of an heart attack--to stretching, cycling, aerobics, and Spinning, Kolata questions such popular notions as the "fat reducing zone," "spot reducing," the effects of food on performance, how much exercise helps build fitness, and the difference between exercise to help the heart and exercise to improve your body. She explains the science of physical fitness and the objective evidence behind commonly accepted prescriptions. On the way she profiles researchers and mavericks who have challenged conventional wisdom, marketed their inventions, and sometimes bucked criticism and then back down of their original claims.
Ultimate Fitness spotlights the machines and machinations of the exercise industry, exposes the charlatans and gurus, and cuts through the marketing and hype not and then assess what is healthy, but also to comprehend what our obsession with staying healthy says about American culture today.
