Eat Bacon, Don't Jog: Get Strong. Get Lean. No Bullshit.
by Grant Petersen
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This is your brain on Grant Petersen: Every comfortable assumption you have about a subject is turned upside down, and by the time you finish reading you feel challenged, energized, and smarter. In Just Ride—"the bible for bicycle riders" (Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review)—Petersen debunked the bicycle racing– industrial complex and led readers back to the simple joys of getting on a bike.In Eat Bacon, Don't Jog, Petersen upends the last 30 years of conventional health wisdom show more to offer a clear path to weight loss and fitness. In more than 100 short, compelling directives, Eat Bacon, Don't Jog shows why we should drop the carbs, embrace fat, and hang up our running shoes, with the latest science to back up its claims.
Diet and Exercise make up the bulk of the book, with food addressed in essays such as "Carbohydrate Primer"—and why it's okay to eat less kale—and "You'll Eat Less Often If You Eat More Fat." The exercise chapters begin with "Don't Jog" (it just makes you hungry and trains muscle to tolerate more jogging while raising stressors like cortisol) and lead to a series of interval-training exercises and a suite of kettlebell lifts that greatly enhance strength and endurance.
The balance of the book explains the science of nutrition and includes more than a dozen simple and delicious carb-free recipes.
Thirty years ago Grant Petersen was an oat-bran-, egg-white-, lean-meat-eating exercise fanatic who wasn't in great shape despite all that. Today, at sixty, he is in the best shape of his life with the blood panel to prove it.
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Ugh, hated it. Hated it so much I did not even give it away, I threw it away. Imagine a book that tells you to add 4 tablespoons of butter to your morning coffee to up your fat intake ??
The whole book can be summed up simply as meat, meat, meat and more meat, an occasional few berries and no other fruit ever, hard kettlebell exercises which are not suitable for those of us well over 50 and with injuries, no moral conscience at all - non stop animal eating and hunting is encouraged.
An animal lover and foodie lover's worst nightmare.
Just. don't.
The whole book can be summed up simply as meat, meat, meat and more meat, an occasional few berries and no other fruit ever, hard kettlebell exercises which are not suitable for those of us well over 50 and with injuries, no moral conscience at all - non stop animal eating and hunting is encouraged.
An animal lover and foodie lover's worst nightmare.
Just. don't.
Поредната книга относно нисковъглехидратното хранене, която повтаря как мазнините не са вредни и от тях не се нито дебелее, нито умира. Подчертава нуждата от упражнения с тежести и безсмислието на джогинга.
Нищо особено, без научни обяснения и като цяло фитнес частта й не особено вярна.
Нищо особено, без научни обяснения и като цяло фитнес частта й не особено вярна.
I liked the ideas in this book. I'm not new to the low-carb thing and know it works for me. It was a great little concise refresher. I liked the ideas presented in the exercise section and plan on incorporating them into my own home workouts.
I'm in! (as soon as I finish this bag of chips).
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