Cuprins
Foreword, by Mark Allen
Preface
Introduction
The Maffetone Method Questionnaire; The Method; Is Your Workout Working?; Too Fat?; Are You Aerobically Deficient?
Part 1: Understanding the Basics
1. Defining Exercise
Health and Fitness; Aerobic and Anaerobic; Muscle Fibers; Go Aerobic; Activity and Exercise; Training and Endurance; Overtraining and Undertraining
2. Exercise and Stress
Stressed Out?; Any of These Sound Familiar?; Effects of Excess Stress; Stages of the Stress Reaction; The General Adaptation Syndrome; Your Stress List; Simple Ways to Avoid Stress; Exercises That Increase Stress; Stress Testing
3. The Structural, Chemical, and Mental Aspects of Exercise
Structural Benefits; Chemical Benefits; Mental Benefits
4. Developing Maximum Aerobic Function
Measuring Fat Burning; Top Reasons for Increased Body Fat; Why Build an Aerobic Base?
5. Developing the Anaerobic System
Anaerobic Training; Sample One-Hour Workouts; Build Your Base; Summary of Anaerobic Benefits
6. Exercise and Heart Rate
Measuring Your Heart Rate; 220 or 180-Formula?; The 180-Formula; Modifying Your Heart Rate
7. The Use of Heart Rate Monitors
The Maximum Aerobic Function Test; Steady Progress; MAF Test and Competition
8. Warming Up, Cooling Down, and Stretching
Warming Up; Cooling Down; The Right Rate; Active Warm-Up and Recovery in Competition; Stretching; Even for Golf
9. The Aerobic Deficiency Syndrome
Quantity versus Quality of Life; ADS; Correcting ADS
10. The Overtraining Syndrome
Three Stages of Overtraining; Menstrual Problems and Overtraining; Correction of Overtraining
Part 2: Individualizing Your Program
11. A New Beginning: Starting Your Program
Start Simply; Walking; Children and Exercise; Other Activities; Exercises to Avoid; Starting Out: Exercises to Avoid; Your First Workout
12. Modifying Your Program
Is Your Workout Working?; Goals, Equipment, Aerobic Base; Frustration; Direction and Measurement
13. Rehabilitation: Restoring Your Youth
Quality of Life; Heart Disease; Blood Fats; Hypertension; Blood-Sugar Problems; Osteoporosis; Rehabilitation; Walking in Water
14. Changing with the Seasons
Spring; Summer; Fall; Winter; Dressing for Successful Exercise; SAD
15. Exercise Footwear: Finding the Right Shoe
How Shoes Can Cause Stress; Arch Function; Taping and Other Joint Support; Other Ankle Dysfunction; Proper Shoe Fit; How to Buy Athletic Shoes
16. Anatomy of an Injury
NSAIDs; The Structural Injury; The Chemical Injury; The Mental or Emotional Injury; Mending Your Own Injury; The Correct Therapy
17. The Diaphragm Muscle
The Diaphragm and the Abdominals; Breathing in Step
18. If Einstein Were Your Coach
Bad Timing; Relative Timing
19. Training Schedules for Competition
A Marked Improvement; Less Is More
20. Diet and Nutrition
General Dietary Recommendations; The Top Diet Dos and Don'ts; Carbohydrate Intolerance; The Two-Week Test; The Importance of Snacking to Burn Fat; Follow the Plan; Balancing Dietary Fat; The Good, Bad, and Ugly Fats
Bibliography
Index