The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance - Softcover

LeMond, Greg; Hom, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128010231 ISBN 13: 9780128010235

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance provides a scientific explanation as to how exercise and nutrition enable people to live a higher quality life, with a focus on mitochondrial cell energy as the center of athletic performance, physical fitness, disease prevention, and aging. This approach bridges the gap between cellular biology and exercise fitness. The Science of Fitness gives competitive and elite athletes an edge in achieving optimal performance, while also helping recreational athletes who want to improve fitness. It is of great benefit to all who want to improve overall health and vitality. By learning the science of fitness, you will understand why training makes your body more energized and powerful.

• A presentation of human physiology at the organ and cellular levels to explain why fitness is a biologic process. Fitness is built one cell at a time.
• Mitochondria are the basis of fitness training. They generate human energy, increase with exercise, and diminish with inactivity.
• A detailed explanation of exactly how frequent and strenuous exercise improves fitness, builds muscle, burns fat, maintains health, and slows the aging process.
• Nutrition and hydration explained at the cellular level, super foods that are great for you, and unhealthy foods you should avoid.
• How exercise strengthens the mind.
• A case study of Greg LeMond: being the fittest athlete of his era, what it takes to win the Tour de France, how to train like a champion, to being diagnosed with an acquired mitochondrial myopathy.
• A condensation of the current knowledge in exercise physiology, yet easy to read, and backed by over 240 scientific literature references. What the modern athlete needs to know.

About this title

About the Author

Greg LeMond is a legendary and pioneering bicyclist, three-time winner of the Tour de France (1986, 1989, and 1990), three-time World Cycling Champion (1979, 1983 and 1989), author of "Greg LeMond's Complete Book of Bicycling”" (1988, with Kent Gordis), founder of the LeMond Fitness company, bicycle technology innovator, and fitness expert. Greg LeMond runs his company at GregLeMond.com, is a leader in the latest training equipment and power (watts) training devices, and has recently reintroduced his brand of LeMond carbon fiber bicycles. He contributes in many cycling periodicals, including Cycling News.  He recently joined Eurosport as their Global Cycling Ambassador and as a TV sports commentator. Greg is uniquely qualified to describe the importance of mitochondria during the peak of his racing career and also when mitochondrial myopathy resulted in his premature retirement from racing. He will explain why the modern athlete needs to know the science of fitness.

Dr. Mark Hom, M.D. is a Johns Hopkins University trained biologist, an award winning medical illustrator, a practicing interventional radiologist, an educator of young doctors, and an avid fitness cyclist. Dr. Hom will explain how the human body, various organ systems, and individual cells function in the biologic process of exercise. Dr. Hom will show that mitochondria are at the center of cell energy production, metabolism, and athletic performance, as well as an underlying cause of degeneration, aging, and many diseases. Optimizing mitochondria not only maximizes performance, but also improves vitality and overall health.

From the Back Cover

LeMond's new book focuses on the Science of Fitness

Published September 2, 2015

Bicycle Retailer and Industry News

RICHMOND, Va. (BRAIN) -- Greg LeMond is the co-author of "The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance," a new book that condenses the current state of exercise physiology into an easy-to-read paperback, loaded with practical advice and backed by 240 scientific literature references.

LeMond's co-author is Dr. Mark Hom, a biologist and MD. It is published by Elsevier...the largest textbook publisher in the world.

Their book explains how all the organ systems of the human body work in concert every time you hop on your bike. A large part of the book focuses on mitochondria, which produce the energy that powers your muscles, heart, brain, and every healthy process in your body.

"Greg had superior mitochondria to power his epic wins, but later developed mitochondrial myopathy from lead poisoning, making him the world's best case study in mitochondria, both the highs and the lows," the publisher said.

"This book explains exercise at the subcellular level like no other fitness book so athletes can learn the science behind proper training, genetic gift, sports nutrition and hydration, how exercise improves the mind, the latest theory of aging (and how to slow the process), and the many health benefits of lifelong exercise." Both authors explain how youth exercise transformed their childhoods.

From the Inside Flap

Table of Contents:
The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance

Chapter 1: Becoming a BEAST
We evolved as physical beings that require daily activity. Exercise
prevents the modern diseases of inactivity and sloth
Chapter 2: The Human Machine
Exercise is a whole body process and each organ system's contribution
is explained. Then we delve into the cell. Fitness is built one cell at a time
Chapter 3: Amazing Mitochondria
The symbiotic relationship between our cells and mitochondria gives
us the energy to thrive and perform incredible athletic feats
Chapter 4: Feeding Your Cells
The science of sports nutrition and hydration. Super foods to add to your
diet and unhealthy foods to avoid
Chapter 5: Mitochondrial Supplements
Vitamins, minerals, and nutritional supplements that assist our cells in
making energy
Chapter 6: Your Body at Work, Play, and Rest
The current thinking in exercise physiology, the best ways to train, and
what happens if you stop exercising
Chapter 7: The Body-Brain Connection
How exercise improves the mind: first recognized in antiquity and
recently confirmed with scientific discoveries
Chapter 8: When Things Go Wrong
Toxicity and how to avoid it, preventing diseases of inactivity, a list of
genetic mitochondrial diseases, LeMond's mitochondrial myopathy
Chapter 9: Slowing the Aging Process
The mitochondrial theory of aging is the latest model to explain the
changes that occur as we get older, and how to slow the process
Chapter 10: Gauging Fitness
The physics and physiology behind athletic monitoring, clearly explained
Chapter 11: BEAST Fitness Training
Practical physical training advice for athletes of all abilities using
scientific principles
Chapter 12: The Finish Line...and a Starting Line
How to change your lifestyle for the better, how the book was created
and evolved, and a call for more awareness and research

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128010231
• ISBN 13: 9780128010235
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208