Fitness Science Explained: A Practical Guide to Using Science to Optimize Your Health, Fitness, and Lifestyle

Want to know how to read, understand, and use scientific research to optimize your health, fitness, and happiness?

This book is the shortcut.
Have you ever wondered why science can appear so contradictory and confusing?

Why it seems like there’s a study to “prove” or “disprove” just about any claim about diet, exercise, and lifestyle?

And what it really takes to protect yourself from bad science and benefit from good science?

If so, then Fitness Science Explained is for you.

It’s a crash course in reading, understanding, and applying scientific research to get fitter, healthier, and happier, and it’ll get you up to speed quickly regardless of your educational background.

Whether you want to discover and use evidence-based methods for building muscle or losing fat faster, reducing your risk of disease and dysfunction, or maximizing some other aspect of your body, mind, or life, this book will show you the way.

Here are just a few of the things you’ll discover inside:

• The 9 little-known reasons fitness science only appears to be so conflicting and convoluted (but isn’t when you have the inside baseball).


• How to quickly and easily determine the quality of scientific evidence and how much “weight” to give it.


• Precise and layperson-friendly definitions for each of the key terms you must understand to speak the “language” of science.


• A quick-and-dirty breakdown of the anatomy and operations of a scientific study, including methods, statistical analysis, results, funding and competing interests, and more.


• A paint-by-numbers simple checklist for rapidly and accurately assessing whether research passes the sniff test.


• How to find and access high-quality scientific research without spending a fortune.


• And more.

The bottom line is you can quickly and painlessly learn how to unlock the power of science and upgrade your fitness, health, and happiness.

Fitness Science Explained will show you how.
So, scroll up, click the "Buy" button now, and get ready to learn how science can help you level up your life.

Mike Matthews is a bestselling fitness author of Bigger Leaner Stronger, Thinner Leaner Stronger, and The Shredded Chef, as well as the founder of the sports nutrition company Legion.

His simple and science-based approach to building muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy has sold nearly two million books and helped thousands of people build their best body ever, and his work has been featured in many popular outlets including Esquire, Men's Health, Elle, Women's Health, Muscle & Strength, and more, as well as on FOX and ABC.

James Krieger is a published scientist with over twenty scientific papers published in journals such as the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Sports Medicine, and the European Journal of Sports Science, as well as a frequent speaker at academic conferences on advances in health and fitness research.

James also runs the popular Weightology research review, where he analyzes the latest scientific research on building muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy and shows you how to turn it into immediately actionable tactics and techniques.