The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance

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.

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.