High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way
Mike Mentzer was a world-class bodybuilder and this book explains his approach to bodybuilding. It appears that he had a very scientific approach, although the book doesn’t go into the science much, instead just stating the main points. Some of the big points are: go to failure on each set (excepting some cases like warmup […]
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Bigger Leaner Stronger
This book is a really good summary of the latest science on bodybuilding. It doesn’t discuss the scientific studies at all; it just gives the conclusions. I would have liked to hear more about the science, but at least all of the conclusions in the book seem to be consistent with the scientific studies that […]
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What to Eat
This book had a large emphasis on the politics of food. It didn’t go very deep into the science and seemed to avoid taking a strong stance on almost everything. It was good for getting an impression of what is well accepted in the field of nutrition because if this author accepts it, then there […]
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Depression Free for Life
I picked up this book not because I was feeling depressed, but because it was the first book I found that focused on the connection between food and mood. Cousens is basically a raw foods hippie type, but this book seems pretty professional overall. It makes an interesting distinction between fast and slow oxidizers, the […]
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
Good Calories, Bad Calories is a powerhouse of a book about the literature and research on nutrition and obesity. Casual readers will likely find it too dense to appreciate, but for those who really want to understand the science, this is a must read. It does a very convincing job of debunking the conventional wisdom […]
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Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
Fantastic Voyage provides a great overview of the latest research on nutrition. It has a decidedly proactive approach as it advocates what it calls “aggressive supplementation”. Kurzweil admits to going so far as taking hundreds of pills a day, which sounds potentially dangerous. However, there is still a lot of solid advice here that doesn’t […]