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AstroFit: The Astronaut Program for Anti-Aging

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AstroFit: The Astronaut Program for Anti-Aging

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Turn your body's clock back by up to thirty years with a revolutionary anti-aging, slow-motion muscle-building fitness regimen developed for astronauts!
At the heart of AstroFit is a new, slow-motion E-Centric resistance-training regimen based on Dr. William J. Evans' breakthrough muscle-building research for NASA. Evans, one of the country's foremost advocates of slow resistance training, details his innovative strength-training regime centered on raising and lowering weights slowly to build more muscle. In just 30 minutes per workout -- and without any special equipment -- AstroFit helps you to shed extra pounds and retain a powerful, youthful body for the rest of your life. Dr. Evans also provides menus for two weeks of protein-rich meals that fuel your muscles, leave you energized, and allow you to eat for optimum health without hunger. And because it may sound too good to be true, first-person before and after accounts from his test subjects attest to incredible successes achieved in just ninety days!
The AstroFit program grew out of extensive scientific research. On long space journeys, accelerated "aging" occurs as a result of prolonged weightlessness, causing crippling muscle and bone loss, as well as balance problems. The dramatic need for a program of age reversal for astronauts became a call to action for Dr. Evans, an expert adviser to NASA. As a result of his remarkable initiatives, astronauts now in training for an eventual mission to Mars will return in good health. Better still, readers of AstroFit can achieve the same age-reversal benefits right here on earth.
With AstroFit you will: Prevent muscle loss and increase muscle growth, while trimming and sculpting your body • Stop bone loss and osteoporosis • Improve balance while enhancing muscle "memory" • Ensure permanent loss of body fat • Reset your metabolism level • Boost your immune system to maximum levels!

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Author:	William Evans
Paperback:	320 pages
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication Date:	May 06, 2003
Language:	English
ISBN:	0743216822
Product Length:	8.5 inches
Product Width:	5.58 inches
Product Height:	0.77 inches
Product Weight:	0.9 pounds
Package Length:	8.4 inches
Package Width:	5.9 inches
Package Height:	0.9 inches
Package Weight:	0.85 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 6 reviews

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ISBN13: 9780743216821
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18 of 19 found the following review helpful:

For all of us-not just astronauts. Apr 07, 2003 By Jake
A very good book that looks at what type of resistance training, cardio-vascular exercise, stretching, and the newest element of fitness--balance work is needed to combat the loss of fitness due to aging, which is similiar to the atrophy the astronauts experience in space. I found the recommended tempo for resistance training--two seconds up and six seconds down very useful and the balance training extremly beneficial. I think that someone who is looking for fitness and not big biceps will benefit from this book. In short, it's cutting edge research translated into a everyday program for us who spend too much time sitting in office chairs.

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

AstroFit down to earth Apr 08, 2005 By Robert Hotto
The introduction to AstroFit is a one page interview with one of Dr. Evans most famous subjects, an American hero, John Glen, a very good endorsement to any book.

The book takes NASA research, million of dollars worth of experiments and analysis and applies it to ideas and a fitness program for the earth bound human.

The book and Dr. Evan fulfils a NASA promise to make NASA research results accessible and applicable to the people who pay for NASA.
I hope more NASA experts follow Dr. Evans example of bring NASA expertise to the public.

7 of 8 found the following review helpful:

I've lifted weights my entire life and this is the best Aug 18, 2003 By Saul Kerpelman
I've lifted weights since I was 11 ( I'm now 48)but I have never had results like this before! Using the e-centric method of lifting produces incredible strength gains and also results in getting thoroughly "ripped"--producing increases in muscle mass that then boost metabolism so that you no longer have to diet--instead your hunger seems to get reset to a set point that maintains your new ripped body. I have lost 15 lbs. over six months, have reduced body fat from 21% to 17%, and find it easy to maintain my new weight. The only "down side" is that it sometimes still shocks me when I touch myself and I'm so hard. After years of being strong (college rugby player) but soft, it is weird to no longer have a layer of fat. But I think I can get used to it!!

3 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Decent for Beginners May 27, 2004
I am a young woman with osteopenia (beginning of bone loss) and was looking for a book to help get me off the couch. I bought this book because it helps take you through the basics as a beginner and provides structure.

I also use a few DVD's which helped me really focus and complete a full routine. I have several yoga DVD's from Gaiam that I like a lot! But yoga is not that great for bone loss. I also bought a Kathy Smith DVD, "Personal Trainer", but only use the weight lifting section of Kathy's DVD's but with the resistance method outlined in this book (Kathy can be annoying but it helps me to follow the routine)

I agree with a lot of the criticisms, but here is why I like it for beginners:

1. Provides list of body measurements and fitness measurements. This is in chapter 5 and not much interesting before this (thus the wordy criticisms). There is nothing new here but he describes where to take the body measurements, discusses BMI, describes how to approximate your endurance and has you put it in a chart to track your progress.

2. He describes exercises and gives you a training schedule. Okay this is for beginners! Nothing new. I found the list of exercises corresponded closely with the weight lifting section of the Katy smith DVD "personal trainer" except for the method of lifting.

3. I found some helpful information about nutrition, advice on equipment, discussion about bone density but they are buried by wordiness so I can't rate it too high. I don't pay any attention to the recipes.

0 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Good training - crummy diet Sep 24, 2003
I have to keep telling myself that I bought the book for its training tips - not for its writing style. I found it excessively wordy, repetitive, and prone to grandiose statements about Astrofit's place in the general scheme of things. The diet, for which they consulted a NASA dietician, is atrocious. Though Evans claims it is "high protein", it is really 60% carb, 20% protein, and 20% fat. He then claims that weight loss on low carb diets is mostly water (I'd like him to explain that to my sister who has lost 102 lbs since January on the Perricone Diet). Well, maybe when you're lifting weights you should eat tons of simple carbohydrates and sugar - far be it for me to argue with a DOCTOR. In any event, I'll do the exercises in his recommended fashion and skip his recommended eating plan. I had higher hopes for the book, though.

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