Body for Life

Step into any gym in America, mention the name Bill Phillips, and watch the faces light up with recognition and respect. These include: Hundreds of thousands of men and women who turn to Phillips's monthly magazine, Muscle Media, for guidance and straight-forward information about exercise, nutrition, and living with strength. Professional and amateur athletes--among them John Elway, Karl Malone, and Mike Piazza--and celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone, who have relied on Phillips' clear-cut information to enhance their energy and performance. People once plagued by obesity, alcoholism, and even life-threatening ailments who accepted a personal challenge from Phillips and, with his help, turned their bodies and their lives around. Body-for-LIFE is much more than a book on physical fitness, it's also an inspiring true story of one man's journey through life and the lives he's touched--a journey that began with a dream of helping one million people rebuild their bodies and has evolved into the challenge of a lifetime, a quest to help people from all walks of life search for, and discover, the hero inside each and every one of us. Step-by-step, in language that is vivid and down-to-earth, Phillips maps out a guaranteed recipe for success. This is not a vague, pie-in-the-sky 'motivational' book. Neither is it a dense, technical manual about anatomy and physiology. In these pages, you will learn:How to develop the mind-set to cross the abyss between knowledge and action, How to create not only more time but more energy in your day, How to lose fat and gain muscle by eating more, not less,How to trade hours of aerobics for minutes of weight training--with dramatic results,How thousands of ordinary people have become extraordinary role models and how you can too.