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When it comes to health and fitness generally, my two favorite books are Body By Science by Doug McGuff and John Little, and all of the books written by Dr. Jason Fung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It’s interesting how much Body By Science breaks with how people traditionally thnk about working out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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One of the main tenets is that you should only be working out once a week. And this one time usually works out to being 15 minutes in total. So basically Dr. McGuff is advocating working out around 12 minutes a week… total!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Most people are use to the idea of working out for a long time and usually around 3 times a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When I tell people about how I’m training, most look at me like I’ve gone nuts or just trying to take a shortcut (i.e. being lazy). People who haven’t read the book will say to me that it’s not optimal and that the best training program is the standard 3x a week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For me, I just care what the data says despite how counterintuitive it might sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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