by Ori Hofmekler
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
• 2 recommendations ❤️
Reshape your body and mind by eating light during the day and filling up at night—the core tenet of this revolutionary nutrition program based on survival science. Along with the many benefits of leisure-class living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution—to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and hunter-gatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Based on survival science, this book proposes not ordinary dietary changes but rather a radical yet surprisingly simple lifestyle overhaul.Drawing on both scientific studies and historical data, Hofmekler argues that robust health and a lean, strong body can best be achieved by mimicking the classical warrior mode of cycling —working and eating sparingly (undereating) during the day and filling up at night. The Warrior Diet Nutritional Program and the Controlling Fatigue Training Program can literally reshape your body and mind by helping you • Find ideal fuel foods and food combinations to reduce body fat• Gain strength, speed, and resilience to fatigue through special drillsThere are also individual chapters • Preparing warrior meals and recipes• Sex drive, potency, and animal magnetism• Personalizing the diet for womenFeaturing forewords by Fit for Life author Harvey Diamond and Fat That Kills author Dr. Udo Erasmus, The Warrior Diet shows readers weary of fad diets how to attain enduring vigor, explosive strength, a better appearance, and increased vitality and health.
by Richard Wiseman
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
• 3 recommendations ❤️
For over twenty years, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman has examined the quirky science of everyday life. In Quirkology , he navigates the backwaters of human behavior, discovering the tell-tale signs that give away a liar, the secret science behind speed-dating and personal ads, and what a person's sense of humor reveals about the innermost workings of their mind- all along paying tribute to others who have carried out similarly weird and wonderful work. Wiseman's research has involved secretly observing people as they go about their daily business, conducting unusual experiments in art exhibitions and music concerts, and even staging fake sainces in allegedly haunted buildings. With thousands of research subjects from all over the world, including enamored couples, unwitting pedestrians, and guileless dinner guests, Wiseman presents a fun, clever, and unexpected picture of the human mind.
by Peter McWilliams
Rating: 4.1 ⭐
• 4 recommendations ❤️
Discusses how and why to learn about life, cope with problems, and achieve success and joy
by Timothy Ferriss
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
• 48 recommendations ❤️
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Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers, who aren't medical doctors or Ph.D.s in biochemistry, tell what they should be paying attention to and what's, well, just more bullshit?Ben Goldacre has made a point of exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies. He has also taken the media to task for its willingness to throw facts and proof out the window. But he's not here just to tell you what's wrong. Goldacre is here to teach you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample sizes, so that you can recognize bad science when you see it. You're about to feel a whole lot better.
by Richard Wiseman
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
• 10 recommendations ❤️
A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy.From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of “rapid change” and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: “Think a little, change a lot.”
In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can’t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as “the biggest clinical invention in thirty years” ( The Independent ).
by Gary Keller
Rating: 4.1 ⭐
• 6 recommendations ❤️
The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity.
Tired of all the latest exercise “advancements” delivering no results? For less than the cost of a day pass to any trendy chain gym, you can get Jailhouse Strong. With innovation and dedication prisoners make incredible strength gains. Jailhouse Strong offers functional strength training with a workout system that is based on the training habits cultivated behind bars. Through interviews with personalities ranging from a former Mr. Olympia, who started lifting behind bars, to a co-founder of the Crips Street gang, Jailhouse Strong describes the workouts prisoners use to become lean and powerful. Jailhouse Strong includes programs for lifting, bodyweight movements, and conditioning with unarmed combat techniques. The workouts require minimal cost, equipment, time, and space and they can be done at home, in a hotel, or just about anywhere. Whether you are doing 10–25 or working 9-5, Jailhouse Strong can fit into your schedule because Jailhouse Strong provides the fitness habits that are crucial for getting strong and for maintaining a level of emotional balance amidst the volatile reality found on both sides of prison walls.
Continuing with their Amazon #1 best-selling series, Jailhouse Strong, Bryant and benShea return to deliver a guide on interval training. Instead of performing endless hours of long, slow cardio that makes you weaker, slower, and eats away at your muscle, Jailhouse Strong Interval Training is a time efficient way to lean out and harden up. Whether inside a posh gym or limited by space inside a cramped hotel room, the workout programs included inside of this work offer a means to make the most of your environment and enhance your current reality. While the workout approach of this book is rooted in the physical culture cultivated behind bars, this book takes the subject of interval training well beyond the confinement of prison walls. Whatever your current reality, these interval training workouts can get you leaner, harder, and improve the trajectory of your physical development. Praise for Jailhouse "If you are looking for something that is simple and you do not have to have very sophisticated equipment, this is the book to read. I strongly recommend that you buy Jailhouse Strong." Charles Poliquin - World Renowned Strength Coach "Now you have no excuse to get yourself in fantastic shape!" Fred "Dr. Squat" Hatfield, PhD - President of ISSA "Jailhouse Strong is good for grapplers, cage fighters, and everyday folks!" Ricardo "Franjinha" Miller - Founder and Head Instructor of Paragon Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academies "There's no gimmicks here...It's about results!" Zach Even-Esh Josh Bryant has held world records in powerlifting and won the Strongest Man in America title in 2005. Now, he is referred to as the “trainer of the superstars” because he works with some of the world's strongest and most muscular athletes at Metroflex Gym in Arlington, Texas, and via the Internet. To contact Josh about seminars, online coaching or to sign up for his free training tips newsletter, visit www.JoshStrength.com. Adam benShea is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and has won the California, Pan Am, and World Championships. He teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is a college lecturer on California’s central coast.