Power of 10: The Once-A-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution
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Power of 10: The Once-A-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution
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Overview
Fitness expert Adam Zickerman presents a revolutionary exercise program—slow strength training—that will forever change the way Americans work out.
Power of 10 seems to contradict nearly everything we’re accustomed to hearing about exercise. Forget hours on the treadmill, and forget daily visits to the gym. Power of 10 is based on a remarkably advanced yet simple discovery: By lifting weights in a series of ultra-slow movements that last 10 seconds each, you can stimulate lean muscle formation far more efficiently and safely than regular weight lifting or aerobics.
Together with a healthy nutrition plan, Power of 10 is so powerfully effective that as little as one 20-minute workout per week is enough to build muscle, burn fat, and improve cardiovascular health at any age.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780062045317 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 04/16/2024 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 302 |
| Sales rank: | 525,432 |
| File size: | 12 MB |
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About the Author
Adam Zickerman has made his career teaching people to got more fit in less time than they ever thought possible. He is founder and owner of In Form Fitness Studios in New York City and Long Island, where he perfected the Power-of-10 program that inspired this book. Adam has appeared on numerous television shows, as well as in feature stories in national magazines. His Power-of-10 clients include media celebrities, athletes, doctors, business professionals, office workers, all of whom share the desire to get in shape and stay in shape for healthier, happier lives.
Read an Excerpt
Power of 10
The Once-A-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution
Chapter One
Step Into the Exercise Future
I've put this question to hundreds of people before they begin training: "What would you call an exercise technology, so advanced it ...
- builds lean muscle up to 50 percent faster than other exercise
- supercharges your body to burn fat
- cuts the chance of painful injuries to almost zero
- builds cardio fitness without aerobic exercise
- is so efficient, it requires as little as 20 minutes, once a week?"
I then proclaim, "You wouldn't call it exercise, you'd call it FUTURE-CISE!" And they say, "Future-cise? That is the dumbest name I've ever heard ... But, is the rest true?"
Yes, it is, or you wouldn't be reading this book, and thousands of people wouldn't be learning to train this way. When you apply modern science to any endeavor -- from spaceships to sports activity -- you discover breakthroughs in the technology of doing things. Take skiing. Picabo Street's not doing 65 mph on old wooden, long boards with bear-trap bindings. Her Kevlar composite parabolic skis and titanium bindings have revolutionized what she can do on skis. Now, remember when exercise was two fat guys in those old movies throwing a medicine ball at each other's gut? Exercise science has undergone the same evolution. Twenty years ago, researchers began experimenting with weight training, and the result is the core technology of Power-of-10.
Weight Training is the Key to the Kingdom
I want to start by thanking America's top fitness experts and the authors of today's bestselling workout books. They've written hundreds of pages and made millions of people aware of a major theme of this book -- which means I only have to cover it in a page and a half. The theme is that, after thirty years of being told by the establishment that fitness is a matter of endless aerobics sessions on a squeaking treadmill, America is not fit, not lean, not in shape, and not losing weight. The truth, the experts agree, is that the key to fitness and weight loss is resistance training with weights. And after devoting my whole career to fitness and health, I'll second that emotion. Weights are the shining path. The reason's really quite simple. Only resistance training with weights builds lean muscle mass. By comparison, aerobics builds virtually none. Only lean muscle mass can change the shape of your body to the trim, curvaceous, or muscular form you want. For women who are afraid of bulking up, lean muscle actually makes their body profile smaller because muscle is more compact.
25 Aerobic Workouts Per Month, While You Sleep
But here's the best part: lean muscle mass requires the burning of energy -- that is, it has to burn calories just to sustain itself in your body. So the more lean muscle you have versus fat, the more calories you burn while you sit, while you relax, and while you sleep. A lot more. Three extra pounds of lean muscle burns about 10,000 extra calories a month, just sitting around! Add it up. Since aerobic exercise like jogging burns only about 100 calories per mile, and a typical aerobic workout burns 100 calories every 15 minutes, having 3 extra pounds of muscle burns as many calories as running 25 miles per week, or doing 25 aerobic workouts per month without leaving your couch! It's really amazing. Your metabolism is revved up by lean muscle to do this all by itself. You become a fatburning furnace. Scientists have also found that building lean muscle has superior cardiovascular benefits. By building muscle mass, the body has to grow new microvascular capillary networks to serve those muscles. This makes the heart increase its efficiency to service the expanded network. Since the heart is a muscle, increasing efficiency means getting stronger. And again, the heart exercises to service capillaries 24 hours a day not just when you're on a treadmill. Increasing fitness by weight training has also been shown to lower blood pressure, a good indicator that the heart becomes more efficient at delivering oxygen to your muscles as a direct result of weight-bearing exercise.
Aerobics Reality -- What the Fitness Chains Won't Tell You
Nobody is saying you should quit aerobics altogether if it's something you like to do for fun or to relieve a little stress. I love basketball and bike riding. Just do it as a supplement to weight training, never as a substitute. Unlike weight training, which speeds your whole fat-burning metabolism, the moment you stop the treadmill, you stop burning the calories. Aerobics does little to change your body composition because it not only fails to burn much fat, build muscle mass, or boost your metabolism, it can even reduce muscle mass. And there's another side of the coin that experts are increasingly worried about. Repetitive stress injuries don't only come from pounding keyboards with your fingertips each day. What about pounding a road with the balls of your feet year after year, or putting hundreds of pounds of pressure on your knees with every pedal stroke, five thousand times a bike ride? Our joints and tendons were never designed for that. The fact is, physiologists are starting to warn that the current generation of compulsive cardio trainers may be setting themselves up for an epidemic of chronic joint and connective tissue injuries as they get older. A large percentage of regular joggers develop a serious joint or tissue injury over the course of 3 years. What's the point of keeping your muscles in shape while you're young, if you'll have to use a cane to get up the stairs in 10 years? The point is, we need exercise that wears out our muscles each workoutnot our joints and connective tissues.
If Weight Training is so Great, Why Power-of-10?
Because Power-of-10 is weight training in a remarkably efficient, more concentrated form. It's been shown to be safer, to work faster to change your body composition, and, best of all, you can do the entire program just once a week in about 20 minutes if you want. Regular weight training is great if you know you have time for an hour in the gym, 4 to 6 days per week. But if achieving your goal once a week in less than half an hour appeals to you -- keep reading. You'll find that Power-of-10 is so advanced, it's FutureCise! Oops -- I mean it's the Future of Exercise!
Power of 10The Once-A-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution. Copyright © by Adam Zickerman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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