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Body for Life (BFL) is a 12-week nutrition and exercise program, and also an annual physique transformation competition. The program utilizes a low-fat high-protein diet . It was created by Bill Phillips , a former competitive bodybuilder and previous owner of EAS , a manufacturer of nutritional supplements .
In 2004 USA Today named it among the Top 15 bestselling books of the past decade. [27] In November 2003, Eating for Life: Your Guide to Great Health, Fat Loss and Increased Energy! was released. In the book Phillips offers his plan "to help inspire and guide even more people to improve their health and lift their quality of life to new heights."
Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano; October 30, 1892 – December 24, 1972) [2] was an American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program which spawned a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness; it has been described as one of the longest-lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time.
Pilates was a sickly child. He suffered from asthma, rickets, and rheumatic fever, and he dedicated his entire life to improving his physical strength. He was introduced by his father to gymnastics and body-building, and to martial arts like jiu-jitsu and boxing. [5] By the age of 14, he was fit enough to pose for anatomical charts.
He invented an extensive exercise regime of self-care that involved muscular contraction and relaxation exercises for rejuvenating the body. [1] His ideas were popularized in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1906 and in two books. Bennett added medical diagrams of the muscles and organs of the body to his descriptions of exercise routines. [2]
Chicago, Ill: Contemporary Books. ISBN 0-07-138330-1. Heavy Duty 2 by Mike Mentzer; LaVelle, Gordon (2006). Training for Mass. Romanart Books. ISBN 978-1-60402-438-8. John Little, Doug McGuff. Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week
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Cooper studied the effect of exercise in the late 1960s and popularized the term "training effect" [13] although that term had been used before. [14] [15] The measured effects were that muscles of respiration were strengthened, the heart was strengthened, blood pressure was sometimes lowered and the total amount of blood and number of red blood cells increased, making the blood a more ...