Book description
If you’re interested in how things work, this guide will help you experiment with one crucial system you usually ignore—your body and its health. Long hours focusing on code or circuits tends to stifle notions of nutrition, but with this educational and highly useful book you can approach fitness through science, whether it’s investigating your ancestral health or using the latest self-tracking apps and gear.
Table of contents
- Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Fitness and the Human Codebase: Reboot Your Operating System
- 2. Fitness Tools and Apps
- 3. Food Chemistry Basics: Proteins, Fats, and Carbs
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4. Micronutrients: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytochemicals
- The Nutrient That Roared
- Apples vs. Twinkies
- It’s a Snap to Keep Yourself Topped Up
- What’s Ahead?
- What Are Micronutrients?
- Figuring Out Your Daily Micronutrient Requirements
- Aim for Farms and Markets
- Cooking Alters Micronutrient Content
- Grade School Nurse Fondly Recalled
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Getting Micronutrient Information Online: Web Tools
- 5. Food Hacks: Finding and Choosing Food
- 6. Food Timing: When to Eat, When to Fast
- 7. The Other World: A.K.A. Outside
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8. Hello, Gym! Finding Your Way Around the Fitness Facility
- Now What?
- Lifting Is a Good Focus
- Negative Weightlifting Biases: Get Over Them
- A Few Jock and Physiology Terms, as Promised
- Top 40 HIT: High-Intensity Training
- Resistance-Training Terms
- What’s Your Plan? How Many Sets and Reps
- Grand Entry, Time to Warm Up
- The Bench Press
- The Military Press
- The Deadlift
- The Leg Press
- The Back Squat
- Dumbbells
- Bicep Curls and Hammer Curls
- Leg Extensions and Cable Pulldowns
- Instructional Video Sources
- Using an App, or Not, to Record Sets
- 9. Randomizing Fitness and the Importance of R & R
- 10. Code Maintenance: Human Fueling and Supplements
- 11. Lifestyle Hacks for Fitness
- A. Notes
- B. About the Author
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Fitness for Geeks
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449399894
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