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Fitness Science Explained: A Practical Guide to Using Science to Optimize Your Health, Fitness, and Lifestyle (Muscle for Life)
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Product Description Want to know how to read, understand, and use scientific research to optimize your health, fitness, and happiness?This book is the shortcut. Have you ever wondered why science can appear so contradictory and confusing? Why it seems like there’s a study to “prove” or “disprove” just about any claim about diet, exercise, and lifestyle? And what it really takes to protect yourself from bad science and benefit from good science? If so, then Fitness Science Explained is for you. It’s a crash course in reading, understanding, and applying scientific research to get fitter, healthier, and happier, and it’ll get you up to speed quickly regardless of your educational background. Whether you want to discover and use evidence-based methods for building muscle or losing fat faster, reducing your risk of disease and dysfunction, or maximizing some other aspect of your body, mind, or life, this book will show you the way. Here are just a few of the things you’ll discover inside: The 9 little-known reasons fitness science only appears to be so conflicting and convoluted (but isn’t when you have the inside baseball). How to quickly and easily determine the quality of scientific evidence and how much “weight” to give it. Precise and layperson-friendly definitions for each of the key terms you must understand to speak the “language” of science. A quick-and-dirty breakdown of the anatomy and operations of a scientific study, including methods, statistical analysis, results, funding and competing interests, and more. A paint-by-numbers simple checklist for rapidly and accurately assessing whether research passes the sniff test. How to find and access high-quality scientific research without spending a fortune. And more. The bottom line is you can quickly and painlessly learn how to unlock the power of science and upgrade your fitness, health, and happiness. Fitness Science Explained will show you how. So, scroll up, click the "Buy" button now, and get ready to learn how science can help you level up your life. From the Author Interview with the Authors Q: I haven't studied science since high school. Is this book for me? A: Absolutely. This book doesn't require that you have any higher learning or background in science or health and fitness. We designed it from the outset to teach you in simple terms what most people will never know about how to understand and evaluate scientific research. We won't skimp on details, either. We'll cover all of the big moving parts, including the basics of the scientific method to the differences between randomized trials and observational studies, the placebo effect, "blinding," statistical analysis, and more. Q: Will this book deliver the depth of understanding provided by a formal education in science? A: No, but it'll give you a crash course in identifying good and bad science and credible experts and fake gurus. In the first section, you'll learn why diet and exercise science seems so confusing and contradictory. You'll discover how the media sometimes accidentally and sometimes intentionally misinterprets research, how people "cherry pick" data to support conclusions, why quality research is so scarce, and more. The second section is all about the heart of science: the scientific method. You'll learn what the scientific method is and what its limitations are, including external validity, sample sizes, animal vs. human research, and more. In the third section, you'll learn about the different types of studies that can be conducted and why some carry more weight than others. The fourth section of the book is the meat and potatoes: how to read and understand scientific research. Here you'll learn the precise definitions of key terminology used in all research, the anatomy of a scientific study and statistical analysis, and how to put it all together and assess the validity of studies, including two sample analyses for you to sink your teeth into. You'l
