on Feb 3rd, 2006The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer
The good folks at FSB Associates send us books for review on a regular basis. Since I taught undergraduate film at Harvard, I’m a little biased toward this one, given it’s from Harvard Medical School experts. Your heart is not just a metaphor for emotion. It pumps the blood up into your brain that gives you the warm and delightful thoughts in the first place.
So whatever you do, exercise! It’s cheap, you can do it with friends, and you just might live longer.
The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer
By Harvey B. Simon, M.D.
We all know that exercise is essential to good health, but hitting the gym is the last thing you feel like doing at the end of a long day.
The good news is that you don’t have to! You can get the health benefits you need without breaking a sweat. How? You’ll find the answers in The No Sweat Exercise Plan by Harvey B. Simon, M.D.
For more than thirty years, Dr. Simon, a founding member of the Harvard Cardiovascular Health Center, has been researching the best ways to keep his patients healthy and happy. For much of that time, he advocated intense aerobic exercise as the only way to stay well.
He has now learned that the truth is a lot simpler. The latest scientific studies show conclusively that you can get the health benefits of exercise with only slight modifications to your daily routine. It doesn’t have to take extra time. It doesn’t have to be dull. And you don’t have to work out until you ache.
But there is one catch: one size does not fit all. For you to really benefit from exercise, you must first assess your current health needs and the demands of your daily routines. Only then can you develop a no sweat health plan that will keep you fit — and fit into your life.
The No Sweat Exercise Plan gives you everything you need to develop the perfect plan for you, including:
- An easy-to-follow point system that enables you to measure and maximize the health benefits of everyday activities such as gardening, housework, climbing stairs, walking, or raking leaves.
- Self-assessment tests that help you evaluate your present physical level and learn how to reach your health goals.
- Nutrition and preventive health-care tips that protect against countless medical problems.
You’ll feel energized, inside and out, while you increase your stamina, reduce stress, and increase your odds of living longer and better. Throw away the sweatbands, read The No Sweat Exercise Plan, and you’re on your way.
Author
Harvey B. Simon, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, a member of the Health Sciences Faculty at MIT, and the founding editor of Harvard Men’s Health Watch. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Medical School. Since completing his postgraduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Simon has maintained an active clinical practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the award-winning author of five previous books on health and fitness and received the London Prize for Excellence in Teaching from Harvard and MIT.