Hom / LeMond The Science of Fitness

Power, Performance, and Endurance
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-12-801070-9
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance clearly explains the vital connection between diet and exercise in the human body. With this knowledge, you can use the right exercise and nutrition to obtain a higher quality life, prevent disease, and slow the aging process.

Authored in a straightforward style and with color images throughout, this book explores the cellular science behind fitness, protein synthesis, and healthy living. With it you will learn the most recent and important discoveries in the relationships between physical fitness, nutrition, weight loss, and weight management. It provides key information on the body's mitochondrial processes and their role in aging, along with well-informed discussions on general nutrition, sports nutrition, exercise physiology, how to enhance athletic performance, and how exercise strengthens the mind.

Whether you are interested in how to eat healthy, train for your first (or next) marathon, take your fitness to the next level, find the best super foods, or simply want to improve your vitality through healthy, doable practices, this book will help you on your journey regardless of age or fitness level.



- Presents the connection between exercise, nutrition, and physiology in a way that is ideal for both experienced athletes and newcomers
- Provides the scientific basis for mitochondrial functions and their relationship to fitness, protein synthesis, quality of life, and the aging process
- Synthesizes the latest research on nutrition, sports nutrition, super foods, and the brain/body connection
- Co-Authored by legendary cyclist Greg LeMond, who illustrates key points using his own athletic journey

Zielgruppe

<p>Trainers, competitive and elite athletes, recreational athletes, students of nutrition, physiology, physical therapy, medicine, and biology as well as PCPs and endocrinologists dealing with diabetes and obesity patients.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hom, Mark

Lemond, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sportmedizin, Medikamentenmissbrauch, Doping
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Trainingswissenschaft, Sportunterricht
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Ernährungsmedizin, Diätetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Sportmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Charles A. Mohan, Jr., CEO/Executive Director The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation 
Preface by Greg LeMond     
Preface by Dr. Mark Hom, M.D.    
1. Becoming a BEAST         
2. The Human Machine     
3. Amazing Mitochondria     
4. Feeding Your Cells     
5. Mitochondrial Supplements   
6. Your Body at Work, Play, and Rest   
7. The Body-Brain Connection    
8. When Things Go Wrong     
9. Slowing the Aging Process    
10. Gauging Fitness     
11. BEAST Fitness Training    
12. The Finish Line.and a Starting Line

Leseproben

Preface by Greg LeMond
I knew I was dying. Blood poured from my wounds, spurting wildly from my neck. I was trying to cry out, but with every breath I choked and gargled through the blood in my throat. Inside, I repeated over and over: Oh, my God, I’m shot! My strength seeped away into the scrub and brush of the remote northern California ranch. The shotgun blast was unbelievably loud, right in my ear. My brother-in-law accidentally fired just as I stepped out from the cover of a huge wild raspberry bush in front of him; then all I knew was noise and confusion. I thought my own gun had gone off, and I stared at it, utterly confounded. Our small family hunting party was forty miles from the nearest hospital, and I was bleeding to death. Oddly, I was not feeling any pain, but I wanted so badly to tell the others to get me an ambulance; I needed help, I was dying here. It seemed hours until the California Highway Patrol helicopter arrived, although I learned it was more like 20 minutes. Paramedics secured me to the outside of the two-man helicopter. I watched the rotor blades cutting across the clear April sky. What a strange, strange way to go, gazing into the heavens. We landed with a thump at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The last thing I remember was the emergency room physician slicing into me and inserting a chest tube. Pain had made itself known. I was not conscious again until some 6 hours later, after a team of diligent surgeons saved my life. I lost sixty-five percent of my blood volume in the field. Shotgun pellets had ripped through my back and side, puncturing my lungs, liver, kidneys, and the lining of my heart. Despite the surgeons’ best efforts, more than three dozen lead pellets remained embedded in my upper torso, including three in my liver and two in my pericardial lining. But I was alive. My first athletic love was not cycling, as some believe, but freestyle skiing. I grew up in Reno, Nevada, a bit of a wild child who spent as much time as possible outdoors. Tearing down the ski slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains was exhilarating. I found that I loved pushing myself, testing my limits. In 1975, I attended a freestyle ski camp run by my hero Wayne Wong, who suggested I try cycling to stay in shape and build muscle onto my 14-year-old frame during the off-season. Bicycling is popular with skiers because it strengthens the same hip extensors, quadriceps, and calf muscles required in competitive skiing. I was sold on cycling as a way to exercise, and soon found it had many benefits for me beyond the physical. I was a boy who just could not sit still. I had trouble focusing in school. Parents and educators then did not have the skill set to diagnose and cope with what we know now was a classic case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD certainly was not the frequently medicated childhood disease it is today. My triumph over the symptoms was found atop two thin tires over many dusty miles. Even an hour of exercise cleared my head and sharpened my focus. I was transformed. I might never have become a racer if the Sierras had enjoyed a typical snowfall that winter. Instead, there was a drought. Snow was scarce. A guy at the local bike shop asked if I had ever thought of entering any bike races. Why not? Soon I was winning the races I entered for fun, even beating Olympic and World class racers. At the age of 15 years, with seven months of cycling under my belt, I felt confident in my abilities, was told I had an impressive natural talent, and felt I had found my place. And I want you to know that I did not come from an athletic, competitive family, unless you count bowling and trap shooting among your World class sports. My sister, Karen, was an incredibly talented gymnast, eventually ranked first in the nation, but we were certainly the exception to the rule among the LeMond’s. Some observers credited my immediate success with luck: the luck of growing up at high altitude, developing powerful lungs; the luck of youth; the luck of stumbling into a sport I was good at. All of that may be true, but I know now that I was blessed with genetic gifts, an insatiably curious mind, a talent for strategic thinking, and the guidance of some of the most amazing coaches in the world. When I was just 17 years old, I made a list of cycling goals for myself. They were certainly lofty goals, by anyone’s standard, but even as a teenager I knew I possessed the dedication and skill to meet them. Here is my list from 1978: 1. Win the Junior World Cycling Championship 2. Bring home the Olympic gold medal in 1980 3. Win the Professional World Cycling Championship by 23 4. Win the Tour de France by 25 I met each of these goals except one, winning an Olympic medal. The United States boycotted the 1980 Olympic Summer Games to protest the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan, and global politics thwarted my Olympic dream. I do not dwell on the prize I did not win, the race I lost, or any of the personal setbacks I have suffered. That is just not who I am. When I think about the clarity and confidence I had in myself at the age of 17 years, I just have to smile. I believed in myself, believed in the counsel of expert advisors, and, of course, in my own luck. A year later, I advanced to the world stage of bike racing. I met my first listed goal at the age of 18 years, taking the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 1979 Junior World Championships in Argentina. I was a dogged researcher into the sport I loved. I wanted to know everything, understand all aspects of competitive cycling. I read everything I could get my hands on about my sport, this slightly strange, foreign obsession with speed and endurance on a bicycle. Few Americans pursued this sport, and I had not heard of the Tour de France until I was 16 years old. I wanted to know how and why my body could perform like this, and I created my own unofficial field of study in sports physiology. I know that I was among the most knowledgeable riders, I took nothing for granted, and I gleaned information everywhere I went. Even so, it was many, many years before I knew why I could race a bike so well. Six months after winning the Junior World Championships, I was competing in France with the US National team in preparation for the 1980 Olympics, just 4 months away. Our team entered one of the two “open” races in cycling, that is, open to both professionals and amateurs. I won that race and was quickly approached by some of the best teams in the world. With several offers to turn professional in Europe, I carefully weighed my options. I chose the French Renault team for its coach, whom I (and many others) considered the best in the world, Cyrille Guimard. This was the man I wanted to take me from amateur championship to World class competition. (Not only did Renault have Guimard, it was led by three-time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault.) Cyrille Guimard was the best coach I ever had. He taught me about cycling and the human body. In fact, he was the first professional cycling coach who attended school to study the physiology behind the training process. His racers would not train according to any arbitrary, time honored systems; we trained with purpose, including plentiful rest periods. He was fascinated by aerodynamics, and took us to our sponsor’s Formula One auto racing wind tunnel in Paris. The equipment, positioning, and training protocols that our Renault team developed 30 years ago are still considered revolutionary today. One of the 2014 Tour’s top professionals told me that he still follows my training methods, described in a book I wrote in 1985. Coach Guimard watched over my career, implementing a long-term plan to develop me into, as he would say, a legendary rider. Upon becoming a professional, I underwent many tests to see how my body dynamics compared with other athletes. VO2 max, or maximal oxygen consumption, is the most accurate laboratory test of aerobic fitness. It measures how much oxygen you can transport to your cells with your cardiac output as well as how much oxygen your muscles can consume. VO2 max testing is crucial to anyone in serious training, and the gold standard to determine an athlete’s potential. My VO2 max result was 93, one of the highest ever recorded. By contrast, an average male typically tests in the 40s. An average athlete’s score may range in the 60s, exceptional world class cyclists test somewhere in the mid-80s. My number meant that I had an extremely high potential for athletic performance. Improving that tolerance improves performance. It was clear that I had an obvious physical advantage other over athletes, an advantage that is part of my genetic makeup. Anyone can improve their VO2 max with proper training. Increasing your oxygen usage will increase your stamina. Think of the human body as a furnace: fuel goes in, oxygen goes in, and energy comes out. Oxygen combines with food, turning it into active energy. The better your fueling and oxygenation, the more efficient your furnace. During my racing career, I took very good care of my furnace by eating right, sleeping right, and training smart. Cyrille Guimard knew what he was doing and together we achieved great results. In 1983, I happily crossed the third goal from my list, winning the World Championships. Then, in 1984, I finished the Tour de France in third place, despite suffering from stubborn bronchitis. The next year, I finished just behind my former teammate Bernard...

Über Autor(innen)

Hom, Mark
Dr. Mark Hom, M.D. is a Johns Hopkins University trained biologist (B.A. in Biology with Honors), an award winning artist (Kenan Art Award, first place), an award winning medical illustrator while attending medical school at the University of North Carolina (a UNC Dean's grant recipient and also a UNC Holderness Fellowship recipient), a practicing interventional radiologist (one of the most in demand medical specialties), an educator of young doctors (an Assistant Professor of Radiology), and an avid fitness cyclist (riding 4,000 miles per year). Dr. Hom will explain how the human body, various organ systems, and individual cells function in the biologic process of exercise. Dr. Hom will show that mitochondria are at the center of cell energy production, metabolism, and athletic performance, as well as an underlying cause of degeneration, aging, and many diseases. He is currently a member of the Department of Radiology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.