The Lean Muscle Diet: A Customized Nutrition and Workout Plan--Eat the Foods You Love to Build the Body You Want and Keep It for Life!

by Lou Schuler, Alan Aragon

Overview

Research shows that although people can lose 5 to 10 percent of their body weight on any given diet, dieting itself is a consistent predictor of future weight gain. Why? At some point, everyone stops dieting. The Lean Muscle Diet solves the sustainability problem while offering immediate results. It's simple: act as if you already have the body you want.

If a reader is, say, a 220-pound man who wants to become a muscular 180-pounder, he then uses The Lean Muscle Diet's formula to eat and train to sustain a 180-pound body. The transformation begins immediately, and the results last for life.

Lou Schuler, who has sold more than one million copies of his fitness books worldwide, and Alan Aragon, nutrition advisor to Men's Health, have created an eating and "metabolically expensive" exercise plan designed to melt fat while building muscle. the best part? the plan allows readers to eat their favorite foods, no matter how decadent. with full support from Men's Health, The Lean Muscle Diet delivers a simple—and simply sustainable—body transformation plan anyone can use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623364199
Publisher:	Harmony/Rodale
Publication date:	12/23/2014
Series:	Men's Health
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lou Schuler is a contributing editor of Men's Health magazine and the author of the New Rules for Lifting series. He lives in Allentown, Pa.

Alan Aragon is a nutrition consultant for Men's Health magazine and creator/editor of Alan Aragon's research review. He lives in San Diego.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction: Because It's Hard ix

Part 1 As If …

Chapter 1 What If Everything You've Been Told is True? 3

Chapter 2 What Makes a Diet Work 13

Chapter 3 What Makes a Workout Work 43

Chapter 4 Why It's So Freakin' Hard to Get the Body You Want 61

Part 2 What to Eat

Chapter 5 The One with All the Math 81

Chapter 6 The One with All the Food 99

Chapter 7 The One with All the Fine Print 123

Chapter 8 The One with All the Sample Meal Plans 137

Part 3 Do You Even Lift?

Chapter 9 How to Train 153

Chapter 10 The Warmup 163

Chapter 11 Core Training 175

Chapter 12 The Training Program 199

Chapter 13 Primary Exercises 211

Chapter 14 Complementary and Accessory Exercises 243

Part 4 Now What?

Chapter 15 The Questions We Know You'll Ask 273

Notes 275

Index 287