Formulas for metabolic rates, calories and fatloss
analysis page on this site
Healthy
recipes: www.mealsforyou.com*****
You can choose the number of servings you need. The nutritional
analysis is very comprehensive, and the page design is simple:
fast, and it prints nicely.
Men's Fitness *****
This magazine website offers a lot of free
content.
American Council of Exercise has a good list of myths
and facts here: A.C.E
myths and facts.
A good fitness site *****:
Fitness Link
See also Cyberpump,*****.
Less fancy but with more advanced content.
misc.fitness.weights
website *****
Non profit website based on the Usenet group, great links and
well worth exploring.
Database of nutritional information *****
grams of protein, carbohydrate and fat per portion size for over
6000 foods.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
You can download the database as an Access database, or as
text files, or even in Excel format. How cool is that?
Nutrition, calorie usage and metabolic rate calculator
www.dietitian.com
(the best I've found on the web) Lots of Q&A, no hype
and no selling from a qualified nutritionist. This site is an
example of the internet at its best IMHO.
See my pages for more detail on calculating your metabolic rate.
Books
"Advanced
Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription", Dr Vivian
Heyward (now in 4th ed )
A serious text for personal trainers, with lots of information
on weight loss and muscle gain programs, advanced formulas for
caclulating exercise levels, metabolic rates, detailed and practical
instructions for skin-fold measurement accuracy, and all scientifically
orthodox.
"Beyond
Brawn" and "Handbook
on Weight Training Technique" Stuart McRobert,
C.S. Publishing Ltd Cyprus. Buy these books. Read the Hardgainer
FAQ mentioned below, read the reviews on Amazon, read this:
Across the internet these two companion books are famous. Beyond
Brawn answers a lot of practical questions: what type of
weight increments should you make? How can you plan a meaningful
twice-a-week training schedule? How hard to you push it? How
many reps of squats and how many sets? What about the same for
the bench press? Beyond Brawn takes a long term view
(in McRobert's view, anyone who has been going to the gym for
less than two years is a novice), and there is a lot of emphasis
on training habits that will let your body go the distance.
The Hardgainer crowd scoff at creatine for novices. Apart from
that difference, the Body for Life program scores very well
on many fronts, particularly on the recommendations for types
of exercises and on the short workouts. The overly complicated
set/rep routines are not recommended in Beyond Brawn,
though. I am very glad I bought these books. My new weight training
routine is based heavily on Beyond Brawn.
Hardgainer FAQ: An excellent FAQ in gaining muscle
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/body-building/hardgainer-faq/
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