Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health (Paperback)

Bruce W. Perry

  • 出版商: O'Reilly
  • 出版日期: 2012-05-15
  • 定價: $1,170
  • 售價: 1.7$199
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 336
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1449399894
  • ISBN-13: 9781449399894
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This inquisitive and highly useful book shows the hacker and maker communities how to bring science and software into their nutrition and fitness routines.

The digital age has made a big splash with new web-connected gear in the sports/fitness world. Fitness for Geeks covers many of these new self-tracking tools and apps, including Endomondo, FitBit, Garmin Connect, Alpine Replay, Zeo, and more. The book shows you how the gear and apps work, relate to human physiology, and can be hacked and integrated into your lifestyle and fitness routine. 

Fitness For Geeks is designed to appeal to a broad audience of techies and other engineers, athletes, gym rats, adventurers, in short anyone with a scuffed-up muddy pair of running or cycling shoes (or bare feet) who wants to take a cerebral approach to health. The "measure mantra" is a useful concept for people seeking fitness ("what gets measured gets managed and fixed"), and now you have the software, gear, and companion book to do it. 

The book includes an eclectic mix of interviews with a wide range of experts, including two NFL pro football players, a mountaineering guide, a national expert on vitamin C, a runner who won a hot Boston Marathon, a scientist who tests the effects of fasting on mice and tumors, an MIT scientist who studies our mTOR growth pathway, an expert sports masseuse, and a former Israeli soldier who studied the diet of the Spartans, Greeks, and Macedonians. 

Fitness For Geeks has detailed chapters on nutrition as well as outdoor and indoor fitness and sports, with explanations of various protocols (for resistance training and sprinting), the physiological aspects of exercise (such as metabolic equivalent of task and calculating your basal metabolic rate (BMR) and total energy expenditure), and of course a number of apps and tools that can accompany your workouts.

Sprinkled throughout the book are familiar software-engineering concepts, such as antipatterns and design patterns, and how we can apply these same paradigms to fitness. How important is real food, an oscillation of movement throughout the day, as well as getting plenty of sleep and healthy sunlight? We have the same "preinstalled software code," our genes, as pre-modern people. The book discusses this imperative of mashing up a techie lifestyle with the paradigm of evolutionary health - the ancient behaviors for which we are programmed.

A geek is someone who spends a huge amount of time analyzing the fine points of whatever interests her, ad infinitum, to a level that no one around her can possibly understand. Her family members and friends are all flabbergasted and scratching their heads, until finally with a shrug of their shoulders and a murmur of "fanatic..." they return to quotidian concerns. See yourself in there? Then Fitness For Geeks is probably the book you've been looking for. 

Just as Jeff Potter brought a new perspective to cooking in O'Reilly's bestselling Cooking for Geeks, in Fitness For Geeks you're likely to find a similar originality and outside-the-box approach to taking charge of your own health.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本好奇且非常實用的書向駭客和創客社群展示了如何將科學和軟體融入他們的營養和健身計畫中。

數位時代在運動/健身領域引入了許多新的網絡連接裝備。《健身達人》涵蓋了許多這些新的自我追蹤工具和應用程式,包括Endomondo、FitBit、Garmin Connect、Alpine Replay、Zeo等等。本書向您展示這些裝備和應用程式的工作原理,與人體生理學的關聯,以及如何將其破解並整合到您的生活方式和健身計畫中。

《健身達人》旨在吸引廣大的技術人員和其他工程師、運動員、健身愛好者、冒險家,簡而言之,任何一個穿著髒兮兮的跑鞋或自行車鞋(或赤腳)的人,希望以理性的方式對待健康。 "測量口訣" 是尋求健身的人的一個有用概念("測量的東西可以被管理和修正"),現在您有了軟體、裝備和相關書籍來實現它。

本書包含了與各種專家的混合訪談,包括兩位NFL職業足球選手、一位登山指導、一位維生素C的國家專家、一位贏得波士頓馬拉松的跑者、一位測試禁食對小鼠和腫瘤影響的科學家、一位研究我們的mTOR生長途徑的麻省理工學院科學家、一位專業運動按摩師,以及一位研究斯巴達人、希臘人和馬其頓人飲食的以色列前軍人。

《健身達人》詳細介紹了營養、室內和室外健身運動,並解釋了各種協議(如抗阻訓練和短跑)、運動的生理學方面(如任務的代謝等效值和計算您的基礎代謝率(BMR)和總能量消耗),當然還有一些可以伴隨您的運動的應用程式和工具。

本書中穿插著熟悉的軟體工程概念,如反模式和設計模式,以及我們如何將這些範式應用於健身。真實食物、全天運動的振盪、充足的睡眠和健康的陽光有多重要?我們擁有與史前人類相同的"預安裝軟體代碼",也就是我們的基因。本書討論了將技術人生方式與進化健康範式相結合的必要性-這是我們被編程的古老行為。

"健身達人" 是指那些花大量時間分析她感興趣的細節,無窮無盡地深入研究,以至於身邊的人無法理解的人。她的家人和朋友都感到驚訝並搔頭,直到最後耸耸肩,嘀咕著"狂熱分子...",然後回到日常生活。你在其中看到了自己嗎?那麼,《健身達人》可能就是你一直在尋找的書籍。

就像Jeff Potter在O'Reilly暢銷書《烹飪達人》中帶來了新的烹飪觀點一樣,《健身達人》中可能會找到類似的獨特性和獨特的方法來掌握自己的健康。