List Books » Maximum Energy for Life: A 21-Day Strategic Plan to Feel Great, Reverse the Aging Process, and Optimize Your Health
Authors: Mackie Shilstone, Steve Wynn
ISBN-13: 9780471235378, ISBN-10: 0471235377
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
MACKIE SHILSTONE is a special advisor to the United States Olympic Committee on Sports Nutrition, a consultant to Major League Baseball, and Executive Director of the Mackie Shilstone Center for Performance Enhancement and Lifestyle Management at the Elmwood Fitness Center, a division of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation. He has appeared on the Today show, Good Morning America, CNN, 48 Hours, ESPN, and HBO. Shilstone has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, and Sports Illustrated. He hosts two daily features on WWL radio, a 50,000-watt station in New Orleans, and owns four GNC franchises in Louisiana.
For more than twenty-five years, Mackie Shilstone has helped the worlds most famous sports figures, elected officials, and businesspeople become more focused, eat healthier, and achieve greater success at what they do best. Now, Shilstone has distilled his performance-enhancing secrets into a book that can help anyone feel younger, live longer, and do his or her best in all aspects of life.
Maximum Energy for Life is a revolutionary motivational game plan that incorporates nutrition, fitness, and psychological motivational tools. In this book, Shilstone re-creates the same breakthrough program he uses with his clientsdesigned to increase your energy level, reduce body fat, and help you manage stress and fatigue. He shows you how to identify where you are in life (both emotionally and physically), where you want to be, and how best to achieve your goals.
In just twenty-one days, youll be well on your way to reducing your risk of heart disease and other illnesses, improving the quality of your personal relationships, and achieving optimum performance in your career. Shilstone gives you all the tools you need to:
Shilstone also includes his Pro Circuit Programa unique workout that has helped thousands of everyday people increase their vitality through strength training and aerobic conditioning in a simple, combined 45-minute workout.
Complete with delicious, easy-to-prepare meal plans and real-life success stories of Shilstones world-class clients, Maximum Energy for Life is a revolutionary guide to achieving optimum health and fitness that will make you look and feel great for the rest of your life.
Foreword | vii | |
Acknowledgments | xi | |
Introduction | 1 | |
Part 1 | Secrets and Strategies to Manage Your Energy and Reduce Your Stress | |
1 | Discover the Art of Maximum Performance | 11 |
2 | Seven Secrets to Put You at the Top of Your Form | 15 |
3 | Nine Strategies to Achieve Your Goals | 26 |
4 | Discover and Balance Your Energy Style | 39 |
5 | Minimize Your Fear and Maximize Your Focus | 45 |
6 | The Stress Connection | 52 |
7 | Master Stress Management for Maximum Performance | 65 |
Part 2 | The Strategic Plan for Optimum Health | |
8 | Learn the Basics about Heart Disease | 81 |
9 | Two Essential Strategies to Cut Your Risk of Heart Disease | 100 |
10 | The Nutritional Program for the Twenty-first Century | 106 |
11 | Eleven Life-Transforming Benefits of Exercise | 151 |
12 | Attain the Maximum Rewards from Exercise | 160 |
13 | The Pro Circuit Exercise Program | 167 |
Part 3 | Cultivate Your Passion for Your Life and Work | |
14 | Recharge Your Passion for Your Career | 193 |
15 | Renew Your Motivation | 206 |
Part 4 | The Optimum Performance Program | |
16 | Your Twenty-one-Day Optimum Performance Program | 221 |
Appendix | A Ten-Year Risk Evaluation for Men and Women | 247 |
Resources to Help You | 252 | |
Index | 255 |