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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)

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Author Biography: Mackie Shilstone

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.

Book Synopsis

For more than twenty-five years, Mackie Shilstone has helped the world’s 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 clients–designed 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, you’ll 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:

  • Eat and exercise for maximum results
  • Achieve emotional balance in your life
  • Recharge your passion for your career
  • Reduce your "health age," or biological age as opposed to chronological age
  • Minimize your fear and maximize your focus
  • Rekindle your excitement and passion for living

Shilstone also includes his Pro Circuit Program–a 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 Shilstone’s 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.

Table of Contents

Forewordvii
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction1
Part 1Secrets and Strategies to Manage Your Energy and Reduce Your Stress
1Discover the Art of Maximum Performance11
2Seven Secrets to Put You at the Top of Your Form15
3Nine Strategies to Achieve Your Goals26
4Discover and Balance Your Energy Style39
5Minimize Your Fear and Maximize Your Focus45
6The Stress Connection52
7Master Stress Management for Maximum Performance65
Part 2The Strategic Plan for Optimum Health
8Learn the Basics about Heart Disease81
9Two Essential Strategies to Cut Your Risk of Heart Disease100
10The Nutritional Program for the Twenty-first Century106
11Eleven Life-Transforming Benefits of Exercise151
12Attain the Maximum Rewards from Exercise160
13The Pro Circuit Exercise Program167
Part 3Cultivate Your Passion for Your Life and Work
14Recharge Your Passion for Your Career193
15Renew Your Motivation206
Part 4The Optimum Performance Program
16Your Twenty-one-Day Optimum Performance Program221
AppendixA Ten-Year Risk Evaluation for Men and Women247
Resources to Help You252
Index255

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