Fitness Performance

You've probably heard a lot about Heart Rate Variability (HRV) lately. It's become a buzzword in the health and fitness community. Why all the buzz? Because research indicates that by tracking HRV you can optimize your workout routine, get better sleep, and even improve your mental health. And for the first time, the tools for tracking HRV are not limited to scientists, labs, or elite athletes. Thanks to Oura Rings, Whoop Bands, and Apple, Fitbit, Garmin and a host of other devices, HRV tracking is now available to everyone. But what is HRV? And how can you harness the power of your device ...

Because most nutrition products and training plans are designed for men, it's no wonder that so many female athletes struggle to reach their full potential. ROAR is a comprehensive, physiology-based nutrition and training guide specifically designed for active women. This book teaches you everything you need to know to adapt your nutrition, hydration, and training to your unique physiology so you can work with, rather than against, your female physiology.

If you want to be faster, stronger, and less prone to injury, it’s critical you understand how important the body’s fascia system is to athletic performance. Modern research and imaging technologies are showing us that it’s far more significant than we have long understood. That’s why Bill Parisi—founder of the Parisi Speed School—and extreme sports writer, Johnathon Allen, set out on a nationwide quest to interview the top experts in the field so they could present this new performance science in a paradigm shifting book that’s not only packed with practical information, but ...

Popular Steroid Stacks is not a motivational book. It’s a no-BS, brutally honest breakdown of the most common steroid cycles and enhancement protocols used in modern bodybuilding. If you’re tired of vague forums, bad YouTube advice, and chemically enhanced influencers pretending they’re natural, this book spells it out in plain English. No fluff, no dodging, no sugar-coating. Just the raw truth about what people are actually injecting, swallowing, and suffering through to look the way they do. Inside, you’ll get detailed profiles of real-world steroid stacks—from beginner Test-...

Competition anxiety and overthinking putting a wrench in your athlete’s chase after victory? Learn ways to help them overcome mental hurdles and embrace true potential. Struggling to find a training plan that doesn’t leave a young competitor impatient? Certain they could make it into the record books if they could just discover their edge? Wishing for a peek inside the minds of greats like LeBron James, Simone Biles, and Lionel Messi? After working with over 5,000 athletes, coach and author Andrew J Simpson has identified exactly what makes a champion tick. And now he’s here to help ...

Protein isn’t a trend—it’s the architecture of athletic performance. In Amino Architect: Building Your Body with Protein, sports physiologist and performance author Southerland delivers the most comprehensive, evidence-based guide to protein ever written for lifters, coaches, and high-performance athletes. Across 20 meticulously structured chapters, this book dismantles the myths, marketing lies, and outdated dogma that still plague protein science—and replaces them with practical, strategic protocols grounded in real physiology and elite sport application. Whether you're building ...

By understanding your physiology, you’ll know how best to adapt your lifestyle and build routines to maximize your performance, on and off the sports field. You’ll discover expert guidance on building a rock-solid foundation for fitness and everyday life with tips for determining your high-performance body composition, gaining lean muscle, and nailing your nutrition. Because a women’s physiology changes over time, you’ll also find full chapters devoted to pregnancy and menopause.

Blending cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling, award-winning data journalist and competitive amateur athlete Henry Abbott reveals that we are on the cusp of a new era in sports medicine, built around the science of ballistic movements—leaping and landing—and the unique fingerprint of your body's physics. Abbott's inspiring narrative tells the story of sports scientist Dr. Marcus Elliott and the Peak Performance Project (P3), who use technology to study how athletes move and why they get hurt.

Writing from both the cutting edge of scientific discovery and the front-lines of elite athletic performance, National Magazine Award-winning science journalist Alex Hutchinson presents a revolutionary account of the dynamic and controversial new science of endurance.

Best-selling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers - athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs, and more - who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us. What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements?

Push Pull is the no-nonsense bodybuilding blueprint for lifters who want real results—without gimmicks, fluff, or guesswork. Built around the time-tested push-pull split, this method delivers a brutally effective framework for hypertrophy, strength, and long-term progression. Whether you're cutting fat, adding size, or training around injury, the system adapts—because it's built on movement patterns, not trends. Inside, you'll learn how to structure push and pull training for maximal efficiency, why frequency and volume must be balanced—not blindly maxed—and how to avoid the common ...

Bodybuilders Desk Reference for Steroids, Supplements, and Enhancers is an exhaustive and meticulously detailed guide designed for athletes, bodybuilders, and fitness enthusiasts who seek to deepen their understanding of performance enhancement through the use of steroids, supplements, and other enhancers. This comprehensive resource covers a wide range of substances, from anabolic steroids like Testosterone, Trenbolone, and Nandrolone, to supplements such as Whey Protein, Creatine, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and even cutting-edge enhancers like Peptides, SARMs, and Nutrigenomics. Each entry ...

Unlock elite speed potential by training the nervous system—not just the muscles. Speed Hacks is the definitive manual on overspeed resistance training, a groundbreaking approach used by high-performance athletes to develop explosive sprinting, vertical jump power, and total-body reactivity. This is not a motivational guide. It’s a high-precision operating manual for coaches, lifters, and athletes serious about neurological adaptation and performance optimization. Overspeed training forces the body to move faster than it could voluntarily, creating high-speed coordination under time ...

What Are “Health Hacks”? Easy. Health hacking is a quick and no-nonsense way to improve health & fitness TODAY. If you seek to boost your performance and enjoy a longer, healthier, more vibrant life, this is the way. When it comes to life, things rarely go as planned. Sometimes, we just don’t have the time to overhaul our entire lifestyle. Although health and fitness are important, many of us are not reaching the level that we want or should. Health hacks are strategies, exercises, and natural health shortcuts that change the game in our favor. Instead of wasting time, we get the ...

Renowned cycling biomechanics pioneer Phil Cavell explores the growing trend of middle-aged and older cyclists seeking to achieve high-level performance. Using contributions from leading coaches, ex-professionals and pro-team doctors, he produces the ultimate manifesto for mature riders who want to stay healthy, avoid injury - and maximise their achievement levels.

A breakthrough program for triathletes - beginner, intermediate, and advanced - showing how to balance training intensity to maximize performance - from a fitness expert and elite coach. Cutting-edge research has proven that triathletes and other endurance athletes experience their greatest performance when they do 80 percent of their training at low intensity and the remaining 20 percent at moderate to high intensity.

There is a new revolution happening in sports as more and more athletes are basing their success on this game-changing combination: health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset. Unfortunately, the evidence-based techniques that the expert PhDs, academic institutions, and professional performance staffs follow can be in stark contrast to what many athletes actually practice. When combined with the noise of social media, old-school traditions, and bro-science, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction.

Are you lifting hard—but hurting more? Reset to Lift is your blueprint for reclaiming performance without compromising your joints, spine, or future under the bar. Whether you're a powerlifter plagued by nagging injuries, a strength coach guiding compromised athletes, or a serious gym-goer who’s tired of foam-rolling tightness that never resolves, this book delivers a smarter way forward. Rooted in neuromuscular science and tested in the trenches with lifters and athletes, Reset to Lift reveals how poor movement patterns—not weak muscles—are the hidden cause behind chronic pain and ...

Iron Divide: Natural Bodybuilding vs. Enhanced Performance is a raw, unsentimental dissection of the bodybuilding world’s most enduring schism: those who chase size with chemistry, and those who claim to build naturally. Through 30 no-nonsense chapters, the book exposes the myths, half-truths, and blatant lies that define both camps—natural and enhanced—and the delusional middle ground between them. From testosterone and Trenbolone to SARMs and insulin, every major performance-enhancing compound is unpacked in clinical, factual terms. The book doesn’t glorify the gains or sanitize ...

Dave Asprey has been fasting for years, long before it gained widespread popularity. In Fast This Way, Dave asks listeners to forget everything they think they know about the ancient practice and takes them on a journey through cutting-edge science to examine the ways novice fasters and Intermittent Fasting loyalists can up-end their relationship with food and upgrade their fasting game beyond calorie restriction.