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From the trusted voice behind the instant New York Times bestseller Forever Strong™, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon’s companion PLAYBOOK delivers actionable protocols to transform body and mind.
Get fit, prevent disease, and future-proof your body with step-by-step strategies to build strength, reduce fatigue, and sharpen your focus at any age.
Packed with ground-breaking science, muscle-building exercises, informative graphics, and easy-to-follow, protein-forward recipes, The Forever Strong™ PLAYBOOK is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to feel stronger, move better, and stay energized.
Discover exactly how to think, eat, move, and recover for optimal health.
With all new, innovative tactical strategies to further enhance muscle health, this guide provides a comprehensive six-week program to help you build muscle, optimize your nutrition, sleep better, and build lifelong habits with protocols customizable for everyone from beginners to advanced athletes.
Inside, you’ll find:
- 60+ protein-packed, nutritious, and flavorful recipes covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks.
- 100+ illustrated, at-home and gym-friendly exercises to help you build muscle, maintain mobility, and improve your balance, including an interactive guide to keep you on track.
- Mindset strategies to build discipline, manage stress, and stay consistent, including actionable tips to align your daily habits with your long-term goals.
- Science-based advice on how to improve your sleep, enhance your recovery, and support circulation with hot and cold therapies, and much more.
Review:
Split into 4 sections, this book takes you from the psychology/emotional aspect of setting goals, to learning what you need to be eating (more protein!), to how to work out and then all about recovery (and what do to if you get injured). Admittedly part 1 was not my thing, and if wasn't what I needed from this book- but for others, it may be critical part of their growth. Part 2 was really interesting to me-how many calories (REE) and how many grams of protein you need based on YOU (your body/age) and how we need to eat close to it, NOT under it, to keep our muscle and what part protein also helps in keeping and growing that muscle. Lyon offers examples of different foods and meal ideas, that will make you rethink the traditional protein diet. You also get a small sampling of recipes, covering all meals, drinks and desserts, and they're pretty much what you think they will be.
Part 3 is split into HIT type training and stretching along with muscle workout, using simple dumbbells and your own body resistance. This was a good refresher to me, as I knew I had been skipping a couple of arm/back exercises from an old program I used to use, and they were all here. This section is definitely made for those already active, for those with issues, you may have to adjust until you can come to these. Part 4 is all about recovery and the best ways to recover after exercise- both mentally and physically.
Overall it's not a bad book for taking on a new outlook for your eating/exercise plan and working with your body, not against it, to loose more weight and gain muscle. For those looking for a simple book that is easy to understand with simple diagrams, this is it.
About the Author:
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a board-certified physician, founder of the Muscle-Centric Medicine® movement, and the New York Times bestselling author of Forever Strong™. With advanced training in nutritional sciences and geriatrics from Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Lyon is at the forefront of a health revolution—one that places muscle, the organ of longevity, at the core of aging well, disease prevention, and optimal performance. Through her clinical work, bestselling book Forever Strong™, and top-ranked podcast The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, she challenges outdated paradigms of health and empowers individuals to build bodies and minds that thrive under pressure.
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