Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-Based Strength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being in 30 Minutes a Week

well thought out and a great blueprint for a new way of approaching weightlifting and general fitness

Amazing book! This is a must read for anyone interested in fitness . It opens the door to what research has been telling us yet popular culture and the field of medicine has been so rediscent to accept. Have you ever heard of Myokines?! These are the "it factor" that make exercise so good for our mind, body and spirit. We have alwasy known exercise had amazing benefits but now we know why AND this book shows muslce strength to failure exercises based on science that build mass efficiently and release myokines to promote deep fitness.

I am so pleased I found this at the recommendation from my Clinical Somatics teacher Sarah Warren for the best type of exercise for strengthening, muscle building and correct muscle use. The exercises are slow and deliberate, focusing on the feeling inside each muscle and carefully taking it to exhaustion. The workouts take only 30 minutes and I have been doing them twice a week. In 5 weeks time I have repaired my body from almost needing spine surgery. It is an exercise plan for the rest of my life. I can't say enough great things about this workout, and I have been lucky enough to get the co-author Andrei Yakovenko to train me. It is a miracle, I can walk again and my previous pain level of a 10 is down to an occasional 1 or 2 and is manageable now. Try it, you will be amazed at how well this works.

I'm so grateful I found this book. After reading a recommendation in Zoomer magazine, I bought it and read it several times. The book is well laid out, easy to read and persuasive. The authors succeeded in helping me gain a profound appreciation for how my muscles work, and how I could leverage my workouts to break out of a fitness rut. I am finally sweating again when I work out, my body is becoming noticeably stronger, and I am not getting hurt. The workouts illustrated in the book are well explained, but working out virtually or in person are still the best way to get maximum benefits. Reading the book and following through will take your fitness to a new level: you will feel what it's like to make your muscles meet their potential. Read it and give it to your friends and family!

I am a Pilates Instructor and studio owner who has served clients (and myself struggled) with chronic health conditions for nearly 20 years. As a lifelong teacher-learner whose body has never adapted neatly into standardized fitness approaches, I'm forever looking for ways to apply the latest scientific evidence to my own workouts and I can say that this book is a game-changer for me! It has refreshed my sense of what's important and possible for my own quirky body, and described why low muscle tone is linked to so many disparate-seeming physical challenges. It is an empowering testimony why exercise can be so transformative. It has also opened my eyes to new possibilities within the Pilates environment and I'm already at work re-shaping and supplementing our offerings to put the principles of MSTF into practice. I also bought 10 copies for my staff. In other words, YES I think you should buy this book. It is fantastic!