Facts and Fallacies of Fitness by Mel Siff
Whereas Supertraining is a high level textbook, Facts and Fallacies of Fitness is they type of book that anyone can pick up, and start reading from any point. Mel Siff explores hundreds of concepts and myths that many professionals and lay people take for granted – which is especially dangerous when they form the basis of their training theories and practices.
Facts and Fallacies of Fitness is a challenging read only because it forces you to question everything you have held true in exercise, health and nutrition. Get it now from the late Mel Siff’s wife at http://supertraining-siff.com/ or emailing Lisa at supertrainingllc@aol.com.
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About Facts and Fallacies of Fitness by Mel Siff
This book serves as a more popularised practitioner’s version of some of the information distributed on my Internet forum on Puzzles and Paradoxes. It contains a series of essays and practical guides on many of the topics which I have presented at conferences or used in teaching students over the years. Before it was published on the open market, it served largely as a internal textbook for students attending the accredited certification courses in strength and conditioning, personal training and aerobics instruction that I initiated and ran for many years through the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
It commences with an extensive list of Facts and Fallacies in Fitness which I have identified from my experiences in the wonderful world of fitness, wellness and sports training. This compendium is by no means complete, but it serves to illustrate the extent of the dogma which surround the person who is bold enough to consider himself or herself an expert fitness professional. Most of the fallacies are analysed fairly concisely in this book in Chapters 4 and 5, while others are discussed at length in the essays which follow in Chapters 6 to 22. All of them intentionally are presented at the beginning of this book to stimulate readers to offer their own comments before reading any further and to analyse the same issues in greater depth after completing the book. Readers who are interested in contributing or receiving comment on any further facts and fallacies from their own experience are welcome to join my free Internet discussion group (Supertraining) at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
